NooB Monday! - (September 02, 2019) Entrepreneur |
- NooB Monday! - (September 02, 2019)
- Gary Vee was wrong about Snapchat, and now he's pushing TikTok... don't waste your time, effort, and hard-earned money folks.
- The one thing that turned our $350k a year stressfest into a $3MM a year profitable business that runs without me
- Four very simple, actionable things that will dramatically improve the copy on your website [No BS. No selling. 3 min read.]
- The most important skill an entrepreneur needs!
- 5 Steps to optimize your website's organic traffic
- How I got one SaaS company 1600 free triallists solely through SEO in 6 months
- Tips for Opening a Personal Shopping Business
- Started my own website
- How do I hire a real marketing company?
- Selling Clothing Online - Just wanted to see who has experience with this.
- Are you struggling to come up with the name for your startup?
- What online selling platform allows me to be paid straight after an order without waiting weeks.
- How do I price my SaaS?
- Using Common Words In A Brand Name
- Using AI to offer cheaper flight tickets: Need advice!
- Do you guys see value in hiring someone to track your health and keep you optimized?
- Best way to target air bnb hosts?
- Looking at a one product dropshipping store as a side hustle
- How to sell 'data science consultancy' service?
- Excited our product is almost ready. Now the rest has to start. Tips/advice welcome! :)
- What's your second business?
- Where to find adsense code?
- I just learned I will lose my job. What do i do? Suggestions welcome.
- Middleman vs direct sales, questions for my new business
| NooB Monday! - (September 02, 2019) Posted: 02 Sep 2019 06:15 AM PDT If you don't have enough comment karma here's where we can help. Everyone starts somewhere and to post in /r/Entrepreneur this is the best place. Subscribers please understand these are new posters and not familiar with our sub. Newcomers welcome! Be sure to vote on things that help you. Search the sub a bit before you post. The answers may already be here. Since this thread can fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2019 02:24 AM PDT I know a lot of these gurus are beloved in the entrepreneur sub-Reddit, but rich kids who start businesses like Gary Vaynerchuk are not people you should take advice from, especially when their whole business model is predicated on paid sponsorships from the very same companies he is promoting. Here's what will happen in the end: You spend a butt-load of money jumping on the latest hottest social media platform, you get abysmal sales in return from it if any because no one is on their to buy your shit, they are all just looking for attention for themselves, the platform dies in six months, and now you're left with a dead account you spent thousands of dollars in advertising on... and by then Gary Vee will be on to promoting the next big thing. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2019 11:51 AM PDT We made "the shift" in 2014 and it changed everything. In 2013 we did about $350k in revenue at a 20% margin. It was a stressful firework show. We were tapped out. There was not enough time in the day to grow any more. We pointed fingers and blame things outside of our control for our shortcomings. It was clear that our employees were the problem. They were unreliable and were constantly messing the simplest things up. They were missing work. They couldn't be trusted to do anything so my partner and I did almost everything. We complained and pointed fingers and vented to our friends that it was impossible to hire good employees who wanted to work hard. None of this got us very far. The shift was the moment we stopped pointing fingers and started taking the blame for things going wrong within our business. Instead of texting the employees the night before about their shift we scheduled them out a week in advance. Even if we weren't sure exactly what they'd be doing. We overemphasized their schedules and set up automated emails and texts to constantly remind them as the day approached. Instead of training them by walking around the warehouse pointing at things we spent time recording training videos with perfect voice overs. We quizzed them at the end of the training videos with real on-the-job problems. Instead of having them do 25 things and trying to train them to do all of them well we simplified the job. A handful of employees did all of the customer service and we took that off the plate of the drivers and crew members. We had employees focus only on warehousing so our crew members didn't have to do that job as well. Instead of training 300 employees to create invoices and size items we had them take photos and then a few very specialized employees could size and create every invoice. A few amazing things started happening. They started missing work a lot less. They messed up a lot less. Customers complained a lot less. Turnover hurt a lot less. Average employees started performing like our outstanding employees with 3 years experience. And on and on and on. We didn't just do this with our employees but also our customers and suppliers. Everything about the business got easier. 2014 was a growth year but it was a lot less stressful. 2015 was even better. Fast forward to 2018 and we did almost $3MM in revenue on a 20% margin and it was stress free. I even stepped away from the company in 2016 to focus on real estate development while my partner and a few of our key employees ran everything. You have a lot more control than you think you do. Start acting like it! -- As soon as you stop blaming your employees for messing up and look at your processes you'll be more likely to succeed. Stop blaming Murphy's law for fires arising and start spending time preventing the fires. Stop blaming the economy for your lack of customers and analyze your sales and marketing strategy. Stop blaming your customers for demanding refunds and look at the promises you're making them. Stop blaming your suppliers for missing deadlines and look at your communication and how it can be improved. Stop blaming your partners for not pulling their weight and look at the expectations and start to manage them. Sorry for the rant. I hope this helps somebody out there. Post over in r/sweatystartup if you want some solid advice from some smart people. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2019 09:56 AM PDT Hello r/entrepreneur. Here are four things you can do right now that'll improve the copy on your website and sell more of what you're trying to sell. 1) Get rid of the fluff You see how this post gets right to the point? You should be doing the same. Find your core message and hit 'em with it right off the bat. Exercise: I'll often ask my clients to visit their homepage and stare at it for 2 seconds. You should do it with yours too. Do you know what you're selling yet? If you don't, you probably need to get rid of some fluff. Or you need a new pair of glasses. 2) Simplify. Keep your language and your words simple. Shakespeare would've been awful at writing copy that sells. There's a reason why his most quoted piece of writing is "to be, or not to be? That is the question." It's because it's simple. Simplicity sticks. Simplicity sells. (Will's product descriptions would've been pure fire, though) 3) Write like you talk. Remember, you're not writing an essay or a novel when you write copy for your site. When was the last time you actually said "moreover" or "as a result" in real life? Writing like you talk is powerful because you sound like a human, not an internet cyborg hellbent on maximising conversions. Sounding like a human builds trust. Example: you know that Elton John song where he sings "anyway, the thing is, what I really mean...yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen"? Those lyrics are so effective because they don't sound like lyrics; they sound like the genuine, bumbling words of an actual person. Your copy will sell more if it hides the hallmarks of typical sales copy. Writing like you talk is a really easy way to do that. 4) Benefits over features. Let's imagine we're selling shoes. We'll call them Ace Shoes for the sake of this bit. Ace shoes have a patented design. They're hand-stitched by a weathered, aging Italian named Dimitri who's been making shoes for 35 years. The leather we use is the finest in the world. Oh, and they're lined with silk. Obviously. These are features. Just like my brown hair or my post-summer beer-belly are features of me. But why do people actually want to buy our shoes? Does it matter that the design is patented? Probably not. The hand-stitching is great, but is it the primary motivation for our customers? Again, it's unlikely. Sorry Dimitri. Instead, we need to look at the benefits of these features. Why do these features make Ace Shoes more desirable? Perhaps they improve the durability of the shoe? Maybe it's the confidence they instil in all who wear them? It could be that the quality craftsmanship makes them super comfortable. Hone in on your product's key benefits and orientate your site's copy around them. You'll sell much more. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thanks for reading. I'll happily provide further examples in the comments if there's any interest. Happy copywriting. [link] [comments]  |
| The most important skill an entrepreneur needs! Posted: 01 Sep 2019 10:01 PM PDT I want you to take a moment and think about what you think is the most important skill that an entrepreneur needs in 2019. Now say it out aloud. Or maybe share it in the comments. Now let me tell you what skill I think is the most important. After years of working in my own business I have realised that there is one skill that keeps my business afloat. MARKETING Marketing is the ability to create and sustain relationships through which you can perform business dealings. Trust me when I say that good marketing helps you understand your audience better and improve your product offerings. The ironic part is that good marketing can even sell not so great products! That is the power of marketing! If you don't believe me look at any successful entrepreneur or product and you will realise that their success largely is attributed to killer marketing. In my next post I will talk about the second most important skills an entrepreneur should have! Let's discuss this further in the comments section! Let me know what you think is the most important skill an entrepreneur should have! Edit: Please differentiate between attitudes, character and skillsets. I'll talking about skills in this post! 😊 [link] [comments]  |
| 5 Steps to optimize your website's organic traffic Posted: 02 Sep 2019 06:49 AM PDT Here is how to increase organic traffic by increasing relevancy to search engines:
I hope this helps! [link] [comments]  |
| How I got one SaaS company 1600 free triallists solely through SEO in 6 months Posted: 02 Sep 2019 08:35 AM PDT So before I start, I'd like to add that this isn't an incredible feat. However, when I started working with this company they had less than 10 free triallists and their organic traffic was non-existent. With little investment on their part, we were able to increase their organic traffic exponentially and thus increase the number of free trialists they have. How did I do this?
(there were a number of other things that we changed, but these were primary). Adding SCHEMA markup This is essentially code you put on your site which gives the search engines more information on that specific page/post, thus giving the user a better experience in their search engines. Things like star ratings, rich snippets. Adding SCHEMA code to as much of the site, including blog articles, main page, contact page etc. This marked a huge improvement in our search rankings with a few posts ranking 0-3 for a number of keywords.
This included finding keywords that fit into the companies niche that had high search volume and relatively low competition. From this, I deduced that one of the 3d modelling software companies we worked with had high search volume but low competition, whereas the other 3d modelling companies had much higher competition (don't know why). We started targeting keywords related to our product and the 3d modelling software in mind. Creating articles with at least 800 words preferably 1000 words. Below is a checklist I used for every article we published. We had the idea of posting 3-4 blogs per week. This consistency really helped us with our traffic.
Targeting these low competition keywords meant we starting rankings quickly and made a huge difference in our organic traffic.
Links to your site is a big ranking factor for Google and other search sites. Our strategy here was 3-fold
Granted, this was time-consuming, and there are quicker ways to acquire backlinks, however most of them go against Googles TOC so you have to be careful. There is no 100% clean way of acquiring backlinks other than people randomly linking to your site, which takes years usually. Conclusion. For the most part, SEO isn't actually that difficult (although it can be once you start getting into technical SEO), it just takes time. Of course, there were a lot of other things I did on a daily basis which did make slight differences I feel. But overall it was about having this 3-fold strategy in place and sticking to it. [link] [comments]  |
| Tips for Opening a Personal Shopping Business Posted: 02 Sep 2019 01:41 PM PDT Can anyone give me some tips/ help me with opening a Personal Shopping Business? I'm not sure where to start Thank you🔥 [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2019 08:21 AM PDT Hi all,
Many thanks! edit: If interested the link to the website is Friday Drinks. Im not here to spam or self promote I just want some advice. [link] [comments]  |
| How do I hire a real marketing company? Posted: 01 Sep 2019 05:36 PM PDT So I'll give you a bit of back ground about me. I'm a sales guy. I have a 9-5 that pays well and the commissions are insane. I'm taking in give or take 300k a year after taxes. During the last year or so I've been experimenting with buying and selling jewelry. I'm based in south Florida and business is extremely good. My side hustle makes as much if not more than my 9-5 depending on some months. When it comes to business and hustling I've always been old school about things . I want to go in a different direction. I want to focus on branding and marketing . I guess what I'm trying to say is how do I go about finding credible marketing agencies that can actually help me and how do I weed out the fake Instagram wanna be Gary vee types out there. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated . [link] [comments]  |
| Selling Clothing Online - Just wanted to see who has experience with this. Posted: 02 Sep 2019 01:55 PM PDT I wanted to possibly dabble in the clothing game via Instagram. I have a friend who is a budding artist, with a small following. I was thinking about getting some his artwork printed up on mens and womens clothing. Plus reaching out to his friends to do some guest spot runs with their art. Is Alibaba still the way to go? [link] [comments]  |
| Are you struggling to come up with the name for your startup? Posted: 02 Sep 2019 10:07 AM PDT Are you struggling to come up with domain names? DeepNamer AI will brainstorm for you. DeepNamer is an AI-powered domain name generator and brainstorming platform that helps business owners find a pertinent and catchy domain/business name for free. DeepNamer wants to change the way entrepreneurs choose domain names. The first version of our platform was launched in May 2019, which caught great attention. Considering all the feedback and comments provided by our users, we recently upgraded and improved our AI models and algorithms to bring more creativity to name suggestion. Also, we added a few advanced options allowing users to sort the results based on their preference on having shorter or higher quality domain names, along with real-time sorting capability. We also added a simple but effective user panel using which our users can view and manage their search history, favorite domains, etc. We are about to add an exciting web hosting service to our user panel. Using this feature, the users who find their domain names via DeepNamer can have a free one-year service to build and host a simple landing web page using our drag-and-drop features. Visit us at https://deepnamer.com today and write us your feedback if you have any. [link] [comments]  |
| What online selling platform allows me to be paid straight after an order without waiting weeks. Posted: 02 Sep 2019 01:35 PM PDT I have an idea but cant wait till I have a lot of initial cash. I want to pay the guy who sells me the product with the cash I get from the sale. It is like dropshipping but me paying a dude I know instead of from a shitty chinese site. Are their any sites like this. He doesnt know im reselling what he sells me but I dont think that matters. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2019 01:34 PM PDT Hi all, I have a small startup that is selling a Software to medium and big companies. I am trying to designed a new pricing strategy, i already have the price i want to charge medium and big companies but I actually dont know how to charge the really big guys (+1 billion) Do i charge them a lot because I know they have budget for it or do I just charge then a bit more than to big companies because I know I would get an even bigger benefit if lots and lots of employees use my software? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Using Common Words In A Brand Name Posted: 02 Sep 2019 01:34 PM PDT What issues could a company run into using common words in a brand name?. For example "Tiger Fitness" Trademark issues, any legal issues? [link] [comments]  |
| Using AI to offer cheaper flight tickets: Need advice! Posted: 02 Sep 2019 09:41 AM PDT Hey all, my team is working on a startup that uses machine learning to predict large drops in flight prices and selling discounted tickets to customers. You can check us out at shortgull.app. We are looking to market our product, but I wanted to ping this community to see if any of you guys/gals have any recommendations for specific subreddits/facebook groups/forums/product hunt etc. that you'd recommend to get the word out about our startup? [link] [comments]  |
| Do you guys see value in hiring someone to track your health and keep you optimized? Posted: 02 Sep 2019 01:23 PM PDT I was thinking things along the lines of meal plans... meditation app subscriptions to stay focused and free of worry.. things of that nature Also some other things that pop into my head include supplement packs like onnit to maintain focus and a healthy balance. Workouts plans... etc. Would absolutely love some feedback on this, Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Best way to target air bnb hosts? Posted: 02 Sep 2019 01:18 PM PDT Apologies if this has been asked before but i am looking to reach into air bnb with my photography side hustle. Has anyone had any success with targeting hosts? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking at a one product dropshipping store as a side hustle Posted: 02 Sep 2019 07:20 AM PDT Hi guys! I have been looking to start a side hustle for some time now. As such I have been doing some research and to my inexperienced eyes it seems one product dropshipping is a fairly safe yet still fairly profitable option to run after my 9-5 The goal of the side hustle is to make $1000 per month and scale upwards from there. I have scraped together just under $1000 to start this or any other business model up. Does this seem like a good plan to make money on the side? Does anyone have tips or alternative suggestions that make more sense? Any and all help will be appreciated ❤️👏 Thanks everyone [link] [comments]  |
| How to sell 'data science consultancy' service? Posted: 02 Sep 2019 01:17 PM PDT Hi Reddit, I'm struggling with the following: many companies can benefit from data science/AI/ML to optimize their processes, profit, costs, etc. We are trying to help companies by doing data science projects for them. But we don't know how to find the clients. I assume potentiel clients don't just google for "data science agency" when they have a problem. They may not even realize things can be optimized/automated, or they may not seek the solution in the data science corner. So how do we sell our services? How do we make them find us, and what keywords/phrases should we use? Should we focus our website on very practical concrete examples, or should we keep it all very high level? [link] [comments]  |
| Excited our product is almost ready. Now the rest has to start. Tips/advice welcome! :) Posted: 02 Sep 2019 12:59 PM PDT Hi everybody I'm very proud to be posting something here because our startup is finally coming together. A year ago my uncle started developing a new sanitary product (something for toilets) that all households or companies could use. And half a year ago I joined him because he can't do it all by himself. We started producing a test-product with simple materials and kept on improving. We now have the concept ready and everything works. Next stage is to develop something around the concept we build to make it also appealing. Nobody is going to buy it if it's not a nice design. While this is happening I started to think about the other side of business: how are we going to sell this. To do so, I started with calculating how much one piece would cost us to produce and determine our selling price. I've watched the competition to compare our price against (we also bought around 10 to 15 products that claim to do the same, but none of them actually do it as we do it or not even work) and think we've set a good price for it. Next up is where and how I'm going to spread the word our product exists. Create an e-commerce platform (in house, I'm a self employed webdeveloper). Use Facebook and Instagram for social awareness. Google Adwords for those who are actually looking for our type of product. Get in touch with national newspapers to get them to interview us or write about our product. Add our product on kickstarter, indiegogo,... kind of sites. Use local businesses where a lot of and all sorts of people come (like town hall or Ikea) to install our product so people could experience it. We would be wrapping the toilet doors to gain attraction. Are there any other ways to get our product out? I'm 10 years self employed, but never had to start something like this. I kinda rolled into my business so I'm looking for all kinds of tips :) Sorry for my english, not my main language :) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2019 04:05 AM PDT I'm currently owning a business with $20,000 revenue right now. I think I saved enough to put up another business. Just wondering, what does your second business looks like ? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Sep 2019 12:44 PM PDT I added my site on google adsense and it told me to put a code after HEAD. But now I cant find that code on my adsense account. I have searched through everything now. Any idea where I find this code again? :/ [link] [comments]  |
| I just learned I will lose my job. What do i do? Suggestions welcome. Posted: 02 Sep 2019 12:07 AM PDT Hey all, I am on mobile so I'll try to keep it short. I just learned I will lose my job starting next March (2020). I've been working at this company for 2y now as a sales manager but my client - which is also our biggest client - is going bankrupt and my company had to tell me that they won't be able to keep me anymore. I am 28y old and live in Germany. Have a kid and bills to pay. I am not the kind of guy to be depressed about these kind of bad news. I know I did a good job and it's circumstances I cannot change. I take notice of this, take a moment to realize and get up and get going for the next chapter. Starting October I will be released (with pay continuing until March) to focus on my future. Thing is: i will of course be looking for something else but I've also always wanted to be an entrepreneur. And starting October I will have 5 months of freedom to work on the things I need to work on. But I just don't know what I should do. I have little to no capital and this is Germany. I cannot employ people without paying them from the first minute. Only thing I have is time. So in case I really want to start my personal journey, I am on my own. Anyone has advices or has been in the same situation? Thanks a lot in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Middleman vs direct sales, questions for my new business Posted: 02 Sep 2019 12:35 PM PDT Hello r/Entrepreneur I'm currently developing a dietary supplement, with the first test batch coming soon out of the oven ! I believe it has some marketing potential so the primary selling funnel would be via our own web store, through ads and social media work. But since it's a product with a high margin I was also interested in having a reseller network to add some volume. I'm a product guy initially so I have close to no idea how things works in sales... Here are some of my interrogations : - Is it compatible to have a strong brand with a reseller network or are you forced to let go of your control over it ? I would hate to see random sellers websites butchering our image or people taking the lead on platforms like amazon. But I'm also worried that no one would be interested if we're too strict and keeping all the juicy funnels for ourselves.. - Is going after multiple selling funnels interesting or does it ends up weakening all of them ? I was thinking of testing a bunch of them to see what stick and learn by doing so but I'm not sure about how focused I should be. - I usually see brands either strong that control all the sales or weak ones that rely almost exclusively on resellers. If you have experience in both, I would be interested in hearing your top pros and cons. Are there any case of successful hybrids ones ? - I only know about dropshippers that stamp their brand on a white label product (I'm not interested in this) and resellers that need products for their e-commerce store. Are there any other interesting profiles you'd advise me to look into ? Thanks ! [link] [comments]  |
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