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- Thank you Thursday! - (April 25, 2019)
- Okay you creative gurus, let's talk about wood
- Another update from "The Window Cleaning Guy" - 26 months into the business and loving it!
- Evaluate start-up ideas, earn money from the ones you choose to "invest" in, and learn more about how you make investment decisions! All while helping out academic research on entrepreneurship :)
- Building out custom closets is a great business opportunity - EXPANDED CONCEPT
- Chinese employees are cheap -- What would you start?
- What would you do with a half million plastic containers?
- Nintendo and beta-testing apps (Android, iOS)
- Aussie entrepreneurs selling product online, how do your logistics look like?
- Need Entrepreneur to answer a few questions for a school project
- Help with choosing a VA
- Alex Becker
- What to use: Zoho One - Zoho CRM - Zoho Contact Manager - Zoho Books
- Looking to create a referral agreement with other businesses
- Invitation to a research project on Entrepreneurship and Neurological Diversity
- What is the process of finding manufacturers/suppliers for a product?
- Forming my nonprofit drone club around zoning laws...
- How do You Handle Clients Who Take a Long Time to Pay?
- 10 Ideas by a Random Goofball [Part 5 of 10]
- [NOT AN AD] - Zero to One Traction/Marketing Help Needed
- How do I get one true fan?
- Looking for mentor/collaborator
- Consulting Business Question
- Advertising options for freelance repairs
- The Newbie Chat has too many advertisers!
| Thank you Thursday! - (April 25, 2019) Posted: 25 Apr 2019 06:11 AM PDT Your opportunity to thank the /r/Entrepreneur community by offering free stuff, contests, discounts, electronic courses, ebooks and the best deals you know of. Please consolidate such offers here! Since this thread can fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts. [link] [comments]  |
| Okay you creative gurus, let's talk about wood Posted: 25 Apr 2019 08:26 AM PDT All day long I work in manufacturing and I see wood being thrown in the garbage. Pallets, shipping skids, old work benches, Big 4 x 4 pieces, Big 6 x 6 pieces, painted, treated, pristine and rotten. I took a drive today on my day off to go fishing by the river and every factory I drove past has wood out in the back sitting there either waiting to be taken or probably not going to move for the next 5 years. I'm a pretty handy guy and love working hard, but the only thing I can think of to use these wood pieces for is perhaps handrails, railings, railing spindles. I know that much of this wood is going to be useless for wood chips or mulch because of the chemicals. Can you guys think of anything I can do with all this wood that's going to the trash. I hate to see this much trees be absolutely wasted. So Reddit, do you have any ideas on how I can make a buck helping to save the world by reusing all this wood? [link] [comments]  |
| Another update from "The Window Cleaning Guy" - 26 months into the business and loving it! Posted: 24 Apr 2019 06:14 PM PDT Hi everyone! It's been a while since my last update. I'm just here watching season 2 of Cobra Kai and thought that I would check in. For those just now tuning in you can see my original post in the sub here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/5q7xsq/just_found_out_that_i_am_losing_my_job_with/ The very short story is that 26 months ago I lost my corporate job and started a window cleaning company on a whim. A few months later I added power washing to the business and we haven't looked back since. In 24 months we generated half a million dollars in revenue spraying water on peoples homes with a 20% net. To pre empt the "you only brought home $100,000 in two years" questions….A company's net is the total profit AFTER all expenses including payroll. I pay myself for the work that I do. Our goal for year three is $717,000. We are behind pace for the year but I am optimistic that we will exceed our goal for the year. Currently we are still running two trucks and only have three technicians. We had four but recently had to let one go. We are in the process of recruiting for his replacement. We are also in the process of recruiting for our first sales rep. Currently I am running all sales myself while my son/business partner is a crew leader in the field. We got an office space in December of 2018 and hired an admin. I have been working very hard in creating systems and delegating low income producing responsibilities to my team and I'm getting some good traction with that. We recently brought on a partner (two investors that work together) in the business. I'm not going to share what the deal with them was BUT I am very excited to have them on board. Combined they have built service companies doing over 20 million in annual revenue and now invest in smaller companies like mine. I am still the majority owner of the company and now have two strategic partners to help me achieve my goals sooner. I spent four months thinking about the partnership before we pulled the trigger. We decided on doing the deal as we feel that we will surpass our goals and do so sooner than we could have without them. Although there was a financial buy in by them the real advantage will be their experience and guidance. I will be less transparent with the partnership details for the simple fact that they did not 'sign up' for my social experiment of sharing my journey online and here on reddit. Feel free to ask away though. Just don't be disappointed if I dont answer all questions regarding this particular topic. My personal main focus is on generating revenue and investing in our employees. I've spoken a lot in the past about our marketing and sales tactics so I would like to talk more about our culture. My philosophy is that if I invest in my employees they will invest in a great customer experience. It's really starting to pay off. My small team is very loyal and they go above and beyond to impress our customers. I invest in my team by trying to do the little things that many companies neglect. Probably the biggest thing that we do is to help them identify their dreams. We have created a dream board for each employee and it's displayed in our office. We encourage them to share their dreams/goals even if they include leaving our company. We stress the fact that we want to help them get to where they want to be in life and we know that it isn't working for a pressure washing company forever. Currently we have the 'dream thing' up and running and I am now working on a system to help them create goals and then plans to achieve them. We are going to help them set some small incremental defined goals. We will reward them for doing this. Then we are going to set up accountability for them in achieving these goals with a defined plan. The company will reward them for executing the plan and achieving the goal too. All of this is a work in progress but my son and I have identified this as a significant part to our success so we are dedicated to making it happen. We were inspired to do this by reading the book "The Dream Manager" by Matthew Kelly (amazing book). We have also implemented a 'point system' with our team to gamify things. We just implemented this about two weeks ago but the response has been amazing. We removed the standard commission for things like upsells and google reviews and put it into our gamification system. They absolutely love it and it's causing them to produce in areas that we were not producing in the past. To be honest I am completely shocked at how well this has worked in a very short time. Another tactic that I'm about to implement to help improve productivity and help everyone be focused on our key goals is a visual dashboard in the office. I'm working on this now and it should be in place within a week. It will be a simple TV display with our KPI's up 24/7. I've read and listened to a lot of stuff about doing this and expect to see some significant improvements just by doing this simple thing. People tend to perform better when they see their goals and progress in achieving them on a daily basis. When we started this journey I created a vlog to document the journey. It's been one of the most rewarding things that I've ever done because I can now go back and watch my progress as I figure this thing out. You can follow along at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTS3WLs0t2stlWFaqTzP2mQ Ask away if you have any questions. Thanks to this sub for the support over the last two years! **edit I'm getting a lot of messages and comments about the point system that we implemented. Here is a video I made this morning to explain it. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2019 10:51 AM PDT Hey everyone -- I'm running a game where you browse start-up ideas, make some investments, and see how much cash you earn on them, and I would be eternally grateful if you would take 20-25 minutes to participate in it! I'm a researcher in the University of Zurich's business school and am conducting this project for academic purposes. You'll be given $10 to "invest" in various start-ups. Players will earn money based on the success of these real start-ups' actual crowdfunding campaigns, defined as the percentage of target fundraised; you could triple your money - or lose almost all of it. Everyone will be sent the money they earn through their "investments" via Venmo, PayPal, or in an Amazon gift card. I would really appreciate you participating in our study since this is a community interested in entrepreneurship! I will post the findings from our study here once it is over so you can learn more about our research if you are interested. You can also request individualized feedback about your investment decisions if you would like it and I'll create a personal report. The link to sign up is here: https://uzhbusinessadminlab.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9sodHJpZ0WEY7Ah Thank you for considering! [link] [comments]  |
| Building out custom closets is a great business opportunity - EXPANDED CONCEPT Posted: 25 Apr 2019 04:02 AM PDT I moved from Boston to Athens GA and bought my first real (but still cheap) home. Its a great functional house but all the storage space had this very cheap wire shelving that absolutely sucks. The 120sf master closet was not functional at all. Neither was the laundry room. Or the 4 other bedroom closets. Or the pantry. So I called California Closets and Inspired closets. Two national chains and the only providers of a service like this in Athens GA. They both had very slow response times and took more than 3 weeks to visit my home to do a walk through and then another 2 weeks to get a quote. Inspired never showed up. They were PRICEY. California came with this proposal for $2,929. Our goal was to get rid of our dressers in our master bedroom and have some drawers in the closet so we could fit all of our clothing in there. California let us know that an option with 16 drawers (8 for each of us) would be $5,000 or more plus tax. He also let me know the install team is backed up and it would take 6 weeks until they could get to the job. I didn't bother hassling him for a quote. So I shopped around a bit and decided to buy some Easy Track systems from Build.com. I looked around my house and decided to not only build out my master closet but also my laundry room, pantry, three guest bedroom closets and basement bedroom closet. I measured each closet and drew some designs on a notebook. This and this. Then I made this list of the Easy Track systems I would need to order to accomplish all of this. Then I compiled my order on Build.com. I called them and was able to get a 10% discount on the pricing. Here is my receipt. $2,710.02 + $189.70 tax for a grand total of: $2,899.72 Then I borrowed my neighbors miter saw and got to work. First I ripped out the old wire shelving and then spackled the holes and repainted. This took about an hour. I drank 2 miller lites while doing this. If you end up starting a business I recommend skipping that step. I drank two more miller lites and listened to this audiobook while I put together all 16 drawers with wood glue and a rubber mallet. This took about 3 hours total and was the hardest part of the entire process. The next morning I hung the track system on the wall using my laser level (which is the most handy tool ever for a home owner) and started the install. This took a total of about 8 hours for the master closet. I got a lot faster on the second half. If I were doing it again I would probably get it done in closer to 5 hours. This is the final product: Master closet empty. Full. Laundry room. Pantry. We cleaned out all three of our dressers and fit all of the things from the previous closet layout in with ease. Then we listed them on craigslist. I went on and did the other 4 closets and easily multiplied my available storage space in this home by at least 8x overall. How much would all this work have cost me if I hired it out? No telling. Maybe $8k? $10k? 15k? Not to mention the fact it would have taken about 10 weeks from the desire to get it done to actually getting it done. I spent about 20 hours and $3k. I think I could do the next one in 10 hours total. Are you a little handy and a fast learner? Set something up and start offering this service! Doing this while you have a full time job is the perfect way to start. More on that here. Buy a web domain and hosting for $1.99 per month and build a WordPress site. Get a Google My Business location at your home. I wrote down all the early tools I used here if you'd like to check it out. Google is going to power your business early on. Get a logo and some door hanging flyers put together using a freelancing site. Get your logo embroidered on a nice polo shirt. Write some great content focused around keywords in your town. Use ahrefs.com to research the keywords you want to target and build some DIY closet building guides for homeowners in your town using those keywords. Some really useful stuff that people will engage with. Thats content marketing and its the best way to get a leg up on google. More on that here. Put videos of yourself doing these closets on youtube targeting ideal keywords. Speed is the key in this business. Offer to do some building for friends for free (if they buy the system). Get those friends to take pictures of your work and leave you a nice detailed review on your Google My Business location. Get at least 5 reviews. Have them call you and get directions to your location and click through to your website before leaving the review so Google knows it isn't fake. This sounds silly but makes a difference for rankings. Watch Zillow and Realtor.com and filter for homes that are recently sold in your target areas. New homeowners are exponentially more likely to want closet building services than a random joe off the street. Put on your polo and a pair of khakis and go to the homes that recently sold and knock on the door. Smile at them and shake their hand firmly. Tell them about yourself and that you'd love to offer them a free quote to help them get more storage space. If they don't answer hang the flyer on the door and go to the next house. Ignore getting a social media following. Not worth your time or money. Post videos of your work on youtube with local keywords instead. Experiment with social media marketing and PPC marketing by hiring a freelancer who specializes in this sort of thing. Get creative with your marketing. You know where your customers are and who your perfect customer is. Go find them. Housekeeping stuff. Register with the state as a sole proprietor and get liability insurance. Liability insurance is important. What if a child pulls on a drawer and the whole thing comes crashing down on him? Before you hire your first employee get workers compensation insurance and consider incorporating. Get accounting software like quickbooks and outsource your payroll to a service like Gusto or Paychex. Keep very detailed records of everything and read this book. Consider hiring a bookkeeper but make sure you understand most of it yourself as well. Become a licensed contractor in your state. Get out and build some closets. Price high and make speed and service your competitive advantage. Answer the phone every time with friendly, eager professionalism and enthusiasm and you'll be in the top 10%. Nurture your Google Business location. Its your most important asset. Reviews with photos are worth 10 regular reviews. Play around with the price you charge. Price your time at what you estimate would be $50 per hour at first but make sure to charge by the job and not by the hour. You will get better at quoting over time and you will also get much faster at painting. When you start to get some momentum set up a CRM like Jobber. It allows you to look way more professional than you are. Do all of your billing online. Attach photos of the jobs as they are completed. You are not going to compete on price. You are going to compete on speed, professionalism, customer service and quality. They are going to like you as a person and want to do business with you. Learn more about this concept in my episode#13 "never compete on price again". When you get some momentum and some business rolling you'll need a cargo van. Here is my used cargo van buying guide (i've purchased 15 or so used vans all under $7500 and they are amazing assets). Get a table saw instead of a miter. You'll need to hire some help on the weekends you work. Pay well, $30+ per hour, and get competent people. Oversee them for a while until you trust them to build without you being there. Avoid being a subcontractor. General contractors only care about one thing - price. You aren't competing on price. You are adding service the the equation so your business only deals with the customers one on one. Focus on what you do best and outsource everything else. Form a personal relationship with your customers. Know the names of everyone in the family. Show up with a teddy bear for the little guy. Send a thank you note a few weeks after the job. Eventually you will build a great little business. You will compete on speed and quality and not price. You can choose to stay small and charge a high price or try to grow and scale the business. "On demand" is going to be your competitive advantage so you can charge a higher price. Make sure you can offer next day site visits or same day site visits. As soon as you get too busy to do that you need to raise your prices or hire another employee. Make sure that person is presentable and clean cut. Now spend all of your time answering the phone, dealing with clients, and quoting jobs and managing the marketing. When do you quit your job? That is all up to you. Lean out your life and your business so its less risky and you can get by on earning less. Stay lean as you grow and keep your expenses variable so you can change, pivot and close up shop if things go poorly. Don't like closet building? Check out this list and take your pick. [link] [comments]  |
| Chinese employees are cheap -- What would you start? Posted: 25 Apr 2019 12:41 PM PDT I have a rock solid business partner in China that I've been working with for 2+ years and while my current business has stagnated, my hunger hasn't. I'm looking to start a 50/50 venture with him (as per the laws around ownership in China) It's crazy how cheap Chinese labor is, around $2-4/hour, and while it's not the cheapest in the world, the country is stable and well-organized, making foreign investment easier than other places. So, what business would you start if you had an office in China and the budget to hire 5 employees? [link] [comments]  |
| What would you do with a half million plastic containers? Posted: 25 Apr 2019 08:43 AM PDT A client has 300-500,000 plastic (PET) clamshell storage containers in 5 or 6 sizes that they've been left holding the bag on. New merch in master cases. Can be palletized. Looking for suggestions re: the most efficient way to liquidate these items. Client does not have time nor space to piecemeal them one by one on eBay/Shopify/etc. [link] [comments]  |
| Nintendo and beta-testing apps (Android, iOS) Posted: 25 Apr 2019 10:30 AM PDT Nintendo just announced beta-testing for Mario Kart Tour, and they're testing only for Android users first. If you're interested, post here, but that's a different conversation. https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/bh7xt3/mario_kart_tour_beta_sign_up/ Anyways, this got me thinking about app dev and testing. Disclaimer, not an app developer. I was wondering, why did Nintendo restrict to just Android for testing? I've heard (never dove into it seriously) it's easier to develop for iOS than Android. On that note, do you think Nintendo is restricting this beta-testing just so they can get over the Android hump first, before porting to iOS? Is that a good strategy when preparing for an app release? What approaches have other app devs here taken? [link] [comments]  |
| Aussie entrepreneurs selling product online, how do your logistics look like? Posted: 25 Apr 2019 02:55 AM PDT My target audience is primarily in America. My supplier will be from China and I live in Australia. Dropshipping isn't an option since I'll have to package the contents myself first before shipping out to the customer. Also I'd want to see the product first before it going away for quality reasons. I'm mostly worried about shipping times to America from Australia, and the inefficiency of everything. And for example my brand works out and is doing really well, is my best option to relocate to America and have all my product sent from China over there? I'd like to know of how the Aussies manage this, thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Need Entrepreneur to answer a few questions for a school project Posted: 25 Apr 2019 01:52 PM PDT Looking for anyone willing to take some time out of their day to answer a few simple questions about their life as an entrepreneur. PM if interested, thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2019 01:44 PM PDT Hey all, I have just started working with a sustainable sneaker start up. I am responsible for setting up communications, building online relations, social media, website, email and SM marketing etc. I wish to hire a VA to help with a few research tasks and help to build content (finding external blog posts, developing internal blog blog posts from our content) with the goal of building them up to become part of the communications team. We will be launching a kickstarter campaign in a few months to help with our initial production and I would like to bring the VA into the fold. I would like to know everyone's experiences with VAs, where is the best place to find a person who I am looking for, and anything else I need to consider when looking for someone to fit the role. Tha King you all in advance. Ben. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2019 01:28 PM PDT I've seen this video before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6ujpTfOsQc&list=PLtcdZcZ0-da06qtlpXGaLxd7q_Xwj0k-7&index=12&t=0s [link] [comments]  |
| What to use: Zoho One - Zoho CRM - Zoho Contact Manager - Zoho Books Posted: 25 Apr 2019 01:28 PM PDT My small business is very small, run by 2 people. Every month we pay out around 50 contractors (typically the same contractors each month) and plenty of various expenses, which leads to difficult bookkeeping and reporting. Every month we have a large event where around 500 people come that includes ticket sales, social promoting, other marketing, and talent buying I have been debating on Zoho One, but I feel it might be overkill for what we are trying to do. To date we have tried using bkper.com for our bookkeeping and having zapier pull paypal transactions automatically. That right there is around $25 just to use the premium features of Zapier for such a simple automation. We try using Trello for task keeping, project management, and contact management, but that is also difficult to keep up with until you start spending a lot of time designing work flows with automation. Any recommendations on a solution or solution combination ? or Feedback from personal experience? Thank You! [link] [comments]  |
| Looking to create a referral agreement with other businesses Posted: 25 Apr 2019 12:37 PM PDT I'm currently running a small (but highly capable) team of SEO experts. Our clients often, at the end of service, don't know where to go with what they don't have (for example finding a data analyst, reliable web developer, or web designer). In our reports we often specify that xyz change should be made to this script in order for it to function more efficiently. The problem that we have is that we don't actually have anyone on our team that is capable of making those changes, designing the pages, or with a sprawling network of blogs and websites. What we're currently looking for is to partner with similar businesses through a referral agreement to bring traffic in for the other. Open to freelancers, businesses, or even small agencies. [link] [comments]  |
| Invitation to a research project on Entrepreneurship and Neurological Diversity Posted: 25 Apr 2019 12:29 PM PDT As in the previous post, I invited those who are running a business or trying to start a business to take part in a new exciting research project linking insights in psychology and neuroscience to entrepreneurship. To date, over 600 entrepreneurs have already taken the survey! The project is called Entrepreneurship and Neurological Diversity. It focuses on certain psychological traits, self-care, and entrepreneurial outcomes. As a participant, you can receive your own personal profile, as well as a written summary of the findings so that you can benchmark yourself against other entrepreneurs. Here is the link to the survey: Entrepreneurship and Neurological Diversity survey You can read more about me and my research here: If you have any questions or concerns about the research, please don't hesitate to contact me. My email address is [jwiklund@syr.edu](mailto:jwiklund@syr.edu). Thank you in advance for your participation. [link] [comments]  |
| What is the process of finding manufacturers/suppliers for a product? Posted: 25 Apr 2019 11:45 AM PDT So I've been wanting to start a glove business for a while. I've looked into the actual process of applying to become a company, which I can handle. Where I get lost is how to find manufacturers and suppliers. I need someone to create the product, and I don't know even how to search for manufacturers to do that. I need to get the supplies from somewhere as well. Are there any resources I can use to at least search for places that could do what I am asking? Furthermore, once I found someone to make the product, is it just a matter of sending my design and specs with a list of materials (and money of course)? Any responses are appreciated, thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Forming my nonprofit drone club around zoning laws... Posted: 25 Apr 2019 11:35 AM PDT I posted recently about acquiring insurance for an indoor drone park and I want to start a place where you can come and fly your micro sized drone in our 8000sqft arena. Things are moving along but in order for me to continue, I have to either form my organization into a 501c7 (Social Club) to meet zoning on a building I want, or 501c3 and do a zoning conversion on the space. My current for-profit drone club received a 100k investment and I want to start a non-profit organization that will sell club amenities (such as renting time in the indoor arena) to its members. The space I want has a full kitchen and enough space for a drone shop. I want to run the kitchen and drone shop as separate entities. My for-profit Corp is renting the building. How should I structure this? [link] [comments]  |
| How do You Handle Clients Who Take a Long Time to Pay? Posted: 25 Apr 2019 11:14 AM PDT I have a client who I signed at the end of the month, so it's tricky to get them to pay on time so I can put that on the month's revenue numbers. How do you guys handle clients who take awhile to pay? Do you put anything into contracts that adds fee's for taking too long to pay? [link] [comments]  |
| 10 Ideas by a Random Goofball [Part 5 of 10] Posted: 25 Apr 2019 05:04 AM PDT Being a random goofball, I have decided to post 10 goofy ideas for the sake of being goofy. The ideas are not game-changing products or services but rather, meant to make the world a little more goofy.
Idea No. 5
Idea: Guessing/gambling website
Here's how it works: A glass full of marbles will be live-streamed 24/7 for 7 days. People are free to guess or calculate the number of marbles in the glass and place their bet. At the end of 7 days, the marbles will be taken out one by one to show the total number of marbles. Of course, this can be pre-recorded. The platform will get a 10% commission of the pool, and the remaining 90% will be distributed proportionately based on how much they have put in. E.g for a $10 bet with a total pool of $100, you will get $9 after taking out a 10% commission from the pool. Other variations of the game include volume in a glass of water, number of paper in a stack of paper. It's meant to be a fun, goofy gamble but definitely possible to calculate if you are math/physic whizz. What do you think of it?
Past ideas: Idea 1: Amazon Giftcard Newsletter, Click here Idea 2: Cheap Eats Mobile App, Click here Idea 3: Group-buying Ecommerce Platform, Click here Idea 4: Youtube-ish Article Website, Click here [link] [comments]  |
| [NOT AN AD] - Zero to One Traction/Marketing Help Needed Posted: 25 Apr 2019 10:38 AM PDT *** Just want to make sure that I don't have a link or name of the product here. I just want your opinion to how to get some traction. I am seeking for your genuine help! Hello all, I am in Vancouver, Canada and own a website that helps people frame their pictures. My product enables people to frame their artwork at one-tenth of custom framing prices, while not forgoing too much in visual quality. Instead of customizing whole picture frame, I only cut the mat board (thick white paper between the artwork and the frame). This way, an artwork would look nice in any frame. The artwork will have an exact fit. Just think of a suit can have a great fit as long as they are trimmed nicely -- doesn't have to be tailored. Same idea here. I have sold some online but having a difficult time expanding. The challenge is I don't really know which medium to tackle. What approach I should take? I am trying to crowd source your knowledge. I am sharing the pros and cons of each platform. I genuinely believe my product is very reasonably priced and help people hang their artworks at a very low cost.
Before I started this business, my friends (who bought my products) told me that they like the product (I know they are not sugar coating. (1) They are straightforward ones and (2) they paid for it). But I will have to find a way to motivate customers to buy my product. In other words, they won't go out their ways to look for a customized mat board. I am exactly sitting on that problem at the moment. I am trying to build an IKEA-like product for picture frames. By letting people DIY their own frames, they can shed over 90% of the picture framing costs. I think this is very doable since picture framing is not a rocket science and its margins are high -- just like furniture industry before IKEA. Please provide me with some feedback. Any advice or constructive criticisms are appreciated. :) I would like to see a traction channel that works and invest heavily into that channel to max out the benefit. I don't think flushing money down on Facebook, Google, and Insta ads are helpful at this point. Thank you. Won [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2019 10:28 AM PDT I'm trying to do the 1000 true fans trick to gain a following on the Internet. All I need to know is how to get one true fan in order to get 1000. The 1000 true fans theory explains the what, but not the how. I assume I need to establish a friendship with the person in order for them to be a fan, but most of my irl friendships have been coincidental. Like, we meet and by sheer will of the universe, we're friends. [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for mentor/collaborator Posted: 25 Apr 2019 10:06 AM PDT I have an idea for a platform-based aggregator business that could be a strong competitor in the travel industry. I'm looking for someone to collaborate with who is good at coding or website design, or a mentor to assist in the process. I have a good idea of my niche market and how to compete but I don't know how to go about "building" a platform. Any help would be appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Apr 2019 09:46 AM PDT So, For the last 10 years I've done various jobs within the military and civilian life. I've done everything from Sales, IT, Ground Radio Repair, improvement teams, quality control. This is from manufacturing, to office settings, to military installations. I'm a hell of a troubleshooter with electronics and IT and my passion is business. I've told a few people about my interest to do this and I keep getting the same question "what are you an expert at"? I have a bachelors in business but that hardly makes me an expert. The answer, is truthfully "nothing" in a sense. I can look at any situation and pick apart the process and reverse engineer them to make them better for the person, for the company, and for the process. I guess I'm just unsure how to sell myself with that vast and various skill set and ability. The reason for the numerous changes is I would learn everything I could about a job, and then I'd move on to the next one that interested me. [link] [comments]  |
| Advertising options for freelance repairs Posted: 25 Apr 2019 09:30 AM PDT I already have a full time job in the IT industry, but I'm trying to find ways to advertise my own repair services outside my 9-5. I am going to take the proper steps and starting a business and see if I can grow from that without risking the investment of a storefront, but I'm having trouble trying to find ways to get my name out there. I posted an ad on craigslist, but I honestly can't think of anything else. Facebook marketplace? I'd love to hear any advice/ideas. [link] [comments]  |
| The Newbie Chat has too many advertisers! Posted: 25 Apr 2019 09:10 AM PDT I think we can all agree that the "Newbie Chat" is for discussing business ideas and asking for advice, not advertising. So PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF BUSINESS get your filthy peasant advertizing off the chat! Even if you're selling dog bandanas. [link] [comments]  |
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