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- Wantrepreneur Wednesday! - (April 24, 2019)
- Products you can sell.
- Launched a company that reviews and grades companies on the fairness of their employee agreements. Feedback requested, please and thanks!
- $20k/month doing food tours in Denver.
- I have no motivation any more to work and I don't know what to do or what this means
- Can I turn an online shop into a fulltime job?
- I built a Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency exchange as a side project over 2 years. However, i don't have the right circumstances to take a risk and go live with it, so how should i go about selling the software? [Advice request]
- How to Grow Your Business Instagram profile to 10K Followers Completely From Scratch in 2019
- Good business start-up you can do for 20$
- I value small/midsize business for a living, AMA
- Entrepreneurs in your 20s, what is your life like?
- Can I say my product is "Sold out" when it is not?
- How to avoid burnout?
- i have 20 business ideas, low self esteem and crippling depression. Please help me
- What are some of the most successful small businesses in your city and what makes them so successful?
- Success feels amazing & terrifying!
- What's the cheapest you've been able to get LCD screens for?
- Just Launched! Unmailto: A free chrome extension that magically copies mailto links & blocks the email clients
- Old company, New problems
- Saas Business Ideas
- Help finding subscription website design(er)
- What would you have done differently as a teenager looking back?
- Alibaba sample ordering minutia?
- Alibaba newbie - Which trading term should I choose?
| Wantrepreneur Wednesday! - (April 24, 2019) Posted: 24 Apr 2019 06:12 AM PDT Please use this thread to ask questions if you're new or even if you haven't started a business yet. Remember to search the sub first - the answers you need may be right at your fingertips. 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]  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2019 05:45 AM PDT Some of you have reached out to me asking to provide categories of products which I think are still very profitable on Amazon/Online. First I want to explain...if you sell these categories, you should first set up your own site then transfer the content to your Amazon/Ebay store. You will thank yourself later when it comes to content management. Next these are categories I have tried in the past, all have done VERY well and continue to do VERY well. If I mentioned a location...this means you can buy these products from that location. Next - I am no longer in the eCommerce industry as someone selling products. I long left the industry to pursue my dream however I still consult from time to time to friends. No I am not looking for clients, no I dont have something to sell you. I hope the mods dont take this down as self promotion as I AM NOT selling anything. water filters (China - this category paid for numerous benzs, audis and vacations) appliance parts (China) air filters (US and China) vacuum accessories (China - this alone has made numerous of you rich) specialized adult toys (China) personal hygiene products and accessories (NYC/CA and China) (one of the first products I ever sold was the CCR-3, thousands of it!) I have many more but the above made the most profit my businesses. I've met some of you in person (Shout Out to Window Cleaning Guy - I know you didnt eat your entire burger because it was under cooked), some via Skype (Shout out to Australia Dave), dozens of you via PM's and etc...I hope someone can find this information useful. A bit about me, read my post history. I'm a Inc 500 Winner and built numerous successful eCommerce companies, many which have gone on to do 3M+. I left the industry because I finally had a chance to pursue something important to me. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2019 12:33 PM PDT If your employer assaulted, discriminated against, or harassed you, would you be able to file a lawsuit against them? Probably not! After witnessing this firsthand, we decided to launch AgreementGrade.com, a website that calls out and grades companies on the fairness of their employee agreements. Our research has shown that around 90% of Fortune 500 companies require employees to sign employment agreements with mandatory arbitration clauses, which circumvent the rights and protections given to us by the U.S. Constitution. This was one of the major factors behind the recent Google walkout and protest by over 20k of their employees. We've spent the last couple of years researching and building our company/website to help people make better decisions when choosing their next employer. We know we still have a lot of work to do but after completing our review of the Fortune 500, we wanted to ask for feedback from the community. Business Focused Questions:
Website Focused:
Any other comments, ideas, suggestions, etc. you have about the company or our website are greatly appreciated! Thanks again for taking the time to checkout Agreement Grade! [link] [comments]  |
| $20k/month doing food tours in Denver. Posted: 24 Apr 2019 09:15 AM PDT Hey - Pat from StarterStory.com here with another interview. Today's interview is with Jessica Baumgart of Delicious Denver Food Tours, a food tour business in Denver. Some stats:
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hi, I'm Jessica Baumgart, and in 2017 I founded Delicious Denver Food Tours to connect Denver locals and visitors to my city's amazing food scene. Many people don't know what a food tour is, although they are the fastest growing sector in tourism. Food tours are walking (sometimes driving or biking) city tours that feature local restaurants, dishes and chefs. I started with our Downtown Denver Food Tour, which is a three-hour walking tour through the heart of the Mile High City with stops at six local restaurants. At each restaurant stop, guests enjoy a curated tasting, and we talk about the chefs, owners and people behind the food scene here in Denver. From the Downtown Food Tour, I expanded into offering our Cocktails & Tastes Tour (for those craft cocktail lovers) and just recently launched a Food + Beer Tour to combine delicious local dishes with locally-brewed craft beers. When I first launched the business, I was guiding every food tour myself. By month three, I had broken even and was turning a profit. This was also when I started hiring my first tour guide. Now 1.5 years into running the business, I manage a team of tour guides, and the business is producing $20,000/month in revenue. What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?My background is in marketing and communications, which has helped me immensely as I grow my business. I was working a standard 9-5 job and feeling pretty unsatisfied when my then boyfriend (now husband) and I got the idea to quit and travel for a year. We planned and saved over the course of two years (and got married in the meantime). Right after the wedding, we sold everything we owned, quit our jobs and went backpacking through 25 countries on a year-long trip around the world. On that trip, I started to question why I was working in a career that was making me unhappy and resolved to start really listening to what my passions were. I identified pretty quickly that travel and food are at the top of that list, so my husband and I signed up to work at a cooking school in Italy for the summer, and we started taking food tours in each city we traveled to. When we returned to the states, we settled in Denver, and I began teaching private cooking classes and returning to Italy once a year to run a week-long Cooking Vacation with the chef I worked with there. Guests at the Cooking School in Tuscany From there, launching a food tour seemed like a fun next step. At the time, I thought it would be a small, part-time gig that could provide some side income. I never imagined it would turn into the full-fledged business that it is today! Take us through the process of designing the food tour and launching the business.Launching the food tour initially meant a lot of relationship building with local chefs and restaurant owners. I had to identify which restaurants I wanted to feature on my first tour downtown, and from there I tasted everything to narrow down what I thought we should serve to tour guests. I approached owners and chefs and made my pitch, which in the beginning was a pretty casual conversation (and now includes a more formal presentation with data). The primary sell to the restaurants was that I wanted to bring guests in at a time of day that was traditionally quiet for them, pay for the food we'd serve on the tours and promote them to a wider audience that would likely return after the tour. For the most part, restaurant owners and chefs were receptive to the idea, although a few of them has had previous experiences with failed food tours and were skeptical that I would ever bring them new business. Now over a year later, I hear them say things like, "Yeah when you first came in and asked to partner with us, I thought surrrrre." The process of signing on new restaurants took several months. It was all about tracking down the right person to actually make that decision (usually the owner, sometimes the GM) and getting in front of them, which can take time. I did a lot of dropping into restaurants to see who I could meet and try to identify this person. I often found that managers are the least receptive because partnering with a food tour does mean extra work for them. As they don't profit share in the restaurant, the benefit of repeat customers isn't always appealing, so they tend to see a lot of the downsides and few of the upsides. Once I really started getting to the owners, though, things were easier. All told, I approached close to 10 restaurants to settle on the 7 I currently work with, so I definitely got some no's or just unreturned phone calls and e-mails. Once I had 6-7 restaurants committed, I built a pretty simple website with Squarespace and got set up with an online ticketing system. My start up costs were about $3,000, which included commercial insurance (in case a guest falls or has an allergic reaction to a tasting on the tour), building and hosting a website, filing my LLC, hiring a photographer to capture high-resolution photos of a tour and "research" (i.e. eating a lot of good food). I also hosted a number of friends and family members on early tours to make sure the product was perfect and to get feedback. From there I started marketing the tour every way I knew how. I got my first booking (a solo guest) three days after my website went live. I thought it might have been a friend playing a prank, but it was a real guest! Initially, I led a lot of two or four-person tours. As I got more practice, I added more information to the tour and strengthened my relationships with the restaurants featured. With time came a number of positive reviews, which shot me to the #1 spot on TripAdvisor for all tours in Denver and the #1 spot for food and drink experiences. These review platforms (Yelp, Google Reviews, Viator) all contribute additional business. I was pretty scrappy when launching and used my own personal funds to get the business going. Luckily, food tours are low in terms of overhead, and they can be pretty lean businesses. My "launch" was me alone at my kitchen table setting my website to live. I had no expectations for the business being successful, so it didn't occur to me at the time to make a big fuss. I think I posted about it on Facebook and then prayed that I might get a booking. Me guiding a tour with my friends (for a photoshoot) Since launch, what has worked to attract and retain customers?My business is a lot of acquiring new customers as guests don't often take the same tour twice. As a result, I have a marketing plan that involves listing and selling tours in a number of places in addition to my website (TripAdvisor, Expedia, Airbnb Experience, etc.). I imagine sales as a number of small funnels, all bringing new guests in the through different doors. For these third-party sites, I have a really limited scope on what I can do to optimize outside of asking happy guests to share their experiences with positive reviews. In the end, it really comes down to how satisfied your customers are and how receptive they are to sharing that experience with a five star review. We hit the #1 ranking on TripAdvisor for tours in Denver and food and drink experiences in Denver, and I've definitely seen an uptick in our inbound customers from that coveted spot. We hear guests all the time say they read our reviews before booking and booked because we were the #1 ranked tour. I imagine that ranking will slip as I understand the TripAdvisor algorithm to really value new businesses. So it's easy to climb quickly and get into that #1 spot for a period of time, but eventually (even if your reviews remain strong), most businesses slip to the 3rd or 4th spot over time as new businesses climb to the top. As my web traffic has increased over time, I also focus a lot on SEO and making my website as easy to navigate as possible. I'm pretty clear that my customer has a limited attention span, and if he/she can't find the necessary information to book my tour in a matter of seconds on my website, I'll lose him/her to my competitor. In terms of SEO, I focus on site speed, accessibility and making the website easy to find across a lot of platforms. I worked my way through this checklistand try to regularly create keyword-optimized blog posts around things to do in Denver, team building events in Denver (which get me private corporate tours), bachelorette ideas, etc. I spend marketing dollars on Adwords and a partnership with my local Convention and Visitors' Bureau, which is responsible for bringing new visitors to Denver each year. I also focus a lot of public relations and am always pitching the tours to food bloggers and journalists. We offer free tours to those looking to cover the experiences, which ultimately helps exposure and our SEO rankings. In an effort to retain my existing customers, I launched two new tours so I can cross-sell those experiences and keep guests coming back. How are you doing today and what does the future look like?Our focus is primarily on growth. That means hiring new staff, launching new tours in different neighborhoods around the city and maximizing marketing efforts to fill those tours with paying guests. Our margins remain at about 40%, but we can improve those by reducing food costs, eliminating wasteful spending within the process or of course playing with pricing structures. Our focus continues to be on tightening our ad spends and understanding what is working and what is not. Luckily in digital, these are things we can constantly test and learn from. Day to day, as a business owner I always struggle with working on the business and in the business. Those moment-to-moment issues can suck up large amounts of time, and I find that long-term projects (like honing our SEO strategies and content production) can get pushed. Through starting the business, have you learned anything particularly helpful or advantageous?I've learned a lot through trial by fire. When I do interviews, I think people expect that you have all of the answers because you run a profitable business, but my education has been incremental. As I run into new problems, I work to find solutions. I think it's mostly important for entrepreneurs to just keep taking baby steps. Eventually, they'll find that they've made huge progress. Like all businesses, some of my success has been from hard work and a lot has been luck. In tourism, we're beholden to the ebb and flow of seasonality, so that's something we have to be aware of (and learn to plan for). We've been lucky to be working in a space that's growing rapidly, so I often feel like we're riding the food tour wave in terms of trending tourism sectors. My major advice is always to surround yourself with people who know more than you. Running a business can be isolating, so I purposefully have created groups where I can ask questions and learn. I host a monthly call with other food tour CEOs across the country, and this has been pivotal in providing a space where peers can learn from each other. What platform/tools do you use for your business?I use Squarespace, EZTix (an integrated ticketing system designed specifically for food tours), Google Analytics, Adwords, MailChimp (email marketing), and Oh Dear! (for web monitoring). For bookkeeping and invoicing, I use Quickbooks, Waveapps, and MileIQ (for mileage tracking). Social media accounts I manually manage, or I use HootSuite for scheduling and to maintain a social media schedule. What have been the most influential books, podcasts, or other resources?I loved the book $100 Startup because it inspired me to get started. I used to think that launching a business meant the traditional business plan and bank loan, but that book opened my eyes to the world of microbusinesses. I also regularly listen to Chris Guillebeau's podcast, Side Hustle School (we were lucky enough to be featured in an episode!), and I love the podcast How I Built This. In person, I belong to Women Who Startup, a local organization of female entrepreneurs that meets monthly, and I have a monthly call with CEOs/founders of food tours in other areas of the country. Advice for other entrepreneurs who want to get started or are just starting out?I often see young entrepreneurs hold back because they don't have all of the answers. I always try to impress upon them how little I knew when I started. You just have to take the first step and then the next. In my first month of business, I booked a large private corporate tour. On the phone, the client asked me to send over my contract by the end of day. I didn't have a contract and literally had to google a template, but I made it up, sent it over, and the client booked right away. Additionally, I think it's important that you're willing to do every aspect of the business. I find that entrepreneurs are excited about one piece of the pie and don't realize up front that launching a business means doing it all, even the unpleasant parts. People love the idea of starting a food tour because they think it's just eating in restaurants and chatting with chefs. I don't think they realize that large portions of my day include boring tasks like pouring over commercial liability contracts, re-sizing and compressing web images, scheduling (and re-scheduling guides) and cross-checking receipts. Are you looking to hire for certain positions right now?I'm not currently hiring but soon will be looking for a part-time assistant to help with data entry, restaurant reservations and confirmations, and some customer service. Where can we go to learn more?If you have any questions or comments, drop a comment below! Liked this text interview? Check out the full interview with photos, tools, books, and other data. Interested in sharing your own story? Send me a PM [link] [comments]  |
| I have no motivation any more to work and I don't know what to do or what this means Posted: 24 Apr 2019 04:37 AM PDT Hi all, I've posted here quite a lot and maybe you guys can help. I have been a freelance web developer for the past year and a half and when I started I loved doing this. I loved coding, I loved the freedom of working for myself, I loved it all. Now I wake up and dread trying to code something and when I do, I have to drag myself through it and I'm just incredibly bored the entire time. I don't know what this means. I'm still really young and really confused. I do enjoy entrepreneurship and I definitely don't want a "normal" job, I don't know however if I'm just being a little baby and need to put my head down and work or if I'm burnt out or if I just don't like this anymore. Any ideas on what you guys think or how I can find out? I'm just so incredibly confused and unhappy with everything right now and considering a million different things and I don't know what to do. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I turn an online shop into a fulltime job? Posted: 24 Apr 2019 02:13 AM PDT Hey, I currently run an online clothing shop that brings in about £500 a month in profit. It's run through Depop, but I'd like to move to other platforms. I'm thinking if I commit to it more and have more products available, it could be a lot more successful, and maybe in the future I could consider renting a small shop space and actually having a physical shop. Basically when did you manage to turn your idea into a full time job? Do you have any tips for making it a more solid source of income? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2019 11:10 AM PDT Hi all, So, i wanted to kindly request for some advice regarding my current predicament. I've spent the best part of two years building a peer-to-peer Bitcoin/Altcoin exchange as a private side project. Minus infrastructure it is ready to go live. Yet i'm not at the right place in my life to take such a risk to go live for numerous reasons including funding, family and time required. Additionally, in terms of risk/reward it would be a shame to half-heartedly go live with such an extensive product and see it flop because of the time i did not have to commit to it when rather it would be more beneficial for me at this time to go for an early sale which, from my experience as a freelancer working with clients, is a product that would attract a significant amount (due to the extent of the codebase/platform). So, i wanted to seek out advice in terms of gaining traction in finding a buyer for the product. I've thought about brokers and i am even open to offering a commission for a referral (eg friends of friends who may be interested) however i'm keen to listen to other ideas. For some background, this is the product in question: An original P2P Cryptocurrency Exchange (similar to Localbitcoins but with more Cryptocurrencies integrated other than Bitcoin) and a Multi Cryptocurrency Wallet Codebase (with similar features to Bitgo) for sale via escrow/in person.
This is an entire exchange written by myself only. Intellectual property rights will be transferred to prospective buyer along with a contract regarding conditions of transfer. The script can be opened on a local server and requests for demonstrations are welcome. A basic front end has been produced to allow the new owner freedom to produce a front end to their own taste and to reflect their own brand. Backend is 100% complete and ready for use. Information on infrastructure and security will be given. There are running costs (infrastructure and security). Supports: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Bitcoin Gold, Peercoin, Dogecoin and a Testcoin (allowing users to try the platform for free with a play money coin). *Platform has been produced in a way which will allow easy implementation of more than 100 coins. Requests for a demo can be made via Email/Reddit/WhatsApp. For more detailed information on features you are welcome to reach out via my personal website, Reddit PM, mobile or Skype. Thank you for your time and advice. Snippets: https://imgur.com/a/mYssKzl [link] [comments]  |
| How to Grow Your Business Instagram profile to 10K Followers Completely From Scratch in 2019 Posted: 24 Apr 2019 11:04 AM PDT Here is a video explaining how to grow your instagram account completely organically in 2019. Instagram is a huge platform and its one of the main ways I like to grow my businesses. This video will teach you some of the exact strategies to teach you how to grow followers fast in 2019. No bots, no buying likes, no buying followers - all 100% pure strategies to show you how to gain loyal instagram followers. [link] [comments]  |
| Good business start-up you can do for 20$ Posted: 24 Apr 2019 10:57 AM PDT Hey everybody, so basically what were going to be doing here is starting a multi-service business. We're talking dog walking, cleaning, landscaping, graphic design, and any other skills that you might have. I personally have a list of 14 services on my business cards, they'll be shipping soon and I'll be handing them out and sticking them in middle to upper middle class house doors. Now something I'm doing here for the design of the business card is I'm really trying to strike a good balance between professional get-stuff-done corporate vibe and personal neighborhood small business. I am avoiding the phrase "I" and going for "We." I don't want the potential clients looking at the cards and seeing all the services and knowing that I'm running it with just a couple other people. I want them to think there's a team of specialist. Just thought I'd share some value with you all, if you have anything you want to share too that would be great! Good luck on all of your future endeavors. Edit: Card revised and business more targeted. https://postimg.cc/hX6hBwYm [link] [comments]  |
| I value small/midsize business for a living, AMA Posted: 24 Apr 2019 12:42 PM PDT I'm a CVA (certified valuation analyst) and I work at a smaller CPA firm in the Boston area where I spend about 90% of my time doing business valuations primarily for M&A, Tax purposes, Estate planning, Bank Financing (typically SBA). Typically the business I value are in the $1-25M range, but have swung higher. I thought there may be some interest around this topic here so AMA [link] [comments]  |
| Entrepreneurs in your 20s, what is your life like? Posted: 24 Apr 2019 12:32 PM PDT What is your daily life like? Is the business a side hustle? How many hours per day/week? Successful? What do you define success at this point as? What are the problems you face in the business? Logistics? Marketing? What prevents you from scaling? Businesses providing a service, specifically a recurring monthly service, what are your challenges? What kind of revenue do you generate? Profit margins? Any self salary? # of employees, if any? I'm a appt part time entrepreneur, have bee doing this a long time. Really considering putting far more effort and actually making a lot of money. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I say my product is "Sold out" when it is not? Posted: 24 Apr 2019 12:04 AM PDT I watched a video on Youtube called "How One Guy Sold the World on an $80 Used Tissue," and I was baffled at the publicity that he got. To sum it up for people who haven't seen the video, here is the YouTube description: "Using only $1,000 over the course of one week, Mekki Leeper sets out to fabricate an absurd alternative medicine company and fool the world into thinking it's real." I think there were a couple of reasons that he got that much attention, and those are: - The fact that it was a bizarre idea/product (Used tissues that you sniff to get sick now, so you don't get sick later) - The fact it was a bizarre idea/product with a crazy price ($80) - The fact that people actually bought the bizarre idea/product at the crazy price. ("Sold Out" sign on the website) So my question is, can one legally say that their product is "Sold out" when it is not? Does that count as false advertising? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2019 07:37 AM PDT Whenever I try to go all out and wake up at 5am and try to get everything I want to done during the day (exercise, eat clean, 9-5 job, work on starting a business) till 11pm, the repeat, it's fine for a few days or so, and then I just get sick and I'm out of commission for a day or two. How can I keep working a lot of hours, stay focus and effective, without getting sick? I barely drink caffeine, I have good sleep habits, eat healthy... What am I missing? [link] [comments]  |
| i have 20 business ideas, low self esteem and crippling depression. Please help me Posted: 24 Apr 2019 11:20 AM PDT I have about 20, and counting ideas for businesses and websites. My mom and her best friend really liked my entrepreneurial spirit, so they bought me a new computer. Now I can make my own websites. I'm constantly studying different business ideas, marketing strategies, business leaders, and how people interact with technology. I'm also a screenwriter and I enjoy writing a lot. I developed my very own marketing strategies that I'm very proud of.... I invest and save most of the small money I make. I have three different savings accounts. Eveyday I make a new business idea that I love. The problem is that I barely work on the writing platforms I was accepted on, I don't leave my house and I have this crippling depression all the time that doesn't seem to go away. One of the platforms recently warned me about the quality of my work declining and gave me a pretty strict strike. I have no direction in life, I just feel so insanely crappy most of the time. I have strikes on both of the sites. I feel so horrible and lonely all the time. I have no motivation to do anything.... It almost feels like the life force was sucked out of me.... Now I'm afraid to do anything in fear of messing up, failing or not improving fast enough. I just.... I just can't take it anymore..... It hurts so much..... I don't even know what to do now.. I'm just so hurt about the strikes on my accounts, the cable debt, the fact I don't have any friends and my self loathing is getting worse..... My mind is starting to fall apart. I've been trying so hard to improve my life... So hard.... I feel like such a failure..... [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2019 10:43 AM PDT Been thinking of how to ask this for awhile. I think it's so applicable to how each place has a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs. For example; I live in Miami and flower shops are HUGE here. With the amount of events and weddings Miami hosts, there is a huge economy for flowers here. What makes your small businesses so successful in your town? [link] [comments]  |
| Success feels amazing & terrifying! Posted: 24 Apr 2019 08:23 AM PDT I was working on a new proposal this morning, crunching and re-crunching the numbers, when it hit me... In the last 12 months, our net profits have grown more than 350%. It's both exhilarating and terrifying. My husband (25m) and I (26m) own a niche marketing agency, but we started out as a development subcontracting agency 5 years ago. Exactly 1 year ago we fired ~90% of the client base that we had built over 4 years so we could focus on the top 10% (highest paying, lowest maintenance) clients while pursuing new business. Client quality was lacking overall, growth was stagnant, and the sheer amount of repetitive, unpassionate work was straining on our marriage. Within 4 months of shedding our clients, we secured a contract worth ~$500k in a niche healthcare industry - a niche we both happen to be passionate about. Since then, we have been growing pretty rapidly within the regional industry, and we have been able to create unique solutions that aren't being addressed by competitors. We are submitting a new proposal this week that will (potentially) push our annual revenue well over $1M, and open the door to establishing ourselves as national leaders in this space. Best of all? Most of the work we do is paid for using dollars from federal grants within this industry. This gives us a little peace of mind with the impending market fluctuations. Our funding is secured for at least 2 years at a time. I finally wake up every single day ready to consume the newest research and use it to conceptualize new products. I'm no longer facing the constant nag of imposter syndrome. I truly believe that the work that we are doing is making a difference in people's lives, and I'm constantly proud of the work of our team. I'm also constantly terrified of burning it all to the ground, which just drives me to be honest about my limitations and make sure we are bringing on the brightest team members to cover our weak points. I try not to talk about the specifics of our business success with friends and family because it tends to lend itself to feelings of jealousy or inferiority, so I don't really have anyone (besides my husband) to share my excitement with. Figured fellow startup junkies might welcome a celebratory post. Thanks for reading! If anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them. I'm in and out of meetings all day, but we all know how Reddit tends to slip into the workday ;) [link] [comments]  |
| What's the cheapest you've been able to get LCD screens for? Posted: 24 Apr 2019 02:01 PM PDT Hey all, I'm making a product that requires a couple non-touchscreen, relatively low resolution color LCD displays. I'm trying to minimize unit cost - what's the cheapest you've seen these for? They seem to run like $8 each on Alibaba, but that's with MOQs of 1 - I'd be ordering at least 1k per shipment. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2019 01:50 PM PDT We can tweet from the moon but whenever I click the mailto; links my e-mail client opens up and starts syncing my emails. Unmailto fixes this annoying problem and makes mailto links copy-able. Please share your feedback :) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2019 01:45 PM PDT The family company has been going on 45 years and it's looking to grow into the new century. I've recently been made aware of certain PR problems we have with various HR departments of many different companies and HR circles in my country (growing third world economy). I've only been working at the company for half a year at most but I've been updating a ton of procedures and making us show up on social media and Google searches what so ever but there's still tons to do. I'm tackling many problems simultaneously and I'd like to put my focus on integrating them to help me fix the poor perception companies and HR departments have of us specifically. The company is seeing new management which is helpful but it's not like telling people that will improve our image The problem we've had in the ast revolved around bad customer service and internally we've been working on tutorials for our software however we still need to get the word out at some point that all the problems are in the past. TlDr: How to aproach PR problems that we have with HR departments where we are seeking to sell? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2019 01:35 PM PDT Hey guys, I'm trying to find a good Saas business idea. Does anyone have any pains in your current business that needs to be solved? [link] [comments]  |
| Help finding subscription website design(er) Posted: 24 Apr 2019 12:21 PM PDT Own a couple of businesses, and want to go in parternship with a local ex-"newsguy" to start a local small town news based website. Would be a blog of sorts in chronological order of whats going on around town. I've purchased the domain name, but I'm struggling on designing the site. I don't mind paying of course, but I don't even know how to search it correctly on fiverr or the like. What I need specifially: Site design. Free to use up front, but ability to turn on monthly subscription to access. Also need space for local ad/sponsor space. Someone hold my hand or lead me in the right direction? :) [link] [comments]  |
| What would you have done differently as a teenager looking back? Posted: 24 Apr 2019 12:06 PM PDT I have always been eager to learn and improve. What advice do you have for me? Thanks guys. [link] [comments]  |
| Alibaba sample ordering minutia? Posted: 24 Apr 2019 12:04 PM PDT I've been essentially scouring the internet for information that I can take as de facto advice for how to handle dealing with Alibaba manufacturers. I can't find anything similar to one particular issue I am experiencing and it seems like there is knowledgeable people on here so I figured I would give it a shot. My issue is this. I ordered a sample from a supplier, say green pants with black pockets. I sent them the design, colors, size chart etc. They said they could do it. A week or so later, they email me back saying, "for the sample can we make the pockets blue instead of black. We only have blue in stock". My inclination is to simply say no. I'm paying for this sample. Giving me the garment in a different way than it will ultimately be manufactured will not be helpful in assessing their ability to make the actual garment. My only reservations about saying no is that they are a pretty established, well-rated company according to Alibaba and their bulk quotation was ultimately competitive. I suppose saying no could lead them to simply saying they can't make the sample and give me a refund or something. However, them changing (or asking to change) the terms of the first sample after I have already paid seems like a bad indication for a manufacturer I intend to order bulk products from. Am I being unreasonable in saying no because there's minimums for the raw materials etc. on their end and should I simply accept a sample which will be different from the final product? or should I stick to my guns and tell them I only want the sample exactly as it was discussed on depicted on the invoice/agreement? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Alibaba newbie - Which trading term should I choose? Posted: 24 Apr 2019 11:17 AM PDT Hi, I'm currently trying to gather some samples from manufacturers and I'm already stuck at this simple question: Which one of the trading terms should I choose when I want the following: They should just send me the samples to my home. Or in other words: closest to what one would do when simply buying something online. Which one would I choose then? Thanks! EDIT: I once ordered on AliExpress and there I placed the order, it was shipped via TNT Express to my doorstep and that was it. This is what I need, at least for the sample orders. [link] [comments]  |
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