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- What 'achievement unlocked' would be suitable for a small business to aim for?
- Gym owners, how do you run personalised workout programs?
- What are your biggest problems running your business (or life)?
- Your inspiration
- "The Art of War" By Sun Tzu | Animated Summary. Hope you find it useful.
- Some art and craft events near mason or San Diego!
- In a situation I don’t know how to handle with employee conflict.
- Need Hiring Advice For A Sorta Weird Little Business!
- Reselling kids clothes
- Product Management research project
- Getting Press for a Fun and Free App
- Closed business, can I sell my social media?
- Make The Difference. Need Help!
- Credit card limit
- Business growing too fast? HALP
- What kind of licenses do I need for a drop shipping Shopify store (clothing)?
- Collections - How Often to Call
- How to find clients abroad?
- Small business idea: drive in movie theater for boats:
- Site feedback for new clothing brand website a
- Vendor for Marketing Company. Should I be worried?
- Best way to market home-service industry company
- Need help with price increase
- Hair/beauty/massage salons owners: how do you appoint a time for your clients?
| What 'achievement unlocked' would be suitable for a small business to aim for? Posted: 29 Mar 2019 03:33 AM PDT |
| Gym owners, how do you run personalised workout programs? Posted: 28 Mar 2019 11:15 AM PDT Hi there, I'm an owner of a small gym. Got an idea to create weekly personalised workout programs for my clients based on their goals and experience and have them submit photos of their progress every week. How can I manage this for multiple clients? [link] [comments]  |
| What are your biggest problems running your business (or life)? Posted: 29 Mar 2019 02:06 AM PDT I'm curious what other peoples problems are in running their business. I think actually getting business is a big one for some - including myself at times. What are your problems and, if you could have the solution tomorrow, what would it be? Edit: for the record, I'm a developer, just generally curious about what's going on in people's heads with regard to their business problems, trying to get a better idea of where i should focus my energy to give people the most value [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2019 07:15 PM PDT I've always dreamed of working for myself and being my own boss, but seem to lack the inspiration of coming up with a niche or idea for a business.... share some of your stories on how you came to be a small business owner. I would love to hear how you got your inspiration [link] [comments]  |
| "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:
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.
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:
Chapter 11: The Nine Situations Chapter 11 details nine different types of battlegrounds and the tactics that work best for each type of ground.
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. [link] [comments]  |
| Some art and craft events near mason or San Diego! Posted: 29 Mar 2019 12:37 AM PDT Hello everyone I am looking for some good art and craft events/carnivals near mason and San Diego (USA). I want to showcase my product, Which is organic beeswax crayons for preschoolers. You can get more information of product from my website (if needed). Please provide info if anyone have knowledge about such kind of events or carnivals. Thank you in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| In a situation I don’t know how to handle with employee conflict. Posted: 28 Mar 2019 11:15 PM PDT I run a small business with 5 employees. One of my newer employees "Tom" (3months) and a more seasoned employee "Ken" (1year) aren't able to work together. Ken believes Tom is lazy, and doesn't pull his weight, and is rude. On top of that he believes Tom stole from him, and it's a slippery slope (I'll explain below). So, Ken finally says, "I can't work with Tom at this point. Either he has to go, or I have to many other opportunities I go to and continue to grow. Kens young and hotheaded, hungry and motivated. Toms older and isn't very driven, but does solid work when it finds him. These two working in very close quarters is a challenge. They never verbally argue or anything, but it's been weighing on Ken picking up the workload. The straw that broke the camels back is this. Ken had some specialty supplies that he drives out of town to purchase. Tom asked if he could try a few. Well, Tom liked them so much, so he asked and was given a few more. Ken told him that he had no more to spare after that considering he wouldn't be able to go out of town to get another supply until the following week, and each one is critical per job. Well on Kens day out of the office, Tom went in kens storage unit and used a few more of kens supplies. This, made Ken short so he had to take a day off to go out of town and get more stock. Ken has a personal zero tolerance policy with this, and in his eyes this was stealing and he will not sit down to talk about this and establishing boundaries. He already didn't like Toms work ethic, now hes effecting his work by using the last of his supplies. (All the whole Tom had the product he had been using for years, but opted to go for Kens instead and this really added to it.) So when faced with this, I'm not sure what's ethical in this situation. The other employees think Tom is a sometimes rude and lazy as well. But he's not to clients, he's just older and a bit dry. Now I'm faced with to I get rid of Tom because of these faults, or let Ken walk? I personally believe Ken is over reacting, and I have let him know this. But this seems to be what I'm faced with. Any advice? Does this constitute as theft of personal belonging and should he be this upset and I'm just to passive? [link] [comments]  |
| Need Hiring Advice For A Sorta Weird Little Business! Posted: 28 Mar 2019 04:15 AM PDT So I run a very small mobile massage company that exclusively works with seniors, mostly in nursing homes. Hiring is tough because not only are massage therapists tough to hire anyway (they're just... kinda flaky. I can say that because I am one!) but I have to find those who can stomach, and really light up when working with seniors. They have to have a pretty unique personality. So I just interviewed a woman who, if I was hiring in another capacity, I wouldn't consider. She is very nice, and very experienced with massage, but it's a personality thing. She was all over the place in our conversation, and the whole time it just kinda felt like I was herding one erratic cat. But... she's so enthusiastic about working with seniors, lives in a territory I need to reach but can't, has lots of experience, and might actually do a great job... I don't work with my people face to face often, but i do have to train them on how to behave with clients and the staff... What do you guys think? Is it a hard no because our personalities clash? Or is this the type of thing I should get used to and work with? EDIT: This is sub is so awesome and helpful! I decided to meet with her again and really go over with her how I interact with the nursing home staff and place strong importance on professionalism. If I feel like she can keep the cookiness a little more contained for them, I'll bring her on. She really is a good and sweet person, just a bit on the wild side- but in the end, I think she'll be great with the seniors and that's what really matters. Thank you so much for all your input! I'd be lost without this sub! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2019 02:10 AM PDT So I'm a stay at home mum who's partner works full tome. I want to do something productive. I was thinking of buying cheap clothes off Ali express and reselling them for double or whatever I deemed suitable. Is this perfectly legal? I was thinking of just selling off my personal Facebook or maybe making a page to start off with and see how much interest I'd have. Is there anything I need to be aware of!? Any tips/tricks? Is it really as simple as just buying and reselling up until you start making a lot of money to declare it as a business? I'm in the UK. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Product Management research project Posted: 29 Mar 2019 01:34 AM PDT Dear r/smallbusiness community we are a handful of students at ESCP Europe Business school who are looking into product management and how it works. This was a research project assigned to us by a small startup company called Harvestr focusing on creating software for product managers. We are in the process of trying to understanding different tools product managers use and more specifically why they use the tools they use and how do they find them. Below you will be able to find a survey that can help us gain insight on these issues. If you have any experience/knowledge in product management two minutes of your time could make a huge difference for our project . This data is crucial for our project and any response will be very helpful and bring us closer to our goal. All responses will be kept confidential. https://forms.gle/2gjrveLnAXEzeYt76 Many thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Getting Press for a Fun and Free App Posted: 28 Mar 2019 11:37 PM PDT Hey y'all, I've been struggling to get press of any kind for an app I launched and I'm not sure why. The app is called Guess the Throne, and it's a free Game of Thrones death pool app. It lets you create groups, choose who lives/dies, and invite your friends to compete with you. On the internet I've seen this post picked up by literally everyone, and it has inspired so many people to start a death pool (including me). After seeing it I decided to build a web app that handles the scoring, rules, groups, and everything else. I launched it a week ago, and it's been a hit with everyone I've demoed it to. It was a top 10 product on Product Hunt and within 72 hours of launching we had over 1,600 users. It's been a great success so far, but we haven't managed to get any press at all. I've slid into every DM I can think of, wrote personalized intros, created a press release with photos and GIFs of the app, and I'm running out of ideas. Has anyone successfully gotten free press on an app they launched or is it all paid? I'd think people would be combing the web to feature some new about Game of Thrones before it airs, but maybe not. Here's the app if you'd like to check it out. Any feedback is appreciated! Spoilers if you're not caught up on Game of Thrones [link] [comments]  |
| Closed business, can I sell my social media? Posted: 28 Mar 2019 09:57 PM PDT I lost my lease and had to close down my business. I'm curious if my dot com address and matching Instagram and Facebook accounts are worth anything. It's a three word phrase that is pretty familiar and identical Facebook and Instagram page addresses. Anyone have experience with this? [link] [comments]  |
| Make The Difference. Need Help! Posted: 28 Mar 2019 09:12 PM PDT Hello everyone! I have recently started a small eCommerce business which is Making The Difference and I am looking for feedback on my businesses website and products. It would be awesome if you could spend 5 minutes of your day to help us make the difference. Website: http://bit.ly/mtdapparel Some background info: - The business is designed to help end global poverty - $2 of each purchase goes to an anti-poverty organisation (Haven't decided which one yet) - Just started up a few days ago - The business is designed to make profit, but a minimal amount to give most profits to charities. Thank you so much for you help, and have an amazing week! I am not looking for people to purchase my products, just looking for feedback. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2019 09:01 PM PDT I know this is a very personalized question but I'm hoping to get a rough estimate. Me and my business partner are in the market of car parts. We applied for a credit card with his credit of roughly 700+ (soft score), claiming he makes 40k a year, our expected profit being 100k. For our particular business, we need the money upfront (hoping for 5k-10k per month) to make purchases by card from our suppliers but we plan to pay in full at the end of the month since the customer will be paying us and we will have that money in our debit account. Does anybody have a rough estimate of what our credit card limit might be? It would be really disappointing if they start us off with like 1-3k because it makes business difficult when the cost of our products in nature is already higher priced. We could probably invest some of our own capital but we are trying to avoid that as best as we can. [link] [comments]  |
| Business growing too fast? HALP Posted: 28 Mar 2019 08:24 AM PDT So I've been in business for like 3 weeks now. My waffles are objectively delicious (I've only had one person out of hundreds dislike one. It was the lemon cake and she complained that it was "sweet".) I had a live event yesterday at a local coffee shop whose owner has been AMAZING to me. She has given me endless advice, mentor-ship, a venue, and all the support a noob like me could possibly ask for. We are providing them with waffles for her to sample free to customers for feedback. She is covering my ingredient costs and my time (of course) is free. I just got off the phone with the owner of Gluten Free Things (an all gluten-free bakery/reseller), who wants to potentially license, manufacture, and resell my products nationwide. They also make their own waffle mix that they sell, but I don't make "normal" waffles, so you really cant make mine from a mix because the liquid ingredients are too complicated (believe me, I've looked into it and it only would make sense at HUGE - think Costco or Kroger - scales compared to the volume I produce now). Besides, my whole platform is wholesome, locally sourced, REAL ingredients with minimal processing. Anyway, I am terrified. What if they steal my ideas? How does licensing even work? I can't afford a real lawyer yet (right?) And....lets be honest here...after all the stories of people being taken for a ride on this sub......I'm concerned. Yesterday I was told BACK TO BACK by my owner-friend that I need a CPA and lawyer ASAP. Then a chai distributor (who also loves my product and brought it home to his wife who also loves them and wants to buy my flour) who said the opposite - that I'm too small to worry about it. I'm confused and unsure what my next move should be. I just closed one of my retirement accounts so I could clear our debt, so we're not facing huge interest charges that would be more than the loss I took taking out that money. I've thrown everything I have short of our mortgage at this, and I'm pretty sure it'd kill me if I lose it all due to a dumb mistake/negligence on my part. What do?! [link] [comments]  |
| What kind of licenses do I need for a drop shipping Shopify store (clothing)? Posted: 28 Mar 2019 07:27 PM PDT Hello, so I'm wanting to get my Shopify store up and running, this will be an all online e commerce business. Do I need a trademark and copyright for my logo and designs? Is there anything else? I'm new to this all, so advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Collections - How Often to Call Posted: 28 Mar 2019 06:48 PM PDT I own a company that sells advertising. Our advertisers are almost all small businesses like realtors, landscapers, restaurants, etc. We sell the ad, payment is technically due immediately but in reality we don't start pressing for it until the publication is complete (usually 1-3 months later). Once the publication is completed we send another invoice and wait. If still no payment after 30 days we do friendly reminder calls. After 90 days we are professional but more demanding. We have one customer in particular that owes $630 right now which for us is kind of a lot. She's pulling the standard b.s. - I'm out of the country, I already sent it, it got lost in the mail, I'll check with my bank, etc. How often is too often to call in these cases? She did two ads, one is 100+ days late, the other is 90 days late. I'd rather hear "I just don't have money right now" than straight lies. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2019 01:56 PM PDT Hi, I would like to export goods but I don't know how to find big buyers. I am very confident about our products quality. Price is very low than most international firms. How should I start with a such an exporting business model? [link] [comments]  |
| Small business idea: drive in movie theater for boats: Posted: 28 Mar 2019 12:45 PM PDT 1) buy few lots in a cove or inlet 2) set up projector on land at end of cove 3)set up docks for parking with dock service for food or have boats freelance anchor with jetski/small boat service Have boats pay at the entrance to the cove. Main problem I see would be restricting people from sneaking in, but if the cove entrance was small enough, there would probably be a way to do so. There are lots of high income, seasonal summer house inhabitants that are looking for more things to do on their lakes/comforts of home. Let me know if I am overlooking any obvious hurdles here. Also if, there are any small business ideas that would cater to the seasonal lake market, lmk. I would love to share ideas/brainstorm. The opportunity is pretty large in these areas from my experience. [link] [comments]  |
| Site feedback for new clothing brand website a Posted: 28 Mar 2019 09:26 AM PDT Just launched site, but having trouble with conversions. There is about 10-15% ad to cart goal reached, but cart checkout is much lower. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! https://www.excelsiorbaby.com [link] [comments]  |
| Vendor for Marketing Company. Should I be worried? Posted: 28 Mar 2019 03:01 PM PDT I run a small video production company and a full service (and in our niche) marketing company is looking to bring us on as their preferred vendor - repackaging our services and adding a 20% or so fee that gets passed on to their customers. My concern is that by partnering with them we'll be losing out on potential business or eventually get cut out of the equation. Should I be concerned that we're shooting ourselves in the foot or should we be stoked that we're getting work (at our normal rates) without having to run the sales side of things? Anyone have experience with this? Any advice? [link] [comments]  |
| Best way to market home-service industry company Posted: 28 Mar 2019 08:57 AM PDT I own a swimming pool cleaning and repair company, I jut started it at the beginning of March. I think this question is applicable to all home-service type businesses though. What are the best methods to advertise your business? Is it paying Angie's list $300/Month on the basis that they will get people to call you? Is it posting signs or flyers around town? Hanging door-hangers on houses? I'd love all the input I can get. I was really considering Angie's list until I found some old reddit posts about how they are a scam. Then I saw some other forum posts about how it worked well for some people. Thanks guys [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2019 01:27 PM PDT I run a business where we are currently trying to sell some products got from a company that went bankrupt, so they gave us kind of low price, but my business partner insisted in lowering the selling price to get ride of these items as soon as possible, so now we are almost no profitable at all, like something we got at 100, is selling by 110, but the market price is 250, so, now I need to adjust these prices so we don't go bankrupt like the other company did, basically they went to bankrupt after not being able to sell anything, their cost was 100, and their price was like 600. Now we got the opposite problem, instead of needing to decrease the price, we need to increase it, here are some specific problems: 1) I already gave the cheap pricing to some important companies, I'm not sure if I can notice them of this increase, or should I respect the price given to them? 2) should I increse the price little by little, or just in one step to get closer to the market value? A particular company I sent them the cheap price a week ago, and they are still deciding whether to buy or not, just checking type of the product, pricing was not a problem, so to this particular company, should I respect the old price, or I can notice them of the new price? [link] [comments]  |
| Hair/beauty/massage salons owners: how do you appoint a time for your clients? Posted: 28 Mar 2019 01:26 PM PDT Do you use any scheduling/CRM software to manage such things as appoint a time for client (online, via bots, for example) or any other kind of things? If so, what software do you use and what would you like to improve? Or what soft you're missing for these purposes? [link] [comments]  |
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