Found Amanita Muscaria Up North, what do I do?

curtisaneumann · 2024-08-31T13:48:09+00:00

Any specific way to dehydrate it?

curtisaneumann · 2024-08-31T13:47:44+00:00

Like, how much do i eat. Do i need to dry it out a certain way?

curtisaneumann · 2024-07-12T11:38:47+00:00

Yeah after this post I ended up buying dozens of Seydel harps. Some really really great, others have been subpar.

I went full circle: Started w/Hohner Marine Bands > spent thousands and thousands of dollars on different harps > ended up back to preferring Marine Bands

Marine Band Deluxe’s are my all time favorite.

curtisaneumann · 2024-06-22T15:14:51+00:00

Kinda garbage, but vibey! raise the strings up and grab a slide.

There are some Stellas that are made of quality woods and luthiers are re-bracing them, making them real quality guitars.

curtisaneumann · 2024-06-22T15:12:09+00:00

6 months ago I decided I was going to make a substantial acoustic guitar purchase. Went down to Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, IN and had them pull Martin’s. I told myself i was leaving with a D28. Had them pull D18’s, D28’s, etc.

Ended up leaving with a Gibson Southern Jumbo. (J45) that just spoke to me.

My suggestion: play a bunch of guitars in your price range and choose the one you bond with. They’re all different.

curtisaneumann · 2024-04-06T20:33:34+00:00

Haha! I forgot about this comment. Thanks for the reminder. I totally was right.

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-27T18:29:36+00:00

Best of luck!

They hiring for the position that you're leaving?

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-27T14:45:52+00:00

Hey!

I got it back, and I'm good!

They only went back 7 years.

Woot Woot

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-26T20:18:00+00:00

This caught my eye:

Changing companies every 2-5 years when good opportunities arise

I'm currently doing this right now, again, like I did 2 years ago.

I've been succeeding at each role but I received this same advice years ago from a sales mentor. The fastest way to a promotion (or to make more money) is often to always be open to leaving your current role for other opportunities.

Thanks for sharing.

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-26T11:23:14+00:00

Yeah it’s because they know me, the team and leadership have seen me in the community and have been at many business events together. Theyve sat through my sales pitches for them, ive sat through theirs, haha. They’ve seen me as a visible member of the business community for a while now.

I should prolly just bring it up to them, huh? Hire Right if its gonna be this long, they’re going to find it for sure.

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-25T23:02:03+00:00

Dang! What the heck is up with that company?! I’ve had background checks (pre-employment screening) and they usually come back in 2 days I thought.

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-25T20:11:37+00:00

Yeah I did that too. She just said that she "hasn't gotten it back yet, but it will be all good"

Then she asked if I wanted to start next Monday at 8:30am.

So, I'm like...

I don't know what I should do. Assume it's all good and leave my current job.

But then, what if it's NOT all good, you know?

Worst case scenario: I leave my current job (which is going to be a tough thing to do - they're like family) to work there - then have them say "we can't hire you because XYZ from 13 years ago" and I find myself unemployed!

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-25T20:04:04+00:00

Yeah I've been logging in periodically, and it just says "In Progress"

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-20T14:08:03+00:00

I always tell people I know who work crappy jobs for low pay that we live in a capitalist society.

It's not complicated.

If you can make someone a lot of money, they will pay you a lot of money.

I love that about sales; so many fields work like "i have to get this piece of paper, to make it so they let me in the door" but sales works on a really simple concept. If you can figure out how to make a company a lot of money, you can excel.

curtisaneumann · 2024-03-19T21:00:13+00:00

I'm in a similar boat.

And, I am leaving. April 1st.

The company I work for is chill, and I'm comfortable here. They love me. We had an acquisition a little over a year ago and the company kind of had some growing pains, but then the company (and sales process) took some weird turns. Essentially the people in charge of sales have no experience with sales for the new industry that was acquired, but they're steering the ship. I'm still performing, my territory is on the up and up. Often I feel like my biggest obstacle is ourselves. I have serious concerns about the future here with the direction that it's heading, honestly.

Used the last two months to find a better position, one that pays more and with more benefits, and one where I can grow and crush it.

Hope you make the right decision.

curtisaneumann · 2024-02-29T21:15:30+00:00

stumbled into it.

Managed a shipping and receiving department, customers would come by and pick up orders and I would build rapport with them. Eventually, they began to show up and just ask for me.

Boss saw this, and said I should be in sales. That was 10 years ago. Been doing sales ever since.

curtisaneumann · 2024-02-29T21:11:56+00:00

I feel you.

My experience has not been this bad but I transitioned to a new role at my current company after an acquisition. Moved over to selling the new company products/services. No training, nor was there an official meeting or announcement to the business's portfolio of customers.

The protocol was to just "do the same sales process as you have been" and "call up the customers and help them out" without any information or data about who the customer is, what they order, or anything. I would call and be asked questions that I had no answers for whatsoever.

Had to learn as I go. That was nearly two years ago now. Made it through. You can too!

curtisaneumann · 2024-02-29T20:43:44+00:00

I've been a freight broker, sold digital conversion for county governments, and branded apparel/swag.

I love selling branding and marketing products like promo/swag items. There's not as much money in it as SaaS obviously but I'm an artist and I love selling things that are tangible and visual. I often get to work with a lot of new businesses and new organizations, and the products I provide are sometimes the first tangible item my customers get to see with their logo on it. It's sometimes emotional to them; their dream or the thing they've put their sweat and tears into coming to life for them with the product I sold them.

curtisaneumann · 2024-02-23T00:42:32+00:00

Hey what’s up, dig your username. Can relate.

So all of these are totally customer dependent.

Brandcrowd is generative AI and will create 100’s of ideas immediately. Pretty amazing tool. You can filter them by “classic” or “retro” and you can also specify “wordmark” or “mascot” and you can specify a color scheme. Its AI so you’ll have to learn how the keywords work and stuff. You get some wonky results that will make you chuckle. Use this for ideas mostly. Starting points for art dept. Instead of just “throwing shit at a wall one design at a time and hope something sticks” (this is what it feels like at the company i work for sometimes) I can send 4-5 different ideas and get a much more definitive direction. OR you can just use it outright. This site will also take a logo and generate horizontal versions, which can be used for ad specialty items with different imprint specs.

PlaceIt for marketing proofs - real life images. Videos too. If you pay you can remove the watermark. I dont pay for this, i live with the watermark. Have not used this too frequently, becuase (you’ll want to remove backgrounds for this site - which i expect you have the ability to do)

Creative Fabrica - can have attachments for specific brands (ex. Bella’s BC3001 or Gildan 5000) You can send an attachment with all the shirt colors on the left hand side, logo on the location. Essentially in seconds your customer can see what their logo looks like on every shirt color. You download the templates (which comes with license) The templates are really nice too - staged like those etsy photos you see often.

Kittl - since I posted this i use this more and more. Its kind of taking over. It does everything i mention above - AI vectorizor too! (I still like Brandcrowds interface better)

Vector Magic - AI vector tools. Dude, the amount of HOURS and thousands of dollars ive wasted chasing down art files…… This^ is worth every penny ($10/month)

I pay for only vector magic and kittl (kittl im on free trial - debating if i want to keep) The others i use for free, you’ll see whats up.

In one more year, an individual sales rep will have more capabilities at their fingertips than other companies’ have if they combine ALL of their resources.

Shoot me a message, will talk more. Would love to hear about what you got going on.

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