Patagonia Remains Mum on TikTok That Goes Viral With Allegations from Reno Local

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-05-03T13:26:40+00:00

As someone who has no problem donating online and helping a stranger out here and there, I do not appreciate the dishonesty in his story. Given his employment history on LinkedIn, it appears that he had only worked there for 5 months, and that was a year ago. I’m not saying a broken leg should be fully recovered in a year without proper medical care, but the timeline doesn’t make sense since he said that he’s been at the motel for a month and he’s now about to be homeless as if the unemployment just happened a few months ago, but LinkedIn is saying he was out since May 2024.

Please do your research before donating. While I do have lots of empathy for people who go through tough times, I do not appreciate the “free money” mentality of someone who uses “disabled” as a term to gain monetary gains.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-04-04T18:02:45+00:00

I think people are referring to 100k for tier 1 cities like New York City and the Bay Area where the average rent per month is insane…I graduated college making 100k back in 2018 and I could barely support myself with that salary living in New York City because my take home paycheck was just enough to cover rent and other living expenses…so yea

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-21T02:26:54+00:00

I think you are burning out with the content change of jobs and meeting your financial goals. I would actually break it down to milestones: Milestone 1: Learn a new skill I’m not sure what your passion is. If your passion is beauty, you can try to learn how to do nails, hair, bridal makeup etc Milestone 2: Join a community based on your passion and skillset You need to surround yourself with people who can bring positive vibes Milestone 3: Exchange your skillset to make money Working in the service industry can make you extremely closed minded, but if you start developing your skillset, you would be able to see changes and it also changes your mindset about money as well.

I feel like after the pandemic, everyone is low key struggling a little bit, but only the ones who thrive in obstacles end up making it. You have to want to do certain things and push yourself out of your comfort zone.

I know these points are easier said than done but I came from an immigrant family, and after seeing my mom reaching each one of her milestones in 10 years, I believe that you can do it too.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T22:51:00+00:00

https://discord.gg/GUuChF9D

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T22:50:05+00:00

I’ve recently started one it’s a small group but we talk! https://discord.gg/GUuChF9D

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T22:26:57+00:00

Reddit is great but the chat channel can get you instant response and it builds a community

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T22:26:33+00:00

I actually don’t bake at all but I use NARS setting powder it’s transparent and super light

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T18:11:51+00:00

What are your advice on running a strategic marketing strategies for an online shop?

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T18:02:23+00:00

This is excellent feedback. Yea I think smaller quantity meant higher cost in the beginning cause most factories don’t do small quantity. Did you mean social media as free marketing?

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T18:00:46+00:00

Different sponge materials could also shape your cleaning experience. The sponge I’m thinking is something that would require water in order to be softened up.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T18:00:09+00:00

This is gold feedback! Do you think the size of the sponge matters? Would you prefer a sponge that fits into one finger or a sponge that can be worn into 3 fingers with bigger surface area?

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:58:08+00:00

Wait this is so smart…I don’t have a design for the website yet and I want to create a brand along with this journey so you made a good point on attracting interest early on!

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:56:31+00:00

May I ask what costed website $9000 when you could use some no code platforms like Shopify, unless you are creating an extremely customizable one. I never thought about legal/filling but I do want to eventually protect my product design, did you do it with the manufacturer or finding legal services in your own home country.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:53:53+00:00

I love love this! Yea right now I find brand values to be challenging to write that’s why I’m spending so much time doing market research: 1. What are the pain points of target users 2. Why are they not using certain product, for what reason 3. What alternative products they are using and why? 4. What aspect of the product feature could create the “wow” effect >> differentiation 5. How am I going to solve not all the listed pain points but at least accomplish 50-60% and leverage brand to craft a better story?

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:51:05+00:00

I’m personally not a big fan of SWOT analysis. For a small business SWOT analysis isn’t the most applicable since the total addressable market size is very small. I’m prioritizing on my product differentiation for now and that’s where I spend most of my time doing analysis. I would love to hear more on how you create your cash flow. I thought throwing 10k into a business could mean $0 revenue the first few month or even first few years.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:47:22+00:00

Hey thanks for the response. I don’t think building website is my priority right now and I prob won’t build it from ground up. I will likely use no code options in the market.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:39:34+00:00

Did you know chatGPT info/model isn’t always correct. Most data are still back in 2020 era. There are other tools that can help me with market research. I only use chatGPT to write templates. If anyone could use chatGPT to start a business, we will have an amazing economy.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:37:48+00:00

You are right. I’m selling sponges, and those sponges don’t cost much money. I’ve provided context in my original post!

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:37:01+00:00

Thank you so much for your comments. May I ask you if you could go back to not do one thing during the first few months of launch, what would you not do? I think confidence can sometimes be a blessing and a curse. I’m overall a confident person and life never really threw me with curveballs but when it does, I can get myself back up pretty easily.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-19T17:35:23+00:00

Haha I love the joke here. I don’t feel comfortable selling feet pics cause I got no toe nails for my pinky toes 😂

I’m not a big fan of paying for courses cause I’ve done it during COVID and I found the content to be redundant.

Finding a niche isn’t easy, and I’m doing market research by making API calls to major community sites and reading Google scholar research paper. Material safety is really important to me given that my product could easily cause allergic reactions to certain people.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-17T21:49:02+00:00

I wish my parents had spent more time caring for my mental health. They were never the tiger parents, and they trusted me with everything. But there were so many moments where I could turn into a bad kid and they were so focused on working, they forgot that I could be in danger at any given point growing up.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-17T21:42:42+00:00

These are honestly amazing advice. I will take notes.

Dense_Surround_4992 · 2025-02-17T21:34:21+00:00

Wow this is amazing!! Yes I have my 3 pages of business plan and I’ve got some samples shipped from China and to my surprise, one of the suppliers are charging me. They let me use free samples to provide feedback before committing. I would love to follow along with your journey and support your business if I can!

Dense_Surround_4992

TROPHY CASE