[NBRsaltyk9] scary looking trees
[Rafal] gl hf
[Rafal] guys
[Rafal] idk how many batterues left
[Chicken23CKC] :p
[Rafal] plug-in charger XD
[gamer] whos the worst player? i want to root for him
[Chicken23CKC] hf
[Rafal] not gl :( ?
[Rafal] sad presis XD
[NBRsaltyk9] havent played bng in a bit :P{
[NBRsaltyk9] root for me gamer
[Rafal] what's the game mode?
[Rafal] Hey chicken....
[NBRsaltyk9] bazookas and grenades
[Rafal] I am working in KFC XDDDD
[NBRsaltyk9] hax
[Chicken23CKC] :p
[Chicken23CKC] your clan mate wally has been kicking arse across all schemes
[NBRsaltyk9] lol he has been playin like a madman lately
[NBRsaltyk9] are there any other CKCs active these days?
[Chicken23CKC] Albino has played a couple of games this week
[Chicken23CKC] first CKC i've seen online since i've been back
[Chicken23CKC] i guess trying to get singles league active will hopefully result in some activity in clanners
[NBRsaltyk9] wtf
[NBRsaltyk9] 2s
[NBRsaltyk9] get real
[Chicken23CKC] hows life? i always get mixed up with you and Hippy aka Shadymilkman
[Chicken23CKC] still in touch with any of the old NBR guys
[Chicken23CKC] macro?
[Chicken23CKC] Daski?
[Chicken23CKC] cant remember their names
[NBRsaltyk9] lol i dont even recall those two?
[Chicken23CKC] macro was from canada?
[Chicken23CKC] hmm
[Chicken23CKC] maybe i've got the name wrong?
[NBRsaltyk9] life is good man...i can see how you'd get us confused we played together all the time and were in all the same clans
[NBRsaltyk9] I even met shady in real life
[NBRsaltyk9] many years ago in las vegas
[NBRsaltyk9] ns
[Chicken23CKC] wow cool
[NBRsaltyk9] also used to live next door to oldsock for about a year
[Chicken23CKC] ha
[NBRsaltyk9] but yeah. runnin my own online biz so i get sucked into playing this game too often when im distracted
[Chicken23CKC] i'll always remember oldsock as T5X with volcom
[NBRsaltyk9] how about you?
[Chicken23CKC] and less NBR
[Chicken23CKC] but he was NBR for years as well i thnk
[Chicken23CKC] wow
[Chicken23CKC] need an SEO guy?
[Chicken23CKC] i' do online marketing
[Chicken23CKC] content and SEO.
[NBRsaltyk9] yeah he still is NBR
[Chicken23CKC] my dream is to run my own digital and SEO marketing agency
[NBRsaltyk9] yeah that would be nice. I don't have a need for that sort of thing at the moment. I'm selling everything right now through amazon
[NBRsaltyk9] and if I did hire someone, I probably couldn't afford you
[Chicken23CKC] but i've got 2 kids and partner stay at home mum, so risking my own business scares me right now
[Chicken23CKC] i wanted to charge $75 per hour
[NBRsaltyk9] yeah, since I'd be outsourcing it anyway (I already have 6 overseas employees) I would definitely aim more towards the 3rd world countries for employees
[NBRsaltyk9] cheap labor
[Chicken23CKC] yea
[Chicken23CKC] theres alot of freelance guys in India
[NBRsaltyk9] I hire from the philippines
[Chicken23CKC] cool
[Chicken23CKC] so your more affliate marketing and selling through amazon?
[Chicken23CKC] do you have your own site?
[NBRsaltyk9] i basically do online arbitrage through dropshipping
[Chicken23CKC] i don't know what that means lol
[NBRsaltyk9] lol. I carry 0 inventory, but find products being sold places online and then sell them at a higher price on amazon
[NBRsaltyk9] someone buys from me on amazon, i go buy it online elsewhere and have them ship it to customer
[Chicken23CKC] how do you ensure your customers don't find it cheaper online like you did? cus people just got for convience on amazon and don't shop around?
[NBRsaltyk9] basically
[NBRsaltyk9] it's gotten to the point, at least in the US, if you want something online you search amazon instead of google
[Chicken23CKC] ns
[NBRsaltyk9] thx
[Chicken23CKC] what happens if someone makes an order on amazon
[Chicken23CKC] and you can't find the product?
[Chicken23CKC] sometimes i've noticed i've bought on amazon
[Chicken23CKC] then forgotten about it
[Chicken23CKC] its never turned up
[Chicken23CKC] see it on my bank statement like 2 months later
[Chicken23CKC] then go back and cancel it
[Chicken23CKC] could that be when someone similar to you couldn't find the product?
[NBRsaltyk9] That is a scenario that happens...or maybe the price where I can find it has increased since the time I sold it...
[NBRsaltyk9] I have software that monitors inventory / pricing...
[NBRsaltyk9] tho it doesn't work 100%
[Chicken23CKC] does it earn you a good monthly income?
[NBRsaltyk9] I've already "found" all of the products that I'm selling... so the software is hooked into amazon and scrapes the online sites every hour, if it sees the product has gone out of stock, it sets my amazon inventory to 0
[Chicken23CKC] cool
[NBRsaltyk9] yes. I am probably an exception because most fail at this business, but I have a background in tech and data so it was right up my alley. I worked in software for 6 years before starting this biz and left that because I was making 2-3x the amount
[Chicken23CKC] how much a year do you think
[Chicken23CKC] if you don't mind me asking?
[NBRsaltyk9] ns
[NBRsaltyk9] 6 figures no problem
[Chicken23CKC] wow
[Chicken23CKC] you got a wife and kids?
[NBRsaltyk9] nope, neither
[NBRsaltyk9] like any business tho it can fluctuate
[NBRsaltyk9] i've lost money in a month before, other months ive made over $30k
[Chicken23CKC] wow
[Chicken23CKC] sometimes the hours im spending on here..
[Chicken23CKC] i could be building my own website for when i'm ready to try freelance
[NBRsaltyk9] lol yeah man!
[NBRsaltyk9] that's exactly what drove me to start mine
[NBRsaltyk9] almost 3 years ago, I'd be up playing worms all night, for like 5-6 hours, then i'd feel like shit as i went to bed thinking"if only i used this time for something productive"
[Chicken23CKC] i have put alot of hours into a business plan
[Chicken23CKC] but i think i got a bit depressed, i was so keen on starting a business
[NBRsaltyk9] it wasn't easy to get to this point
[Chicken23CKC] that it felt like too much because of working full time and then my family you know
[NBRsaltyk9] i worked on building this business while working a full time job for almost 2 years. 80hrs/week for 2 years
[Chicken23CKC] yea, thats what i need to do
[NBRsaltyk9] sacrifices were made
[NBRsaltyk9] lost my GF of 3 years beacuse i worked too much
[Chicken23CKC] :(
[NBRsaltyk9] well, other erasons too, but that didn't help
[Chicken23CKC] yea
[NBRsaltyk9] but now I have a much better gf and I can get away with putting in as little as 15hrs / week
[NBRsaltyk9] since ive outsourced most of the manual work
[Chicken23CKC] ha nice
[Chicken23CKC] at the moment my job is really comfortable and what i earn is enough for me and my family to break even every month with our bills etc
[Chicken23CKC] but still afford 1-2 vacations a year
[NBRsaltyk9] that scares the hell out of me
[NBRsaltyk9] "breaking even"
[Chicken23CKC] lol
[Chicken23CKC] i have saving, so if we spend more than i earn, its ok....
[NBRsaltyk9] yeah. I've always been one to want to be able to save at least 50% of what I earn
[NBRsaltyk9] mostly by being very frugal, but obviously increasing the income really helps that
[Chicken23CKC] yea...
[Chicken23CKC] i used to save alot of money
[Chicken23CKC] but then we had a baby
[Chicken23CKC] and my partner moved in with her son
[Chicken23CKC] and my costs went throw the roof lol
[Chicken23CKC] shes not working and i dont want her to so she can look after the kids
[NBRsaltyk9] yeah
[Chicken23CKC] but just means there is greater risk for me to try and start my own thing
[NBRsaltyk9] I get it. with a family and what not you can't quite afford to take nearly as much risk. When I started mine I had a gf, no kids, good paying job, so I didn't have much to lose
[NBRsaltyk9] ns
[Chicken23CKC] i work for my dads company and we've just had a really good year of 20million in sales
[Chicken23CKC] im middle manager level
[Chicken23CKC] get about 50k a year
[NBRsaltyk9] that's great man
[NBRsaltyk9] potential to keep making more / moving up in comapny?
[Chicken23CKC] yea, i'm going to ask for a raise at the end of this year
[Chicken23CKC] i've grown the team and manage 3 people now
[Chicken23CKC] instead of just 1
[Chicken23CKC] my manager was saying i could be head of
[NBRsaltyk9] seems warranted
[Chicken23CKC] or director
[NBRsaltyk9] what does the company do?
[Chicken23CKC] gg
[NBRsaltyk9] gg
[Chicken23CKC] we are b2b
[NBRsaltyk9] brb bathroom
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