NooB Monday! - (October 29, 2018) Entrepreneur |
- NooB Monday! - (October 29, 2018)
- Graphic Designer currently tight on cash. Anyone want a discounted logo?
- Depression
- What side businesses do you run?
- Starting and indie clothing brand and sewing everything myself.
- Should I keep going above and beyond to please a previously difficult customer?
- Cry me a river...
- Virtual Reality Business Ideas
- Do you know of a way to send mass emails to every one of my customers with each email containing a different single-use coupon code?
- Question regarding non-orthodox investment model
- I am planning to crowdfund for a community event. I want to make sure the rewards I offer are something to get people excited about. What would you suggest?
- [Infographic] 15 Success Factors for Entrepreneurs
- Idea for social media page moderation
- October Review (Revenue & goals)
- Guys we made a what’s app group for young entrepreneurs. Whoever is interested should join. Everyone’s welcome
- Building a World Class Startup Culture!
- Media Groups running YouTube channels
- Canvasing Via Google Form for Entrepreneurship class: Please Help!
- Virtual Assistant that would love to help
- Please roast me if appropriate
- Disrupting the soccer world with blockchain - Forbes article
- Just started my dropshipping/ e-commerce business, any tips?
- Looking for a business partner for 2D comic cartoon (animation skills required)
- Anyone need to advertise their company/product?
- Stable £40K job or set up my own digital marketing agency
| NooB Monday! - (October 29, 2018) Posted: 29 Oct 2018 06:06 AM PDT Please use this thread to ask any newbie questions. We do this to not overflow the subreddit with newbie questions, so please try to limit the questions to this weekly thread. Since this thread can fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts. [link] [comments]  |
| Graphic Designer currently tight on cash. Anyone want a discounted logo? Posted: 29 Oct 2018 10:08 AM PDT Hi everyone! I'm a little behind on bills this month, so I thought I'd post to see if anyone wanted a logo (or other graphics if needed). I know it's not marketplace Tuesday, but I honestly need the work immediately, so I hope this is okay. I'm a full time professional freelance designer, just lighter on work than normal. Have had a rough few months, and need an extra $300. I normally do logos starting at $150-$200. However since I need some quick money, I can do four logos at half price, so $75 per logo. That will cover the $300 I need, and help me out of this jam. [Here is a sample of my work.](https://imgur.com/a/u4bwH) So if you want a clean, modern logo, please get in touch soon. Since I'm on a bit of a time constraint, the discount logos go to the first four people who get in touch and can make payment upfront. Current turn around time is 3-4 days, a little longer if extensive revisions are required. With 99% of jobs I don't charge extra for revisions, as long as you don't want to completely scrap a logo after I'm almost done and start all over. For my process: After I receive payment, I start with a round of sketches based on any notes you provide me. You choose the one you like most for me to move forward with, or if needed I can do some extra sketches after further notes based on what I've done. Once you're happy with a design in the sketch phase I move on to a more finished version. At that point we can still go back and forth a little if you have any minor revisions, and once you're happy with it I send over all the files. You would then have full ownership of the logo, no further royalties or anything due. To keep it fair, I do all logos in the order that clients pay. I had posted here almost a year ago when I was a little tight on money and got good response, so I'm hoping a few more of you will want to take advantage of a half-priced logo again. If you want a logo, please PM me with what you're looking to have done, your website/business and any other important details. Also, please include your best email for me to reply to (it's easier to keep projects/clients sorted talking through email than it is on here). Looking forward to hearing from some of you soon! Thank you. UPDATE: Goal reached with a little bit extra as well. Thank you very much everyone. Really appreciate it! For anyone I was already talking to in private messages, I'll still honor the price I quoted you, just keep in mind I have people ahead of you, so turnaround time maybe be a week or two out. Anyone else I wasn't already talking to, I'm happy to still do work for you, but it will have to be at my normal rate of $150+. I can only offer these prices to help me get out of this jam, but if I do too many at this rate, I'll be right back to where I started with money issues. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2018 09:09 AM PDT I have a question for the depressed entrepreneurs on this subreddit , What's your secret and how do you deal with depression? [link] [comments]  |
| What side businesses do you run? Posted: 29 Oct 2018 10:50 AM PDT |
| Starting and indie clothing brand and sewing everything myself. Posted: 29 Oct 2018 08:21 AM PDT I need input for the business I want to start. I've trolled the internet but all the 'clothing brand' help articles I can find are for cheap t-shirt companies and don't apply at all. I'm looking into starting an indie brand for a niche sub-style of clothing. I watch other indie brands and see that when they update their shops with new product they sell out within a day, so I feel confident the product fills a market need. I am an experience seamstress with over 10 years of sewing experience and I am currently working 90 hours a week between my day job and personal clients so I think I'm ready to quit my day job and use client work to sustain me while I grow this businesses. I want to sew all my products myself while I am small and starting out. I planned to start on etsy and invest in my own website if it goes well. If it seems viable later I will have my designs manufactured in small batches. Because I am all handmade my price point will be high, but I will want my product made in American factories if I get that far, so I beleive the price will remain the same. Other indie brands in this same vein are typically high cost, so I know the customers are familiar with the costs. I am having trouble determining if this is a sustainable, profitable idea. I would be more than happy if I made enough to survive on and nothing more but I'm not sure what I may not be factoring into business costs. There are fees to run a website, fees to take money, material costs, packaging costs, equipment upkeep etc. How do I determine how to price my product to be profitable? Additionally how does marketing and getting my indie brand visibility work for a niche fashion? Do I advertise on Facebook and post like crazy on Instagram? Any help or thoughts would be very appreciated. I've been having a lot of trouble finding answers to my questions and it's holding me back from being able to go forward with confidence. [link] [comments]  |
| Should I keep going above and beyond to please a previously difficult customer? Posted: 29 Oct 2018 06:50 AM PDT A customer bought a $30 powdered food item from my business. I get a call from her one Friday late in the day with her chewing me out on the phone because she bought the wrong item and it was somehow my fault that I sent her the wrong SKU (she needed powder scoopers too and only bought the item without scoopers in it). She said she was buying this for a business so I ate the loss and rushed her a dozen scoopers. As soon as I mailed the scoopers, she gets off the phone and buys $200 in powders. I wake up Saturday to my largest order ever for $1,100 in powders from the same lady. Question/topic: Should I keep sending this woman free scoopers to show a sign of good customer service? Or should I just send the powder that she paid for only so she doesn't get any false expectations in the future? (Or maybe include a note in the package with some syringes)? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2018 12:51 AM PDT Hey All, 33yr old F just failed, big time. Any words of wisdom or consolation? I have lost all confidence. I'm going back into the work force bruised and battered. I opened a Ladies Fashion boutique WITHOUT DOING A FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT. My execution was poor, my planning was mediocre and I tried to do everything myself. The creativity/design was beautiful and it was polished with excellent marketing buuuuuut wrong time/wrong place. Huge facepalm 🤦🏼♀️ 110K cash down the drain/ 2years and a 20K tax bill. My poor husband. [link] [comments]  |
| Virtual Reality Business Ideas Posted: 29 Oct 2018 07:31 AM PDT Virtual reality is knocking on our door. The question is: Are we going to be a seller or a buyer? Of course, it depends on your ambiguity and willingnes sto try to earn some or a lot of money in this industry. Someone can say that he is not a programmer and does not have necessary knowledge. Do you really think that an owner of Volkswagen, Mercedes or similar, knows how to make a car. Of course he does not. He knows (and learns) how the industry works and manages the company. Here are some business ideas that you can use as base for brainstorming process. It can motivate you to choose one of these or to create your own virtual reality business.
What do you think about these ideas? Would you use any of these? Would you try some other virtual reality business? Can you see yourself in this industry? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2018 01:00 PM PDT Basically, I'm tasked with distributing a coupon on behalf of a local restaurant, Buy 1 entree, get 1 free. The coupon will be sent to many people, but each individual coupon should have a unique, single-use code on it to prevent people from using it multiple times or giving it to multiple friends. I have roughly 1500 emails, but I don't know how to send the same email to everyone at once with the only difference being the coupon code. Sorry, I'm not sure where to post this, but I thought someone in r/entrepreneur would have probably solved this problem before. [link] [comments]  |
| Question regarding non-orthodox investment model Posted: 29 Oct 2018 12:48 PM PDT Hey all, Details about our startup:
So, we've been in a pretty bad situation as far as financials go - but we've been going up with customers and sales. We could not secure a funding round in the past year, and I doubt anything will change in that domain in the next 6 months, when we finally hope to reach $40k MRR. We want to move faster, and not "miss the market", so not being able to grow faster than bootstrapping allows is frustrating. The way things are right now, we'll be overextended for at least a year. Recently we got an offer for an investment that is unorthodox in style. The investor is a very rich angel, but also a "shark" of sorts, with a lot of expertise in our domain. The two sold companies in the hundreds of millions dollars together. He says that he, as well as the very talented entrepreneur I talked about above, will join our company for a few days a week for the coming few months. We'll build a workplan together, understand our requirements for the coming 2 years, and then he'll invest himself (or with a group of investors) based on what we deem required according to the plan. He will also inject any additional funds required on the way up. We believe that with the entrepreneur and the angel on our side, with the amount of talent and connections they can bring to the company, we'll have a much higher chance of succeeding. The angel's terms:
What sort of pitfalls are there in such a deal? What should we be careful about? What should we watch out for? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2018 09:00 AM PDT The goal of the event is to bring people from different parts of my community together for a fun time. There will be activities, food and booths set up for local businesses / neighborhood organizations to connect with community members. The event will be centered around a kickball tournament since my event is all about how sport unites people and betters the world. So far I have the basics:
I am even considering having a high priced reward being getting their name tattooed on my body. "Special thanks to ___" Maybe I can add one where the person will be included in certain promotional material for the event? What other fun rewards could I add to make this more than just another boring crowdfunding campaign? Looking through all of these I just feel like people would not be interested so I need some perspective from you all. [link] [comments]  |
| [Infographic] 15 Success Factors for Entrepreneurs Posted: 29 Oct 2018 01:51 PM PDT This infographic (created by my friend from Intelegain) is a subject of research and analysis of many entrepreneurs, companies and institutions. These 15 factors won't make you a brilliant entrepreneur right away, but you will definitely learn valuable insights and will see mistakes you can avoid easily. View at https://startupradius.com/infographic-15-success-factors-for-entrepreneurs/ [link] [comments]  |
| Idea for social media page moderation Posted: 29 Oct 2018 01:50 PM PDT I'm a wantrapreneur currently working as an engineer at Facebook on the team for small- to medium-sized businesses. I've spoke with a few companies and they mentioned that they have trouble moderating their facebook business pages. I'm thinking about building something out like a subscription service: you pay $X a month and we'll remove any posts matching your requirements. If you run an SMB, is this a service you'd be interested in? How much would you pay a month? Would you want additional services like interacting with customer posts or just simple moderation? [link] [comments]  |
| October Review (Revenue & goals) Posted: 29 Oct 2018 05:02 AM PDT Monthly Revenue - $4,315 (+$249) Freelance Design: $1736 Side Projects (Below): $2,579 The revenue is a combination of sales from my side projects: GrowYourClicks _ Total Revenue: $1,769 (Up $691 from Sep) Cooee Network _ Total Revenue: $0 (Down $199 from Sep) MouseCrafted _ Total Revenue: $412 (Up $32 from Sep) Desket _ Total Revenue: $228 (Down $172 from Sep) WorkForThem _ Total Revenue: $99 (Down $150 from Sep) Five Ideas a Day Ebook _ Total Revenue: $71 (Down $206 from Sep) Highlights:
November changes:
Feel free to as any questions :)[link] [comments]  |
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| Building a World Class Startup Culture! Posted: 29 Oct 2018 12:44 PM PDT Hey everybody! I'm a student digital entrepreneurship in Barcelona. Here is my summary of a great video by Vishen Lakhiani on how to build a world class startup culture. This video gave me the most practical advice I have ever received on how to build a great culture for your startup! I am working on a project but before I put more time into it I want to validate if there is actually a market for it. I made a short survey that will take you 1min to fill in. For everyone that wants to help me out, here is the link: (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KMBDZ9X) Thanks in advance and enjoy the summary! Building World Class Startup Culture(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVz6c3qkzGk&list=WL&t=192s&index=1) Simon Sinek (author of 'Start with why'): "people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it" Real talent doesn't care about job ads that talk about what you do, they want to know why you do it What do people really want from a job? · Growth · Happiness · Abundance · Contribution Application process:Resumes are silly, ask for a simple 3 minute video cover letter if they want a job. à only really committed people will make a video and saves you a lot of time of going through resumes. Finding the right fit:
· Create an imaginary bar of awesomeness (a bar that shows the average amount of awesomeness in the team) and ask yourself is this person falling above or below the bar. If they fall below the bar don't think about hiring them. · Will this person raise the overall bar of awesomeness within my company?
· Spend the money you would use for job ads on making a party. Give 2 tickets to every employee of the company. 1 for themselves and 1 for the most brilliant person they know. · Let your employee introduce their friend and recruit new talent through parties Define values:Make a code of awesomeness Example: values of Mindvalley We · Dare to dream big · Evolve through learning · Are positive and passionate · Practice transparency & candor · Help others rock their greatest lives · Turn customers into raving fans · Are grateful and celebrate life · Kick serious ass · Are money magnets · Honour our words with actions your common code helps you speed up decision making Happiness:"It turns out our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive." What makes us happy? · Flextime and engagement o Of the workplace benefits Gallup studied, flextime yielded the strongest relationship to overall wellbeing among the employees o This means ditch the idea of '9 to 5' · Social support o Have lots and lots of social events and parties o People love what they do largely because of who they do it with § Gallup found that close work friendship boost employee satisfaction by 50% and people with a best friend at work are seven times more likely to engage fully in their work · Positive moods o "Studies have found that when leaders are in a positive mood, their employees are more likely to be in a positive mood themselves, to exhibit prosocial helping behaviors towards one another, and to coordinate tasks more efficiently and with less effort." o At Mindvalley they organize culture days. Once there are 5 people or more in the company from a specific country there is one day a year dedicated to a specific culture. This can be done around other subjects than countries: heels, dresses, hats,... Growth:"Leadership is recognizing that we are all one. That every person you lead is as brilliant as you, as talented as you, and has the same capacity for growth and accomplishment. They simply need to be reminded of this fact." How can we encourage growth? · Total access to education o Free amazon accounts! Let employees make a book list and buy the books. · Learn day o Dedicate one day a month to pure learning o Employees can take turns to teach a subject to each other o Encourage people to consistently learn on the job o "If you were to give me 6 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 4 hours sharpening my axe." o Give employees the time to get better at what they do, this increases the quality of their work Meaning:"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect word and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." "It's all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of their way. And trusting them. You have to get out of the way so YOU can focus on the bigger vision. That's important. And here's the main thing. You must make them see their work as a mission." How to give meaning to a job? · A strong mission o Give your employees bigger problems so that the little things seem insignificant. When you do this you have given them a gift because you have made them shift their focus from stuff that makes them mediocre to stuff that can make them legendary. · Continuously remind people of this mission o Make a blog about what the customers are saying about our products to create a boost of engagement for the employees. Significance:People think they want abundance, turns out they don't. We think people take a job for a salary, turns out it's not important. Once your needs are met, salary isn't important. What people really want is significance. You think you want the higher salary to buy that fancy car, but really you want the fancy car to feel significant. Pay people the industry average + 10% and give them significance How to give employees significance? · Appreciation o "Like flowers flourish on water, people flourish on praise" o Create a simple way for employees to give a message of appreciation through gifs, memes,… o Find a way to engineer appreciation in your company o Let everyone create a bucket list for the 3 most important questions and hang it up in plain sight § Experiences/objects § Growth opportunities § Contribution to the world o Go through the list of everyone and find out how you can help your employees reach their goals. "my supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person." à People who agreed were found to be more productive, contributed more to profits, and were significantly more likely to stay with their company long-term. 2 big culture strategiesTeam retreats: 1 day a year Mindvalley goes with the whole team on a trip to a resort. Things done at a team retreat: · Hack your department o Question the way things are done o Create new ideas · Hack the business o New business ideas to grow into Team retreats create: · Happiness through fun and bonding · Growth through trainings · Opportunities to reinforce meaning · And feelings of significance by being rewarded All hands on deck meeting: Meeting where everybody comes together and the founder tells all the awesomene things that happened the last 7 days. · Celebrate victories o Share stories from happy customers o New high scores o Bell of awesomeness (a bell you can only ring if you did something really awesome) · Envision the future [link] [comments]  |
| Media Groups running YouTube channels Posted: 29 Oct 2018 12:38 PM PDT I am not an Entrepreneur by any stretch of the term. I work a desk job, 8-5 M-F. That being said, I am very interested in learning about entrepreneurial endeavors and the people that pursue them. One that I've come across is the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips. Linus is the head of the channel (as well as a few other channels) and every so often they mention Linus Media Group. A parent company of sorts that they've created to envelop all of their channels and other endeavors. Here's my question. Why would you need to create a "media group" to run YouTube channels? I could see an LLC or something to cover yourself, but isn't a media group a bit overkill, or is it genuinely a smart idea? [link] [comments]  |
| Canvasing Via Google Form for Entrepreneurship class: Please Help! Posted: 29 Oct 2018 08:47 AM PDT Hey all, I have to canvas a startup idea I've been developing for an entrepreneurship course I'm taking. I would really appreciate it if any parents with children 12 and under would fill out this google form! Thanks :) [link] [comments]  |
| Virtual Assistant that would love to help Posted: 29 Oct 2018 12:32 PM PDT I ended up losing my day to day job a couple weeks ago, and was looking to see if anyone needed a virtual assistant here. I have experience in e-commerce, content writing for product descriptions and email marketing, data entry, proofreading, translation , customer service, and social media management, a small amount of seo writing. I also speak English, German, and Russian fluently. I will happily work as many hours a week as you would need. I also have experience in growing social media accounts (specifically on Instagram with niche accounts) 10k organic followers in a month without investing money. I have been freelancing on the side for a solid two years now. But with the loss of my day to day job, I'd like to make this full time if possible. If anyone is looking to hire, let me know. [link] [comments]  |
| Please roast me if appropriate Posted: 29 Oct 2018 12:24 PM PDT I have a few fairly solid ideas for viral marketing campaigns. How could I go from where I am now to getting commissioned by big companies. [link] [comments]  |
| Disrupting the soccer world with blockchain - Forbes article Posted: 29 Oct 2018 12:24 PM PDT |
| Just started my dropshipping/ e-commerce business, any tips? Posted: 29 Oct 2018 12:12 PM PDT I recently started dropshipping, and I seem to have everything somewhat covered except for creating effective and high-traffic sending facebook ads, or even advertising my store in general. Any tips regarding this or anything e-commerce related would be much appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for a business partner for 2D comic cartoon (animation skills required) Posted: 29 Oct 2018 11:32 AM PDT The cartoon is about a Lion who has a deep connection with the Unconscious (read Carl Jung) and its archetypes and is constantly 'tripping'/ seeing the divine/mythological in every situation/character he meets and is also deeply concerned about social issues and politics but cannot manage to have the courage/skills to solve them. So he turns to her sister, an extroverted Ram (goat), who likes partying, cars, weapons, etc (materialistic rational life). Toghether they go on adventures. If interested pm me or post here and I can send you the screenplay for the first episode. I am thinking Youtube as the appropiate media but if we are good enough we can find a TV/Netflix spot. About me: I study cinema in Florence, Italy. I have written theatre playwrites, and short stories. I have a lot of imagination and have a good, unique sense of humor that I think could be best transmitted through a cartoon, as it is a very flexible art. I will write all the episodes, create depth of character personalities and keep it all comical, while at the same time shedding some light on world current issues. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone need to advertise their company/product? Posted: 29 Oct 2018 10:59 AM PDT I run an Instagram account with 40k real engaged followers The account is @zekefeed DM ME ON @zekefeed (Instagram) to contact me I am selling shoutouts via story or post. You will have 5-20,000 people viewing your brand Thank you, just a hustler who put in the work [link] [comments]  |
| Stable £40K job or set up my own digital marketing agency Posted: 29 Oct 2018 04:52 AM PDT The background: I'm currently in a £38K/year job but will leave before or by the end of 2018 due to a company buyout and a change in my job role that I didn't agree with and harmed my career prospects. I'm now on the verge of being offered a new +£40K job at a digital marketing agency as a senior manager, a good step up for me in my career allowing me to manage & grow a team and company revenues. On the flip side, an old college friend has always been wanting to utilise my digital marketing skills for his clients. He introduced me to his business partner who also has his own business and this guy is also interested in utilising my skills. We've had around 4 meetings about setting up our own digital marketing agency from scratch. Now it's decision making time. The dilemma: I'm gonna assume the majority of business owners have been in the situation where they weighed up the risk of leaving a stable income to one that would be unstable at the beginning. This new company would have zero clients initially but access to the contacts of the business partners who run a design company and a printing company. They have clients asking about digital marketing services so there are quick wins in this area.
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