Getting out of a year long contact small business |
- Getting out of a year long contact
- When do you stop following up with leads?
- Password Management in Companies - How do your small business handle it?
- Has anyone utilized the new Veteran Small Business Enhancement Act benefits? If so, what’s your experience?
- My first revenue is finally coming in consistently, now what?
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- Would love your opinion
- Starting WiFi HotSpot Business in my town
- THE ART OF DM Mastering Direct Message
- NewsTalk TV - Worth it?
- Online Survey Service Recommendations - Has any owner here tried using an online service to gather market data via direct surveys?
- Painting company starting up needs some incentive ideas for realtors/property managers/roofers/etc..
- How to drive traffic to a foosball company. (Website)
- Brainstorm some employee compensation ideas with me...
- What do you do to switch off?
- Procurement via Crowd Source
- Manually correcting/revising W2s and nothing wants to add up.
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| Getting out of a year long contact Posted: 06 Feb 2019 04:31 PM PST I made the massive mistake of signing up for Welcome Wagon, a direct mail advertiser, back in September. Before I signed, I saw that they wanted a 12 month commitment. I said no. The rep sitting across from me said that I could cancel whenever I wanted, but that they ask for at least 3 months to see if it works. I said I could do that, had just opened a preschool, and was exploring different advertising. I signed up for $750/month. Never got one call or contact. After 3 months, I decided to cancel. I emailed the rep and the advertising contact in the accounting department and explained I was cancelling and that as of December, I would no longer pay and to please cancel my ad. To this day, they are refusing. I have disputed the charges, even changed my credit card number so that they can no longer try to charge my card. I have told them repeatedly that they aren't getting any more money, that they will have to take me to small claims court. They replied that they will notify the credit agencies and tell them I didn't pay a debt. Do I have any recourse? Is hiring a lawyer worth it? [link] [comments]  | ||
| When do you stop following up with leads? Posted: 06 Feb 2019 10:28 PM PST Business owners/ sellers, after how many attempts do you stop following up with sales leads? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Password Management in Companies - How do your small business handle it? Posted: 07 Feb 2019 01:23 AM PST Hi Redditors! We're currently exploring a problem that we've seen in some companies regarding password management, and would love to hear how this is handled in your company. Is it a problem that need solving? This survey is not strictly limited to small businesses, but we suspect that this is where the problem is most prominent. Hopefully this still falls within the rules of this subreddit. It will only take a few minutes of your time, and we would really appreciate it! https://goo.gl/forms/OQejXfU6MSHQJlSh2 (also posted on r/SampleSize) [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 06:21 AM PST This is the new law: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2679/text?format=txt Has anyone received any property or items for their Veteran owned business from the federal government? If so, how did you receive them? What was the process? Given that it's a federal program I'm sure there's tons of hoops to jump through but holding out some hope that once the registration or whatever is complete that continuing to receive needed goods is fairly simple. I've sent an email to my state representative that oversees federal surplus but I'm still waiting to hear back so I'm looking for anyone that's had some real experience with the process to shed a little light or offer advice. Seeing is how it's a new law I realize that there probably won't be many of you out there and that's ok. There doesn't seem to be many resources available online yet. Any little bit of info helps. Edit: Seeing is how I have the ear of some Vets here I just want to add that we all know the stats on veteran homelessness and suicide. If you need any help, or know a vet that does please drop me a line. I will do my best to get you what you need or in touch with someone who can do that. Don't suffer alone. I'll be your friend if you need a friend or a sounding board if you just need to vent or share sea stories. [link] [comments]  | ||
| My first revenue is finally coming in consistently, now what? Posted: 06 Feb 2019 01:25 PM PST I don't mean now what in a sense of where to take my business, asking more along the lines of being advantageous with taxes, receipts/write offs, bills etc. This company is from my home on my cell phone. Can I start paying my cell phone and internet out of the business account or will it pan out the same at tax time next year? Should I do anything with the money besides let it sit in my account? It's only going to be $1000-2500 per month right now but I have no idea if I let it sit or if I can use it to my benefit etc? If you have any advice, I'm all ears!!! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Best Mobile app, Software, Web, SEO, SEM provider Posted: 07 Feb 2019 03:03 AM PST Xiteb® is a proven mobile apps, software, website development & SEO/SEM solution provider which is an Award Winning company by SLT Zero One for digital excellence in 2017 and was also awarded with THE BIZZ Award 2018, which is a recognition given by the International recognition of business excellence by World Confederation of Businesses - WORLDCOB. [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Starting WiFi HotSpot Business in my town Posted: 07 Feb 2019 02:46 AM PST I'm currently starting to roll out WiFi Hotspots in my town. I identified stores, cafes, and restaurants as the best sites for the initial rollout of the network. However, I'm having a tough time selling the hotspot solution to them, so I would really appreciate your expertise. What is the pitch that you would like to hear? What we provide:
I get the feeling that some small shop/restaurant owners are afraid of technology, afraid of making any kind of changes. The owners are mostly people with a very limited understanding of tech and, sometimes, even the local language. What would be your suggestions? How can I roll out more WiFi hotspots to local businesses faster? Thanks a lot! [link] [comments]  | ||
| THE ART OF DM Mastering Direct Message Posted: 07 Feb 2019 01:50 AM PST I've been working online for three years now and I've made a good amount of money along with great connections. I started blogging a month ago(not to put spam ads so I can make .20 cents a click) to share my experience with others. One key component that brought me most of my success in dealing with people was to really give a F . https://issabeth.com/2019/02/07/art-of-dm/ I hope this video can help you guys to land more opportunities xoxo [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 08:38 PM PST We were recently reached out to by NewsTalk TV, a show on the AMC network. Their pitch was essentially producing a 1-2 minute segment on our company to air on their show. We could then use the video freely in the future for our own marketing campaign. Of course, this came at a cost of $5,000USD. After checking out their work, the video itself seems like something we would be happy with, but after pricing things out, we feel we could get it done for half the price. This then leaves the other half of the price tag for the exposure to their audience (which they claim will reach 95 million households). They have worked with some big named brands such as Intel, Casio, Steelseries, etc... So, my question is.... is NewsTalk TV worth it to those who have had any experience with them? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 11:39 AM PST I was wondering if any one has used an online survey provider to gauge interest in a product/service? I'm in the process of launching a product and would like to refine my message but need input from direct users. Has anyone here tried a service like surveymonkey (this in the only one that comes to mind)? What were your thoughts on the service, good and bad (pricing/data rec'd, ease of use, response rates...). If you had to do it over again, is there another method you would use? Thanks! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Painting company starting up needs some incentive ideas for realtors/property managers/roofers/etc.. Posted: 06 Feb 2019 09:07 PM PST I've recently dived into the painting business and looking to get more avenues for leads other than lead services and craigslist. Any ideas on what one could offer to these types of companies? Specifically realtors. What kind of offer or collaboration would be worthwhile ? Even if at a heavy discount. At this point I'd like to add more to my portfolio and develop some references. Any feedback is appreciated. [link] [comments]  | ||
| How to drive traffic to a foosball company. (Website) Posted: 06 Feb 2019 08:54 PM PST Hello! I just started a new company called Empire Foosball and I'm only 14. I am not the average 14 year old I guess because of how much knowledge about Ecommerce I know. I need a few tips on how to advertise this website without really buying ads. I've been doing seo but that doesn't cut it. I have also been doing Instagram posts with telegram pages so they can comment on it so I can get more exposure. Any ideas? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Brainstorm some employee compensation ideas with me... Posted: 06 Feb 2019 08:40 PM PST Warning: I get wordy when I write because I try to include every detail. I can't help it. Sorry. I own a specialty automotive shop. We do a mix of things with the majority being building, maintaining, and supporting Porsche race cars, then also doing upgrades to street cars, and the smaller, but not insignificant, aspect being maintenance and repairs. Traditionally we've paid an hourly rate usually based on skill and experience. I've had a run of employees who just can't seem to be motivated and I find slacking off excessively or even working on their personal vehicles on the clock while I'm not around. I'd like to move to a performance-based system, but I'm struggling to come up with a system that works. To track my jobs I use an app that I developed. The app allows employees to punch in on each job that they do so that there is a (mostly) accurate record of the time they've spent. This links directly to my invoices and the front office can see that nicely broken down so that they can adjust accordingly both on the current invoice, but also when quoting future jobs. Your average shop/dealership works on what they call flat rate. There's a labor guide that says job X should take Y time units. The customer gets charged Y time units and the tech gets paid Y time units, no matter what time the job actually takes. Get really good at a repeat job and do it in half the time? Great, now you can do two in the time of one and get paid double. Make a mistake and take twice as long? Sucks for you. Decide you like money more than integrity? No problem, you can cut corners and hack shit together to save time. This system can't work at my shop for many reasons. First, there's no book time on doing custom work to build a race car. Second, I demand everything to be done at the highest quality level reasonably possible which takes time, thus even "book" jobs commonly can't be done in the time allotted by the book. Third, I do not want to motivate people to take shortcuts. Fourth, on many jobs we work as a team which makes it impossible to split up who is responsible for what portion of each job. I've worked places before that have paid based on billed hours, similar to flat rate except that the invoiced hours were flexible based on how long the job actually took. This system seemed to get several people to 'ride the clock' on jobs, but also would punish techs when the front office wanted to give a discount for any reason. No good. One thought was to offer a lower hourly rate, but add in an efficiency bonus. Since I can easily see time on duty vs time worked and vs time billed I can track efficiency and effectiveness and do something based on that... except that the lines between who did what get blurred again when multiple people work as a team to complete one job. Another idea I had in the past was a bonus based on the entire shop's efficiency as a whole. I offered $1k/month bonus each if the shop hit a certain target on top of their existing hourly rate. It didn't seem to help much, but then there were a couple of bad eggs dragging the numbers down at that time which may have been demotivating the others ("Smith isn't carrying his weight so there's no point in me trying"). I also fully understand that management may be part of the problem and no pay plan can compensate for that. Working on that too. Throw out some ideas! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 04:43 PM PST My business is now coming into its 5th year and I have to say I still love it :) what started as a small family operation had now turned into a small apparel business based in East Sussex in the UK with 6 staff. We do our own designs, deal with major licenses and make all the garments on site. As someone who is always on the go, always posting on social media, trying to stay ahead of the game I find it very difficult to switch off and calm my mind every now and then. I do feel as though I need this as I worry that I'll burn out but don't want to feel as though I'm missing an opportunity. What do you do to switch off, just to help clear the mind and think clearly? Ideally something that is like going on holiday etc or meditation. Would be great to hear what you guys think. Adam [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 07:30 PM PST First post on Reddit, historical marker. Hopefully a good question and in the correct area. As a small business owner, I have created a non-trademark product that I need produced on a massive scale. With my materials provided, cookbook of design and methods, this product can be created easily by anyone at their place of residence. The problem I have is how to have build the product so I can purchase it from them. I would not like to burden them with difficult to understand contracts or production exchanges. If I dumb this down, I basically want to say "Hey, let me buy from you those things you just made". I give them money and the give me the product. What is the proper and legal way of accounting here so that my business is above board on the purchase of the item I purchased, but not wanting to be legally or contractual connected to the producer. We are talking thousands of endpoints to deal with and not sure I want to deal with all those 1099's, etc at tax time. Just want them to build the product that I purchase and I will turn around to build the bigger product. Hope this is somewhat clear, busy day, mellow nights. I await my answers from the universe. MRW [link] [comments]  | ||
| Manually correcting/revising W2s and nothing wants to add up. Posted: 06 Feb 2019 06:59 PM PST I didn't want to post this to r/accounting since I'm not an accountant (but do all the financial stuff for my business). Sorry if this is a weird place to post this question. If anyone knows anywhere else to post, feel free to let me know. So. A little bit of backstory. We use Square for my employees to clock in, for me to run payroll, and I have it set up for them to file my monthly 941s, new hire reports, W2, W3, etc. When I run payroll, I have to "finish" it by submitting my withdrawal for my payroll taxes weekly. I was stupid and didn't do this for a few weeks in the summer when we were slow, that way I could slowly pay the taxes instead of in a bigger lump sum weekly. Still paid the tax, just not through Square. That was a mistake, because at the end of the year, I wasn't allowed to go back and put in those payroll amounts so they'd be accounted for on their W2s and my W3. Everyone got their W2s on time and I told them I'm working to get their new, updated ones to them ASAP (legally I have 30 days from the date I was made aware there was an error). Told them they could go ahead and file if they wanted, they'd just have to file an amended return when they got the corrected one and they'd actually end up getting more of a return. They're all fine with this and are super understanding. I've been working all day every day, going back through and essentially re-running my payroll for every week of 2018. Double checked all my gross and net pay for each employee. Double checked my federal withholdings, medicare, and social security. When I double checked, the medicare and SS were off by a few cents each pay period on some employees; not all. I corrected this. I still don't know *why* they were off but they were. So, I have a spreadsheet where I've entered all this info in by pay-period on one sheet, then on another, have it broken down by employee. On the sheet where it's by pay period, my gross pay minus all my taxes equals my net, no problems. BUT - I'm trying to calculate per employee now, and the amounts are off by anywhere from a few cents to like $20 when I subtract their taxes from gross. It doesn't equal the net pay. WHAT HAVE I DONE? And how do I fix it? Where do I even begin to look? I'm so tired of trying to figure this out. Any advice? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 06:43 PM PST The government side is fairly straight forward with fedbizopps and the equivalent on the state and country side. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 06:58 AM PST I'm sorry if this breaks any rules but I am worried and it need to protect my grandmother as it seems to be an emotionally/guilt charged "investment" and I'm not sure how to handle this. We are in Ontario Canada, the business is in Vancouver. Long story short, my grandmother had a son (not by choice..) when she was too young and gave him up for adoption. She went on to live her life, had three children, married happily for 50+ years. In 2014 my uncle, her youngest child, took his life and it really took a toll on my grandparents. Emotionally they've been doing better but recently my grandmother felt she needed to seek out the child she gave up and they found each other on Facebook this past summer. Somewhere between catching up on all the lost years, a business plan is brought up. The things is, my grandparents have never been good with money. My mom has helped support or fund them for years, recently helped them money manage and climb out of debt. She helped them sell their house and they've moved into a house she owns so now they are able to live a bit more comfortably, retired but I'd say they're still living on their combined $2000-2500 monthly income. Because they know their bad with money, entrusted me with $50,000 from the home sale. I put that into an investment portfolio with sunlife financial rather than just a savings account. My grandmother wants to give, let's call him "S" , $30,000 cash to a numbered business account. The only details I really have right now are that the business is a restaurant of some sort that he and his fiancee have been working at. The owner is now selling and they want to buy it. There is no contact written between S and my grandmother but the verbal plan is that they would receive $1000 each month for 6 years and 10%of the business. She already has given them $3000 There are a lot of red flags for me but she seems determined so what do I get her to ask for so that she can protect herself? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 12:56 PM PST Does anyone have any suggestions for a free service to have scheduled instragram posts? I saw hopperhq but I do not want to pay for it. Alternatively, I know there are some python tools out there that could do this. Any other sites with an easy GUI that does this for free? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 04:28 PM PST I am currently the sole member of my company. I provide IT consulting at an hourly rate only, no fixed price work. As such, tracking my hours is very important, but knowing easily where I am in the month vs last month or year over year for the same month is helpful. I currently use TSheets and for tracking time and exporting to QuickBooks, it works well. However, the mobile client and to only support weekly or monthly cumulative hours. I would like to see, on mobile, number of hours by client, some comparisons to previous weeks and month, and some sort of progress report that would show progress towards a monthly goal. I can expiry hours from TSheets and import into Excel, but don't have time to do that daily... Any thoughts? Paying this tool is fine for sure. I just need something mobile and don't want to do heavy Dev work myself if possible... Thanks [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Help with customer communication management Posted: 06 Feb 2019 10:00 AM PST I've started a small ecommerce type website which has taken off quite well. My business is a bit like a bespoke Ikea where you can order furniture made to size and customise the look, so it involves some talking with customers to make sure everything's how they want it before paying. Gmail has been good but now that i'm getting a lot more customers, it's making it difficult to keep on-top of all the updates. I'd like to find a website that can keep all customer communication in one place, within their own project as well as the use of a calendar to manage projects and dates. I tried Asana but it's a bit too over-encumbered for my liking and doesn't fit in to what I do. 'Slack' seems to be focusing on communication between teams, rather than customers. Does anyone have any recommendations? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 06 Feb 2019 01:23 PM PST Are there any pitfalls to registering a new company in the UK through those company formation websites than doing everything yourself with the .gov application. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
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