Best way for my sales team to video call with our leads? small business |
- Best way for my sales team to video call with our leads?
- Should I throw in the towel or keep going?
- What do you do on a daily basis that helps you work towards your long-term goals?
- Starting a personal business/ideas.
- need advice on approaching a stubborn but nice homeowner who has thrown a wrench into our agreement
- How to see past competition?
- [UK] Hiring Staff vs. Contractors
- Best platform to integrate all customer data / understand your customers?
- Things to have in place for business presentation to potential equity partners?
- How to get your business to show on google maps main search?
- Advice and tips on starting up a new company?
- Got my first sale! Now, how exactly do I get the second?
- the first large, small-business venture - 100% on Reddit
- Online Interview
- Trade Shows: Do go or not to go
- Food Franchise, profitable ?
- Are there resources to simulate running a business before running a start up?
- I normally send flowers to my female clients...what's the male equalivaent?
- I have really good credit and am elligable for 0% apr for a year. Should i rack up some debt?
- I’m a college student and I would love to work for your small business :) I have 3 years experience
- What has been your experience hiring 1099 contract help for the first time?
- How to finance a new business with little or no collateral?
- Someone has experience witg iZettle?
- Do we have any concrete contractors here
| Best way for my sales team to video call with our leads? Posted: 05 Oct 2018 12:25 AM PDT I run a small maintenance company and we have a team of 5 sales reps. We spend a lot of time driving around to see properties/venues, give estimates, etc. It's a waste of gas, time and money. A lot of which can be saved through video calls. We've tried FaceTime, etc, but some people don't have iPhones, etc. The only enterprise-like solutions I've seen are Jumper and Confrere. Both are great, Jumper especially because it's mobile-based, but just haven't pulled the trigger yet on anything. Are there any other options, or has anybody come across a similar solution to the same problem? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Should I throw in the towel or keep going? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 07:30 PM PDT Hi fellow entrepreneurs and business owners! I need some other opinions from like minded people. And I know you guys can provide me some quality feedback... so here goes nothing... I'm a 24 year old digital marketer/entrepreneur. I have ran my own digital marketing agency since May of this year. We've had 3 clients so far... all within different niches (one restaurant, one lawyer, and another mortgage lender). We've provided great results (even got the attorney $10,000.00 revenue in one month), but we've lost two of these clients and I feel like my business is falling apart. Now I will be completely honest, I have made my fair share of mistakes while running this business. I have lagged on incorporating the business (filing for LLC), and like all agency owners have said NOT ALL MONEY IS GOOD MONEY, PICK A NICHE! - I have failed in this regard as well. And I feel like I have not been careful enough on which clients I should and should not work with. Now I'm personally $5K in debt (made poor financial mistakes and other circumstances popped up that I did not plan for) and we only have 1 client paying $1K a month. I have battled with the idea with the idea of going back to a 9-5. But for some reason I CANNOT stomach it. I interviewed with 3 marketing agencies today, and felt like I was teaching the hiring managers a thing or two about correct procedures in digital marketing. I was just NOT FEELING IT. Something, in the back of my head was telling me "don't do it, keep fighting." Although, I've lost all this money, and I've fallen to rock bottom... I feel like the experience and the knowledge I now have about running a business is invaluable and WILL help me excel with the next business venture. I know what works and what doesn't, along with how I will scale my new endeavor (agency only assisting e-commerce and coaching businesses) moving forward. So here's the deal: I still live at home. (Call me a loser if you want, but I'm chasing my dream, and happy doing so). My parents want me to either get a job or go back to school (MBA). My mom, in particular, has never really been supportive of my entrepreneurial endeavors, whereas my dad is an entrepreneur and completely understands me, but still doesn't like the uncertainty of entrepreneurship for me. I'm low on funds. And running out of options, it's sink or swim. Do you think my emotions are clouding my better judgement? Or should I figure it out, and give it another go? Maybe get a part time job just to cover my personal expenses and go for it? Or suck it up and go back to a full-time 9-5? Would love your opinions, and please don't worry... be brutally honest with me. Appreciate you guys, thanks! [link] [comments]  | ||
| What do you do on a daily basis that helps you work towards your long-term goals? Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:47 AM PDT What kind of daily habits do you implement into your life? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Starting a personal business/ideas. Posted: 04 Oct 2018 08:49 AM PDT I'm 26, been working at the same job since 2013. I feel like my life is disappearing before my eyes working at a job I hate. The only reason I stay is because I have a fiance, a house, a 2 year old and the job pays very well for having no college education. So, I'm here today to get some ideas on a personal business. Not necessarily to leave my job, but to make extra money to make me feel better about my self and self worth. I want to feel accomplished. I've been trying to find ideas I could do, but my only interest come from tech/video games/pop-culture. I've looked at "flipping" items (cellphones, computer parts, videogames/consoles). Those markets are so bloated that I would need a lot more capital just to get my feet in the door. Don't know if this is the place to get an idea or welcomed. EDIT: Thank you all for your posts! Firstly, I may of made it sound like I don't appreciate all the good in my life. I do very much. Secondly, it's not about making more money for my happiness or self worth. I have just been having this dread lately. Because if I lost my job I wouldn't know where to start. I hate having my eggs in one basket. I'd like to diversify my income to ease my mind and help with the bills. Ya know? And for all those who asked I make a little over 40k a year working for the USPS. [link] [comments]  | ||
| need advice on approaching a stubborn but nice homeowner who has thrown a wrench into our agreement Posted: 04 Oct 2018 04:45 PM PDT background: i am a self employed painting contractor. i was contacted by a business acquaintance to give an estimate for a home he was working on. the home wasnt originally his project, but the owner had a contractor abandon the job after taking a bunch of money and doing horrible work. i was told that the home would be paint ready and i would be able to move down the floors and they would move things out of the way as i went. i was told the homeowner would NOT be occupying the home until all the work was done i start work, and very clearly the walls and ceilings are NOT paint ready. spackle not sanded, big holes in places, seams popping out already. i texted the acquaintance who im assuming was subcontracting me because the deposit was paid by him. he said yes, prime and paint everything. thats a little strange because he said she was very particular, but ok. 2 days later, the sister comes in, because the owner is going through some hard times, and says can i ask you something. i say sure. she says, is this house ready to be painted or does more work need to be done? i say yeah, its not great. so she calls the acquaintance and we do a pow wow and agree for him to come through and finish all the spackling and id come back in about 10 days and redo some things and finish the rest fast forward to monday of this week. nothing has been finished. nothing has been sanded or patched or anything. if anything there's more holes than before. homeowner is freaking out, so i say i'll patch it just to make sure it gets done and we agree to a price for that (which was pretty low but as long as im getting something for it). but here's the new rub; her and her daughter and her pet pig have already moved in, and they just had all their furniture delivered today. every room is filled to the brim with stuff and theres a ton of sanding that needs to get done. this is going to take a very long time, and ive already had to push back a job to accommodate this and might have missed another one because of the scheduling uncertainty. tl;dr: terms we agreed to for painting the house are impossible to keep because of both the contractor's sloppy work and the homeowner's insistence on moving in. plus the pig is grabbing all my plastic that im using to cover things. so here's where I need advice. how do i tell this homeowner that either/and A) i need to be paid more for the work that needs to be redone and the time that i'm wasting with this scheduling nightmare, B) that i need to be paid for the work as it is completed because at this rate i wont see any more money from this for a month. i just dont know how to broach the situation both delicately and firmly because its what i need [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2018 11:15 PM PDT I'm a 20 almost 30 something programmer who has been coding (for fun, consulting, and professionally) for my entire life. I've worked for both large companies and very small ones. Well, I often get some idea and consider starting a business, but then quickly get discouraged when I find out the about the competition. I'm sure this is a frequently discussed topic and I know, you could argue it only helps to validate the market but I still can't help but wonder if it would be worth it. For example, I recently moved to a new area and I've been dining out a lot and noticed very few restaurants/cafes here have tableside ordering systems or even any kind of POS at all sometimes. I figure it wouldn't be too hard to make a simple ordering/inventory management system they could use (read: I am a programmer, I do know it will be a lot harder than I'm suggesting here, but it's beside my point right now), sell to them for a reasonable rate, then continue to iterate and improve the product while increasing the value to them. In theory, this should work, as I've seen many restaurants with these systems but many more without. However when I do some research and look at all the other POS systems out there, I'm overwhelmed by the competitors. There are literally hundreds of (very fancy looking) ePOS systems with just a simple google search. They are all feature packed, have dozens of testimonials and partnerships, usability videos, press kits, numbers/studies to back their work, already been around for a dozen years or so, oh and a "careers" page with 31 open positions... I can't help but wonder why the restaurant I would pitch to would pick me over this? Why don't they have this system already? Are they locked in to some current POS and it would be a tough migration? Do they just don't want to shake the boat with technology? Or are they waiting for the right salesman to kick in the door and lay it down for them? It would take me at best months to even parody the features most of these have, so why would someone purchase my knockoff "up-and-coming" product over the tried-and-tested other guys? Hopefully not cost because they are already pretty inexpensive... Only reason I could think of is the "in person" sale that could win them over, and that seems a really strange thing to base an entire business off of. I know I might have picked a poor example here because this seems even more saturated than normal but it's generally the same with most "reasonable" ideas I'll come up with. Are these just ideas that are probably not worth pursuing? Or am I not looking at it the right way? PS. I've already heard "there are a hundred dentists, doesn't stop the next one from opening a shop". I don't see the point because I (and probably most people) always go to the closest dentist, so that seems more like a simple calculation of probability and risk. With software/hardware, you can just always pick the best/highest value product for your business. [link] [comments]  | ||
| [UK] Hiring Staff vs. Contractors Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:01 AM PDT
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| Best platform to integrate all customer data / understand your customers? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 08:08 PM PDT I have a store on shopify but use a handful of platforms to manage my business like mailchimp, stripe, google analytics, etc. In order to view customer/user data, I need to go to all my different platforms to view reports on them. Does anyone have a recommendation on a platform that integrates all your customer data into one place? I'm trying to understand my customer better. But most of the platforms I've seen focus more on products you're selling (i.e., analytics on revenue by product, etc). Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Things to have in place for business presentation to potential equity partners? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 07:48 PM PDT I have a highly successful start up business in a hyper competitive field. Our business stands apart due to our management's focus on corporate vision and "family-like" orientation over autocracy, excellent branding, and a unique, eye catching building design. There is a high cost barrier-to-entry in my field and I would like to approach people with access to large amounts of liquid capital and pitch a potential financial relationship moving forward as capital partners. Essentially, potential equity investors would have a shot at investing in all potential locations for our business as they arise in the future. As such, I wish to schedule a sit down with a big real estate developer that my family knows and pitch my desire for funding to his investor pool/him personally to expand at a much faster rate. My question is: what preparations must I make (in terms of business plan) before I sit down with the developer? I already have complex financial models at my disposal and a strong ability to articulate the strength of my industry/our difference. Do I need any more than that? Please let me know what you would specifically look to see prepared if you were in the developer's shoes. Thanks [link] [comments]  | ||
| How to get your business to show on google maps main search? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 06:48 PM PDT I own a small business and am trying to search everywhere to get my business to show up on the main map for google maps. Can someone please explain how I do that? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Advice and tips on starting up a new company? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 09:41 PM PDT My friend and I decided to start up a drop shipping business. Although, we are fairly new to the idea of starting on our owns. We are pretty accustomed to the usually 9-5 to working life, but we want to escape that and create something new. We have enough funds to operate as well as a warehouse for storage (family owned). We already decided we will be handling logistics. We sometime planned on leaving our 9-5 jobs to fully focus on business if it were to grow enough. As freshly new people to the industry, we were curious what sort of tips would be useful to help our business grow over time? Sorry if this isn't the right subreddit to ask questions like this, a friend just referred me to here. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Got my first sale! Now, how exactly do I get the second? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 09:39 PM PDT Hi everyone! This sub has been a real inspiration for starting my own side hustle and I'm hoping you could help me with some ideas. I started a STEM (science, tech, engineering, and math) inspired jewelry line. Short story, I'm a woman in STEM and just couldn't find a lot of nerd jewelry in my style that was high quality. So I used my engineering skills and learned to make my own. It's super fun and I love it and will continue to make for myself, but I'd also love to bring in a bit of money from it to pay back student loans and such. And also I'd like to give a portion to some local STEM organizations that are doing good (such as 3d printing prosthetics for kids and putting on my own workshops for kids). So a friend saw me wearing a necklace and bought one! Woo I'm a jewelry designer! But how do I get the first stranger sale? I've got a website, and Instagram, and an Etsy just to test the market and see what sticks but I feel like I'm missing something. Any ideas for a super noob? I appreciate any help! [link] [comments]  | ||
| the first large, small-business venture - 100% on Reddit Posted: 04 Oct 2018 01:18 PM PDT Hi friends, I'll get to the point: There's a group of 400 of us over at r/TheBusinessGroup that are using Reddit to create a business from scratch. Which business? We don't know yet - it's a 100% community-driven group so we're all going to vote on it. We're in our early stages and we begin crowd-sourcing ideas tomorrow. Call it a venture, call it a experiment, whatever - we're really excited for what we're about to launch. In short, we figured it wouldn't hurt to have some additional talent join us early on. If this is something you think you're interested in and want to be a part of, we welcome you to check us out! Feel free to ask any questions you may have :) [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2018 08:13 PM PDT Hey all - for some reason I thought taking a business course was a great idea, even though I dislike interacting with people =) One of my projects (well, two really) is to interview a small business owner. Preferably not a franchise/chain. Would be cool if your business focused on pets or books or tea/coffee, or a combination (okay, I'm just listing things I like at this point). Extra cool if you're an introvert (mostly because I'm curious how your personality fits in with being a business owner). The info won't go anywhere, will only be between me and the instructor (and he shreds everything after). Basically I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions, so you get to brag about how awesome your business is and talk up your good decisions! I know it sounds like a pain in the ass (which is why I'm super hesitant to even approach anyone in person - why would you want to take time out from your busy life to answer questions?!), but I will be forever thankful! Also sorry if this is against the rules - so here's a question: who wants to answer some questions?! Message me! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Trade Shows: Do go or not to go Posted: 04 Oct 2018 12:06 PM PDT I have a made made product I create that's getting traction. I'm currently carried in 2 retail stores (one of which has 4 locations) . A trade show in an industry that my product fits in is happening next spring. I can sell there, make contacts with national vendors, etc. It's terrifying . I know if I go, I'll sell. But I'm scared I can't handle the volume of sales. Thoughts? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2018 05:56 PM PDT I have good savings , stable cash flow . Investment in food franchise in college towns. Requirements for success ? Profitable ? Good idea ? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Are there resources to simulate running a business before running a start up? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 08:21 AM PDT I'd like to know if there are simple ways to learn the basics of running say a clothing company in a way that is like a play by play. I am learning shoemaking and the way to learn is by doing the craft bit by bit. If there are guided walkthroughs or something like this for start up it would help out immensely. [link] [comments]  | ||
| I normally send flowers to my female clients...what's the male equalivaent? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 04:47 PM PDT I've got a product/service kind of business and when people share they've had a milestone or a loss, I usually send flowers (Costco Floral for the win). So far I've only done this for women...probably because they share more than my male clients. If a male client were to share about a milestone or a loss, I would probably send flowers. I'm launching a new product and I was thinking about sending a welcome gift to each new client, meaning I won't have gotten to know them much before I send it out. With women, flowers seem easy. But men.....? Some of you like flowers. Some of you it might not resonate. If not flowers, what else could I send? It seems like everyone has food allergies or restrictions so food feels like a landmine. My clients are all over the US, so shipping alcohol only works for certain states. I'm not opposed to it, but I don't know what to do about the rest of them. Steaks are awesome, but what about the vegetarians? [link] [comments]  | ||
| I have really good credit and am elligable for 0% apr for a year. Should i rack up some debt? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 04:22 PM PDT So i can take on alot of debt (about 100-200k) for up to a year without paying any interest. I could use this money to market my app marketing agency on adwords and generate a pretty decent ROI. If things go well i can fill up my schedule, start hiring, and even pay these back! If they dont im fucked. I also have $200k in the bank to bail myself out in a year in case things go wrong. I wana try to keep that money there to collect the 1.85% interest rate, and in case my bro has any real estate investment ideas coming up. What do you guys think? [link] [comments]  | ||
| I’m a college student and I would love to work for your small business :) I have 3 years experience Posted: 04 Oct 2018 10:01 PM PDT Hi My name is Allen and I am college student in Australia who is looking to find a job helping online business. I am open to accepting any type of job your small businesses may have whether it's a sales gig or VA or social media marketing My experience Worked retail for 4 years Social media marketer for 3 clients Experience in filming and editing Feel free to message me any job opening you may have and I will try and help you to the best of my ability :) hope to hear from you soon! [link] [comments]  | ||
| What has been your experience hiring 1099 contract help for the first time? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 07:51 AM PDT Hi all, First time posting in this sub. I've made a living for myself as a freelance writer for the past 10+ years and essentially run a small digital marketing shop on my own at this point, with 6-7 active clients and potential income in the next few months of 70Kish annually. This operation has been 100% me since day one, and I feel as if I've gotten to somewhat of a turning point in my "career" in that I am simply busier than ever before and struggling to keep up with my ever-increasing workload. The prospect of new business is always exciting to me and something that I actively pursue, both to my detriment and pleasure—I have reached the point where I can't grow further on my own. The option of remaining where I'm at and calling it a day is there, but what I would like to do is extend to 100K before I settle on that. Lofty, perhaps, but not far off. To do this, I know I'm going to need some help, and I'm not entirely sure what that looks like yet. My skills as a writer (and voice/tone/etc) are not really transferable to another person—it's probably important that I continue to develop all content that gets shipped out of my "agency." To that extent, however, I am not a graphic designer (though I play one in real life), a coder, a PR liaison (also play but hate being front and center) or social media expert etc. That, and answering emails / doing admin and BizDev work takes up a large portion of my time that could be devoted to developing copy/content. These are just areas where I'm thinking I could get help from others without sacrificing quality of the end product I'm essentially selling to my clients. I really don't know where to start, here, but I'm anxious to hear how some of you have addressed the good-to-have problem of hitting a growth wall as a solo unit. Who did you decide to hire first, in what capacity and why? How did you go about doing so? What have been challenges that you've run into and solutions you've settled on? By "hire," I mean contract as a 1099, BTW. Thanks in advance for your input and suggestions! [link] [comments]  | ||
| How to finance a new business with little or no collateral? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 03:20 PM PDT I've got a car that's worth about $8k and about $2k in the bank, but I rent so I don't have a house to put against a loan. I'd need about $200k, maybe a bit more. Do I have any options? ETA: I'm in Canada so be mindful of that when posting US links please :) [link] [comments]  | ||
| Someone has experience witg iZettle? Posted: 04 Oct 2018 08:47 AM PDT | ||
| Do we have any concrete contractors here Posted: 04 Oct 2018 02:09 PM PDT |
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