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- Has anyone won a credit card chargeback through Stripe?
- Your goals for 2019?
- I was tired of all the entrepreneurial book lists so I created a filter for myself that tells me what should I read and when
- Anyone in reputation management?
- Wife and I launched on a service for families on Product Hunt on Friday, now what?
- Does anyone have experience with ogusers.com?
- Talks about burnout
- Friendly reminder : Most online products you need for your business will go on sale after Christmas. Take advantage and save some money !!!
- How to get access to Flipmass in late 2018?
- Starting a Squarespace site for photography. Should I spend more upfront so they don’t charge 3% commission?
- Is Empire Flippers the right place to sell my eCommerce (non-dropshipping) business?
- haitian rum
- Next Year's "Business Plan"
- Cannabis Funding in California
- AtomicPay For PrestaShop Module is released as Open Source on Github. Over 270,000 merchants can accept cryptocurrencies directly to their wallet without third party processor.
- Advice on negotiating/interviewing for a job (not as W2)
- Want to start a clothing brand...
- Suggest a business I can build on 3 hours a day and <$30,000 startup capital
- How do I make my Ad not look like an ad
- Feedback on my first online SAAS business
- Creative advertising within a restaurant
- Decentralized Operations
- It’s okay to fail. It is not okay to give up -- Is this "feel good" bullshit or really true? If you don't understand the rationale, then it's bullshit
- CRO : Optimizing website for more revenue from current traffic size.
| Has anyone won a credit card chargeback through Stripe? Posted: 23 Dec 2018 04:53 AM PST A client I work with had a customer submit two separate fraudulent charges to his bank. The customer never contacted the business. This was an online order that was picked up in person (its a deli). The order was placed, fulfilled and picked up by the customer. We submitted, through Stripe, very complete documentation, everything they ask for, extremely detailed. The bank ruled in the customer's favor anyway. This seem like outright theft. Does this happen regularly to other people? Our only recourse was to ban this customer from the business, but it still seems very wrong that he was able to do this with no effort. [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 23 Dec 2018 02:37 AM PST It seems to me that the more business books I read the dumber I am. Let me elaborate and hopefully, provide a modest framework for choosing the right book for you. Books that are trying to tackle to question of how to be a successful entrepreneur, usually offering a general step-by-step program with a touch of inspirational Gary Vee mantra haven't helped me much. However, the books that did help were the ones that solved the specific issue. For instance, my main target group are passionate football supporters from England, UK. I am not from the UK, and I don't know much about football. So, the books Watching the English and A Global History of Soccer are really helping me to better understand my target group, and my business as well. Those two are definitely not the books I can find on Must Read Entrepreneurial Books Lists for 2019. So, from now on this is how I choose what books should I read: Step 1: Do an honest self-assessment and identify knowledge gaps within the current stage of your venture Here are some questions as an example: Do I really know everything about my customers? Do I know how to talk to them? Do I know everything about the niche I'm operating in? Do I have enough technical knowledge to make the product / deliver the service? Do I know how to talk to investors? Step 2: Decide whether the book is the best medium for filling that gap You don't want to spend 8 hours on the book if you can read a good step by step tutorial on how to solve a certain problem. This is also where your preferences come in the equation. If you just love books, your learning is probably more efficient than watching a video on YouTube. The main goal is to fill the knowledge gap as quickly and efficiently as possible. If you have chosen the book as the learning tool, proceed to step 3. If not, go back to Step 1. Step 3: Choose the book on Goodreads.com Look for the book of at least 1000+ ratings with an average rating of at least 3.9. That should be good enough of a filter. And that's all. If you are just starting, and really eager to read something, I suggest Anything You Want to put you in the right mood, the second chapter of The Lean Startup to familiarize yourself with some important concepts, The Mom Test to learn how to explore your idea in an objective manner and selected chapters of Lean Analytics, depending the type of your venture. Love you all and have a great year ahead <3 [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone in reputation management? Posted: 23 Dec 2018 12:39 AM PST I've been doing a bit of work in the ORM space using Reddit. Would be keen to chat to see if anyone else is doing something similar/wants to chat/wants to add Reddit to their offerings. Regardless, it's a really interested industry and I haven't seen much here. [link] [comments]  |
| Wife and I launched on a service for families on Product Hunt on Friday, now what? Posted: 23 Dec 2018 05:02 AM PST Hey folks, A while back my wife and I had an idea for a family oriented product to build for ourselves, and on Friday we made it public, launched Namekin on Product Hunt and got a nice bump in traffic. Predictably traffic died* down the next day, and now I'm looking to improve my long-term strategy for driving traffic and would appreciate any tips you may have to share. 🙏
Popular wisdom says to blog and create content - fair enough, but this service is fairly broad and I'm struggling to find a way to quantify my target audience and pick one to focus on. It started off as a "gift idea", but now I'm leaning more towards focusing on new/growing families. I'm testing a few hypotheses on audiences with paid ads to gather empirical evidence, but this is pretty expensive and not very efficient. Who do you think would be a good audience for this? How should I test/reach that audience for this service to see if it's a good fit? Any other feedback is, of course, appreciated as well. Thanks for reading this far and happy holidays! 🎅 * Although traffic was temporary, got tons of valuable feedback from PH users and as a whole, it was a great experience. The features are explained more clearly, the copy much improved, and pricing drastically simplified. [link] [comments]  |
| Does anyone have experience with ogusers.com? Posted: 23 Dec 2018 01:13 PM PST Someone wanted to use the site to buy my account and I have never heard of it and it looks like a shady site. Hope you guys have heard of it thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2018 06:07 AM PST Did anyone here experience burnout in their life? How did you cope with it? How much did it hurt you and your working process? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2018 02:51 PM PST Boxing day sales can save help you save a lot of money for your business Edit : Lots of people are asking for example so here are a few - Digital products such as (wordpress themes/plugins,Saas (sumo, Kwfinder, etc.), Quickbooks online, etc. - etc. Basically everything will go on sale for boxing day and you can use to save money for your business. Just think of something you need, google it + boxing day, find it and enjoy some savings [link] [comments]  |
| How to get access to Flipmass in late 2018? Posted: 23 Dec 2018 01:49 PM PST Trying to sell through this platform but it is hell, I have been waiting months and Im still in the queue. I was on the 190th spot and now its above 200. Hope anyone has the golden tip, thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2018 01:47 PM PST Hey guys, I've had Squarespace before and enjoyed it, but I wasn't selling prints at the time. I've sold about 20-30 so far in the last year via Reddit and Instagram DMing however never had an online store. So Squarespace offers one where they take 3% commission for $216/year, or for $312/year, where they don't take commission. It's a difference of $8/month. I do have the discount code too, but I'm looking at the overall "value" of either plan in the long run. The question is should I spend extra to get the higher plan without commission, and then if I'm not selling, "downgrade"... or do the cheaper plan and upgrade if my prints are actually selling? I'm no business man or marketer by any means, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a break even point. There's no guarantee I'll even sell anything either! Haha. Looking to see if a breakeven would be worth it or not since it's approx $80 more upfront annually. I've sold maybe 25 prints last year at $25-50 each without formal marketing, just via PayPal and reddit/IG stories Any advice would be great! @grantplace my Instagram here to show you the quality of work/judge if you think I'd sell anything or not. All feedback appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Is Empire Flippers the right place to sell my eCommerce (non-dropshipping) business? Posted: 23 Dec 2018 09:22 AM PST So here's the deal. For the last 4 years I've been running an eCommerce business. It doesn't take much work to run each day, and 99% of the traffic is organic. I'm looking to sell it because I can't dedicate enough attention to scale it further. Our product margins are at 90%+ since we produce it ourselves. And that's why I'm not sure it will do well on Empire Flippers - the majority of businesses being sold there seem to have suppliers and not handle production. At the same time, I see this as an upside as I'm selling a brand, unique products, and all the training and steps on how to make them. But it takes the right person to buy it, and I'm not sure I'll find them there. This said, do you guys know the best place to find a buyer for this sort of business online? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2018 06:47 PM PST my dad owns a broken down distillery on 2 acres of land in Leogane a city near port-Au-prince in Haiti but with nothing in his bank account. i started working with him after dropping of college and we now have 2 award winning white rums. the first is the traditionel 22 witch is a pure sugar cane rum at 110 proof the other one is the methode st Michel meaning the sour mash at 88 proof. both won silver medals ant the pairs rum fest . this is how our financial partner found us. the morning of the final meeting to settle everything we got a call from him saying he was in north Carolina with his daughter with his daughter at the doctor. she had cancer and is still fighting after radio and chemo. meanwhile over a year has past and my father and i are still broke but we have hope. just wanted to share this story and a couple of pics with u guys. happy holidays [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2018 12:13 PM PST Hey All - going into 2019, i'd like to put together a "plan" for next year, which cover growth trajectory, company structure, essentially my vision and ideas for next year i can share with management. Does anyone have a template for this? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Cannabis Funding in California Posted: 23 Dec 2018 12:11 PM PST I've been in the cannabis industry now for about 10 years, I have met several industry leaders, and now I have old colleagues reaching out to me seeking funding and offering me properties in the proper zones for a grow or storefront. Im working with a colleague to fund a project for 3.6MM in Perris and would love to work with the reddit community. We have a business plan and pitch deck but how can I help secure funding for this project before time flies? PM me if you know any investors interested in the cannabis or hemp industry. I'd love to create a mutual growth effort so we all win. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2018 12:08 PM PST View the source codes and install at https://github.com/atomicpay/prestashop-plugin [link] [comments]  |
| Advice on negotiating/interviewing for a job (not as W2) Posted: 23 Dec 2018 07:33 AM PST I recently had someone ask me for references when I was trying to help them build their project, and I realized I don't have anything that I can show. Despite being a developer since 2009. Mostly because my projects are for these big corporations with NDA signed, as well as mostly being involved at Back-end/api layer, with very limited front-end/UI exposure. Currently I have a job and I'm interviewing for another. But this time I was going to start a new company (maybe tax elect as S corp), and ask my current and/or employer to switch from W2 to 1099 or some kind of corp to corp contract. Do you think this would raise red flags for the new employer? What is the downside of having someone on a contract vs them being employed, if you're happy with their work. I want to do this for 2 reasons : 1) I want to be able to market my company to attract more people, to work in the team that I m working on OR maybe for other companies 2) I want to be able to use them as references for the future One more question for the end is how to deal with health insurance (I m in USA), obviously with 1099 you're responsible for your taxes and insurance. I assume would want to charge more because that's something you'd be getting with your W2. Thanks for your advice! [link] [comments]  |
| Want to start a clothing brand... Posted: 23 Dec 2018 10:56 AM PST I'd like to start with simple tees(I've got unique ideas which I have gotten positive opinions on) , and eventually move into other articles of clothing and shoes etc. Considering this, would it make more sense to start printing my T-shirt designs on pre-made shirts, or start making my own. Which would allow me to build a brand quicker with my own tags and unique features. What are my other options, cutting off the tags and sewing on my own? [link] [comments]  |
| Suggest a business I can build on 3 hours a day and <$30,000 startup capital Posted: 23 Dec 2018 10:34 AM PST So I'm working at least 9 hours a day right now and can squeeze out 2-3 hours after work to build a business. I am aiming for something with less than $30,000 in startup capital that I can do without traveling very far. I know online businesses will be suggested but ever since I failed at online selling, blogs/courses etc I have grown weary of the interwebs. I'm open to suggestions of course. Some thoughts I've had: importing business, novelty/luxury sales (gift baskets and wine to your door kind of thing), online courses, niche ebooks, professional staffing agency, supplement brand, niche construction company. There's a ton of money in booze. Anyone own a liquor store or import fine booze? [link] [comments]  |
| How do I make my Ad not look like an ad Posted: 23 Dec 2018 10:04 AM PST I'm running some facebook ads for some products that I am trying to sell and I see people everywhere saying to make your ad not look like an ad but I have no idea how to do this. How do I make the ad copy look less like an ad? If you could leave a comment with some feedback and what I could try that would be amazing! Thanks so much [link] [comments]  |
| Feedback on my first online SAAS business Posted: 23 Dec 2018 09:57 AM PST Hey guys, First off, I love this community and whenever I feel like giving up on my idea I come here to look at all the dedication that this community puts into their ideas. I program as a hobby and have always wanted to start a business but it seemed like whenever I was halfway through I would get discouraged and give up. Well, not this time! About 8 months ago I started programming a site that allows individuals/organizations to create a list of people and get notified when an obituary get published that matches someone on that list. I hired a few people on Upwork to help with a lot of the tasks. I also knew that if I had $$ in it, I would be more motivated. Expenses to date - Upwork contractors - ~4k Hosting services - <$100 My time: 3,000+ hours The site is www.notifyondeath.com I would love any feedback! Also, if you have any questions on how I built it/hiring contractors, I would be happy to answer. [link] [comments]  |
| Creative advertising within a restaurant Posted: 23 Dec 2018 09:35 AM PST So my parents have recently opened a restaurant which caters to a audience which before had very little to no choices nearby unless they were willing to travel 30 mins+ and as a result it has been going pretty well. Revenue is estimated to around a quarter million for the first year. With that set, the restaurant is essentially divided into 3 sections, 2 traditional seating areas with a bar in between. In all 3 sections there is a large flatscreen TV usually playing music videos related to the restaurants food background. I was thinking of maybe instead creating an additional revenue stream by pitching to local business (not restaurants) to create a continuous stream of static advertising to display on the monitors. An idea would also be to add a additional monitor where the weekly buffet is served as well. I just wanted to know what you guys think? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Dec 2018 02:20 PM PST I have been in business for 25+ years doing local home and commercial HVAC services. All of the years I never realized but I was building a business that was depending less and less on paper and traditional workflows and more on digital workflow/processes. All of our CRM/phones/communications/mobile applications are handled in the cloud. Traditional office space for administration is not as important. I currently have a 13,000 sqft building that is used for admin and warehouse/job staging. The space was absolutely necessary when I was doing heavy commercial new construction. However I have left that market and have gone back to my roots of residential service. We need only minimal space for warehousing. This would drop my overhead by 150k a year just by reduction in mortgage, insurance, taxes. Has anyone successfully decentralized their operations and had admin work from home offices? We would downsize our warehousing dramatically and keep a man there to handle deliveries and job staging. Also keep a smaller training area for on boarding people to eventually work remotely. Also to bring company together for monthly team meetings. My technicians are always on the road and never at the shop anyhow. They also take company vehicles home. So we don't need space for vehicles either. The positives seem too far outweigh the negatives. I am only worried about what my current employees might think. I don't want to lose the camaraderie and the team feel, but I also don't want to keep wasting money just to look good on the outside. I crave ultra efficiency using the technology available to us while reducing expenses. Any feedback would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2018 07:29 AM PST Here's one rationale: https://www.facebook.com/raydalio/photos/a.509348709486809/600048173750195/?type=3&theater "failure" is not the main objective... [link] [comments]  |
| CRO : Optimizing website for more revenue from current traffic size. Posted: 23 Dec 2018 07:00 AM PST What is Conversion Rate Optimisation? Let me tell you about a secret that most of the giant ecommerce companies use to increase their revenue. That is called Conversion Rate Optimisation. Well I do not think it is a secret. It is not a magical formula that will fit all the website and will be suitable for its traffic. But the process of Conversion Rate Optimisation across many ecommerce website is same. You may ask why not increase PPC(Pay per Click Ads like Google Adwords, Bing Ads) budget and get more revenue? That can be done to increase revenue. But don't you think it would be great if you can make more profit from the current website traffic. This way you will have optimised website and will get higher returns once you increase PPC ads budget. With the unoptimised website you risk loosing customer. And it is very hard to bring back a lost customer. CRO is a dynamic process. In this, first you have to break down your website into individual components. Generally ecommerce websites have a Homepage, Category Page, Product Page, Cart Page, Checkout Page. You can have other types of pages like generic info pages or terms and conditions or blogs. But focus on the 5 major page category only. Typically a user on your website follows a certain path on the website before making a purchase. If the user landed on your website directly then he might go from Home page>Category Page> Product Page>Checkout Page or the user may have landed directly on product page through social media post or PPC ads or referal traffic. Then the flow of user will be different and can look like Product page>Cart page>Checkout page The userflows can be of multiple path. There are lots of permutaions and combinations in this flow. This user journey is called Funnel. Just like actual funnel, a website need as many users as possible to go through funnel and flow down after making a purchase. In CRO, one has to understand the behavior of traffic with the help of Google Analytics data and find out what exactly is troubling the user from making a purchase. This the place where one has to play with data, analyse the details about user behavior & find out the problem in the website. Suppose in a month, the traffic on your website is landing on your home page then going to category page with drop off(number of users leaving website) of 40%. Then again it moves to product page with drop off of 35%. But after product page the drop off is 80%. It certainly looks outrageous. Then that can be considered as problem. All this can be analysed from Google Analytics Data. One shoukd not term anything as problem unless proved by A/B testing. After finding the specific issue, the product page will be analyzed heuristically or by competitive analysis. Suppose after going to product page on the website, it is found that the "Add To Cart" button on product page is not prominent or distinguishable or difficult to find. Or it is hard to find size chart or quantity selection tool for product or other specification of the website then one should take a note of that. Based on that observation a hypothesis will be built for A/B testing. It is very easy to deploy the change. But it should be validated as well. And there comes A/B testing for assessing the impact of change. In A/B testing, the proposed solution to decrease drop off rate and increase the revenue will be deployed but will be shown to 50% of the traffic simultaneously. It is possible and important to show the variation and original version to your incoming traffic so that the comparisaon yields real result. You may be wondering that it ill increase load on your website. This A/B testing will be done with the help of other server that will load new variation of particular segment of website after the website loads on the user's browser. This will ensure smooth user experience. Since the cookie will be stored on their browser, the user will be shown same variation which was shown to them initially unless the change is deployed across the website after successful A/B testing amd increase in revenue. The A/B testing will ensure that the changes deployed yield definite result. This is just a brief aspect of Conversion Rate Optimisation. It is an ongoing process and one should keep on optimising their ecommerce website because dynamics of business often change every quarter. That is how most of the ecommerce website increase their revenue 15% every quarter. If you have any doubt about the whole process, feel free to PM me. I will be happy to help. If you like it will create more post on this topic. Tools Google Analytics Google Optimize Google Sheets/ MS Excel [link] [comments]  |
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