- Sharing this GREAT Interview with the guy who started the free "Morning Brew" email newsletter and grew it to a 7 figure business -- literally just writing a daily newsletter email for millennials
- $5,200/month improving men's Tinder profiles.
- Forget about the whole market/niche saturation thing
- Always too tired to start
- Anyone else get massively uncomfortable making phone calls?
- So Sick of my Brain Getting Swooped by Advertising
- Where to get the softest t-shirts?
- How can I leverage Google reviews to make a business?
- Any entrepreneur looking for a dropshipping store?
- Opening a new bar, what do I need to know?
- When an entrepreneur innovates
- Any Tv Series recommendation for entrepreneurs, business/startup owners?
- What would you do if you were at this phase?
- What is the best way to collect and distribute funds as a middle man?
- How Moz grew to $70m ARR
- How many people on here run a single person LLC?
- How do you guys promote your website?
- Where can you find list of types of businesses and their profit margins?
- Promotional Product's
- Fear of failure, how do you deal with it and how do you suggest I deal with it? (please read description)
- Hiring a Designer and then Owning The Design
- I'm 17.. and I wanna start a company
| Posted: 29 Sep 2019 01:51 AM PDT So about a year ago I signed up for the Morning Brew newsletter, which is basically just a free email newsletter that sends out a recap of what's happening in the market every morning. At first I wasn't expecting much and I knew that there would be advertising in it (or that maybe I might have "lift letters" sent to me from their partners trying to get me to buy stuff). As a direct response copywriter in the financial niche I opt in to lots of funnels and sign up for lots of free newsletters because I want to see what kind of promotions other people are running. As many people on this sub have been surprised to learn from AMAs I've done in the past -- there are companies literally pulling in tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars a year doing NOTHING except writing very, very long-form sales letters and marketing them to email lists. However, I could tell pretty quickly that Morning Brew was different. It got to the point where I was looking forward to opening their newsletter EVERY morning. I loved their breakdowns, loved their sense of humor. I never one received a "Lift Letter" (a separate email from an advertising partner). And although there were ads inside the newsletter itself, they were all higher-brow ads that blended really nicely with the format. One time, when taking a few weeks off to travel, I received an email from them basically asking if I was still interested in receiving their messages. Because I hadn't opened their emails for just TWO WEEKS only -- they wanted to confirm that I was still an active subscriber and so I opened the email and clicked a link confirming I still was. This told me how utterly "on top" of their list they really were. Recently I came across this awesome podcast-style interview (which is on a YoutTube video) between the founder and Noah Kagen and I just wanted to share it. Even being in the direct response industry for ten years now it really surprises me still the simple ways people are able to take basic ideas and scale them to huge 7 figure businesses. I get told time and time again for example that "only old people read those long sales pages or sign up for newsletter emails!" Yet here's a company that grew to 7 figures that is ONLY geared towards Millennials (people like me and I'm 33) that isn't some fancy app, that isn't some "hip new tech", that isn't some "ground breaking new idea." It's just good writing, good relevant content, and great list building. [link] [comments]  |
| $5,200/month improving men's Tinder profiles. Posted: 29 Sep 2019 09:00 AM PDT Hey - Pat from StarterStory.com here with another interview. Today's interview is with Shane White (u/guyfromfargo) of The Match Artist, a brand that makes online dating photography service. Some stats:
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hi everyone, my name is Shane and I'm the founder of The Match Artist. We help singles take amazing pictures for their online dating profiles. Our flagship product is the 3 hour Executive shoot, which gets you about 100 different photos in 7 different settings. Most importantly, this package comes with an e-mail course and one-on-one coaching so you can take better photos in the future. Many people (especially guys) are horrible at taking pictures. The Match Artist teaches you how to look at the camera, and how to show your most attractive and authentic self. This empowers you to take better photos, even after the shoot is over. The Match Artist is More Than a Typical Photography Company In addition to coaching individuals, The Match Artist has pioneered a whole different genre of photography. Our pictures are specifically tailored to make our clients look better online. We work with our clients to figure out exactly who they are, and we shoot them doing things they would be doing in their day-to-day life. We want potential matches to understand who you are and what you do without having to read your bio. This ensures that our clients not only match with more people but also match with singles who are a good fit for them. We dive deep into who our clients are and take candid photos of them doing the things they enjoy. We started this business in January 2018, and we have helped over 100 singles take pictures for their profile. We usually average between $5,000- $6,000 a month in revenue. What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?I have always been an entrepreneur. When I was in high school, I wanted to start my own business, so I took to one thing that I knew how to do- mow lawns. Afterward, while I was in college, I started a mobile DJ business, which was a great way to earn some extra cash in college. After graduating from NDSU with a degree in Computer Science, I took a full-time job working as a software developer. While working as a developer, I really wanted to start a SaaS Company, which translates to "Software as a Service", so I did just that. I created Midwest Streams - Simple Funeral Webcasting, which helps funeral directors webcast their funerals. I ended up spending too many hours working on Midwest Streams while I was at my software developer job, so my employer fired me. (If you are reading this, I really am sorry!) This happened in February of 2014, and Midwest Streams was only making $400 a month. I decided not to go back to work and try my hardest to grow my company. I had some savings, but burnt through it pretty quick, as it's really hard to survive with only $400 a month. Unfortunately, that year, I did not have much success with growing Midwest Streams. Driven by the pure need to survive, I went back to my tiny DJ company and did anything I could to get a gig or two so I could pay my rent. It worked! I got my DJ company doing about $80k a year in revenue, which allowed me to live comfortably and focus more on my SaaS. Around that same time, I was a single male in his 20s trying to learn the ropes of online dating. It was surprisingly challenging. I was doing fine with offline dating, but online dating seemed almost impossible. Once someone swiped right on me, I was able to have a conversation and set up a date, but my main problem was that for every 100 girls I swiped right on, only 1 or 2 matched with me. You can see my Tinder profile pictures below. It's cringy to look back at these pictures, but at the time I thought these were okay photos. I did what every other single guy does- we go to our Facebook and choose the most recent photos, even if they are terrible. It was at this same time that I met Nick, a local wedding photographer. We eventually became good friends over our mutual interest in playing music. One night while just messing around, he took some photos of me. Even though it was super casual and just friends goofing around, those photos were the best photos that were ever taken of me. So I uploaded one of the photos to Tinder, and almost instantly a lot more girls were swiping right on me. So I called Nick and asked if we could do a real photo-shoot. Except this wasn't going to be your typical head-shot session. I wanted photos showing off who I was to highlight that I'm an interesting person. So, I planned a fun day full of activities I enjoyed and had Nick follow me around with his camera. These photos were a complete game changer! I was matching with about half the girls that I was swiping on. I had a lot of fun dating for about two years while I was still hacking away on my SaaS. However, in May of 2017, I went on my last first date. I met my wonderful girlfriend, Molly. Finally, two years after Nick took those photos of me, I called him up and told him I wanted to start a business that is 100% tailored to taking photos of singles. He agreed, and my girlfriend Molly came up with the name, "The Match Artist". Take us through the process of designing, prototyping, and manufacturing your first product.Nick and I spent about four months perfecting the idea of what we wanted The Match Artist to represent before doing our first shoot. There are thousands of photographers in the world, and it was vital that we weren't just another photography company. This is where we started pioneering a different genre of photography. We designed the entire process to make sure our customers look their best on their dating profiles. We did countless hours of research on what profiles do best online, and we also figured out how to make people who are bad at taking photos to take better photos. Describe the process of launching the business.Launching The Match Artist was fairly simple. I think a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs overthink this part; the most important thing is to just do it. Most people think your launch is going to be this huge thing, and just overnight you're going to have a ton of customers. This usually isn't the case. I find it best to come up with a way to service a small handful of customers and grow from there. After we had an idea of what the final service would look like, we rented an Airbnb for the weekend and posted on many different singles groups that we were offering a free photo-shoot. We had about 10 people take us up on the offer and that's how we jump-started our business. From there we got a few recommendations, and most importantly we got a bunch of reviews to help legitimize our business. Another huge benefit of our initial shoot was that it allowed us to reach back out to these clients to ensure that our style of photography was actually helping them get better results online. We learned so much from that weekend packed with photo-shoots. While Nick was taking photos, I was scribbling away on a notepad taking notes. We spent the next two months making our process the best it could be. We finally launched about a month later and in April 2018 The Match Artist had its first paying customer. Since launch, what has worked to attract and retain customers?We have tried all sorts of different techniques to get more customers through the door. After a lot of testing, we have decided that our main focus on acquiring new customers is SEO. We have put a lot of effort into ensuring that we rank number 1 for "Online Dating Photographer" in the specific cities that we service. We are always trying new techniques to get more customers to our website, but once someone fills out the contact form, our funnel is completely optimized. You can see our workflow here. If you would like to see the automation in action, I created a mock funnel that readers of Starter Story can go through here. How are you doing today and what does the future look like?Today, The Match Artist is doing great! Every month we are slightly increasing our bookings. Nick has gone completely full time running the business. We have a steady 5k a month in revenue and are finally at the point where we are confident with our pricing and our product. We plan on doubling down and running huge paid ad campaigns in the next few months. We are also planning on launching a "Behind the Scenes" YouTube channel. I love the entrepreneurship community and plan on sharing with other entrepreneurs our journey as we grow this from a small side project into a serious business with 6-7 figures in profit. Through starting the business, have you learned anything particularly helpful or advantageous?One thing I learned along the way is that once you have product-market fit you should focus 100% of your energy into building trust with your potential clients. People may want to use our services, but we need to make sure that they trust us in the process. Our huge value proposition is "Go on better dates," and, of course, everyone wants to go on better dates, but they just don't trust that by forking over their Credit Card and allowing us to take their pictures they will actually go on better dates. This is why everything from our website to our emails is focused on gaining the trust of our customers. Most importantly, as an entrepreneur, you better be prepared to live up to that promise. I'm 100% committed to ensuring that every single one of our clients actually does go on better dates with their new pictures. Another thing I learned was to not automate too early. As a programmer, I love setting up all these complex tools and workflows to optimize my business. However, in the early days, I spent way too much time automating things. Before we even had our first customer, I had a whole automation system setup to auto-send emails, and update our CRM. This was cool, but we quickly changed many things in our business. That's the downside of automation; it makes changing things much harder. If I were to do it all over again, I would have done everything manually until I had at least a year of The Match Artist under my belt. What platform/tools do you use for your business?Lucid Chart - Lucid Chart is how we plan everything. All of our processes, and automation is completely mapped out in this program. ButterCMS - This is a newer tool that we are bringing on to our stack. We use ButterCMS to power our website. I chose Butter because I wanted to have 100% control over how my website is handled. This tool allows us to write our website in our favorite programming language but still allows our content writers to publish content with ease. This tool also allows us to make a webpage for each client to show information specific to their photo session. Book Like a Boss - This is our appointment booking software. This is how we manage all clients to easily book a call with us. Trello - Using Trello we are able to ensure every client gets a personalized experience. We automatically create cards for every client once someone books a photoshoot. Each card has all the tasks needed to ensure their photoshoot is a success. GSuite - Hands down the best email tool on the market. I have used Outlook and Zoho; GSuite is so much easier to use. Hubspot - Hubspot makes keeping track of our clients a breeze. I'm a big fan of their email scheduling options. So many times someone will not want to pull the trigger on a photoshoot and tells us to reach back out in a few months. With Hubspot, I can compose the followup email, and schedule it to send in a few months. Pixieset - This is our photo gallery software. This is how we deliver all of our photos to our clients. Zapier - Zapier is the glue that holds our entire business together. We use a lot of tools, and all of them are integrated into harmony with Zapier. This is probably my favorite tool out of the entire stack. Typeform - Another favorite tool, Typeform, allows us to collect information from our customers and potential customers. Recently we connected it to Stripe and this is how we take payments. If you are curious about what this looks like you can check it out here. Drip - Drip is our email marketing provider. We chose Drip over Mailchimp because it really allows us to deeply personalize all of our emails. I believe that our customers should never have to give us the same information twice. Using Drip, I can auto-populate all email links to have custom URL parameters so the tools don't need to ask for their name or email again. Stripe - Every single payment we take is through Stripe. We usually do this through Typeform. We also integrated Stripe directly with our website so customers can pay there as well. Bonjoro - Everything we do at The Match Artist is extremely personalized. This allows me to send good luck videos to our clients on the morning of their shoot. Upwork - Anytime I need help with branding or programming, I turn to Upwork to hire a freelancer to help us out. Our entire branding was done from someone that we hired off of Upwork. Canva - I am not a designer. However, Canva allows me to easily create digital design assets that look professional. I'd highly recommend using Canva for anyone who isn't a designer. What have been the most influential books, podcasts, or other resources?Start Small, Stay Small. I'm also a big fan of the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. This book and podcast really focus on bootstrapping a business. I'm not a big fan of raising a big investment round before even having a product, so pretty much all of my books and podcasts focus on entrepreneurship without investment. For marketing, I'm a big fan of the book Traction. This has helped me focus on how The Match Artist should spend its time marketing. Finally, I do want to mention one super influential talk I went to. When I was at NDSU, one of the founders from a local pizza shop called "Rhombus Guys" came in and spoke to our entrepreneurship group. He left me with a quote, "In business, you can only compete on two things, price or being the best, and it's a hell of a lot more fun to compete on being the best." That simple quote has really shaped who I became as an entrepreneur. We are quite a bit more expensive than our competitors, however, our steeper price tag is worth it because we have spent the last two years ensuring we are the best. Advice for other entrepreneurs who want to get started or are just starting out?Your first business should have a business model that allows it to be profitable with just 10 customers. So many first time entrepreneurs have these grand next facebook type of business ideas. This is a horrible first business to start. You should start with something small, and have a rock-solid plan of getting your first 10 customers. Are you looking to hire for certain positions right now?The Match Artist is hiring extremely talented photographers in major cities across the U.S. Where can we go to learn more?
If you have any questions or comments, drop a comment below! Liked this text interview? Check out the full interview with photos, tools, books, and other data. For more interviews, check out r/starter_story - I post new stories there daily. Interested in sharing your own story? Send me a PM [link] [comments]  |
| Forget about the whole market/niche saturation thing Posted: 28 Sep 2019 03:57 PM PDT If there's one thing people love to do when they give advice (usually unsolicited) it's to comment on how a particular niche is saturated. I see examples of that here as well, but in my limited experience, it's like thinking how far you can run based on the moisture in the air. Yes, some markets have more competition than others. But, like air moisture - which does impact your ability to run, but as a very minor factor - the saturation is nothing you should dwell about. First of all, exactly gauging how much something is saturated is not a precise process, more a guesstimate. While you should assess your competitors and their offers, looking for a completely empty market is in my view similar to thinking what would you do if you were Elon Musk (a fun but pointless mental process). Secondly, if your business resides solely on the idea that no one is doing something, you'll likely fail anyway - people tend to notice things in the modern world pretty quickly and any successful novelty will be copied and replicated immediately. Lastly, as an entrepreneur, you are not here to invent things. It's awesome if you can do that, but not necessary. Otherwise, no baker in the world would be successful - hell, we had those since the dawn of organized agricultural society. If that's not market saturation, I don't know what is. Yet, we'll continue to get new and successful bakers in the foreseeable future and most of them will not base their business on impossible space bread or anything like that, but a well-know service delivered in the right way to the right group of people. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2019 12:45 PM PDT I'm 24 and have some business ideas I'm starting to work on once I get done with my job, (6:30 am - 4:00 pm). My main problem I always have is that by the time I get back, workout and shower and start to eat and work on my side projects, I'm literally exhausted. Like after awhile I start falling asleep while working on it. Im really consistent with being in bed and falling asleep by 10 or 10:30. Does anybody have this problem and have any advice or suggestions on how to fix this or at least help a little? It's starting to honestly effect my productivity and motivation. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone else get massively uncomfortable making phone calls? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 08:29 AM PDT Seriously I have no idea what it is, face to face I can happily chat away with anyone and talk about my business. But when it comes to making sales calls or cold calling places I get massively uncomfortable and will try anything to talk myself out of it. Does anyone else have this issue? Or any advice on how to get over it? [link] [comments]  |
| So Sick of my Brain Getting Swooped by Advertising Posted: 29 Sep 2019 09:59 AM PDT I can't stand marketing online and I want to create an online business. I hate the fact that I have to click 'x''s on pop ups every 30 seconds. I don't want to see advertising in the middle of a article I am trying to read. I understand that this is how companies make money, but seriously, I can't focus. It is zapping my consiousness. I do not have ADHD but I see that it permeates into other areas of my life. I can't sit and read a book anymore. I have trouble with deep thinking. I know that companies have cognitive neuroscientists and behavioral science PhD's on staff working to get every facet of my attention. How can I fight back? What strategies have you used to gain your attention back in the face of this? How can I as a small business, both, find success and avoid the entrapment of online marketing? It's exhausting. [link] [comments]  |
| Where to get the softest t-shirts? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 11:46 AM PDT I want to start a niche t-shirt store. Where's the best place to get shirt? Is there a go to place for those super-soft form fitting shirts that you can get from various online stores? Edit: sorry I meant to add I'm looking for dropshippers. I want to sell on the front end with woocommerce and have them fulfilled by someone else. [link] [comments]  |
| How can I leverage Google reviews to make a business? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 11:08 AM PDT I am not sure if this qualifies for this sub, but thought I would try. I am kind of popular on Google reviews. I do a lot of contributing and my photos have over 4 million views. How can I leverage this to make money? [link] [comments]  |
| Any entrepreneur looking for a dropshipping store? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 12:51 PM PDT Hey everyone, I made a store on Wordpress+WooCommerce about a year ago, for a few months I did invest my time in it, I wrote every single product description, edited product pictures, made banners, funnels, and grew my Instagram account to 5k. I tried to make some sales, and I did make a few, but I lost interest on it fairly quickly. To be honest I wasn't very passionate about it, and as i got intensely passionate about other parts of life, I literally stoped trying to make my dropshipping page work. I got a job at a fairly big company which allowed me to save some money, which was what I needed and the reason I tried to start dropshipping in the first place. I just quit my job and I'm moving out to start a permaculture project and learn more about plants, which is something I am really passionate about. Anyway, long story short, I just got a mail from my hosting service saying I need to renew in a a couple weeks, I was going to let the page die and sell the instagram account, but I figured someone could used it if they are interested in that niche and could save them lots of hours of work, since it is perfectly ready to start selling, and also I could at least get back the money I spent on it The site is www.cosmic-eye.com and the instagram account is https://www.instagram.com/_cosmic_eye/ I also have a FB page but I never really invested time on it If anyone is interested and passionate not just about dropshipping but about this niche, just DM me, or if you guys know of a place where I could sell it? that would be nice too [link] [comments]  |
| Opening a new bar, what do I need to know? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 12:22 PM PDT Hey there, Would love some advice if anyone can help! Have been thinking of opening a small upscale cocktail bar ( think speakeasy ) in Wisconsin. But opening a bar is alien to me. What do I need to know or do to begin the process. [link] [comments]  |
| When an entrepreneur innovates Posted: 29 Sep 2019 11:48 AM PDT Have you guys noticed that : eating out is very difficult and expensive. In an area, typically, You find few outlets selling pizza or burger, you find a restaurant in which meals are quite expensive, and that's it. Here you have : only few foods, and they are expensive You can eat almost nothing, Eating out is nearly impossible Do you guys see ? This model is very inefficient Something important is missing It is : a restaurant where food keeps changing, chefs also rotate This restaurant is going to serve thousands of foods over the course of time A meal is going to be cheap You will be able to eat thousands of foods Eating out will finally become possible This model is way better [link] [comments]  |
| Any Tv Series recommendation for entrepreneurs, business/startup owners? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 10:03 AM PDT I'm yet to come across a good business oriented TV show. I absoultely love Silicon Valley (can't wait for the final season), Suits (well, the first 5 seasons anyway), and the movies Big Short and The Founder were amazing. But, I crave a lot more of this stuff. Help me out guys. [link] [comments]  |
| What would you do if you were at this phase? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 09:33 AM PDT I have an idea for an app and I've been working on it for about a month now. I've also planned the business model, the MVP and other basic things required. I'm thinking to find a tech co-founder who could execute my ideas into reality. As a founder I can take up the responsibility of marketing initially (I'm also learning coding) and I also have the necessary contacts of people who could invest once our product gets some air. I also have a network of our customers (students) to whom I've put forward my ideas and they were really excited to see it turn to reality. They've been having this problem for quite a long time and really are in need of a solution. This app solves all of their major problems and increases their efficiency and makes studying more fun to them. and I'm interested in building more such apps which could help benefit students, employees and our environment and in the process make us money. If you have some advice or would like to join or talk to me feel free to contact. [link] [comments]  |
| What is the best way to collect and distribute funds as a middle man? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 09:27 AM PDT I want to build a website where I would pretty much be the eBay for a specific niche. I've looked at sites like PayPal and Square but they all have fees of around $.30 and ~2.7%. for a single transaction this isn't terrible. But I figured I would collect the funds from the buyer, take my cut, and distribute the rest to the seller. The issue with this is now we are looking at over 5% and $.60 just to make the transaction happen. Is there a better way of doing this? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2019 09:11 AM PDT It's Wednesday February the 4th 2009 and they're about to press send… Send on an email broadcast to 122,451 people… linking to a landing page with a $1 offer. An offer that could change to fortunes of the whole business, and the lives of those within it… CLICK It's sent. They refresh their PayPal account and the sales are rushing in… This promotion ended up bringing in just under 5,000 new customers and approximately $1m in revenue over the coming years. But if you asked Rand today if he would do that again? He would say no. Why? Because it's a "growth hack". It's a short term boost in metrics for long term pain - higher than industry average churn plagued Moz for years to come. If this is the kind of thing that Moz does to grow, why are they still around after almost 20 years? Sustainable marketing flywheels... which when combined with SaaS growth hacks, can produce incredible results. I mean, these guys rank for "SEO" itself... Here's a link to the full, 1,800 word case study... even Rand approves: [link] [comments]  |
| How many people on here run a single person LLC? Posted: 28 Sep 2019 02:22 PM PDT I'm asking because I'm currently in the process of running a startup which is projected to open in Q1 of next year in Phoenix, AZ. Its still in the beginning stages but debating if I should use "we" or "I" when marketing my new company. How do you guys approach it? [link] [comments]  |
| How do you guys promote your website? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 04:23 AM PDT I own a relatively small adult content based website(which I won't link here due to obvious reasons). As with all adult content sites getting yourself known is quite a hassle. Mostly because there are a bajillion +1 already existing ones. Mine is pretty niche so seo doesn't really do much, even though I'm quite focused on it. Not to mention I cannot compete with bigger websites no matter how much I try. I'm just one guy, they have whole teams of people. The way I see it I only have a few options:
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| Where can you find list of types of businesses and their profit margins? Posted: 29 Sep 2019 08:06 AM PDT I have been wanting to get data like this for long time... I want to start a business, i dont believe most businesses require some mystic knowledge, just hard work and student mentality. However I dont know what different types of businesses are there, just few i see around me. So.. is there a list of businesses that can be opened? guides on how to run a certain business (exclude any guides that are like step 1: register a dba...no, more like insights into hiring for that industry, inside tips) finally, profit margins for businesses (not industries).. There are like 50+ types of construction companies (plumbing, roofing, gardening, pool, etc) they will be all merged under construction industry. not what i want to see. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2019 08:05 AM PDT It's like the one of the best marketing methods out there and I wanna share my experience with you guys since I learned a lot here. So I have started an Asian Restaurant (in European) about 3 months ago. After that time I thought it was important to start advertising. After a thorough internet search and self thinking I came to the conclusion that buying chopsticks (wooden reusable ones) and putting my logo (it says next to the logo that we deliver too) and number on it is the best way to go. I gave every customer (old and new ones) one of those after they left. I started noticing that my deliveries started going up because people liked eating with chopsticks to maximize their experience. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2019 07:59 AM PDT Hello everyone... So I've been worrying about my future extensively, whenever I get some time off work (which is pretty much my life at the moment) on weekends or late evenings the only thing I think of is how I suck as of this moment and where I need to improve, which is good in some ways, except, I've not worked on those things and they're broad issues like weight gain, looking at others in my field and thinking what to do to get ahead but then realising you're far far away and they're already killing it. I know I shouldn't be thinking about stuff this way but I can't help myself given social media and other forces around me... As you might imagine, after what I mentioned above, the mind wanders in dangerous places and starts building & demanding unrealistic expectations from you and each week you realise that you're miles away from that idea self.I also thought of what career I truly want to invest myself in and I like too many things at once, hence, multiple targets. By the way, this is my background...I'm a 22yo (soon 23) I've studied Computer Science at a city college and currently hold a job at a startup wherein I have a job as a sales person cum executive assistant. I know that most people with experience might want to shit on me but think of me as a kid who has either lost his way or isn't seeing the things that you have. [link] [comments]  |
| Hiring a Designer and then Owning The Design Posted: 29 Sep 2019 01:09 AM PDT Hi All: Thanks in advance to anyone who bothers to read this and reply. I'm just curious, if I were to hire a graphic designer online (from Upwork, Fiver etc) to design an graphic for a shirt idea I have..... how do I go about making sure I have commercial rights to do the following: - Be sure I own the design and can sell it on printed shirts without owing them any money. Any advice you have is greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| I'm 17.. and I wanna start a company Posted: 29 Sep 2019 09:57 AM PDT Going to uni next year for media production and entrepreneurship in Canada I live on a very small but well-known island which is kind of an advantage for me when starting up a business (like hell we don't have a boba shop or kbbq... where yall at tho?) My idea is so futuristic yet not impossible. Woke up with clear ideas and ask around for some guidance from my connections. I won international awards for my videos, started youtube for fun at the age 14-15 (only 7 vids uploaded, kinda focused on school after) highest viewed video is around 7 million views and first video uploaded gained 1 million views (avg: 500k for each video, but due to my location, I cannot gain revenue) aka I'm really hella passionate about video editing, music, entertainment and hopefully start up a mass media company // I main the sciences in high school so I don't have any formal education on business. Too busy studying for A-levels to do extra research. I want to know what I should look out for and some mistakes people make when starting up a business. I would also like some resources such as websites to expand my knowledge and maybe make more connections with people with the same interests. [link] [comments]  |
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