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- Accomplishments and Lesson Learned Friday! - (May 31, 2019)
- Bootstrapping my Side Project to $900/mo Revenue as a Technical Solo-founder While Working a Full-time Job
- 8 lessons I learned from our organisation copywriting journey
- Exceptional Customer Service Turned a Poor Situation Into a Returning Customer
- First time firing someone
- Lessons learned from failed online business
- Is there anything I can do with a bunch of one-liner jokes?
- Would someone please share an example of a vending machine placement contract with a business? Who pays/gets what? Thank you.
- Has anyone had any success pitching product (not company) ideas to large corporations?
- How do you get your brand ready for the voice revolution?
- Best independent B/D?
- If you live in the city why not just catch pigeons and sell them to people? ��
- Employee Scheduling
- Looking To Offshore My App Development. Where Should I Go? (I actually know how to code)
- Micro Business progress
- 10 Ideas by a Random Goofball [Part 9 of 10]
- Exceptional Customer Service Turned a Bad Experience into a Good One
- Why the Pareto "Tree" Principle is responsible for business success (or failure)
- When to get a personal lawyer, what type (CA)
- As an Entrepreneur what's the one thing that keeps you going inspite of all problems faced?
- Favorite Hour Tracking Tools?
- Do we have any Sales writer for highly converting landing page, in our sub?
- Idea minus resources
- Website Terms of Use - Mandatory Arbitration Legally Binding?
- Bringing Chiropractic to Amazon new HeadQuarter
| Accomplishments and Lesson Learned Friday! - (May 31, 2019) Posted: 31 May 2019 06:17 AM PDT Please use this thread to share any accomplishment you care to gloat about, and some lessons learned. This is a weekly thread to encourage new members to participate, and post their accomplishments, as well as give the veterans an opportunity to inspire the up-and-comers. Since this thread can fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 May 2019 10:45 AM PDT I launched Sqlify.io back in November, 2016. And in just four months after the launch, it became profitable at $300 MRR. Today, it's averaging $600 MRR (at $900 monthly revenue) and it's growing steadily. I know it's not that much, but I am really proud of it and I have learned a couple of things along the way that could help or inspire other people. The article is meant to be a high level overview of the things I did that had the biggest impact, please let me know you have any questions or if you want me to elaborate more on the tech or marketing side as I did everything myself. Link to the full article: [link] [comments]  |
| 8 lessons I learned from our organisation copywriting journey Posted: 31 May 2019 03:04 AM PDT
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| Exceptional Customer Service Turned a Poor Situation Into a Returning Customer Posted: 31 May 2019 02:32 PM PDT I recently learned a lesson in the value of exceptional customer service. I received a charged email from a first time customer, upset that he hadn't received his custom fabricated parts yet. I quickly respond to him and learned of a misunderstanding he had, and that a bug in our automated system had over charged him for ground shipping which lead him to believe he was receiving express shipping. After, speaking with him he cheerfully accepted one of my offers of crediting his account twice the cost of our error. By apologizing, quickly acting, being transparent, and providing options to compensate for his troubles a bad situation was turned 180 degrees around into him thankful guaranteeing to return as an Ai Machineshop customer. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 May 2019 08:31 AM PDT Warning this is a rant, with questions at the end. Running my startup has been my first experience with management and unfortunately I had to let one of my founding team members go. I joined forces with another startup and made the mistake of not personally vetting the technical member of their team. This person has an impressive resume and had been personally recommended to my cofounders and had been "working" with them for a year prior to me joining them. My team and I have been struggling with both this decision and backlash from the employee for the last month. This employee was supposed to be working on a front end app for us that I helped them design and plan 3 months ago. Our company uses github for version control so I expected her to create a repo for the project when she started. After a week or so of not seeing the repo I asked "Have you started and if so can you put your code on github?" which they replied "I'm almost done and yes I'll upload soon". Another few days goes by with nothing being uploaded and we they message the team saying they will show us what they've put together at our next in person meeting the following Saturday. At this meeting, this person starts off by saying "I'm almost finished and wanted to get you guys together to show you what I have, wait a second while I pull it up". 15 minutes go by and the rest of us started talking about other things while this person "tried to pull up the project", then this person starts taking the conversation away from showing us the "project". We try to get them back on to showing us the project at which point they ask for my help, "Sure send me what you have and I can figure out whats wrong" I replied. They send me 4 files which turns out to be nothing more than a basic html where every element overlaps, in other words shit. I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt and asked if they had left some files out to which they replied "No that's it, let me pull it up for you I must have a problem with my environment." At this point I'm starting to get concerned that this person has grossly exaggerated their skills and experience (this person has 15+ years of solid developer and startup experience according to their linkedin). Now that I'm more concerned I raised my concerns to the other founders. They agreed to help convince this person to put their code on github, they hold meetings with this person at which they say "yes Ill have it uploaded by tomorrow night" then proceed to change the subject. This goes on for another few weeks and I start getting concerned that I'll have to shut the project down because I can't get both this persons project done and my project done by myself considering this person wasted now 6 weeks of my time. I took a vacation one week and the next this person still had not uploaded their code to github. Next week we have a meeting where the other founders say they cant move forward on anything without this project and wanted to know progress. Here I explicitly said "This person has claimed to be done but I havent seen any evidence of their work. They keep saying they will put it on github but never do." Our CEO talked to this person after the meeting which lead to this person private messaging me saying "Im going to uplaod the code to github no later than tomorrow night", to which I replied "Great cant wait to see it!" Next day comes and nothing. So I send an email to our CEO, "Maybe I wasn't clear enough during our meeting but I don't think this person knows what they're doing and I think they've been lying about even starting on the project. I have to finish my side of the project before I can start on theirs so we need to add another 4 months to the timeline. We can't go 4 more months without money and if you won't talk to investors without this project we need to consider shutting the company down." At this point we ask another 4 times over the course of 2 weeks. At this point we have a hard time getting a response, they won't answer the phone and they haven't attended meetings. When we do get a response they say "Ill upload tonight" or send some random article in efforts to dodge the question. Then one day they PM me and say "Hey I can't get the github desktop app to work so im going to send you the files" -_- I offer advice but again I never receive anything. Then this person keeps sending us articles and starting random conversations across 5 or 6 different mediums, none of which contain any explanation as to why they had not uploaded their code. Finally the day comes when we decide to fire this person. The CEO types up an email firing her and sends it out. Within 30 seconds she calls him back, he lets it go to voicemail and this person schedules a meeting the next day to discuss. The three remaining founders call in at the time this person schedule and wait 5 minutes. 15 minutes later she says she wont be calling in because shes at the market. A few days later she calls the CEO and complains she didn't have any idea what was going on and it was all MY fault due to me having poor communication skills and claims it will be uploaded to gihub by the end of the week. The CEO feels bad and decides he wants to try to work things out with her assuming she has the code. I'm 99% sure she's full of shit considering I'd heard that 8-10 times from her already. I told the CEO that if she does send something she was probably planning to slop something together over the next week. So instead he changes the timeline to the end of the day. An hour later she uploads her code to github. I was wrong, she wasn't completely full of shit. She included a bunch of random files to make it look like she did more than she did. In all she had 483 lines of code that she either wrote, or took from an online template and slightly altered. 300 of these lines where HTML the rest was CSS and basic javascript. There was no logic other than to render the html files. Either way it showed that she may have done some work over the last 2 months. Since she wasn't completely full of shit the CEO decided to invite her to the weekly meeting so we could try and work it out. Here she basically blamed it all on my communication skills, mentioned how we had stopped replying to her random messages containing articles, etc... And explained that she felt we all wanted to oust her for some reason other than performance. The she says I have a reputation to protect and so do you. I replied saying, "From my perspective, myself and everyone else on the call has asked you multiple times to upload/show/or send us the code you'd been working on. Each time you said you would and never did. There's not much point in continuing the conversation when we're waiting for you to do something you said you were going to do and it's not materializing. As to not replying to your messages with random articles, it seems like you're trying to distract us from the fact you have not done what you said you were going to do. This wasn't a rash decision, we continually asked you for something and you never followed through with what you told us you would do. Other programmers I've worked with on this project have told me their plans, asked for suggestions and then did what they said they would do, I never had to badger them for their code. If you continually tell us your going to do something and dont do it, what are we supposed to think? " That last meeting was yesterday. Haven't heard anything else since, her tone changed after my statement and she was silent the rest of the call. How do you deal with the stress of firing someone? Has anyone else had similar problems with developers? [link] [comments]  |
| Lessons learned from failed online business Posted: 31 May 2019 04:17 PM PDT Recognizing my own long-windedness, I've added a TLDR after every paragraph and lesson learned for those not wanting the deeper details. Yesterday, I finally decided to give up on a business idea I've been working on for years. I say "business idea" instead of "business" because businesses generally have customers, and that's not something I ever got a lot of *insert Price is Right loser music*, and I don't want to give anyone the impression I consider myself an experienced business owner by posting this: I would very much put myself in the "wantrepreneur" stage of my entrepreneurial experience. That being said, having listened to quite a lot of "How I Built This", listening to successful entrepreneur friends talk about how they got to where they are, and even being part of this subreddit, I've formed the opinion tenacity is the attribute that most contributes to the majority of entrepreneurs' success. Because of this, I know by giving up on my project I'm defining its failure, but I feel that, due to my inexperience as a business owner, cutting this idea loose before investing further is a smarter idea as long as I take away lessons that will improve my next venture. For that reason, I decided to write this formal lessons learned and post it for those who are interested. I get a fair amount of phone notifications for success stories in this sub, but I think it's important, especially for other lurkers/newbies like me that the failures also be heard from (in a constructive manner at least). TLDR: Shutting down my business due to lack of customers, making a formal lessons learned so I don't feel I'm walking away from the experience empty handed, posting it here for any interested/other beginner business owners. BACKGROUND Probably 6-7 years ago I was shooting the shit with my co-workers at lunch (all of us software developers) and talked about how the dumbest ideas are the ones that really take off, specifically, due to their virality. I'm sure you know the kind: things like MillionDollarHomePage.com, where a guy charged a dollar for each of a million pixels and made more money than would be thought for a website so ugly (not to offend, I've been told my website is ugly as hell and it didn't make me a million dollars). Going further back, we can see this isn't just a byproduct of the internet as the pet rock made its creator a millionaire in the 70s. Wanting to take advantage of what I hoped was an easily exploitable behavior, I came up with an idea, and this was my pitch: "Who do you hate more than anyone in the world? Who's your favorite historical figure? What if, for 25 cents, I could show you what it would look like if that historical figure teabagged that person you hate?" And so was born, [NSFW] GhostTeabag.com (site is still up, but with no GIF generating/purchasing functionality, so please don't consider this self-promotion. You can, however, see examples of what was produced on the homepage). For those who don't want to risk visiting the site due to the NSFW or don't know what teabagging is, I'll give a brief explanation of what the site did: you upload an image (say of a friend, or person you hate, doesn't really matter), you pick from an assortment of historical figures (e.g. Cleopatra, Napoleon, etc.), and the site generates a GIF image of that historical figure (caricatured), making a teabagging motion on the picture (a teabag being the act of placing one's scrotum on another person). I'm sure many of you are wincing at this point due to the nature of the website, but it's important you understand what it is as it was a key factor of my lessons learned. TLDR: People pay for all sorts of stupid things, and I wanted a piece of that market by making a website that generated GIFs of caricatured historical figures putting their scrotums on images you uploaded. LESSONS LEARNED 1: Never start a business you aren't willing to promote and have no idea how to market. As obvious as this seems when stated blatantly, it was by far my most crucial mistake. I live in what's referred to as the "Bible belt" of America: people are very uptight about their scruples. Additionally, I have a very conservative, religious family. And while I generally consider myself good at living a life independent of people's judgements, once I had a product I was able to promote, I nearly froze completely in doing so. I know the stereotypical entrepreneur answer to this is, "You just can't care what people think," but when you have loving, caring parents who have tried so hard to raise you to make ethically wise choices, there are very few excuses that pair well enough with, "I made a website where Abraham Lincoln puts his balls on people," to avoid the shame they will stare into you for the remainder of your life working on said website, and for that reason, I never told them about it. My family aside, living in such a conservative area made it difficult to do the little promoting I was willing to do. I made stickers advertising the site and planned to go from bar to bar in our downtown district asking bartenders if they could place one on their freezer or wall (as bars often do). I received quite a few "No"s, a thimble full of "Yes"s, and a "I can't put it in the main area, but I can probably put it in the bathroom," which I was more than grateful for but have yet to see in said bathroom. There were public posting spaces and a few lamp posts I was able to tag, but my primary focus and hope had been the bars as that's where I expected my clientele would be, and that had been a nearly complete failure. A friend of mine suggested trying colleges, but if the bars had been a failure, my assumption was the local colleges would not take kindly to having my stickers posted around and figured I was more likely to end up with a fine than customers. I know the classic entrepreneurial response to this is, "You have to take risks: it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission," but because of the nagging parental guilt in the back of my head, they were risks I wasn't willing to take. Digital marketing was a little easier to attempt as I could remain anonymous. That being said, one of the first things I thought of was to join the Reddit community and make a post, but as I'm sure everyone here is aware, that's not looked upon kindly and the last thing most people in the Reddit community want to do for self-promoting individuals is give their site a kindly visit, so I posted in the Thank You Thursday sticky with a coupon code for a free image, but did little else, as the fact it was NSFW content made it even harder to find a way to constructively post about it. I considered paid advertising, and did so with Google, which I was shocked I was able to do because so many heavily used websites (Facebook, Reddit, etc.) restrict advertisements leading to mature content. I think if I'd been more willing to self promote I could have been more creative about how to market digitally, but the anxiety of questioning my own product was continually a blocking point. TLDR: If you're ashamed or embarrassed of letting ANY particular individual/group of people know about your idea, give it up or alter it so you don't have those anxieties: they're self destructive to your business. 2: When you have an idea you think is fresh, produce it while it's still fresh. As I wrote in my background, this idea came to me 6-7 years ago. For another year or so, I talked to people about it. The next years to come I worked on it, off and on, with as large as an entire year gap in between. Likely unnoticeable to most individuals, the time period I was slowly putting the site together was also a time of peak GIF popularity and image alteration: Facebook added the GIF option to messenger, Tinder following (though much later), and Snapchat became popular, due in part to its filter abilities. By the time I finally finished my website, I felt like GIFs/animations were everywhere, but in the worst possible way: they had trended to the point of oversaturation. My site lost out on what should've been a key period of growth due to my lack of get-shit-done-ness. That being said, this is a much lesser lesson learned as the opposite is also possible: get shit done too early and you can be, "ahead of your time" (RIP Sega Dreamcast), but having something done early and releasing it when the time feels right is infinitely easier than have the product done late and trying to release it in a time passed. On a more technical note, aside from your idea getting old, so will how you build it. My site is built in C# and originally began, I believe, in MVC 3, and at a certain point of return from one of my longer breaks away, I found it no longer worked. If I recall correctly, the component I was using to delete images after 24 hours was deemed obsolete to the point it was no longer in the .NET library, so the code wouldn't even run locally on my computer. TLDR: The old adage, "Strike while the iron is hot," applies well to unique and/or technical business ideas. Get shit done while it's fresh or you risk your idea and/or the technology it's built on aging out. 3: This whole, "Minimum Viable Product" thing...it's a good idea. I'm sure if you've been around this sub enough, you've heard people talk about producing MVPs. I made the classic mistake of requiring a lot of things be perfect that didn't need to be before releasing. For a long time, my delay was coupon codes. I made the decision to not save images for longer than 24 hours of inactivity because I didn't want people to have to make an account as I believed my users would mostly be drunk in bars and therefore not want to take the time or effort to make one. Instead, their images would be tied to a 24 hour session token and be deleted once it expired. Because I wasn't saving images though, I worried people would claim they never got them and request a refund and I'd have little to no proof if they were lying. My solution was to instead give them a coupon code as repayment. Coupons, however, tend to require a particular unit of measurement on the buying and receiving end (e.g. buy 1 image get 1 image free trades an item for an item, but buy 5$ of images get 50% off your total purchase trades money for a percentage). This required I add coupon codes and units as new tables in my database, add a datascript to populate them, and add UI and backend code to take in and process it. So how many purchases were made vs how many people requested a refund? During the lifetime of my site I received 4 purchases. 1 from my wife's friend, 1 from my friend, 1 from my brother, and 1 lone stranger who felt his time and money was worth a generated image of a historical figure teabagging someone. None of them asked for refunds. Even the coupon code I mentioned earlier for promotional uses never got used. At least 2 weeks of effort went into planning, designing, and implementing coupon codes, and it never got used by anyone but me, but I was so sure at the time it was something I needed to have. The saving grace of this particular example is coupon codes are something I'd like to implement on future sites as well, so it wasn't a complete waste, but this is one of several items I spent time trying to implement that never needed to be done for me to start sharing my site so I'd realize ahead of time people's lack of interest and my lack of willingness to market. TLDR: Regardless of your aspirations, odds are against your product becoming a craze over night, so don't treat it like it is. Be realistic about your Minimum Viable Product: you can always add more features, but you can't get back wasted time. 4: If you can, always initially offer your product for free. My original intent was to offer images to people for 25 cents. Because of the costs involved with online transactions, I changed it to 69 (seemed fitting for the site), but my next step if I continued to work on it was to make them free. Offering something for free is, on its own, a type of marketing. As I mentioned earlier, I only ever got 1 stranger to buy from the site, and that person purchased 1 image. But if my product was free, how many more images would that person have made? How many more friends would they have sent those images to? And how many of those friends would be interested in visiting the site because, hey, it's free, what is there to lose? While my site offered a watermarked version of your final image for free, it's just not the same thing. And if you did want to purchase an image, you had to enter credit card information, and even I, a small business owner, find myself hesitant to do such a thing on an unfamiliar website: take away that fear and you increase users, increase users and you become trusted, become trusted and people will enter their credit card information on your website. If you want people to talk about your business, give them a small piece of your service for free, no strings attached, and once people are hooked, then you charge them for it (as unethical as it's framed, think of the cliche TV drug dealer who gives out a free sample first). And this doesn't just apply to virtual businesses: nowadays, everyone knows about Sam's Club and Costco because they're everyday stores, but how many people, when those businesses first came out, only heard about and paid attention to them because of the free samples? I would count myself as one. TLDR: Make your product as free as can be until people want it enough you can lose the customers that aren't willing to pay and still grow your user base. OTHER NOTEWORTHY ITEMS While the above lessons learned are what I set out to do for myself as a post-business learning experience, there are a few things I learned WHILE creating GTB that might be interesting to other people starting out: -Paypal basically comes in two flavors: plug and play, and full control API. The plug and play seems easy enough to use, but the API, which I had to use (I forget for what reason at the moment), absolutely sucks. I mean, everything about it sucks: how to use it, the documentation, and the fact my business account and personal account are somehow merged now, so when I make online purchases using Paypal it's not uncommon for my package to be labeled to "Ghost Teabag", a happening I'm lucky my children haven't picked up on yet. Go with Stripe. It's easier and has better documentation. It's not as popular yet, but I would highly suggest using it if you need a payment API for ease of programming (it may also have a plug and play version, but never looked into that). -Commenting my code was never more important than when I was building my own website. I expected the opposite starting out: it's my program, I know everything I'm doing, so I can cowboy code the whole thing. But, and I'm sure this is in large part due to my inability to consistently work on the project, there was a surprising amount of refactoring done to my own code wondering WTF old me was thinking as well as a great deal of decrypting my logic to understand why particular methods even existed. In a normal work setting, if you don't understand uncommented logic, you can try to track down the person who made it or ask a coworker to have a look. When you're the only developer though, all the burden falls on you. TLDR: Paypal sucks, go with Stripe, and comment your freaking code, especially when you're the sole developer. Hopefully this write up actually helps some people out, it certainly helps me have some closure for the situation. Feel free to ask any questions, whether it be about the technical or business side of my experience. Additionally, I'm open to all comments regarding others similar or contrasting experiences. Thanks for reading! [link] [comments]  |
| Is there anything I can do with a bunch of one-liner jokes? Posted: 31 May 2019 10:09 AM PDT Imagine you inherited 5,000 original one-liner jokes (yes, I wrote them, several years ago when I thought I wanted to be a stand-up comedian). I am no longer pursuing that route for the time being. In what format could I post these to IG to make them palatable? Meme generators just seem to give a shitty impression. Looking for 0 or low cost ideas (if you feel like it). Other idea would be greeting cards, or e-book (which I've tried and failed). [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 May 2019 11:12 AM PDT Im working in a building that has no vending machines and could really use some. I asked some people and they said they were never offered the option to have one. Its a high traffic building and i know it would fit right in. So i just wanted to know some things about the business side of it. For example:
Thanks for taking the time to answer. [link] [comments]  |
| Has anyone had any success pitching product (not company) ideas to large corporations? Posted: 31 May 2019 02:30 PM PDT I have a few ideas, and I work in business development and tech diligence, so I know how to present these properly. These are products that I don't really have the capital to develop but I'd be willing to work with a company to do so if they were willing to front the cost and maybe do some profit sharing. [link] [comments]  |
| How do you get your brand ready for the voice revolution? Posted: 31 May 2019 11:59 AM PDT Hey, I was wondering how do you guys prepare for the whole alexa and google thingy. Are you uploading content? Branding yourself in some way? I was thinking about starting a one minute tips show daily on my brands niche, I searched online and I couldn't find any tutorial on how to do that. Is that even possible? for example, if I were to start a news show in my language, would it be possible for it to be played whenever someone asks alexa for the news? at the moment it only works in english and theres no response whenever I try to listen to news in my own language. Is it possible for me to do so? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 May 2019 05:37 PM PDT Looking for creative flexibility around marketing and joint work with other professionals High payouts Compliance support Great trading platform Crump or similar brokerage ability [link] [comments]  |
| If you live in the city why not just catch pigeons and sell them to people? �� Posted: 31 May 2019 01:46 PM PDT Put little harnesses on them so people can walk their pigeons without touching them and getting a disease. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 May 2019 08:32 AM PDT I am looking for an easy to use scheduler with robust features for organizing and scheduling employee shifts. Right now I have to schedule daily shifts for up to 15 employees with fluctuating daily needs. Currently I am using an excel spreadsheet where I created a calendar and have to individually add or remove each employee depending on the need for the day. I do this each month for the next month and it is a pain in my ass. It wasn't such an issue when I was only scheduling for 5 employees, but as we grow I am seeing the need for a better solution. Cost is obviously always a consideration and the best price (if not a free alternative) is preferred. Any suggestions are appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Looking To Offshore My App Development. Where Should I Go? (I actually know how to code) Posted: 31 May 2019 09:36 AM PDT I am a mobile app developer. For the past couple of years I have been approached by people looking for me to work on their mobile applications. Problem is I have a full time job and I do not have enough time to work on their projects. I usually tell people to go and offshore their applications but the problem is since they do not know how to code they get scammed. People write 10 lines of code and tell them it costs 5,000 bucks. Others write absolutely shite code that crashes after a month. I decided that instead of just referring people to find somebody online I would just do it for them. Offshore their project then supervise everything including all the commits to make sure good code is being written. Now I am looking to partner with a larger company to get these projects off the ground. The problem is I have no idea where to go to find freelancers. I tried upwork but I just run into individual people were I need basically a company to work with. Those anybody have any recommendations? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 May 2019 08:57 AM PDT I'll be writing here every week the progress of my micro business. Right now, I'm selling accessories like watches, belts, wallets, bracelets, necklaces, different types of lenses from tactical ones (oakley style) to normal ones (full black ones), etc. Also got some dollar toys my father used to sell last year and he gave me almost all of the merchandise he had left. It's not a lot but it's something to start. I got my shop on 3 different flea markets. One going on on Tuesdays, other on Wednesday and the third one is from Thursday's to sundays. I've been selling since March and had a little bit of problems with the money. My girlfriend helps me with this. So, to sum it all up, the last month my little shop only generated money for it's maintenance but not enough to buy new merchandise and I feel like I'm not moving forward with this. An uncle of my gf is going to give me 400-450 dollars to buy new merchandise I he told me to pay him until December. I still don't know if I should grab it cause I feel like it's too much money, here in Mexico a 100 dollars it's not even the minimal weekly wage. So, the plan is to grab it, go to Tijuana (they are some wholesale stores there) and buy almost all the money on merchandise and keep something for maintenance or so. I still don't know exactly what I need to buy, if I need a new product, if I need to make a fb page, if I need to make myself some publicity I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO AND IT'S KILLING ME INSIDE. Some days I wake up fully motivated to make everything work and other days I just wanna back up and wait some years to do it (I'm 21 and gonna be going to Uni on August). Right now I have a lot of free time to spend thinking on what to do, but I feel like the pressure it's too much. Anybody got any advices or tips to me? [link] [comments]  |
| 10 Ideas by a Random Goofball [Part 9 of 10] Posted: 31 May 2019 08:34 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. 9
Idea: Tripadvisor for gyms, trainers and health food
Here's how it works: This is essentially a tripadvisor niche for the health and wellness industry. People can rate the gyms they have visited, trainers they have trained with and health food (e.g protein bars, protein powder) they have used. People can also discuss their training regime and the latest health and diet trends. 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 Idea 5: Guessing/gambling website, Click here Idea 6: Reverse Carpooling-Uber App, Click here Idea 7: Platform to connect founders and developers/marketers Click here Idea 8: Parcel Collection Household Idea Click here [link] [comments]  |
| Exceptional Customer Service Turned a Bad Experience into a Good One Posted: 31 May 2019 02:01 PM PDT I recently learned a lesson in the value of exceptional customer service. I received a charged email from a first time customer, upset that he hadn't received his custom fabricated parts yet. I quickly respond to him and learned of a misunderstanding he had, and that a bug in our automated system had over charged him for ground shipping which lead him to believe he was receiving express shipping. [link] [comments]  |
| Why the Pareto "Tree" Principle is responsible for business success (or failure) Posted: 31 May 2019 02:31 AM PDT Today I had a really important realization. I discovered/developed/reframed a concept that will be at the core of my company in the future. It's so important I would like to share it with you. A marketing expert explained how selling high ticket item will cure almost everything in your business and allows a lot of room to neglect other parts of your business. It's what I call the Pareto Tree Principle. Choose to work with the right people and your business will flourish. Choose the wrong business model or the wrong industry you will be struggling, no matter how good you execute in other areas. Here is a story from Gary Halbert that illustrates the point. A few decades ago he asked entrepreneurs: What does it take to run a successful food stand? Most answered things like: - Better tasting food, - cheaper prices, - friendly personal, etc. They were all wrong. The only thing you need is: A hungry crowd! Think about it. If you are hungry or in pain you just want to get out of it. It does not matter to you if you buy pizza or kebab or if you are really hungry you would even pay a fortune for a dry slice of bread. Have you ever paid $5 for a bottle of water in a fancy club or at the airport? Water that costs $0,30 if you buy it at a discounter. Or $0,01 if it's tap water (assuming you are living in the right place of the world) If you are in the right place selling to the right people you can charge XXXXX% more than someone else selling a similar product. The lesson here: If you get the fundamentals wrong you set yourself up for failure. Get the fundamentals right and it's almost impossible to fail. [link] [comments]  |
| When to get a personal lawyer, what type (CA) Posted: 31 May 2019 01:44 PM PDT Greetings, I'm a co-founder of a 2yr old company that currently has 3 owners but is about to close (1-2 weeks) on a first round capital (7MM). As we are closing the investor firm also raised the possibility of selling some of our personal stock to them. Being the most junior partner, I am the only one that has any interest in doing so. I am considering since cash on hand for a very small piece of my ownership is worth a lot more than a very high, but clearly uncertain, amount in the future. My question: What type of lawyer do I need to reach out to in order to make certain that things are in order from my standpoint, not just the business? [link] [comments]  |
| As an Entrepreneur what's the one thing that keeps you going inspite of all problems faced? Posted: 31 May 2019 01:23 PM PDT Working in a startup is not easy specially if you are the founder. There are 1000 things to do with so little time. I want to research on few common traits which keeps an entrepreneur going despite of having innumerable problems and sufferings. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 May 2019 01:00 PM PDT Hello fellow entrepreneurs! So I have four part time workers right now that have been manually tracking their hours. I'd like a low energy low cost solution for keeping track of the time they put in. Anybody have a favorite? I was looking into Clockify, but it honestly looks a touch scammy. Wondering if anyone has tried it/others. [link] [comments]  |
| Do we have any Sales writer for highly converting landing page, in our sub? Posted: 31 May 2019 12:29 PM PDT Hey team, I was looking for a high converting landing page sales writer. I have looked online but rates are too high though someone from our sub might be interested in helping a guy with tight budget. Please feel free to DM about your services. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 May 2019 12:20 PM PDT I have an app for an idea but I don't know how to code or design. I've tried looking for people who are skilled at UX/UI design who are competent at front-end development, a content creator and a back-end or full-stack developer. I believe that with this team well be able to do things with minimum cost anything beyond their limitations can be discussed so we can outsource from a vendor if needed. Apparently getting people to believe in the idea is hard especially since they expect to be paid actual salaries, I am willing to pay them by commission, part-time or promise them shares since I can't afford it. It's been 6 months and I've been looking around until I've gotten desperate and decided to look for a app development company to do this for me only to find out that I have no idea how much this costs since I don't have human resources available to me I have no way to minimise any costs. Does anyone know what to do in such a situation? Is there any medium where I can meet people who would be interested? I don't want to get scammed. [link] [comments]  |
| Website Terms of Use - Mandatory Arbitration Legally Binding? Posted: 31 May 2019 12:04 PM PDT Hi Everyone. I currently run an online business in which I pay independent contractors for work, and create accounts on my website for them that details their work they have done so far for me. When logging in, I require them to check a "Accept Terms of Services" box that details our relationship and includes a mandatory arbitration (lawsuit protection) clause. Is this legally binding and am I actually protected by doing this? Or should this be included in a separate independent contractor agreement? Also, I am currently operating as a sole proprietor. Is a LLC required to actually receive protection? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Bringing Chiropractic to Amazon new HeadQuarter Posted: 31 May 2019 11:58 AM PDT Hello, I have a chiropractic office in Washington DC. Amazon is coming to DMV (Dc, Maryland, Virginia) area. I hear they will set the new amazon headquarter here. I want to be the chiropractor on site for their employees. companies and cooperation that provide chiropractic in site have less absentees and more productive employees. Facebook and IMF, for an example, have a chiropractor on site. Where can I start to achieve that goal with Amazon about that idea? What resource do I need in order land that kind of contract ? Who do should I reach out to ? I know little to nothing about working with cooperates. Any suggestions, ideas will be super helpful! [link] [comments]  |
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