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  <itunes:subtitle>As part of a long overdue project update, we talk about: Screen time in our household, procrastination, and holding too much inventory.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Episode 37: Starting an e-commerce store. Deep dive + Tips &amp; Tricks.</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2018 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Kent got into the Mission this week, and Nick has some questions. Most of the episode centers around the article Kent wrote about how to start an e-commerce store that doesn't dropship. It goes into the weeds around starting a business, finding and pricing products, Google vs. Facebook marketing and more. Nick also confronts Kent on the question of whether this was all an elaborate piece of content marketing</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Episode 32: The Dip </title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We hit a dip in our projects! Kent's e-commerce store, Nick's book project, even the podcast. It's starting to feel like work and not like fun. We talk through it all and we hope you can relate!</itunes:subtitle>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Nick and Kent talk about the future of pencil problems, their goals for the podcast in 2018, whether or not Nick should dabble in the black hat world of e-commerce, personal goals, las vegas buffets, zig ziglar, kent's crypto corner and so much more. This episode is a MUST download.</itunes:subtitle>
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