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- A list of 100% free automation resources to help you bootstrap your systems
- The Exit Plan - The most important part of your business plan.
- Beware while starting a dropshipping business...!!!
- Those that were unsuccessful in real estate-what mistakes did you make? What would you do differently?
- Library of innovation and entrepreneurship
- We have beta-launched a meetup management SaaS and would love to hear your feedback
- Advice For a 16 Year Old Entrepreneur
- Question related to utilizing modern payment apps for expense reimbursement
- IFTT for social media posts: which platform do you make/post the content to?
- Negotiate price on Creating a website for a local business
- Reccomendations for pitch deck software?
- What are the best materials/books on recruitment and building a team?
- Has anyone improved in social skills/social intelligence thanks to being forced to tlk to people in business?
- I copied the city in a box idea from u/betapunch and made it for the world's most liveable city with my own little twist! If you have time I would love some BRUTALLY honest feedback.
- Is my partner being unethical?
- How do I find copywriters to hire in my business? Where can I get copywriters?
- Thinkers/Doers in Entrepreneurship
- What you like about online grocery delivery and what you don't?
- Best accounting software for a small ecommerce business?
- Martial arts gym looking for advice and acquisition strategy offline
- How to increase the TOFU/MOFU leads for B2B SaaS company?
- [Discussion] Best way to get in contact with target market for market research?
- Looking for ways to improve my website, honest feedback is greatly appreciated! I'm far away from where I want to be with it, but you can help me get one step closer.
- I was named "People to Watch" for 2019!
| A list of 100% free automation resources to help you bootstrap your systems Posted: 09 Nov 2018 06:46 PM PST Running low on cash or don't care to spend more than you need? Check out this list of tools and resources to help you automate your business for 100% free. Zapier: Connect the apps you use everyday to automate your work and be more productive. 1000+ apps and easy integrations.
Fetch RSS: This service allows you to create RSS feed out of almost any web page.
TrackReddit: Real-time social listening for the all of Reddit. Setup trackers to monitor for mentions of any word/phrase.
IFTTT: IFTTT (if this, then that) is the easy, free way to get your apps and devices working together.
Integromat: An easy to use, powerful tool with unique features for automating manual processes. Connect your favorite apps, services and devices with each other.
Automate io: Connect all your cloud applications with amazing ease. Automate marketing, sales processes, payments or any business processes in minutes.
Parabola: Parabola gives non-coders the building blocks they need to create complex data flows in a drag and drop interface.
Scraper API: Easily build scalable web scrapers. Scraper API handles proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs so you can get HTML from any web page with a simple API call.
Microsoft Flow: Microsoft Flow is focused on integrations with Microsoft's own business tools, like Office 365, Dynamics CRM, PowerApps, and Yammer.
Stringify: A thoughtful automation service for the Internet of Things (IoT). Stringify allows people to connect all their physical products and digital services together in one place.
Zoho Flow: Automate business workflows by connecting your apps with Zoho Flow. Build smart integrations to break the information silos in your business.
APIFY: Apify is a web scraping and automation platform. Turn any website into an API in a few minutes!
Apilio: Apilio offers the ability to create advanced IFTTT recipes with multiple conditions.
Zenaton: Zenaton is a service for developers to programmatically build, run and scale long-running workflows in a scalable and resilient way.
Slack: Slack is a messaging app for teams. It brings all your team's communication, tools and files in one place.
Castr: Stream for free to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and other popular platforms simultaneously with Castr.
Alfred: Alfred boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.
Pushbullet: Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one.
Email Hunter: Hunter is all you need to connect with any professional. It puts email formats, emails addresses found on the web, verifications and other data signals to find desired contact information.
Flow XO: Flow XO is a powerful automation product that allows you to quickly and simply build incredible chatbots.
Full Contact: Improve contact management, profile enrichment, audience insights, audience development, fraud prevention/identity proofing, and customer care by turning an email, social handle, phone number, or limited demographic data into a full person or company profile.
Scrapy Cloud: Scrapy Cloud is a battle-tested platform for running web crawlers. Your spiders run in the cloud and scale on demand, from thousands to billion of pages. Think of it as a Heroku for web crawling.
Workflow: Workflows combine a bunch of steps across mobile apps into a single tap. Recently acquired by Apple
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| The Exit Plan - The most important part of your business plan. Posted: 10 Nov 2018 12:05 PM PST I have been doing business consulting for years. So many businesses don't have any exit plans. They literally are building their own prison to work until they die. It's quite sad that so many small business owners just get bogged down in the day to day stuff that they just become miserable. So what can we do to avoid this? When you are designing your business you need to assume that EVERYONE IS A JACKASS. It's easy to assume because most people are jackasses. When it comes to a low wage job most people that work them are only doing so because it's an easy paycheck. Instead of asking for a raise and being responsible, they tend to try to get away with theft, or slacking off, or bad mouthing the owners, etc. Why would they bad mouth the owners? Because they have no idea how many times the owners risked everything, took on crippling amounts of debt, or worked 120 hour weeks to be where they are. This is why owners need an exit plan. It should be built in to the initial business plan. How long do you need to be done with your business? 5 years? 10 years? The rest of your life? I always use the analogy that a business is like raising a baby. First you get no sleep, you have to support every minute for their chance at life. But, sooner then you expect it's off to school, it's finding it's own way, you are still there, but it isn't requiring your help for every breath. Soon after that and the rebellious teenage years they are ready for college hopefully. This is your exit plan. So when building your business, build it so that every step in the processes can be run by a jackass that hates you and wants to rip you off. If you build your business to be jackass friendly, you will have an easier time exiting. Take the time to write up training programs and company policies. Make it run like a McDonalds. You don't even need to be able to read to work there. There is no reason that your business should take your every day attention. That's not why you started your business. Don't be a prisoner of your own business! Make your business jackass proof from the inception and go for the exit plan as soon as your profits will allow. Sell? Automate? Take on an operating partner? Exiting has many forms, it's up for you to decide, but make a clear plan to exit from the beginning. Just my 2 cents. Cheers! [link] [comments]  |
| Beware while starting a dropshipping business...!!! Posted: 10 Nov 2018 09:11 AM PST Dropshipping is not a scam. But, you must set realistic expectations for yourself and be careful of certain scammers that may take advantage of you when trying to get in the industry. Like with any industry, there are companies that promise you profits with little to no work involved - steer clear and beware of these and as well as aware from the so called mentors who spreading the dropshipping business as a viral disease! These scams and middleman programs try to get you with their upfront fees, monthly costs or "expert coaching", but in turn, you will just lose money. To be successful with a dropshipping business, you must first understand that dropshipping is a fulfillment model and not a business model. Dropshipping is a great way to make money, but it takes work and marketing skills in order to do so. Just because everyone can get their feet wet in dropshipping doesn't mean that everyone in the industry will be successful. Dropshipping stores often have high competition and thin margins, so unless you are able to build a business and repeatable customer acquisition processes, the model may not be profitable for you. It's just like any other business, and with any other business, you will need to build a unique value proposition to differentiate your company from others in the same product niche. There are many dropshippers that are profitable and successful, but it's not because of the "Make money instantly!' promises the middleman programs and scammers make. The profit comes from the work and research they put in to build a brand and establish unique and competitive supplier relationships. An interesting thing to note as well is that most true dropship supplier programs do not usually list "dropship" in their title, URL or even in the majority of their keywords. They are often recognized as a bulk wholesale supplier first for their dealers and offer a dropship program on the side as another option. So, when looking for a supplier that offers dropship products, find a "wholesale supplier" first and not a supplier where dropshipping is their sole program focus. Middleman programs actually tend to rank much higher in dropship searchers than true top suppliers. So, as long as you stay away from those types of companies and view dropshipping as simply a product sourcing method for your business, you will be sure to figure out it is indeed not a scam. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 06:50 AM PST I've narrowed my interests and potential new startups down to web design and real estate. The side income from web design should help me fund a rental or flip property, while I work full time as a software analyst. I guess in theory depending where I take my web consulting, it could be successful enough on its own. Anyway, I love hearing both success and failure stories because it reminds me daily that entrepreneurship is a RISK-sometimes a large risk. [link] [comments]  |
| Library of innovation and entrepreneurship Posted: 10 Nov 2018 04:29 AM PST As I found it hard to find good content on innovation-related and entrepreneurship topics on Google, that are free - I spent a couple of months gathering free articles, e-books, videos, and so on. Inside this library, you can find a link to exponential tech library as well + some others. Hope it helps: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VLtJwPbvaT3eTI1fkfbA8yV5vimG_o9rMvKjTIVRdqk/edit [link] [comments]  |
| We have beta-launched a meetup management SaaS and would love to hear your feedback Posted: 10 Nov 2018 09:22 AM PST Hi everybody, my brother and I have been working on this project for a while now: we wanted an alternative to Meetup.com that had a free plan for smaller groups, and was a bit more organizer-oriented. We are under no illusion of competing with Meetup since it has an extremely large user base, and in many aspects a great product. However, we do believe that we can be a good fit for meetups looking for a simpler and cleaner solution where they can take part in deciding about new features. Some of the thoughts and ideas that guide us:
The current app is in an MVP, feature-limited state with a couple of test groups and events created, but we do have many cool new things planned. We first wanted to get some feedback, whether positive or negative! We'll be offering 3 months of our Plus plan (up to 500 group members) for free to people who would be interested in checking out the app with larger groups. Feel free to contact us if you're interested! Here's the link to the app: https://blinkmeet.com Thanks in advance! [edit: formatting] [link] [comments]  |
| Advice For a 16 Year Old Entrepreneur Posted: 10 Nov 2018 01:53 PM PST I'm currently a junior in high school and all I've been thinking about is how I would be making money after I graduate. I currently do really good in school, getting straight A's and stuff like that. But I know that I want to start my own business and be a entrepreneur. I have some ideas like starting a business where I wash cars, and I have also been thinking about the future looking towards investing in the stock market and even renting properties out once I have made a amount of money I'm comfortable with. So if you have any advice or any recommendations on what I should do it would be really appreciated. Also sorry about the formatting I'm on mobile. [link] [comments]  |
| Question related to utilizing modern payment apps for expense reimbursement Posted: 10 Nov 2018 11:07 AM PST I am trying to streamline my reimbursement process. Currently I deal with 20-30 year old clients for a non profit who help out by purchasing goods for our organization. I'm currently making them send receipts to me via text or email, writing a physical check and then sending or giving it to them. I'd like to reduce the amount of time I spend writing checks, and the amount of time they have to wait for the checks to clear. [link] [comments]  |
| IFTT for social media posts: which platform do you make/post the content to? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 10:32 AM PST Let's say you want to have fb, ig, Twitter, snap?, discord all posted to if possible. Iftt can do it but which goes into the if statement? Each platform has its own rules on picture/word count so I'm curious how to get it all across [link] [comments]  |
| Negotiate price on Creating a website for a local business Posted: 10 Nov 2018 02:03 PM PST Hey guys, I run 2 online shopify brands and I came across an opportunity with a small local business in my city which sells Statues, animal statues, and such for home decoration, backyard, etc.. They don't have an online presence, and recently came across 100-200 products that they want listed online. Whether it be their own website through shopify (which i can make) or listing the products on Amazon, or preferably both. On Monday I'll be going back for the second meeting and take pictures of the products, then get to work with online listing. I have a question, how much would you charge for this service? To take pictures of ~150-200 products, create shopify website, and list the products (name + brief description)? I was thinking of charging 3$ a product to list on each platform Amazon + Shopify (so 6$/product) and $300 for creating the shopify website for their company. But This is the first time I've come across an opportunity like this so I don't really know the prices in this market. But I do know people charge $1000-2000 starting to create websites for local businesses. What would be a good price or negotiation for this type of contract/project? Also if anyone is looking for a $$ opportunity the people want me to sell the products for them (drive traffic, convert sales) to the website/listings etc.. and pay in commission. But I'm going to decline as I don't have time to run basically a 3rd online business. So if anyone is good with sales/online sales and can drive traffic and convert to sales message me if you are interested in this opportunity. [link] [comments]  |
| Reccomendations for pitch deck software? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 09:55 AM PST |
| What are the best materials/books on recruitment and building a team? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 01:15 PM PST As I venture into the entrepreneurial sphere, I'm realizing I'm not the kind of person who "plays the instruments". Although I have before, and have experience in selling my own services. I'm more of a conductor...people keep telling me how much I inspire them to move, take next steps, and grow in their endeavors, but I'm not the kind of person that is talented in executing many tasks with intricate details at once...so I want to build a team. What would be the best resources to learn how to build a team once I have the idea for a product? Where to go look for people? Information on the recommended contracts between employer and employee etc.? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 01:13 PM PST Has anyone improved in social skills/social intelligence thanks to being forced to talk to people in business? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 01:24 AM PST Hi r/Entrepreneur! I wanted to wait to post this because: A) I didn't want to seem like I was simply promoting my own company B) I wanted to finish off some things that just aren't finished yet C) Im EXTREMELY nervous If you don't know of or remember the 'city in a box' that beta punch made popular, he created Baltimore In A Box (BIAB). This is my first business. I live in Melbourne (the most liveable city in the world 7 times) and have started Melbourne In A Box (MIAB). I'm posting here because I want your absolutely brutal and honest feedback. Tear me down and deconstruct everything, please! A few things i'm doing different:
If you're from Melbourne or have some relation to Melbourne:
If you're not from Melbourne:
Here is a picture of our cat, with a cat mug with a cat tea strainer as a thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Is my partner being unethical? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 11:50 AM PST I'm a programmer, pretty competent in my field. This summer an acquaintance of mine (lets call him Mr.R) approached me with an unusual offer - he wanted to make a crypto trading bot. From him explaining the trading algorithm to me - I figured that writing the actual code would only take a few hours, one day tops, so out of curiosity, I decided to give it a try. Although it seemed fishy, It wasn't illegal, Mr.R didn't seem crazy, and the time investment wasn't big. He offered me a 50-50 partnership, and I agreed. After some research, I wrote the code in Python, it worked with poloniex API. It took me only a day. We launched the bot the next day and ran it for a few weeks - it was working as it should, using his trading logic and my code. It wasn't making money though, it had a slightly negative ROI, mostly bacause of trading fees. After this Mr.R asked me to code some changes that would improve the bots performance (he was observing the trading troughout all this time, working out the things that needed to be improved). I oblidged and v2.0 was born. It was still losing money, but not as much anymore, the ROI was close to break-even, even with high fees that we were paying. After a few more weeks Mr.R presented me with v3.0 of the trading logic. It was a lot more comprehensive then v1.0 and 2.0. At this point the coding became more difficult, required more research and tinkering with API timing and limitations. The code itself started to present a challenge. But I did as he asked, and we launched v3.0. And the bot actually performed well, it started trading at a positive ROI. Frankly, I was surprised, at first I just did it out of pure curiosity and not much faith, but now I saw that perhaps Mr.R was on to something. In the following few month the bot was actually doing well and making a consistant profit, it traded enough volume for us to be sure that its not just a fluke ("not just positive variance" as he said). Mr.R was observing the trading and contacting me with minor changes that needed to be made. v3.01, v3.02 and so on. At first it wasn't a lot, but over time he started contacting me a lot more often then I was comfortable with. Constant changes, new ideas, new improvements etc. Sometimes he would just call to rumble, talk about whatever unrelated stuff that seemed to have no importance whatsoever, frankly, he started to annoy me. Like I had no other life outside of this bot project or Mr.R (maybe he didn't). After a few month, at Mr.R's request, I actually had to code v4.0, which was a lot more difficult then anything before. I had to figure out an undocumented push API, tinkered a lot with timings and limitations, the logic was convoluted and required a lot of research to code properly. It was a big and stressfull project for me, on top of other things I was doing - I had to sacrifice a lot of my time and effort. And Mr.R kept hurrying me, trying to impose his initiative on my coding process, despite knowing nothing about coding. The bot performs well, its profitable, but its not making a lot. Pennies every trade on average. 0.03-0.07% ROI after the fees. And the bad part about it is that the profit will not increase if we start trading bigger amounts. Its not scaleable - making a $100 trade will yield a $0.05 profit, but making a $1000 trade will not yield a $0.50 profit. Its too technical to explain why - but its like this. There is a treshhold at which the increase in position size will start to decrease the EV ROI of the trade, to a point of it becoming negative if increased too much. What this means is that the bot makes money by making a whole lot of very small trades, very often. Its trading many different currency pairs simultaniously, and tries to make as many small trades as possible, as fast as possible. And there is a limit to how many trading pairs are available, and how many API calls you can make, so, since position size can't be increased, and there is a limit on volume of trades, there is a limit on the bots hourly rate. As it is now, running on poloniex and trading up to 5 pairs at the same time - its hourly rate is not big. Its not worth the time investment so far. At present day, we are on v4.6. The trading logic, according to Mr.R, can't be improved much any more. Only some minor things, maybe a v5.0 that will maybe push the ROI a bit further. At this point, I sacrificed a lot more time and effort on this project then Mr.R did. And recently he dropped this bombshell on me - we have to launch this bot on all the big trading platforms and trade as many pairs on all of them as possible! He made it sould easy - lets just do it and we become rich, we increase our volume of trades by many fold and buy a lambo in no time. Yeah, lol. That may be so, but he makes the work sound trivial, of course, he's not the one who will have to do it. He's almost delusional. He doen't get it - how much work this will be, how much time and effort it will require of me. Maybe he thinks hes project is the most important thing in the world, but I have other work too. "Yeah, just do it" - go figure out all the different API's on two dozen different trading platforms, half of which are not even documented, so easy! And in the meanwhile, Mr.R will just do nothing and get his 50%. Yeah, sounds fair! Some partnership this is... However good Mr.R might be at writing trading algorithms - he doesn't know how to code, he doesnt even have a degree in anything. He's good at analythical thinking, but his math is rudimentary, hes limited by a lot of things. He didn't spent years of his life stydying and learning things like I did, at this point - he is just using me, and is too stubborn or greedy to to offer me proper compensation. He believes that he's entitled to 50% of the profit, despite not putting in almost any work and not even having the ability to do so even if he wanted to, due to lack of knowledge and education. He spend his college years wasting his life/drinking while I was sacrificing mine for knowledge and career. How is this fair? Anyway, I like the project and I think it has potential. Mr.R's plan to launch it on many platforms is a solid plan, probably a profitable one, hes not really wrong. But no way I'm agreeing to him having 50% and doing close to no actual work to make it happen. I had this discussion with him, not for the first time, and he just stubbornly disagrees, he admits that I'll be doing most of the work, but still thinks he is entitled to his 50%, as its his idea. A few times I thought about it, that maybe somehow he's right. Frankly, I don't have much experience in the business world, and he's been doing some business before, nothing major though. He was a professional poker player for many years too. We couldn't agree at the end, and we decided to part ways. I'm sure Mr.R will now look for another naive sucker who with agree to his conditions. He's good at convincing, he can talk people into things. Before parting ways Mr.R asked me to confirm that I agree that I won't make any more bots using his trading idea without his permission. He's paranoid that I will cut him out. Just shows how "necessary" he actually is for the project... We did agree that the current running bot on poloniex is still "ours", and whatever profit it generates over time will be shared. Given the situations, what is your opinion on the following: - Is there, by any stretch, a possibility that I'm wrong and Mr.R is entitled to his 50% despite me doing all the work from now on? - Does Mr.R have the right to ask me not to write bots using his idea and use them myself (or sharing the code/alghorythms with others)? [link] [comments]  |
| How do I find copywriters to hire in my business? Where can I get copywriters? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 11:46 AM PST |
| Thinkers/Doers in Entrepreneurship Posted: 10 Nov 2018 10:22 AM PST I've always been more of a thinker than a doer. While I understand that I must learn to be more of a doer, is there any way that I can also contribute value to a business as a thinker? [link] [comments]  |
| What you like about online grocery delivery and what you don't? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 10:21 AM PST Hi there guys, I'm developing my own online grocery delivery business, it's pretty much the only one in my country and we've finished 75% of it. I thought it would be a good idea to ask everyone here, who used or not a service like that what did you liked about it and what not. Hopefully I'll get some answers, thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Best accounting software for a small ecommerce business? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 10:06 AM PST Best accounting software for a small ecommerce business? No payroll and don't need invoicing- want to track revenue and expenses mainly. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Martial arts gym looking for advice and acquisition strategy offline Posted: 09 Nov 2018 11:24 PM PST Hello r/entrepreneur I am hoping to find some good advice regarding acquiring new members after the initial grand opening phase. Since its local community, online advertising only works so well. What creative strategies do you use to help acquire new potential clients? I'd like to have discussions and invite people for free initial lessons to see if they're a good fit. How can I target the right people and get them in the gym? Thanks all! [link] [comments]  |
| How to increase the TOFU/MOFU leads for B2B SaaS company? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 06:05 AM PST Can anyone share their experiences to increase the tofu/mofu leads drastically? We are looking to double the tofu/mofu leads each quarter? Can anyone share actionable steps for the same? We majorly use ebooks and webinar as tofu/mofu content and the channels are paid ads(social), emails, webinar and just started affiliate marketing? [link] [comments]  |
| [Discussion] Best way to get in contact with target market for market research? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 06:01 AM PST Hey all, Hope everyone is keeping well today. Just a quick question for a few of you guys who might be able to help me out. I am working alongside a fashion distributor and have decided to go halfs on a new project together - he gets the porducts made, I sell them. Without getting too much into specifics because I would like to keep this as a discussion aswell, I need to talk to hikers/campers in the US for some market research and to see what sort of problems they are facing concerning a certain kind of product. Am hoping to speak to about 100 of them - just so have a % basis to work off. At the moment I am thinking along the lines of:
These are a few of the options I am hoping to pursue in the aims of getting talking to a sliver of the potential market, because while i have seen form lurking on here that not many people "believe" in market research" it's quite literally the ONLY way to find out if the product you are hoping to sell is worth while. Looking forward to hearing what a few of you seasoned veterans may suggest! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2018 09:40 AM PST https://metropolitanleague.org/ I made this website for a couple reasons:
my main concern is the first one. i need to explain myself as well as get people excited about it. overall im both happy with it and the progress i have made so far using the little skill i have as well as deeply unhappy with it because it is so amateurish and isn't yet what i want it to be. sharing your perspective will be of great help to me. i'll be back in a few hours to respond to everyone. [link] [comments]  |
| I was named "People to Watch" for 2019! Posted: 10 Nov 2018 09:34 AM PST Edit; I didn't realize, but the video comes off pretty cocky. Totally not trying to just pat myself on the back, although that's what it looks like. I'm going to reformat how I do my videos to go more in depth and actually try to teach a lesson from what we are doing instead of just praising that things are going well. Thanks for the feedback! Hi everyone! A week ago I posted about leaving my $130K job and documenting my journey, releasing a video each week. I just uploaded this weeks video and I wanted to share it with all of you. From getting new clients to being named "People to Watch" in 2019 by Pulse Magazine (a Central Massachusetts magazine), we crushed it this week. With all the daily ups and downs of being an entrepreneur, it gets me really pumped to see a local magazine recognizing the hard work my co-founder and I are putting in with our startup Canary. It pushes me to keep going and grinding hard, but also to take a step back and appreciate the small things we've accomplished so far. Thanks for taking the time to read this post! If you want to check out the weekly videos I post about our successes, struggles, learnings, and growth, you can check it out here. Let me know what you think :) Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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