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    Accomplishments and Lesson Learned Friday! - (March 29, 2019) Entrepreneur

    Accomplishments and Lesson Learned Friday! - (March 29, 2019) Entrepreneur


    Accomplishments and Lesson Learned Friday! - (March 29, 2019)

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 06:14 AM PDT

    Please use this thread to share any accomplishment you care to gloat about, and some lessons learned.

    This is a weekly thread to encourage new members to participate, and post their accomplishments, as well as give the veterans an opportunity to inspire the up-and-comers.

    Since this thread can fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts.

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    Starbucks spent millions getting facebook followers and now they have to pay to reach them

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 04:30 AM PDT

    Starbucks spent 10 years spending big money each year, I'm guessing 10s of millions of dollars, getting followers on Facebook. The plan was simple. The goal was to get followers and then reach them organically and drive value over time.

    Right now they have 36 million followers on Facebook.

    Well it turns out Facebook likes making ad revenue. It turns out Facebook owns the platform and has all the control. Slowly over time Starbucks started noticing their Facebook posts were only reaching 1% of their following. How could this be? We spent all this money to get these followers and now we can't reach them. Facebook's response?

    You can reach the last 99% if you boost your posts and continue to pay for ads. Facebook has every right to do this. Its their platform. Its their algorithm. They have the users and they call the shots.

    Starbucks spent millions getting the followers on someone else's platform with no control and now they are paying again to reach them.

    This concept expanded to YouTube, Google, Yelp and Amazon here.

    This is another reason why I love service based businesses.

    Businesses with sales that are driven by actual interaction that goes beyond a click or an online ad are most insulated from the above risks. If you can speak to your customers on the phone or by email it's a lot easier to control that and nurture that on your own terms.

    Taking that one step further if your business reaches customers on a local level and those customers can interact with each other in the form of word of mouth marketing you are further protected. Your customers are not only face to face with you but they rely on each other for recommendations and there are synergies with all the different marketing drivers.

    Hang with us over in r/sweatystartup if you're into service based entrepreneurship.

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    How Google Deleted Almost 400 Five-Star Reviews From Our Customers

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 12:26 PM PDT

    I am writing this as a cautionary tale for anyone collecting reviews for their business on their Google page.

    Getting customers to go out of their way to write you a review is tough. Especially when the product is as boring as a furnace filter. I believe developing a customer feedback loop is important for any business. You should be optimizing your entire operations based on what customers are telling you.

    At my company, PureFilters, we developed an entire system dedicated to actively obtaining feedback from our customers. We've worked really hard to get feedback from my customers, and over the course of 5 years we have generated almost 400 positive reviews.

    This really served as an important digital asset for our business. Our target demographic is typically older homeowners, who are still somewhat distrusting of making online transactions. When they would Google "PureFilters reviews" they would see a number of glowing reviews from our customers which would put their mind at ease.

    Google Business Page by Default

    Our Google business page was automatically created at some point, either it was crawled in or indexed. It ranked at the very top whenever someone Googled "PureFilters reviews" and therefore some customers started leaving reviews there before we even started our review strategy.

    We figured, since it was free and we already had a handful of reviews, let's continue to use the Google business page to collect reviews on. Not to mention, you need a Google account to leave a review, so it provided a bit of authenticity.

    This was a horrible mistake.

    Google Listing Vanishes

    One day, we received a message from a customer claiming that there was no Google page to leave their review. We checked and confirmed, that it had completely vanished.

    Since Google business pages is a free product, support for it was very limited. I called into the support line, which routed me to a call centre in India. The attendant told me not to worry and everything will be back up online, they just need to verify some details.

    From there, they emailed me requesting our business license, which I thought was kind of odd. But I complied and sent them it.

    After that they required further verification and wanted me to take a photo of the exterior of our office, which I thought was even more odd. But I complied and sent them it.

    After that they basically told me that Google business pages were for local/retail businesses that have a storefront. Since PureFilters was an online/eCommerce business, apparently we weren't eligible to have a Google store page.

    I asked them if I could transfer my ~400 reviews to some other Google product, but they declined and proceeded to terminate our page.

    All ~400 reviews were instantly deleted, forever.

    I did what any sensible founder would do and rant about it on Twitter, which eventually led to Google DMing me. The conversation ended the exact same way as before (see screencap here)

    Hard Lesson Learned

    What took almost 4 years to build up vanished completely in an instant. As mentioned earlier, our target demographic are typically older homeowners, which are still quite skeptical of making purchases online. The positive online reviews served as social proof which significantly helped them feel more comfortable buying from PureFilters online.

    When the reviews disappeared, it did have an impact on our sales and overall business.

    The biggest lesson learned here is that we should have take steps to diversify our digital assets. A painful lesson, but an important one nonetheless.

    We've went back and asked a bunch of customers to leave another review, and we are grateful that many have. When asking customers to give us feedback, we now alternate between various review platforms including TrustPilot, Facebook and BBB. The TrustPilot reviews are nice, requests are only sent to customers so the reviews are verified.

    Funny enough, TrustPilot reviews count towards your "Google Seller Rating" and the, now deleted, Google business reviews did not. Your Google Seller Rating gives you stars underneath your Google Ads. So I guess that's a bit of a silver lining.

    Here is our current Google Seller Rating page.

    So overall, when using another company's infrastructure, especially if it's free, always ask yourself "If this digital asset completely disappeared, how would it effect my business?" Take steps to diversify your company's digital assets, which includes where you collect your reviews.

    See full blogpost here: https://jayvas.com/how-google-deleted-almost-400-five-star-reviews-from-our-customers/

    CLIFFS

    -Built up our Google business page, generating almost 400 positive reviews

    -Google takes down the page with no warning

    -Google support asks for a bunch of bizarre details, but I promptly provided all the requested details

    -Apparently Google business pages are only for brick-and-mortar businesses (not online)

    -Lost all reviews, painful lesson, now we diversify across a few platforms.

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    80/20 Coding for Entrepreneurs- aka the magic of Javascript and APIs

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 09:29 AM PDT

    After I posted Web Succ on Monday:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/b5ard9/free_tool_how_i_replaced_a_500mo_saas_with_a/

    I got quite a few PMs and some comments in the thread asking about how I learned to code and stuff like that so I figured I would just make a post covering it so everybody can benefit. There's a lot of resources for people wanting to learn to code to become software engineers but not much for Entrepreneurs who just want to learn how to code to get shit done and build stuff

    Basically I started out like a lot of people on here doing online marketing and making websites with page builders. I went to all the entrepreneurship events on campus during college and would get pissed because it was 90% "ideas" people looking for people to make their app for them. When I realized I was just as bad I decided to stop being a hypocrite and learn to code

    My thought is that if you are serious about entrepreneurship and tech/startups in particular, you should be willing to learn, a lot of people I think are just dreaming about getting rich quick and don't want to put in the effort so they figure they'll just find somebody to make their app idea for them. It's also a form of procrastination, you don't have to do anything because you're looking for a technical founder. Even Steve Jobs knew how to code at a basic level. As you can tell from the title I'm a fan of the 80/20 rule and a concept called a "talent stack" coined by Dilbert author Scott Adams and and programming skills is a powerful tool to any talent stack

    The main thing stopping business people from learning to code is the time commitment and also "paralysis by analysis" due to there being so many resources and not knowing which language to choose to learn, do you learn Java for Android apps, swift for iOS, or maybe Python or Javascript? There's just too many options for a noob to choose and you're afraid of making the wrong choice and wasting your time

    So, with that out of the way I'll go over the best way ,imo, to learn to code if you're focus is entrepreneurship. My goal here isn't to turn you into a software engineer, it's to get you productive so you have the skills to at least make an MVP for your idea or automate simple tasks to save you time

    As I said earlier, and you probably already know, there's a lot of different options for programming languages but generally for beginners the most popular choices are python or javascript. Python is a great language with many use cases, Web Succ is written in it for example, but for entrepreneurs who want to build stuff fast I recommend Javascript because you can use it EVERYWHERE. The most obvious is that it's required for web browser interactivity but thanks to NodeJS you can also build backend web applications, and with Facebook's React Native framework you can also build native, cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android as well.

    Beyond the versatility the other reason I recommend Javascript to start learning is Free Code Camp. FCC provides a structured learning path with a massive community to look to for help if you get stuck and is, as the name says, entirely free. This solves probably the biggest issue for people learning to code, too many resources and fear that you are using the wrong one so people bounce around too much. If you follow the FCC curriculum by the end you will be able to code at a decent level

    Once you know javascript you will be able to pick up Python(or basically any other programming language) pretty quickly since the fundamentals are the same, just the syntax is different. It's kind of like driving a car, some of the various things may be in a different position in a new car but the core stuff like pedals and steering are the same

    The key thing I want to focus on is that it takes exponentially LESS effort to just get a firm grasp on programming fundamentals than what it would take to become a full software engineer. Just knowing what's easy and hard to make due to having basic programming skills can be huge, knowing what APIs are available so you don't reinvent the wheel, etc

    For example with a tool like Web Succ in the past I would have had to:

    • Build a web scraper from scratch
    • Handle IP bans and various other issues that come with scraping data
    • Build a custom UI
    • Handle user authentication

    Due to my knowledge of various APIs I can instead use a service like WebHose to get the data and rely on Google to provide the UI and user authentication via Google Sheets.

    Another example would be if you want to do something with machine learning/AI. In the past you would basically have to hire a team of PhDs and spend a ton of time and money creating labeled data sets to do anything, now I can simply sign up for a Google Cloud account and access their pre-trained models via API for translation, image recognition, OCR, etc. We're in an amazing time where cloud and API providers make it really easy for people to quickly iterate on ideas and skip over a lot of the grunge work people had to deal with in the past to make an app

    I'll be making a more in depth tutorial with actual code examples to kind of spur your imagination and motivate you to get started in the next few days if you're interested

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzYV9nBadlQdBMPP2ZuDvKA

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    "The Art of War" By Sun Tzu | Animated Summary. Hope you find it useful.

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 04:36 AM PDT

    Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_5qhA2y-E4

    I've done summaries of the following books and am releasing a new one every day:

    • rework
    • the lean startup
    • the hard thing about hard things
    • crush it!
    • delivering happiness
    • the personal mba
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    • zero to one
    • grit
    • the compound effect
    • the prince
    • the slight edge
    • meditations
    • who moved my cheese?
    • the one thing
    • the 6 pillars of self esttem
    • 7 habits of highly effective people
    • secrets of the millionaire mind
    • thinking fast and slow
    • the power of positive thinking
    • think and grow rich
    • how to win friends and influence people
    • rich dad poor dad
    • the subtle art of not giving a fuck
    • models by mark manson
    • the power of now
    • 12 rules for life by jordan peterson
    • the 10x rule
    • the inside out revolution
    • man's search for meaning
    • how to stop worrying and start living
    • millionaire fastlane.
    • and some others...

    If you're interested and want to subscribe here's a link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfbLDMh6uGOZePAfqqjVZ-g?sub_confirmation=1

    If you'd prefer to read the script instead of watching the video, here it is:

    The Art of War by Sun Tzu

    Tzu segments his book into 13 chapters that together, discuss being strategic about your decisions and actions.

    You can get this book for free with a trial of audible using the link in the description of this video. Subscribe for more summaries.

    Chapter 1: Laying Plans

    Tzu points out the importance of studying war. He introduces 5 fundamental factors: moral influence, weather, terrain, command, and doctrine that, along with seven other elements he introduces and discusses in other parts of the book, he believes are central to developing a pre-conflict plan for battle.

    He notes that the confidence a people have in their leader is of utmost importance because among other things, it determines their willingness to support the leader's war campaign.

    Because all warfare is a form of deception, by laying the foundation—pre-engagement planning—and preparing in this manner, a wise commander prepares himself for great success.

    Chapter 2: Waging War

    The second chapter of the book discusses pre-engagement preparation in the form of ensuring the availability of all the support an army needs before it goes into battle (support, provisions, and equipment).

    Chapter 3: Offensive Strategy

    Among other things, in the third chapter of the book, Tzu notes one of his most famous strategies: "To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill," a phrase he uses to reinforce the need for careful planning as the ultimate way to subdue and triumph over all forms of adversities, enemies, and battles.

    Chapter 4: Disposition

    The fourth chapter of Sun Tzu's Art of War clarifies the distinctions between defense and offense

    The main purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the differences between defensive and offensive strategies/tactics. He notes, "The experts in defense conceal themselves ... those skilled in attack move as from above. ... Thus they are capable of ... protecting themselves and ... gaining ... victory."

    Chapter 5: Energy

    In the fifth chapter, Tzu turns his attention to the organization of troops. He notes the importance of building and organizing troops into skillful units that can operate as a single, powerful force.

    Chapter 6: Weaknesses and Strengths

    Building on the lessons from the last three chapters, Tzu notes that the successful general is one who has the ability to trick an opponent into engaging.

    Chapter 7: Maneuver

    As part of the opening for this chapter, Sun Tzu piques, "Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver," which he expands by noting that triumph in battle often boils down to deception, a general's ability to make a very organized and focused strategy or course appear complicated and aimless.

    Chapter 8: Variation in Tactics

    In the eight chapter of the book, Tzu lays the foundation for the nine variables he discusses in the eleventh chapter.

    1. Low laying ground: "no wise general should ask his troops to encamp here."
    2. Desolate: "an army should move through as quickly as possible."
    3. Where roads intersect: "a wise general joins his allies."
    4. Enclosed grounds: "a wise general employs stratagem and resourcefulness to find a way out of the situation."
    5. Desperate situation: "the only option is to fight."

    Chapter 9: The Army on the March

    For the most part, chapter 9 of the Art of War addresses the need for discipline as an army marches towards the battlefield and more importantly, the arrangement employed

    This chapter is also an illustration of the importance of keen observation.

    Chapter 10: Terrain

    In chapter 10, Tzu returns to the topic of terrain and discusses six types of terrains:

    • On accessible ground, the general with the high ground and well-organized supplies has the battle advantage.
    • To entangled terrain, retreat or escape is harder and therefore, a wise general should attack only after careful forethought and if the enemy is unprepared.
    • On deadlock terrain, he notes, "no side has an advantage" and a wise general draws out the enemy (by retreating) and avoiding falling for the enemy's tricks.
    • For enclosed terrain, the army that gets there first has the advantage because it can block it and lay in wait for the enemy.
    • To precipitous grounds, the general who arrives first should take up high ground. When the enemy has high ground, a wise general should retreat as a tactic to lure out the enemy.
    • On distant terrain where the armies are of equal strength, none has the advantage.

    Chapter 11: The Nine Situations

    Chapter 11 details nine different types of battlegrounds and the tactics that work best for each type of ground.

    • In dispersive ground where the battlefield is within the commander's territory, in frontier ground where advance into enemy territory is shallow, and in "key" grounds where the ground is neutral or advantageous to both armies, Tzu notes that such grounds are not conducive to victory.
    • On expanded and level grounds where fortifications are possible, engagement is necessary but only if a General can keep his formations together and united.
    • On focal ground, a ground surrounded by other states, a wise General should seek alliances and carefully plan his approach for the risk is higher since allies are not 100% dependable.
    • On "serious" grounds where the troops make deep inroad into enemy territory, a wise General moves on quickly.
    • On "encircled" where in addition to jagged terrain, the enemy attacks, a commander should resort to stratagem because fighting out is the best possible course of action.

    Chapter 12: The Attack by Fire

    Chapter 12 is one of the shortest in the book. In this chapter, Tzu describes the various ways to attack by fire. He notes that because of the equipment involved, an attack by fire requires a great degree of pre-planning.

    Chapter 13: The Use of Spies

    The last chapter is about the cost of war and the need to employ spies to have a strategic advantage over the enemy. The first two kinds of spies, native (native to the enemy's country) and inside (agents already residing inside the enemy's army structure), he notes, are best because they have "insider information".

    On "doubled" agents, susceptible spies the enemy has sent into an opposing army, he notes that through bribery, they can covey falsehoods—to which he notes act as a form of deception. However, because of their "doubled" nature and affinity to bribes, Tzu reinforces the need to handle such spies with great caution.

    "Expendable" agents are exactly that: expendable. Their purpose is to feed the enemy with falsified information. "Living agents" are spies that gather information and deliver it directly to the general. The information gathered by living spies is highly influential and advantageous.

    Remember you can get this book for free with a trial of audible using the link in the description of this video.

    If you've found this video useful please share it around. Subscribe for more summaries. Thanks for watching, have a great day.

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    Facebook's new tool lets you see all of your competitors ads

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 05:32 AM PDT

    Facebook just released a new transparency tool called Ads Library (which is intended to expose shady political ads), which just so happens to let you see all of the ads that your competitors are running:

    https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/

    Type in your competitors page name to see all of their ads. As an example, here's all the ads that Reddit is currently running:

    https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=all&country=US&q=Reddit&view_all_page_id=7177913734

    I've found that some pages don't appear in the search box, but you can get around that if you know the page ID. To get the page ID, go to the page in question, and right click on the profile picture & copy the link URL. Paste it somewhere and grab the first long number from the URL - that's their page ID. For example, Microsoft's profile picture links to: https://www.facebook.com/20528438720/photos/10155151481488721/ so the page ID is 20528438720

    Once you have the page ID, put it in the ads library URL like this: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?view_all_page_id=20528438720 and you'll be able to see all of the ads, even for pages not listed in the dropdown/search.

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    Question: Selling your Data

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 01:26 PM PDT

    Have a question for the community that I am hoping to spark a conversation on:

    Would you use a service that had a profit sharing model geared towards selling your non-sensitive data? (i.e. Purchasing trends, web trends, lifestyle).

    Or similarly, would you pay for a social service that did not had ads and had guarantees to not sell your data?

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    How do I price my work?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 12:40 PM PDT

    About a 6 months ago, the art agency(C) I interned at, closed down. For the time I spent there, I learned a lot from them. Today I had a very well known chain owner come to me asking for the kind of art I did for C. I have a meeting with them on Monday but I don't know how to write up a contract. I have the gist of what they want for their business but I don't know how to price what I offer since I never talked about prices when I was interning. We made tech packages that would have enough content for 30 days. One piece of content a day. In this case, I'd be making the general deals of the week and then reposting them each day of the week. Theres gonna be days here and there where they are gonna have a fundraiser or a new deal. Is there a commonly used way of pricing this stuff?

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    Is VC overrated?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 12:39 PM PDT

    There often seems like a mad rush to raise VC dollars, especially for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. I was watching this video of a VC partner (who apparently has been cited as the inspiration for Monica Hall on the HBO show Silicon Valley..), where she says that VC's will often overestimate their fit for companies, and VC dollars are only meant for a very specific type of company.

    There are so many articles out there that sound like "Company A raised $200M dollars from X VC". Do you think that this media hype has caused startups to be too focused on getting VC money when another method of fundraising would work better? Or, do you think that too many companies are focusing on fundraising in general, when they could be focusing on building the company?

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    How can I avoid to make business affect my mood?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 11:51 AM PDT

    I've been running a small e-commerce brand and I'm very passionate about.
    The thing is that when business is good I'm happy and I feel motivated while when maybe a day or two I just don't sell, I start overthinking and it affects my day. How can I get out of this loophole?

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    I Want To Start a Print On Demand business. Where and How To Start?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 11:28 AM PDT

    First off I have had a couple failed online businesses before. I started drop shipping early 2018 all the way to late 2018, with a total of 4 failed businesses. Although it sucks not winning in that niche, I gained a lot of experience and learned throughout the process. So I want to tryout something and create a new chapter in the business aspect of my life.

    So I know a little bit of print on demand. Pick a niche, create a store, make it look pretty, and create designs for your clothing or whatever. I want to get into the cryptocurrency niche. I feel like there is money to be made in that niche. People are hardcore fanatics in a certain a coin or coins. Where can I get designs if I suck at designing and what are good print on demand websites to use, etc, etc.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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    Facebook’s Own Spy Tool : Use This Powerful Tool Without Getting Yourself Banned

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 11:16 AM PDT

    I have made a Youtube video about this , will link it in the first comment for those who want video tutorial.

    This just in : Facebook launched a new search engine which searches its entire ad database.Yes , that means you can search your competitors ads , see how much they spend and where they are spending it.

    If the video I cover

    1. How to access this search engine
    2. How not to get banned by overusing this feature.

    **How to access this search engine ?**

    Simple , visit https://www.facebook.com/ads/library

    **How not to get banned by overusing it ?**

    Facebook has some policies in place which restrict you on the number of times you can use this search engine. If you over use this , you will see a message like this in your account

    Image : https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/jeNx/1553870211307-52023.png

    Solution 1

    This is the easiest solution. You can open an INCOGNITO Window in chrome and then visit the URL

    Image : https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/jeNx/1553877936934-94906.png

    Solution 2

    Use TOR Browser.

    Tor browser is like a permanent incognito browser. The biggest advantage is that it even give you a unique address every time you open it. So facebook cant even block you via IP.

    Download TOR browser here : https://www.torproject.org/download/

    Open it and then visit https://www.facebook.com/ads/library

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    Repurposing/Selling unpublished website content

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 02:56 AM PDT

    Hi all,

    Not sure if this is the best sub to post this, but I follow along with the posts on here pretty regularly and always see people giving and receiving great advice.

    So, here goes:

    My wife and I are both freelance writers but are leaving this behind to pursue other careers. We've been doing this full-time and carved out a decent living but in doing so, we've amassed folders full of unused content.

    Some of the unpublished articles we've got were written as samples, others for clients who went AWOL, others for all kinds of other reasons.

    Long story short, we've got all of these articles that aren't online anywhere, and since 99% of it is optimised for various keywords, we were wondering if there was a way to monetize this somehow.

    Now, I like to think we're not delusional. We don't expect to make bank with this, but content that can make a bit of pocket money is better than content that sits on a Google Drive doing nothing.

    The most obvious solution seems to be building our own websites, uploading the content and seeing what we can do with Adsense and/or affiliate links. I also have the idea that this may also enable us to build domains with enough value that we can flip them for a small profit, but I don't know enough about this and would need to do research.

    My wife also suggested that we could perhaps bundle all of this content up and just offer it for sale as is for others to do what they want with.

    Most of my content is on the subjects of business, SEO, digital marketing, with a lot of stuff on web hosting, VPS, and web design. She has content on business and marketing too, as well as other subjects.

    As I say, most of it was written with keywords in mind, so I feel like this stuff could have more value out there than just sitting around, unpublished.

    I guess my question is, what would would people recommend, if anything? Should we find a way to monetise this content or are we better off just deleting it?

    Thoughts/feedback/suggestions would be appreciated :)

    TL;DR: We have lots of unpublished SEO content. Should we find a way to monetise it? If so, how?

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    Getting into consulting?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 10:25 AM PDT

    So I teach finance, particularly personal finance in America, and have been considering going into consulting. I'm not looking for anything that would require selling financial services as I'm not talented in that area, but a more one-on-one personalized financial/future planning consulting for clients would be a great fit. The idea just hit me recently and I'm not as well versed in the area as I am in personal finance. What are some resources and potential paths to a goal like this? Any ideas on how I could enter this particular market in helping other entrepreneurs? Thanks!

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    What are some lucrative agricultural business ideas?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 10:21 AM PDT

    How to Promote Your Business Online for Free In 2019

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 02:45 AM PDT

    The first step is to sign up in Google My Business, this tool is to base for the promotion of business or company on the internet. In it, we can put information about our company's situation, opening and closing times, contact information such as telephone, email, Web. We can also publish news about our products or services to attract new customers. Google My Business allows us to put descriptions of our business, photos, video and that our clients leave us comments about our products or services. My advice is to make the most of this tool that Google offers us for free. And put to the subject you could also register in these online directories to promote your company and search engine business by geolocation:

    • Bing Places
    • Yellow Pages
    • eLocal
    • Submit Express
    • Super Pages
    • MapQuest
    • EZ Local
    • Merchant Circle
    • Local dot com
    • Entire Web
    • Blanket
    • Insider Pages
    • Moo-Directory
    • submitX
    • Simply Worthy
    • So Much

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    I have an amazing idea for an app

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 09:58 AM PDT

    For obvious reasons I don't want to post exactly the idea. But how would I go about putting this idea to work. And actually doing something with it?

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    Questions Surrounding Legality of Opening Savings Account Through App

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 09:56 AM PDT

    Hi there! First off, thanks for taking the time to comment on the post. I don't have any legal background (and can't afford a lawyer), so any advice is much appreciated.

    I've been working on this idea for a business that helps people build good habits with saving. The point is to habitually (and consciously) squirrel away money into a high interest yield savings account (think Ally), and at the end of a certain period of time (once they've built good habits/emergency fund etc.), can take out that money plus the interest accrued.

    However, the revenue model of the business involves splitting the interest accrued with the customer. The theory being that if the savings account yields 2% apr and a Wells Fargo account accrues .25%, then even if we split the interest with them, they're still saving more than they would have.

    My question is.... is this legal? Obviously full consent and understanding of the situation would be mandatory up front. I'm just wondering if this has legal standing and if this revenue model would be allowed.

    Again, any insight is much appreciated. Thanks!!

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    Validation Help

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 09:29 AM PDT

    Hi! I am with a team designing a Virtual Reality storytelling platform. We are looking for gamers and people who like to read/tell stories. People who we interview will be put on a mailing list to receive limited edition items related to our product if they'd like. Would any of you be willing to help me out or know where I should post this?

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    Are there any brick and mortar type businesses that can be run passively relatively easily?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 09:19 AM PDT

    I am a pretty successful digital marketer, however my income is source is intangible. Typically through consulting services, ecommerce, and setting up advertising campaigns for clients. I want to own something more concrete, but wouldn't have 100% of my time available to dedicated to it.

    Does anyone recommend purchasing a certain franchise/brick & mortar type business that can be run relatively passively? (hiring a manager to run)

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    Why do people join startups despite the reduced job security it brings?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 08:54 AM PDT

    I am a part of a group of students at the London School of Economics, doing a Qualitative research project on the topic, "Why do people join startups despite the reduced job security it brings?"

    We have interviewed multiple people at different startups in London. By doing this, we are trying to gather views on this and with your help we would be able to do the same.

    It would be great if you could share your viewpoints and help us with respect to this. Your views on this topic would be appreciated. Thank you!

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    Any Durable Medical Equipment companies here?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 08:49 AM PDT

    Got a few questions if you don't mind me asking. Questions like getting referrals, marketing, and reimbursements. I can PM as well.

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    Someone who sell rings?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 08:35 AM PDT

    I would like to have a brand that sell rings. I want my designs to be very simple. How do I get in contact with someone who sell rings? They need to be able to do custom rings. Im very new when it comes to business. Thanks!

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    Best e-mail service to use?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 08:35 AM PDT

    I just bought a domain for my business and would like to create an email to use for it. What are my options? Any good free resources would be ideal.

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    Selling websites then outsourcing the work?

    Posted: 29 Mar 2019 07:38 AM PDT

    How profitable or successful would this idea be? What if I sold websites to businesses. As in I will have them a new website made and they will pay me to do that. But then I outsource that to someone on say, Upwork or Fiverr, and I just keep selling the sites and outsourcing the making the site part. Would this be profitable considering the possible cost of hiring someone else to do this? It's just an idea that popped up in my head?

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