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- What's the easiest way to make a website?
- How To Deal With Competing VC Offers?
- Quit my six figure job one and a half week on update
- Canadian here. Planning to buy online business that ships to US, UK, Australia and Canada. Do I need to register a separate company in all the countries ?
- Would you use github pages to create a landing page for your business?
- Going to my first networking event. How do I not screw this up?
- Business Credit Cards with cashback/rewards
- Seeking $1,000 to $2,500 investments. Product inside.
- Pain Points?
- Starting a website for a golf course and looking for recommendations
- High quality affiliate wants 25% but needs to see my sales stats. How can I show them only their sales, not mine?
- Trademarks and Patents across national borders
- Is it a good idea to become an entrepreneur in webdev by offering free websites to people and then getting clients?
- Where to validate an idea before building?
- The oh-so-familiar feeling: not sure if I'm doing the right thing
- We just raised the funding for our new Film through Crowd-Equity platform WeFunder. (200K)
- My product died because it got way too many users - here's how
- What is your hashtag strategy?
- Where to learn all about buying a long-standing business?
- How to advertise a business? (Facebook profiles management for companies)
- Anyone offering reporting services to local businesses? Trying to understand if there's a market.
- Brand building
- What are some revenue streams that an Art Gallery can consider (other than selling artwork)
- Would love some critique on my landing page (SaaS)
| What's the easiest way to make a website? Posted: 15 Jun 2019 11:56 PM PDT My sister is starting a business and wants a website. I've offered to help her create it, but she's adamant on doing it herself. She needs a really non technical, easy to use platform. I have a feeling that even Shopify is too much in the way of tech. Suggestions? [link] [comments]  |
| How To Deal With Competing VC Offers? Posted: 16 Jun 2019 12:07 PM PDT Short background: Several years ago our company had a seed round in which a VC decided to invest. The head of that VC has subsequently become one of my mentors. Recently, we decided to raise again and have been presented with a term sheet from another VC with quite favourable terms. However, previously, our original VC also indicated their interest in contributing further, but at a level that was below our expectations. Now, my mentor is asking to see the term sheet for the new VC. I have heard several times that it's generally not a good idea to share term sheets between competing investors. However, my mentor has supported the company for several years and I do trust him. That being said, I also think that he may try to compete with the offer and could potentially offer a lesser valuation based on the valuation in the new term sheet. So the main question is: how much information about the new term sheet should I share with my mentor? [link] [comments]  |
| Quit my six figure job one and a half week on update Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:48 PM PDT So I did it, folks, I made a million dollars in a week. Let me show you how.... JK, I made ~$300 last week. Multiply that by 4 weeks, not even enough to pay my mortgage. I did what a lot of people said to do and I took a good solid week and mostly didn't do anything. I played around with a few things, reshuffled some priorities, and kicked some ideas off the island during that time as well. Ideas that I am shelving: - BizScraps: I still think this is a good idea but Reddit won't let me test it and I don't feel like trying to make a long shot idea work at this time. I tried for 2 days to set up an ad on Reddit to promote this website and for 2 days, they rejected my ads for various reasons and wouldn't ultimately tell me why. That was my main play to see if there was sufficient interest to invest further in this idea. - Consulting in my former niche: There's really no solid way for me to do that without at least indirectly competing with my former firm. My niche is not large, the players are all pretty well known. Moving from bottom priority to top priority: - White Labeling: I'm not feeling the burn right now but it has fully sunk in that the spigot is currently turned off. Not utilizing a decade of experience is like fighting a boxing match with an eye patch on one eye and one arm tied behind my back. I can't infinitely burn through cash so this will replenish the well. I'll accept anything and everything as far as whatever services I can white label but I'll definitely be focused on a specific niche and it's a way different niche than I often see posted here. I'm not going after websites, SEO, marketing, or anything like that. Moving from main priority to secondary priority: - Book stores: I realistically have enough cash and access to cash at the moment to go all in on one physical bookstore (under my model, this includes buying the building the bookstore operates in). My model succeeds at ten bookstores, it fails at one. I wholeheartedly believe in my model but I'm also very aware that to make this business work the way I want it to, it needs to eat through cash for a long time. As much as I'd like to think I have that luxury right now, I don't. So, I continue to operate in the virtual space as far as this niche. I'm sitting on a ton of inventory, I could easily scale up my online operations and blow through it but I am actively choosing to not do that at the moment. My book sales are currently generating over $1k a month for me in profit which was my original goal with it. I'm content to let it stay there for a while, I still build up inventory and I still make a profit from it. When the timing is right, I can implement my plan to scale this business up. I won't make update posts like this a regular thing. I don't want to spam it. A ton of people commented on my original thread though so I did want to provide at least an update post now that all of this has set in and I'm looking at everything from a 100% realistic as opposed to idealistic perspective. The only overarching thing that I wanted to specifically address was all of the generic wisdom comments. I've been an entrepreneur my entire life, since elementary school. My father ingrained it in me pretty deeply. I'm more than familiar with what conventional wisdom dictates in a majority of situations. You don't achieve your goals by following conventional wisdom, you do it by learning when it's wise to ignore conventional wisdom and when it's better to follow it. 90% of the time, it's better to follow it. If you follow it 100% of the time though, you lose out on the 10%, and that 10% is where all the success is at. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:25 PM PDT I am planning to buy an existing online dropshipping business that ships to Canada, Austalia, UK and US. It gets products from EU and China. Do I need to have companies in all the countries? Or can I have a company registered in Canada and ship it to rest of the countries? [link] [comments]  |
| Would you use github pages to create a landing page for your business? Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:08 PM PDT Thinking of just using github pages and modifying a free website from HTML5UP. I have web development skill. What do you guys think? [link] [comments]  |
| Going to my first networking event. How do I not screw this up? Posted: 16 Jun 2019 11:27 AM PDT I'm a 20y/o student in the UK, and have just registered to go to a networking event this coming Wednesday. I'm largely a confident person, but there's still a chance I might talk myself out of it. What are some things I should prepare now and keep in mind on the day to get the most out of it and not embarrass myself? My main intentions for going are (1) to simply meet new people in my area who might one day provide opportunities for me and start building relationships with them, and (2) I'm very eager to get a job in sales, and I hope to find someone there who might be able to help me out with that. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Business Credit Cards with cashback/rewards Posted: 16 Jun 2019 08:06 AM PDT Does anybody out there use a business credit card with rewards? I am spending about 2-3k/month outsourcing production and another .8-1k on shipping. I'd love to be stacking up travel miles or something! What are your favorite options? What do you use, and why? [link] [comments]  |
| Seeking $1,000 to $2,500 investments. Product inside. Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:38 PM PDT There is an industry called gloving. In this industry my main competitor makes about $5 million a year selling glove lights. I have made a mask for users to wear while giving there glove light shows. This all sounds strange but the videos explain it all. I estimate we can realistically get to $500k a year selling my masks. Here is a short demo of my product: https://youtu.be/LFCYp0zh6ak A short video of our competitor on shark tank (3 mins): https://youtu.be/KW_XKLBm9m8 Full video (12 mins plus): https://vimeo.com/132783196 Watch for first light show: https://youtu.be/sCv8r1mpMCo If interested email me or message me on here and I will send you my pitch deck. Email: gloetechdev@gmail.com [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:32 PM PDT I'm re-scoping a consulting/law business I run on the side, aimed at small to medium enterprises, and was wondering if I have identified common problems faced by such enterprises. Part of my pitch (not linking my website, but feel free to message me if you're curious) is: "Your organization would benefit from The Corporate Health Check if: It is sometimes hard to track the progress and accomplishments of key people. Your strategic plan is more than one year old, or has not been mentioned for more than three months. The positions with the most authority have no formal self-assessment process. You do not have an up-to-date policy covering: privacy, conflicts of interest, Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, conduct within and outside the workplace, or harassment and discrimination." Would any of you recognize the above as problems faced by SMEs? [link] [comments]  |
| Starting a website for a golf course and looking for recommendations Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:08 PM PDT I'm looking to build a website for my golf course that has the ability to book tee times online. I have experience with MODX and Wordpress but am not sure what platform would be best for my needs. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2019 04:31 AM PDT I make art/design courses and a high quality company has contacted me (which is very good in itself) to help lead generation for my courses, for 25% commission on each sale. I have a very high quality product, but it's not selling well, maybe 1 per week. I think from the outside it looks more prestigious than it is, and the commission company may not realise how few I sell. They're asking to have some way to track sales that they initiate but that would probably mean exposing all my sales. Any thoughts on how that could work? Without exposing my sales? Only theirs? I currently use no service like hubspot etc - but if someone has a suggestions on (preferably cheap) software that would be great! [link] [comments]  |
| Trademarks and Patents across national borders Posted: 16 Jun 2019 11:31 AM PDT Am I correct in thinking that trademarks and patents are relevant only for the countries in which they are registered? For example, a product in the US that is trademarked/patented, but is not in the UK, could be done so in the UK by a different person/company? [link] [comments]  |
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| Where to validate an idea before building? Posted: 16 Jun 2019 07:08 AM PDT I've been practicing trying to gauge interest in projects before committing myself to building them. Issue is I find it pretty difficult do advertise a Coming soon page. Particularly since one of my projects is a dating site, FB ads rejected me. Google ad words is too expensive for just a sign up. Wondering if anyone here takes the same approach and how you solve this problem. Are there cheaper ways to run google ad words that actually produce results (i'm thinking really tight niche) maybe? [link] [comments]  |
| The oh-so-familiar feeling: not sure if I'm doing the right thing Posted: 16 Jun 2019 10:04 AM PDT Hello fellow entrepreneurs! I really need some help here :) I'm a foodie and I love writing, so I'm trying to build a side-hustle business with a food critique blog. I dine out pretty often, so I figured that if I put out good contents regarding the places I've been to as well as some valuable information about the dish itself, it would make a blog that people enjoy reading. It's been almost two months and I have 16 blogs written. At this point it's usually when beginners like me start quitting because of lack of positive feedback. I market my blog in a subreddit dedicated to the local city, and at first, two of my posts got really good responses, which was very encouraging and I kept going. But after that, it seems like people began to lose interest in my content, and yesterday my post triggered some negative feelings (I don't know why.. I was talking about man food and people are offended by sexism or something), and got downvoted to hell. So at this point I'm very confused:
They say you are the average of five people you hang out with. Unfortunately I have no access to any local entrepreneurs or successful bloggers for mentorship. I feel like I'm shooting in the dark and possibly stepping on my own foot. I wonder if you have any advice for me:) By the way, my blog is https://savordallas.blog Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| We just raised the funding for our new Film through Crowd-Equity platform WeFunder. (200K) Posted: 16 Jun 2019 09:47 AM PDT Hi everybody, My name is Jim Cummings and I'm an entrepreneur in film. I started a little production company in Los Angeles and have slowly grown through making commercials, features, and winning film festivals like Sundance and South by Southwest. Whenever you ask someone in film what the biggest issues are, they'll say Financing and Distribution. So after successfully self-distributing our last film, we decided to sell equity in our new film as an experiment and it's working! So thank you for all of the wonderful advise throughout the years. Hope you're well, Jim [link] [comments]  |
| My product died because it got way too many users - here's how Posted: 16 Jun 2019 09:05 AM PDT A few years ago, I worked on a product called Kloudsec. It is a content distribution network (CDN) not unlike Cloudflare. And it was a great product. Oh, the product is also dead -- because I got way too many users. How do you even begin marketing a niche product that caters to website owners that do not even know that they need it? After many years of experience, I have a few tricks up my sleeve. I will talk about the trick I did with Kloudsec and how we got to 1400 website owners using Kloudsec in the first month of our launch. This strategy is simple -- that is to talk to your target market. Let's break that down into steps: Step 1: Know your customer Kloudsec is a product does two things very well:
So the ideal customer for Kloudsec has to be technically savvy. Step 2: Which choke point do they hang out? You don't have to find a community that contains ALL of them. But the larger the group, the better. This choke point has to have a certain quality:
Step 3: Find an opportunity You see, at the point of Kloudsec's launch, many developers had static pages on Github, called static pages. It also happened that at this point, Google began prioritizing websites that support HTTPS. So if you want your Github pages to rank higher on Google, you want to give it some HTTPS goodness. The problem is Github pages do not support HTTPS. Neither does Cloudflare (then). Kloudsec was the only solution that does this. ** Step 4: Spam** So I wrote a script to crawl the most popular Github users, and I searched for users who had a repository that powers a Github Page. Once I identified that, I segmented these users into two lists:
For users with a public email address, I will contact them by email with my favorite mail merge tool, personalize the template and send them out. For users with Github Pages without an email address, I will raise an issue on their project stating that their website lacks HTTPS and how Kloudsec can help. Step 5: Talk People will reply, spam is always numbers game as long as you get good at writing creative cold emails. After that, all you have to do is to talk! And talk I did. Kloudsec had rave reviews, see:
Spam as sales, Spam as spam.Spam has a bad rep and people are afraid to spam. You shouldn't. When we think of spam, we think of unsolicited emails. The thing is everything about (outbound) sales is unsolicited. Cold calls, door to door knocking, flyers, voucher distribution, etc. But do you realize that personally, unsolicited approaches that solve your problems do not ever like spam? Here's the thing. Out of 1000 people, there will be some people that find your product is the game-changer that they have been waiting for. Find them. And for the rest of the people who do not care, be kind. The secret of this method is the choke point Find the community that allows you to talk to your users of your target segment. And if your product is great, it'll grow eventually. I have replicated this strategy for three products at least. It works as long as your product does not suck and your outreach content isn't bad. PS: You can find out more about how Kloudsec died in the post-mortem I wrote here. [link] [comments]  |
| What is your hashtag strategy? Posted: 16 Jun 2019 03:04 AM PDT Entrepreneurs who are building a social media presence, especially on instagram, what is your hashtag strategy for getting more post involvement? Preferably without investing in a tracker on which hashtags perform the best. Trying to build a social media presence myself, and so far I've tried the most popular hashtags and using the hashtags of my competitors. On topic of the post ofcourse. I currently post 4 information based posts per day and I'm looking to experiment in these first steps. Any recommendations would be very appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Where to learn all about buying a long-standing business? Posted: 16 Jun 2019 08:42 AM PDT Hello all. I'm interested in taking my savings, getting a business loan, and buying a local and profitable gas station or liquor store that has been in business for more than ten years. Where can I learn about this process? [link] [comments]  |
| How to advertise a business? (Facebook profiles management for companies) Posted: 16 Jun 2019 08:21 AM PDT Hey. I want to start a new business, which will be based on the service of running a social network profile of the company on Facebook. We provide graphics, post content, engage fans and manage the profile. What do you think is the best way to promote it? Facebook ads have had poor results, I'm thinking about sending direct messages to Fanpages whic are poorly managed and introducing them to my offer. Adwords are also a no go because very few people search for it in my country, the ad has to go directly to the customer. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone offering reporting services to local businesses? Trying to understand if there's a market. Posted: 16 Jun 2019 07:22 AM PDT Seems like Square gives most small businesses what they need, and I would assume most other POS systems would have caught up. In 2019 I assume most software for small call centers would also provide enough to keep people ticking over. Any thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2019 07:20 AM PDT A friend mentioned that rather than buy Facebook ads or anything like that it's better to build a following and ask them what specific items they want. Then there's the bonus of advertising directly to followers for free. I don't feel passionate about one niche market in particular so I was thinking about posing as a general 'hot deal' seller until I find something I'm really into. Is this general approach too vague? Should I look to start in a niche market right away or would it be fine to start off general and drill down after some follower feedback? Maybe have spinoffs of the more niche markets. Does it make sense to build a following for general sales and good deals in no specific area or is that a waste of time? [link] [comments]  |
| What are some revenue streams that an Art Gallery can consider (other than selling artwork) Posted: 16 Jun 2019 06:28 AM PDT I can think of workshops where you host classes and activities [link] [comments]  |
| Would love some critique on my landing page (SaaS) Posted: 16 Jun 2019 06:14 AM PDT Hi all! Would love some feedback on the landing page for my SaaS product Sizle, the product is about 60% complete so the upcoming goal it to drive newsletter signups and pre-orders in preparation for a soft launch :) Here's the link https://sizle.io/ Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
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