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    December 09, 2018

    Is it illegal to resell branded shoes / clothes? Entrepreneur

    Is it illegal to resell branded shoes / clothes?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 10:44 AM PST

    I would like to open an ecommerce store on my country to resell limited edition clothes and shoes such as Adidas Yeezys, Nikes, etc.

    I would be buying those items from the brands and then reselling them for a extra profit. There are websites that already do this such as StockX.

    My concerns is if it would be illegal to do such thing? I live in the EU.

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    What you should be doing on Instagram to get continuous, organic growth (besides posting great content)

    Posted: 08 Dec 2018 11:48 PM PST

    First of all to anyone who is here looking for a way to blow up over night, you've come to the wrong place. This method is for organic growth.

    Alright, so I'm sure you have heard of the Gary Vee $1.80 method, which works great. Well this is 2 or 3 steps further than that. I won't sugar coat it, this takes a lot of time, I spend a minimum of 2 hours every day doing this, but it gets me results, so why the fuck not?

    First, what you want to do is put together a list of between 15-30 hashtags that are relevant to your niche. Make sure you have a good mix of popular hashtags that have 2-3mil+ posts as well as smaller ones that are around the 100k mark. It's very important that these hash tags are relevant to your niche, because you want to be getting followers that actually have an interest in your product, no point in gaining followers just to make your count looks good, you want engagement.

    After you've done that, it's time to get to work. This is what you want to do:

    • for 10 of the hashtags you selected(mix up the 10 every day), you want to like the top 30-50 posts.
    • like 3 - 5 comments on each of these posts (you can try liking more, but if you like too many, Instagram just stops you from liking comments for a short period of time)
    • reply to 1-2 comments on at least 10 of the posts. Just something short and sweet like "yeah I agree!"
    • comment on at least 10 of these posts. Don't be lazy with these comments by only leaving a 🔥 or some bull shit, leave an actual comment. For example, if you're in the fashion niche, you could leave a comment like "Wow! Nice jacket man, it looks great on you, what brand is it?"
    • keep an eye out for posts that have a lot of comments as well. When you find one of these posts (at least 70 comments), you want to go through at least 20 of these comments and click on their profile. Once you're in the commenters profile, go through and like 2-4 photos, and ideally leave a comment on 1 of them.

    Yes I know, it sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but trust me, it gets results.

    If you do the following for 10 hash tags: - like 50 posts - like 5 comments on every post - reply to 2 comments on 10 posts - leave your own comment on 10 posts - like 4 photos on the profiles of 20 different commenters on a top post - comment on 1 photo of each of those 20 people

    That works out to be: - 1300 posts liked - 2500 comments liked (you won't reach this many, Instagram stops you from liking comments for a short period of time, I don't know the exact number, but I'm just going to make it easy and say you can like at least 100 comments a day) - 200 comment replies - 300 photos commented on

    Which is a total of between 1,900-4,300 interactions daily.

    I tend to space it out during the day, purely because I don't want to sit on my phone for 2-3 hours straight. So I do some on my morning break (15 minutes), my lunch break (30-45 minutes), my afternoon break (15 minutes) then when I get home I spend about another hour working through this. I don't always do 100% of it, but I always make sure I do about 80% cause it is a lot of work, and a lot of time to be spending on your phone.

    But trust me, if you are doing even half of this every day, you will 100% get good organic growth. Add on top of this you posting great quality content regularly, you really can't go wrong.

    EDIT: I'm just going to add this information in.

    • the less followers you have, the more you want to do this. If you've already got 10-20k followers you don't need to be doing as much. But this is amazing to help build up your first few thousand followers (you need to be posting great content as well)
    • yes you can automate it, but no I don't recommend it. Automation will eventually get you flagged by Instagram and your engagement will go down. There's a whole lot of cons to automation, but of course the big pro is it doesn't use up your time. You have to figure out for yourself if that's the route you want to go. If you just want a big follower count with low engagement then go for it :)
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    Anyone had an experience making a Udemy Course?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 03:47 AM PST

    Anyone had an experience making a Udemy Course?

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    Was it profitable to make a Udemy course? Would you recommend it?

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    Taking profit for the first time. Any advice?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 11:01 AM PST

    My buddy and I started an online business some months ago. We have started to gain traction with the help of Q4. We will be taking out a profit for the first time in the new year.

    We have the ability to recoup our initial investment and more. However, it is my assumption that taking all of this profit at once - direct deposit into my personal account - would not be a good idea as it would all have the potential to be taxed. Please correct me if I wrong.

    That being said, how do we best distribute the profits? Only take money out when needed? Decide on a montly dividend?

    Also, how are you making sure that you have enough to pay income tax? Are you putting x amount 'away' each dividend for tax purposes?

    Is there anything that I may be overlooking? Do you have a methodical approach for taking profit?

    Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I have provided some info about my busines below.

    LLC partnership - USA No employees Selling a product - sales can fluctuate 50/50 split

    Thanks all

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    Just opened a soccer dropship shop - loads of visitors, no sales.

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 11:36 AM PST

    A week and a half a go I got curious about starting a dropshipping shop and decided to act on it. Did some research and all and moved forward. I'm a soccer coach and figured that it's one area I know very well. So I decided to open up www.beautifulgameshop.com . As of 2 Wednesdays ago I've had 800+ visitors, but only 2 sales. 9 people have reached checkout but not finished. I'd like input as to what I need to tweak to begin converting. I'm very, very new to dropshipping, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think having 800+ visitors with people reaching cart and 2 official sales win less than 2 weeks seems like its in the right direction. I just need to find out how to take it overt hat hump to start producing sales everyday.

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    For promoting I've done Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads with some post buying from some soccer pages. Here are the stats so far:

    Visitors: Facebook - 293, Instagram - 184

    Sesssions: Facebook - 298, Instagram - 188

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    As for audiences chosen, the ads demographics are set to both men and women with tags relating to soccer (soccer fan, soccer mom, premier league, USMNT, etc). About a 15,000,000. I'm only doing about $3/day for 6 days. Been doing this to test the waters.

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    Any recommendations or help is appreciated.

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    Is there a resource for figuring what percentage of automobile traffic might convert to retail shoppers?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 01:34 PM PST

    Need help finding a partner to work on an idea

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 01:34 PM PST

    Hi there,

    I am looking for someone who would be interested to work with me on an idea of mine.

    The idea is about an alternative search engine. I described it here on a website I made http://www.buildthememex.org

    Does anybody have an idea, where I could find someone like this?

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    Starter question

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 01:28 PM PST

    Might be a really stupid question, but I couldn't find any sources of money gathering. So let's say I have an idea, a plan and everything. Where do I find the investors?!

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    Who pays shipping when you dropship from Printful?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 01:16 PM PST

    I'm trying to setup free shipping.

    Til now I have activated live shipping where printful lets customers choose the shipping method and cost.

    Now, if I've set the price of a shirt at $20 and printful charges $10, I'll get $10 profit. But the customer will pay $20+shipping, let's say $23.

    The customer will pay $3 more and I will still get $10? or is the cost of shipping taken from my profit? (so I'll get $7)

    Which brings me to free shipping? You might raise the price of the shirt to $25 and offer free shipping on your store. The customer will still pay the "hidden cost" of shipping? In this case I get $25-10=$15 profit. But this doesnt make sense. You dont profit more with free shipping.

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    Build your B2B email lists within minutes: Giving away my email scraper for FREE!

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 01:10 PM PST

    Hi everyone, hope you are doing well!

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    I recently built an email scraper for my business that let's you create email lists within minutes and with zero effort. You only have to put in a search query like 'Pizza in Montreal' and it automatically scans all sites that show up in Google (and sites that are linked on these sites) for email addresses and saves them into a CSV file. That's very helpful if you want to send out cold emails to businesses.

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    I figured out that A LOT of other business owners could use this for their email campaigns and that maybe I could sell a few copies. I'm currently looking for business owners that would like to get my email scraper for free in exchange for a honest review that I can use to market it. So if you're interested, please send me a message (or comment here) and let me know:

    - what business you are using it for (if possible with link to your website)

    - if you use a MAC or WINDOWS PC

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    I'm planning on giving away 50-100 copies.

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    Thanks in advance

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    Best e-commerce platform for wife’s product/invention...

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 01:04 PM PST

    I have done some searching through out this sub and am coming up a little short on anything meeting my specifics (pardon if I missed a bunch!)

    Long story short, my wife invented a product and followed through with it until it became reality. It is in pre-production stages now. All parts are pretty much in place except for the e-commerce sale department. This is a product with 3 color options and later will be created in one other shape. Any suggestions for what has worked for anyone in a similar boat selling only 1 or two products? Any insight would be much appreciated.

    *I have taken on this portion and am willing to do the research to make this my contribution with no prior experience. I've been reading up on template style sites such as wix and big cartel but am completely open to anything. Thanks in advance!!!

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    21 Things You Should Be Doing On Social Media To Get New Customers

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 12:46 PM PST

    Here are 21 things your small business should be doing on social media to attract new followers, leads and customers. [Infographic]

    I tried to post the infographic directly on here, but could not figure out how to do it. The link above will take you to it.

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    Question Regarding Access To FB Marketplace As A Business Page

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 11:19 AM PST

    Hello,

    I recently created a new FB account to create a business page. Being as this is a new account, it doesn't have access to marketplace and neither does the business page. I am currently signed up with a FB marketing partner who is supposed to refresh my product automatically on the marketplace every 24 hours. At the moment that isn't the case, but I am seeing manual posts that I'm making on the page appear on the marketplace.

    I have the following questions.

    How do I get access to marketplace on this account so that the FB partner can get the feed up to marketplace daily? is there someone to email or form to fill out as a business to expedite this process?

    If I add an account as an admin / manager to the business page that already has marketplace access, will this give my business page access to marketplace as well?

    Thank You

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    Starting a restaurant soon, what should I do in terms of (potential) succeeding branches?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 11:10 AM PST

    Hi there, I've started 3 restaurants so far and they've all been fairly successful but none has actually got more branches. I've pitched my 4th one to investors on Friday and they have asked me if they get additional equity in the potentially future branches, as they would have been original investors.

    I told them I would have thought about that, but I have no idea what to say so far I've come up with 2 options, can you help with more? the current investment is roughly $200K

    A) $X investment in branch #1 + expansion in catering: investors will automatically have 0.5% of succeeding branches. If they want to buy more, it will be at current valuation.

    B) if they want to reinvest, they'll be in the first round? But they still need to invest to be part of the second, third, and so on branch. Still, I believe this would mean it'd have to be an independent company?

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    ThriveCart + Membership Plugin Needed? Help setting up basic subscription site!

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 10:53 AM PST

    Hi guys!

    I'm setting up a site for an influencer friend of mine and there is a membership component, but it may not really necessitate a full Wordpress membership software plugin (I hope).

    I wanted to use ThriveCart because I'll be leveraging bump offers, upsells, affiliates, etc., and ThriveCart seems incredibly powerful for this and many other features we'll be using. The site will sell physical products as well as digital, and I'm trying to combine all of it while adding an exclusive content gated section.

    So in a nutshell, here's what I'm trying to do. Set up a website that: -Can sell physical and digital products -Can sell subscriptions for access to gated digital content (just pages, not courses or products) -Doesn't require manual management of subscribers canceling or recurring payment issues -Has a shopping cart that can use funnels, upsells, affiliates etc. -Set up private message boards -Connect to ActiveCampaign

    By the way, I'm using the full ThriveThemes membership so I have access to all the Thrive plugins if that helps.

    Originally, I was hoping I could manage all this through ThriveCart (confusingly not affiliated with ThriveThemes) because it looks like it can do just about everything I want. I know it can do some recurring payments, but I'm not sure if it can manage putting pages behind a paywall and managing cancellations, etc. I know it integrates natively with MemberPress, so I thought that at least that would be a good option, but a Membership Guys review said that ThriveCart overrides the MemberPress member management features making it useless. That's a bit confusing because ThriveCart says it has a native MemberPress integration.

    Sorry for the long post, I'm on a huge time crunch to get this up, so any suggestions are hugely appreciated!!

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    Starting a project like wish..

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 09:56 AM PST

    I own the domain name Dontmindwaiting.com
    And I was hoping to start up a company similar to the business model of Wish emphasizing on cheaper products w/ china shipping speeds.
    Looking for a partner who is interested in starting a endeavor like this.
    I am hoping for a long term business partner with experience in ecommerce.
    I may not be super knowledgeable in the field but I am a super hard learner and I literally have too much time on my hands.

    Thank you!

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    [pitch] social media (unique) content curation & posting

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 09:17 AM PST

    hello,

    background:

    recently for an English language school (based in Russia) I created a script that

    1. parse few subreddits like /r/Showerthoughts
    2. rank content based on upvotes
    3. post regularly to school's social media account (vk.com)

    note, that unlike your website\blog there is no duplicate content issue for social media so it really boils down to hunting an awesome content and sharing it with audience. This way your content plan is busy and you basically just add commercial posts & content your business actually needs.

    pitch:

    in nutshell, think of it as website that

    1. source content in feed tailored specifically for you (e.g. mix of Reddit content, some blogs and other social media accounts etc may be even monitor you competition to rewind some ideas)
    2. give a nice UI to curate and publish it (pick, alter & schedule good content to be published)

    would you be interested in such service? if yes, do you want to join private alpha?

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    How to find clients for a premium blog writing service?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 08:45 AM PST

    In the next few months I'm looking at expanding my copywriting service to include premium blog post writing.

    I'm talking about 2000-5000 word "super" articles that will be extremely in-depth and packed full of info on any given topic, the purpose of which will be to engage/convert visitors and rank well long-term.

    As such, these are going to priced accordingly (around the £500/$650 mark per post) and I've run into a mental block in terms of how to find suitable clients for this kind of enterprise...

    So, Redditors, do you have any ideas/experience in identifying and acquiring clients for mid/high value projects?

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    Does a Shopify backlinking community exist?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 01:57 AM PST

    Hi!

    I'm very new to the Shopify universe, but I'm starting to get my first orders! YAY!

    I sell ultra simple furniture for millennials (or anyone) on my Shopify store.

    I thought that a cheap SEO strategy to my website would be collaborating with other Shopifyers with stores that sell anything related to my brand identity. So they would create content backlinking my store on their blog posts in exchange for me doing the same for them. I'm talking about sharing content creation and backlinks.

    However, I haven't found any community online to interact with entrepreneurs interested in this. Do you guys know where I could find this? Any of you would be also interested in collaborating with me?

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    Cheers! Love reading this sub :)

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    Need help with social media

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:43 AM PST

    I sale the purest raw honey from ethically treated bees and other hive related products.

    Recently joined Facebook and just listed me stuff there and was received very well. Wanted to know what others I should start now, as my company is small and growing?

    Thanks for the help.

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    What is the best service to sell merch?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:08 AM PST

    I'm a photographer and want to start selling my designs on merch. I have 0 experience with printing and selling, so to start I want to use a service to help me handle everything.

    I was looking at Zazzle, Spreadshirt, Red Bubble, TeePublic etc.

    Does anyone have experience and can help me figure out which company is the best for me?

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    First Online Business - Using Instagram to Scale

    Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:02 AM PST

    Hey guys! I wanted to give an update on how I'm getting the word out there about the course itself, some of the questions I have in terms of starting an online business, and of course some things I've learned along thew way.

    So after a long time of procrastinating (over 1.5 years!) I finally decided to take crucial steps on starting my painting business course…

    A lot of my motivation to do so comes from the feedback from the very people in this sub Reddit which I'm very appreciative of.

    So, after reading/listening to "Crush IT" by Gary Vee. I learned a lot about the "Put yourself out there!" mentality.

    Getting on camera was one thing, but getting on camera and sharing your thoughts about a topic and attempting to be a leader in that area is another…so for a while I was hesitant to think that I could be an influencer or provide value! In hindsight, it was such a demoralizing thought which was totally untrue.

    Getting the word out:

    I started an Instagram account where I've been targeting painters… Initially I thought my course would be great for those looking to start a painting business but as I continue to upload content on the Instagram I found that it's also very attractive to a demographic of painters who don't quite know how to 100% sell painting jobs or run a true painting business. (Most just paint on their own)

    I'm getting a lot of questions about productivity, estimating, and a TON of questions about sales.

    So in other words: through my venturing out to Instagram, I've actually found a totally new direction to teach and provide value in. Initially, my goal was to provide a course to young millennials/entrepreneurs who are interested in starting a painting business. Now it's transitioned to providing that same service, with a PRO version for those who are already painting and want to learn how to market and sell better.

    As of now, we have 550 followers. I'm really proud of this number because all 550 are painters! I've only had the account for a week. I update every day (4-5 stories, 1 anchor post) and ask my audience frequent questions about their experience painting! So, I would say that our engagement is pretty good.

    I've been quiet on Facebook, and haven't ventured out further than that because I still don't have the course 100% ready to purchase yet, so I don't want to create too much hype and wait too long to deliver.

    The backend:

    So, for the course… I hired a freelancer on Fiverr. Initially, I thought he would be able to build everything just how wanted it from start to finish!

    However, due to a communication barrier (he was from a different country…we just couldn't lock down the communication) he misinterpreted a lot of what I had asked for. He made the wireframe with OptimizePress on WordPress.

    I paid him for the work he did (He put together the pages and linked them.)

    From then, it was up to me. All content. I never made a Landing Page before, but I've always paid attention to how a lot of the influencers and marketers are doing it, so I had a great idea on how to do it. I was very pleased with Optimize press - they make it simple. I've tried a few others, like ThriveThemes, but I like the OptimizePress for their course capabilities.

    I created the landing page, the order page, a blog page and a login page. On the backend, I have the course page that has templates for all of the modules, so when I'm ready curating the content I can just plug and play…perfect.

    I knew that I needed an email marketing software, so, from some good advice I chose MailChimp. They make it super easy to use. I started compiling an email list on my landing page where I give a "Free Business Startup PDF". There, users can input their email and I email them a Startup PDF. I'm still trying to figure out how I can send them this automatically. (Would love some advice!)

    Now that we're on Instagram, I've had a few people already ask for info on the course. I didn't have this ready in the beginning because I wasn't expecting such an overwhelming response, so I had to create a "COMING SOON" landing page. I funnel these emails into a "PRE-SALE" list on MailChimp where I will give them a sweet deal for requesting the course early.

    Pricing:

    I'm debating between two different pricing structures. The first of course is the 1-time fee.

    The second, is a monthly fee…

    I'm thinking for the regular version (startup basics, business basics, marketing and sales basics, production basics) I will charge a one time fee of $395.00

    For the PRO version, which is all of the advanced level material I will charge a flat fee of $695.00 this also comes with Instant Message coaching where I will personally chat with them throughout the day as a mentor to help with estimates, and business questions.

    The alternative would be to charge a monthly fee for the PRO version. Would love your input on this as well.

    Obstacles:

    Content creation is becoming a serious obstacle! I think the fact that I'm gaining more traction is putting a little heat on the stove. I'm trying to PERFECT the content for the course, which is taking a while to do. Although I want to just "GET IT OUT THERE!!" I want to make sure it's of extreme value…

    I want to make sure this course really helps people, I don't want to be one of those jerks that sell something to someone that has generic BS info. I really want it to be something that someone can use as a blueprint to start their painting business, or grow it.

    As far as course obstacles go, I'm really still new at marketing it. In your opinion, do you think I'm taking the right approach by doing a lot of content on Instagram? Where else do you think it would benefit me? I'm not at all ready to spend $ on Facebook ads. Actually, if I can avoid that altogether I would.

    Thanks for taking the time to read this... Your feedback is definitely appreciated!

    DISCLAIMER: Before you think I'm trying to promote my course here, I want to mention that I will at no point mention the name of my course or business on this thread. I am not here to promote, I am here to share my experiences as a new online entrepreneur in this field, and to receive feedback. Please do not ask for my course on this thread as I will not respond to you… I hope you can understand the nature of this message seeing as a lot of people may misunderstand my intent.

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