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- I want to create my own email for my company, and possibly a VERY basic website.
- So you want to start a mattress-in-a-box company...
- What did a 19-year-old do in the first year and a half of starting his own businesss
- Any freelancers or consultants use a spreadsheet, program, or custom dashboard to track all their business related transcations, contracts, monthly reoccuring revenue, and other information for managing and forecasting their businesses financial info?
- What’s a piece of entrepreneur advice you don’t hear very often?
- Start up looking to network.
- How to find a business partner?
- Dropout businesses
- Are quotes protected by copyright?
- Looking for recommendations for online web store for a small home business.
- Survey about Podcasts as a Marketing Channel
- How can SmartNews be worth 1B USD with only 20M MAUs ?
- Are there any reliable list providers of ecommerce businesses by industry and region?
- Critique My Website
- How to change the niche of this youtube channel and make money? (need ideas please).
- What's a good payment processor for starting an online digital business?
- Feedback wanted on new product and website
- Need help selling a salad dressing.
- Personal travel planner or NOT?
- What's your take on using a "mother brand" for all your projects?
- Branding Vs Sales?
- Good or bad experiences with Hiscox and Next insurance? Looking to get insurance for a handyman or General Contractors for home improvement and the like business. Also open to other suggestions
- Raffle Marketplace
- Ever missed a Parcel before? Lessons learnt from starting and building a product-based business.
| I want to create my own email for my company, and possibly a VERY basic website. Posted: 04 Aug 2019 09:01 AM PDT I have a small company that doesn't require any web presence, however I communicate with clients and I think it'll be more professional to have a real email [me@mycompany.com instead of [mycompany@gmail.com](mailto:mycompany@gmail.com)] I've worked for companies that provided me a company email that I accessed through gmail, which is amazing. I found this link through google. https://digital.com/blog/create-email-using-gmail/ is this the correct way to do it? Forward all emails from my company to my gmail? Also I want to create a really simple, super cheap landing page just so when people click on mycompany.com it doesn't just go to nothing. Do you guys have any recommended, inexpensive ways to purchase a domain and create a website for someone with 0 website design capabilities? Thank you!! [link] [comments]  |
| So you want to start a mattress-in-a-box company... Posted: 04 Aug 2019 12:30 PM PDT Great! Just follow these easy steps:
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| What did a 19-year-old do in the first year and a half of starting his own businesss Posted: 03 Aug 2019 10:39 PM PDT Hello fellow entrepreneurs! First let me begin by introducting myself; I am a 19 year old university student that decided to start his own clothing brand around April of 2018. I am currently studying to be an engineer which as we all know has nothing to do with entreprenuership! What is this brand? Its a clothing line in which I draw designs and print them on t-shirts, hoodies, bags, pins, stickers, etc. Also please keep in mind that we sell purely online and I do not own a physical store. Why this particular industry? Well I always enjoyed drawing as a hobby, and I also noticed how some of the big companies such as H&M, Pull&Bear, Bershka etc. where doing a terrible job with their clothings; do not get me wrong some items are good but as an 18 year-old who wants to standout and wear clothing that isn't something very stupid on it! I decided to take action. First when it all started, I was only selling through the brand's Instagram account. The traffic was extremly low, I wouldn't advertise, I would always not know what to post/rarely posting/lots and lots of rookie mistakes. You could say that in the first month I have sold around 4 - 5 T-shirts and the second month I have sold 0 T-shirts. Also at this moment; the suppliers that we bought from would take 5 - 7 buiness days for us to recieve the item and then have to ship it again to the customer. Being the university student that I am I couldn't afford buying Bulks of goods so I went with the "print on demand" option. 2 months in, I decided something needed to change; at thism oment I had a couple of designs that I could showcase to people and customers, so I decided to visit local tattoo shops and ask to sell at their own shop (on my own expense) and would you believe it? 1 in 20 places said yes! This place was extremely friendly and we become friends in the long run. I have also decided to advertise on Facebook and Instagram which has brough in a bit more traffic. The # of clothing items I will be selling would varey, but on average 5 pieces a month. Also at this moment I was just selling T-Shirts. I was happy with this until a few more months have passed and I have decided to take more action; and that is when I decided to do the following:
P.S: these didn't happen in the span of a small duration but in the span of a couple of months. A year and half in I have sold around 300~ items, with 4 months that I have sold nothing in; either due to the fact that we couldn't sell or the fact that I was busy with exams and couldn't be active or a combo of both. When I first started this I didn't expect to continue this as a more serious brand and enjoy doing so the deeper I am in this business. I never for a fact thought I would sell around 300 pieces, or get a huge amount of support from my friends and family but they see something in it and thats enough for me. Last that I want to say is that the result of the list above has increased my sales to; atleast 10 pieces a month, some months we would sell 30 to 40 pieces some months we would sell 10. Still more than the 5 and 0s that I was selling. This was a long post, but thank you for reading this and would gladly answer any questions that you have in mind or anything you are curious about. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2019 08:41 AM PDT I'm curious to see whether other people have built simple dashboards or spreadsheets where they can easily track monthly revenue, monthly reoccurring revenue, expenses, current contracts, deals in progress, deals being pitched, and other important information for running their freelancing, agency, or consulting operation. I previously had a spreadsheet where I tracked all this information for my business, but I'm wondering if other people do something similar and what they're set up for easily tracking all this information looks like. Would be grateful if anyone could share examples (docs, spreadsheets, etc...) of examples of how they track everything. (I also posted this question in r/freelance) [link] [comments]  |
| What’s a piece of entrepreneur advice you don’t hear very often? Posted: 04 Aug 2019 02:20 AM PDT There's always been loads of advice on entrepreneurship from everyone. That's why it's difficult to weed out for the really valuable and unheard advice which isn't given very often. What are your pieces of uncommon advice on entrepreneurship? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2019 01:20 PM PDT Hey Reddit, I'm not sure if this is the right Sub to be posting this so I apologize if it is not. Anyways, a friend and I have recently gone into business together; it's something that we have always talked and dreamed about. I could not be happier with the beginning results. We are a small, independently owned street wear shop based out of the Toronto area. We have a small physical store, a location to warehouse inventory and it has been more than a dream come true as sales have been above ideal and we are about to launch online! We are looking to network with other stores/entrepreneurs to help gain a social media following and drive traffic towards the online store. Anyone with any suggestions/tips, wants to support each other on social media by either following or giving shoutouts; would be VERY much appreciated. I would rather have a loyal follower base as opposed to random numbers, so for now I'll just say if you're interested DM me and let's chat! I hope everyone is having a great weekend and hopefully we can chat and benefit from each other! [link] [comments]  |
| How to find a business partner? Posted: 04 Aug 2019 01:15 PM PDT I have an interest in starting a boot company, but currently I do not know anyone in my network who has an interest in partnering up with me in this industry. How can I network to meet people with similar interests so that I can pitch my idea and hopefully team up with someone to help me start writing my business plan? This is all just an idea I have right now but I'm trying to find ways to make this more of a reality by building relationships. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2019 01:12 PM PDT I'm 18 years old. I work full time in construction and run a pressure washing business on the side. I dropped out of school very young. I read a lot about business and financial independence. My pressure washing business is slowly but surely generating more income, however local services aren't my end goal in businesses, I see it as more of a stepping stone. I'd like to eventually start a business with more potential for growth. If I had graduated high school and went to university I would be able to start a tax law firm or something like that. I have a lot of interest in these types of things. I have a few different ideas for businesses that a dropout like me could start and I was looking for some opinions. Are these businesses ideal for a dropout? Are they in high demand and do they have high growth potential? 1: Business consultant I figured that if i run a small business of my own and I learn the ins and outs of running a small service business locally that I could use my knowledge (once I have more expensive) to advise other people starting these types of businesses. Is this a good idea? 2: PPC/SEO management I have a decent knowledge is basic SEO and PCC for small businesses, could this be turned into a profitable business once ive mastered them? 3: Hotel owner/restaurant owner I LOVE hotels and I think that creating an amazing experience for people in a hotel setting is a potential passion for me. I feel like restaurants are also something I would really enjoy looking into despite the many challenges they come with. [link] [comments]  |
| Are quotes protected by copyright? Posted: 04 Aug 2019 12:17 PM PDT I want to gather funny quotes into an ebook and give them to my website subscribers as a gift. Am I violating any copyright if I'm charging for a service and giving this ebook free? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for recommendations for online web store for a small home business. Posted: 04 Aug 2019 12:01 PM PDT My sister and her friend have a small part time business that seems to be doing well and they'd like to have an online store so they can automate a few things as their volume increases. I've been looking at Squarespace and it seems like a decent platform and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations based in their experience. Basically people place an order for their product, they make it and then deliver it. A few features they are looking for is the ability to set minimum order quantities, schedule order deliveries and limit the number or orders they receive. For the past item, since they both have full time jobs, they only have x amount of hours in the evening and weekends where they can spend making their product so they need to be able to assign limits. Not sure how this is done, so looking for suggestions. [link] [comments]  |
| Survey about Podcasts as a Marketing Channel Posted: 04 Aug 2019 12:00 PM PDT Hi all! If you have a few moments, I would greatly appreciate you answering this survey about 'Podcasts as a Marketing Channel'. I don't want to say too much and inject bias; but after responding, feel free to shoot me a PM if you're curious! :) Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/988SXM6 Many thanks in advance and please discuss your thoughts on podcasts as a marketing channel below as well. [link] [comments]  |
| How can SmartNews be worth 1B USD with only 20M MAUs ? Posted: 04 Aug 2019 11:55 AM PDT https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/04/news-discovery-app-smartnews-valued-at-1-1b/ I hardly see how they could get the amount of revenue that would justify such a valuation from just 20M MAUs. [link] [comments]  |
| Are there any reliable list providers of ecommerce businesses by industry and region? Posted: 04 Aug 2019 10:22 AM PDT Trying to figure out how to find lists of ecommerce stores that I can reach out to. By lists, I don't mean email lists. I mean just the website and industry, if possible. I found some sites that claim to have aggregated this data for Shopify stores but Shopify doesn't give out this data, so I'm wondering if it's a scam? I plan to Google things like "top shopify stores 'industry'", but I'm trying to see if there is a more efficient way. I need to build a large list so I can hire people to do outreach and reach sales goals, etc. Anyone done this before? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2019 10:10 AM PDT My website falls in the web design industry so it needs to reflect quality work. Please leave any feedback as it would help a lot (: Site: Pro Website Upgrade [link] [comments]  |
| How to change the niche of this youtube channel and make money? (need ideas please). Posted: 04 Aug 2019 10:06 AM PDT The channel is getting like 4 million views a month with a b rating and growing 3-4k subs over the past year on autopilot. It has a bunch of episodes from a spanish soap opera or popular show uploaded and most of the audience is female and hispanic (about 80%), and the channel has 185k subscribers. I want to change the niche because I don't want to upload copy righted content cause I can't make money off it. I don't speak spanish btw, so should I try changing it to a spanish pop/romantic music channel and keep the vids up? I'll be getting someone else to run it for me. [link] [comments]  |
| What's a good payment processor for starting an online digital business? Posted: 04 Aug 2019 10:05 AM PDT Im based in the US and looking to offer online services to small businesses. Would PayPal be the best route to go? I hear a lot of bad experiences with PP but seems like that's the most popular option. [link] [comments]  |
| Feedback wanted on new product and website Posted: 04 Aug 2019 09:47 AM PDT Hey there! I would appreciate if you could give me feedback on my landingpage, the purpose of the page is to collect emails for kickstarter and to test if there's interest for the product. What i really would like to know is: Do you understand purpose of the product and it's features? Is the gifs working - and are they any good. Is it too long or too short? Do i need a offer or something to make people sign up instead of just notifying them? Would it make sense to take actual pre orders on the website and transfer them to kickstarter or is it not something people do? I made everything myself and haven't showed it to anyone so any feedback is appropriated and i'll gladly return the favor! Link to website: https://www.thebitbuckle.com/ [link] [comments]  |
| Need help selling a salad dressing. Posted: 04 Aug 2019 09:46 AM PDT We have a really unique and great tasting salad dressing at our family restaurant, how or what is the best way to go about getting this product out in the market? We're based in Texas. [link] [comments]  |
| Personal travel planner or NOT? Posted: 04 Aug 2019 09:46 AM PDT Hello Reddit, I want your opinion about an idea that I can't stop thinking about. [link] [comments]  |
| What's your take on using a "mother brand" for all your projects? Posted: 04 Aug 2019 08:53 AM PDT Hey all, There's this "problem" I have been struggling with for a long time. I have some projects in various state of "success", but I have always liked the idea of an "overarching" brand name. Genre ThisWebsiteYouAreOn is part of OverArchingBrand Group. The idea is that it could build up the credibility of the overarching brand so I could use the reputation of that brand to launch new projects in the future. My main problem is how other people would perceive this. I know there's people out there that have branded themselves heavily and present new projects as "Hey, I'm X and this is my awesome new project." I just don't want to go down that route, because I prefer the shorter, snappier option of a "brand name". So I suppose my question is this: Is it weird to have one overarching "brand" for all my other projects? Like a "home" to both commercial and non-commercial projects? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Aug 2019 08:44 AM PDT Hey guys, I've been thinking lately about how many businesses are still chasing the next sale and making no effort with building long term brand. I've made a video expressing my opinion as to why building brand wins over chasing the next sale and I'd like your thoughts on the subject? Do you focus on building brand or focus on getting the next sale signed and sealed? [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 04 Aug 2019 07:03 AM PDT Is there a raffle site, where you buy raffle tickets of other people's products. Thankyou in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Ever missed a Parcel before? Lessons learnt from starting and building a product-based business. Posted: 04 Aug 2019 06:36 AM PDT According to our market research of 142 individuals, 70.8% of homeowners would agree with you. Everyone has their own horror story - fragile china tableware thrown over their back gate, books left out in the rain, needing to drive an hour round trip to collect a shirt that they bought for a party and missed because they were in the shower. Personally, I've missed countless parcels and I find it incredibly frustrating. Why should I have to go out of my way to organise a delivery slot, drive to a collection point or chase after the postman for a product that I purchased online for CONVENIENCE? This is especially true if you're working all day 9-5, because guess what times the sorting office opens? 9-5 in most locations... The Solution I've been working with two product designers on a solution for the last year and a half. We've been through 3 prototypes, gathered feedback from homeowners and talked to house builders and come up with a solution. A compact, code-free, multi-parcel delivery container that allows you to receive parcels when you're not at home. The slam-lock mechanism enables you to leave the Postey unlocked, but closed in the morning. The courier then comes round, opens the Postey, delivers the parcel and closes the door, locking it, for you to receive when you arrive home. What happens if you receive more than one parcel one the same day? There are two doors on the Postey that enables you to insert a middle divider and have one door receive one parcel and the other receive another parcel. What if it needs to be signed for? Both doors have a unique barcode attached that links the Postey to your home and acts as a signature for firms. The Plan We've recently met with manufacturers to get an idea of costings and as usual, the minimum order quantity for a product-based business is considerably higher than a service business (around 200-250 to be viable). So, we're going to crowdfund the business with a rewards-based system that gives discounts for early adopters of the product. We're still finalising the pricing and putting the finishing touches to the design of the Postey, but if you would like to stay updated with the Launch in late 2019, we're giving away a free one to someone who joins our mailing list here. What I've learnt from the last year and a half 1. I've had to find the balance between blind optimism and crushing realism. At the start of developing Postey, I was blinded by optimism for the idea and my ability to drive change and create impact through it. I spent too much time focusing on talking about what I wanted to do, rather than acting on it. I tried to take every opportunity that came my way; attending countless networking events, conferences, lectures and applying for competitions. I wrote a plan for almost every aspect of the business, but I did little to enact those plans. The realisation that I had been doing this came in the midst of a pitch for £5,000 to the University. I put forward numbers and predictions that I thought were well researched. I got absolutely rinsed in that presentation. The feedback from the panel crushed me with realism and destroyed the blind optimism that I had. I took a step back from the business over the Christmas period and planned to come back stronger in January. However, coming back was harder than I thought. With optimism at a new low and self-doubt creeping in, I had one of my lowest days and I distinctly remember going for a 'long walk' at 11pm that only proceeded to trigger a downward spiral of thoughts. It was time to look for advice and guidance. I found this in the form of a mentor Paul Humphreys, a business advisor Jo Maltby and a University Councillor. They helped me to find my passion again and overcome the self-doubt. In particular, Paul's words of continuing to learn and try as much as possible from this year continued to resonate with me. He has a knack for just making me smile in every call we have. It's something about the way he asks questions to help you to visualise your ambition, like "How would you feel if you achieved that?" or "Wouldn't that feel really amazing?". Having someone who just gets you like this was vital to helping me get back from my low point and to find a balance between the two extremes of blind optimism and crushing realism. A balance that asks "Why can't YOU do it?" and answers "You could if you did these things". 2. Leadership is about the little things. It's about learning about the person and not the employee. Asking them about their plans for the weekend, their hobbies or their passions. I've taken inspiration from working part-time for Alex Lees for 9 months of the last year on this one. In particular, the way he'd start every morning with at least a 10-15 minute conversation on how I was feeling or what I'd been doing recently. This small talk mattered. It made a friend out of a colleague and meant that I'd always want to go above and beyond in the work I'd do for him. It's also about showing appreciation. Whether that be through conversation, gifts or including the person in what you're doing. A particular example that stands out to me in the last year was where I added Sanya Sagar as a team member to the Postey website after she had been helping us create a prototype. At the time, I didn't think much of it - just that it was more than fair and felt like the natural thing to do. However, it was only after a week or two that she told me of how that little action had really made her day and that she'd felt great because of it, that I realised how the little things can have a big impact. 3. Don't accept that something can't be done until you've really tried it yourself. As part of my pitch for £5,000 that went so poorly with the University last December, my plan to reach out to house builders to understand the market further included a direct mail campaign. This meant handwriting cards to the directors of the UK's biggest house builders. They told me that this simply couldn't be done. That no Director would respond to this and that it was merely a 'nice idea'. However, I really did believe that it could work and bought 16 cards, found the addresses of directors from house builders on Companies House and set about writing. In 6 of them I leaned more on the fact that i was a student wanting to conduct research and the other 10 I leaned more on being a Young Entrepreneur. A week passed without response. My hope diminishing each day. And then it happened… I had the first response from the MD of David Wilson Homes, the East Midlands division of Barratt Developments. He really believed in the idea and loved that I reached out to him through letter and after a few emails invited me to come and meet him in the office. This spurred on my enthusiasm and so I followed up via LinkedIn, Email and Phone to the other 15 and lone behold, I had 3 others get back to me. A 25% response rate for cold calling is pretty incredible so I was delighted. I still remember receiving all these emails in one week while I was at work at Tale and the sheer happiness that overcame me. The meeting that soon followed was just as exciting. We talked about how Posteys could be on new homes, how he could introduce me to a council planner and how he would distribute the market research I was conducting amongst his staff. I received 142 targeted respondents to that survey and met with the Leicestershire Council Planner all thanks to a handwritten card. 4. If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together. You can't do everything. You especially can't do highly skilled tasks of which you've had no official teaching. For me this was product design - a pretty essential part of creating a new product. So, I reached out to a friend that I'd made through University, Matt Dunn, who's been a part of the business since day one. He's taught me a great deal about product development and spent countless hours working on the CAD model and offering design advice (for which I'm eternally grateful). Involve others in your plans, explain to them your vision and with a bit of luck they'll be more than happy to help. For friends, and for people you hardly know, if they buy into the why of what you're doing they'll want to commit their time to you because they want you and your idea to succeed. They won't be in it for the money. They'll be supporting you because they can learn from the journey, develop their skills and work on something they find valuable. In the last 12 months, there has been no better example of a person such as this than Sanya Sagar. From meeting her in the StartUp Lab in September last year through a complete chance introduction, she's given her time to Postey in return for the experience of being involved with the team. I'm so thankful to her for her involvement over the last year in creating a prototype (which always make me smile to think that this idea I had in my head is this thing I can touch and feel) and for working on the locking mechanism, which has been an almost impossible task. 5. Habits can be your best friends or your worst enemies. (example isn't business related) They say it takes 21 days to form a habit. I've found this mostly true, but also important is the fact that you don't need to start by doing everything. Throughout this last year I wanted to take my running to the next level, which required me to put in more distance and runs each week. However, I didn't aim to start with 100km and 8-10 runs a week, I instead built it up. I slowly added more runs and distance each week. The slow progression made the difficult part adding one more run onto the week rather than the 8 I was already doing. The rest was purely habitual and I would have felt incomplete had I not ran each day. 113 days (16 weeks) passed with me not missing a day of running. I was reaching new personal bests and had races targeted that I wanted to smash throughout the Summer. Then, following the best race of my season when I did a 15 second Pb for the 3,000m in 8.53, I strained my hamstring. I'd always told myself that I'd put an injury first over any desire to keep running. But, I was in such good form and had a spell of three big races coming up that I wanted to push myself on for. Taking a step back was hard. I was itching to get back, both to fulfil my habitual desire and to not lose the fitness I'd worked for over the last 6 months. To begin with you think it will only last 3-4 days and you try your best to keep fit with swimming and cycling. Then as soon as around 10 days pass, your cardio fitness drops off exponentially and all hopes for the remaining season diminish. It's taken 3 weeks before I could start running again and it's given me time to reflect on my season so far and be thankful that the injury came late into the season rather than at the start. I've got one year left at University now and I fully intend to start the proper training earlier and involve more strength work to avoid injury and achieve some big personal bests. Thanks for reading If you need anymore information, the website is [here](www.postey.co.uk) I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks, Charlie [link] [comments]  |
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