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- Co-Founder not doing his part, at all.
- I am a one man business, Bookkeeping is my weakness. I need to figure out a strategy.
- Guys I’m thinking about an online business for few mouths now, the problem is that i can’t begin, even if i planned everything that i want to do.. what’s your advice ?
- Should I charge per person for a lesson, even though by prep time etc won’t change?
- How can I find my co-founder?
- Need assistance picking an email provider
- How to sell my profitable cafe in Los Angeles
- Is the 30 day challenge from Garry Halbert legit?
- 7 tips for small businesses. How to increase sales in social media
- Square deposits suspended, any way to get funds back quick?
- Would a 100k loan be realistic for a new business (1 year old) that did 150k in sales on their first year ?
- can’t decide which is better: my business or full time job
- What do you pay monthly for your website service?
- Books on shipping products?
- Need help and advice with running small dress store Please help ��
- internal paperwork(standard operating procedures) to get things done consistent?
- i wanna start a business selling self-designed t-shirt , should i start it online or offline ?
- I have experience in direct to consumer sales (d2d and some b2b) and I'd like to help anyone that needs it?
- Thinking about starting a drone business
- Build to lease or buy?
- Cheapest way to ship small, 1 lb item?
- How do I/should I report some people using stolen credit cards at my business?
- Shipping solutions for small, light products?
- A good name for a business helping expats with their daily struggles in their new country
- Protecting Intellectual Property/Timing of establishing a small business
| Co-Founder not doing his part, at all. Posted: 11 Oct 2019 01:56 AM PDT Hello, Without getting into too many details, me and an old friend have since 2017 been working on and off, on a product. We are finally coming to an end where the product is ready to be released. We only talk online since he lives in the UK while I'm in Sweden. We are both in our twenties and have known each other for almost 10 years now. We were supposed to ship our product last Friday, but we ran into a few problems and decided to delay it with another week. Ever since last Friday he has not done anything, what so ever to help me finish this up. He comes online for a few hours a day, only to relax and watch youtube. Even though we're under time pressure, he does not care. It's now Friday and we are supposed to release our product today, but It is still not finished. For the past four days, he has only come online twice to say hello. While I've been working non-stop trying to finish this. I worked for almost 16 hours yesterday and only got four hours of sleep, trying my absolute best to have this finished by today. I have not seen him for three days now. Last week I gave him one single task while I took a lot more upon me. He has barely started it and is far away from finishing it. He came online three days ago and told me he can't do it because It's too difficult and now wants to pay someone else to do it for him. Which we for several reasons can't do. The one task he has is not difficult, he is just too lazy to try and understand the problem and find a way to make it work. He zero problem-solving skills. He has been doing this ever since we started this project together two years ago. He is motivated for a week then he completely loses it and does nothing no matter what. If we were to split up our work progress into percentages I've easily done about 85-90% of the work so far. We are still splitting the profits 50/50 and he is adamant about not changing the money split %. Even though it sucks that he's getting half I don't care too much. It's more about the fact that he never does any work but acts as he does. I think the main problem is that he isn't fully aware of how little he does in comparison to me and he isn't being honest with himself about it either. He takes responsibility for things and says he's gonna work on & finish certain tasks, but always end up telling me he can't and then I have to go in and do it for him. Every. Single. Time. When I call him out on this he either tells me he doesn't care or that I'm overreacting. But this is costing me both time and money. It does not feel fair to fire him since we've been friends for so long and we started this whole thing together. If this was anyone else I would have fired him a long time ago. What would you do in this case? [link] [comments]  |
| I am a one man business, Bookkeeping is my weakness. I need to figure out a strategy. Posted: 10 Oct 2019 02:01 PM PDT I make and repair jewelry, I have a small brick and mortar in my downtown that I have been in for two years. I am really good at what I do, I can make stuff all day, and repair almost anything better than most. But for the life of me, I cannot keep track of anything. I am an artist sort with a pinch of forgetful professor. If i didn't carry a notebook and pen with me I would not remember anything, I literally use the string around my finger to remember for example to pick up an extension cord I needed this morning. It just feels like I am drowning, I have tried to set up my books a few different ways, but nothing works for me. I still have to calculate last years taxes, which are due in a few days, but all I have from last year are some notes to myself of things I have sold, and a few receipts. I have no clue what to report, and I am pretty sure if I kept good track I would barely owe anything. Its not been much better this year, I tried to do it on my ipad but tech stuff overwhelms me, so I switched back to paper, I made a binder with different sections for inventory, daily sales, repairs and custom I am working on, expenses. Etcetera, which would work, but I keep forgetting about it for a week or two and then try to fill out what I can all at once and I am sure I forget stuff! The other day I found a receipt for over a grand in gold I bought that I had never put into my expenses... who knows what else there is. Ugh its a mess, I would appreciate any advice or would love to just start a conversation that I can learn from. I just want to keep making stuff but this really creates a roadblock for my business, aside from this everything is going amazing for me. [link] [comments]  |
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| Should I charge per person for a lesson, even though by prep time etc won’t change? Posted: 11 Oct 2019 02:24 AM PDT I am a tutor / teacher in Japan running my own school. I had been focusing on private lessons only, but recently have started group lessons. One of my neighbors wants to send her kids to me. There are two of them. She has asked if I can do a lower price, and I'm flexible as I don't have any other group lesson students yet. However, I'm not sure if I should charge per student. (She has two kids she wants to send to the same lesson.) If they were different families, I would, but they're sisters. My prep time, lesson planning, materials etc won't really change whether I have 1 or 2 or even 4 students. On one hand, I am eager to get my first group lesson students because I want word of mouth to spread and more to come. If I keep the price low, I'm certain they'll sign a contract and become students. On the other hand, the price I already offered is significantly lower than chain competitors in the area (plus I'm right across the street from the prospective students and there are a lot of potential future students in my neighborhood.) But if I drop my price too low, I won't be making enough to offset material costs and prep time. Once I set the price for these students, I won't be able to easily set a price for other new students, as I'm certain parents in the neighborhood will compare prices. I need to keep the price fair and equal for everyone. But too high and her parents probably can't afford it. Maybe I can offer some kind of family discount if two or more people from the same family join? What would you do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2019 06:53 AM PDT I started a full service digital agency and I am looking for a sales partner to grow the business. Me, I am a seasoned web developer and marketing strategist who's developed software solutions for the last 10 years. I decided to start my own software agency. I already have a DevOps team and the infrastructure already in place and now, I am looking for a sales partner to lead our sales strategy, but I have no idea how to. So I thought I post it here and see if someone has ideas. FYI, here are some details about the kind of person I am looking for:
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: * Lead generation, customer needs assessment and closing of identified opportunities * Accurately forecast opportunities and log activities within company CRM system * Execute activity levels for calls, meetings, quotes, and new opportunities added to the sales funnel each month * Meet monthly sales quotas * Follow up with clients * Must be a people person, with a friendly attitude * Google Docs proficient [link] [comments]  |
| Need assistance picking an email provider Posted: 11 Oct 2019 06:45 AM PDT Hey all, I've been working on a small business and I'm currently stuck on which email provider to use. We've switched back and forth between a few because none seem to offer the balance of price competitiveness, ability to do large scale emailing (order confirmations, etc), and have SMTP access. We're currently using Magento 2 which is having issues connecting to gmails SMTP server. We're looking at Zoho but their plans are confusing and expensive. What luck have other small business owners had with quality hosted email services? [link] [comments]  |
| How to sell my profitable cafe in Los Angeles Posted: 10 Oct 2019 06:13 AM PDT Just looking for advice on the best way to put my business up for sale, without getting scammed or ripped off? I maintain one profitable location in downtown Los Angeles, with newer equipment and a fully remodeled dining and kitchen area. Should I include the value of the equipment in the sale price, or discount them slightly? How about sales projections? Do I need to show my books to prospective buyers? Just looking for advice from someone who has gone through the same process. [link] [comments]  |
| Is the 30 day challenge from Garry Halbert legit? Posted: 11 Oct 2019 05:53 AM PDT Before i fully dedicate myself to the challenge, i want to know if someone here has finished and what are your thoughts about it. [link] [comments]  |
| 7 tips for small businesses. How to increase sales in social media Posted: 11 Oct 2019 05:02 AM PDT |
| Square deposits suspended, any way to get funds back quick? Posted: 10 Oct 2019 07:57 PM PDT After accepting just 2 payments deposits to my bank have been suspended. Now I have $160 stuck in the Square account with no telling how long until i'll get it back. What would be a clever way to send the money to myself? Would I be able to send a specific refund amount to my own bank card? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2019 10:35 PM PDT I have 700-750 credit depending on who i check the score with, in january i will have submitted all my taxes for the end of the year and i predict i will be right around 150k in total sales. I do not have any previous employment records, but do have good credit and proof of lots of sales. Would it be realistic for me to obtain a 100k business loan under these circumstances after i submit this years taxes? [link] [comments]  |
| can’t decide which is better: my business or full time job Posted: 10 Oct 2019 03:30 PM PDT So I'm doing pretty good with my dog walking business and have two clients and 4 dogs now (just started in august) but I thought it'd be a good idea to get a full time job at the vet as a kennel Tech which blocks off 11am-7pm m-f and one of my clients has me specifically for lunch visits since she has to work. I haven't officially started the job yet, I'm supposed to train Monday and Wednesday and then I start full time after this week. My weekly client booked me for Monday and Wednesday at times I won't be able to make if I take the job, and I'm sure she'll be consistent week to week so it'll be a good thing to keep up. I'm not sure if I want to hire another person and pass it on (I've just started walking him like two weeks ago so it's really soon) or if I shouldn't take the job and stick to my walking jobs and the part time I have (I don't need more money, but it'd be cool to help me get a mortgage and more dog experience) I just don't want to disappoint her by switching walkers and then she doesn't want to work with us anymore but then again I was planning on eventually stopping and passing all clients over to my employees, I'm just not sure if this is too soon [link] [comments]  |
| What do you pay monthly for your website service? Posted: 10 Oct 2019 01:32 PM PDT Hello What do you pay each month for your website service? By that I mean for them to monitor it, add or change things that I request, they also post on our Facebook 4-5 times a week? Our website has 7-8 tabs, a few slideshows, a chat box for leads that gets emailed to us. The Facebook posts are just broad facts, do you knows, etc, about our industry. We pay $798 a month for the above services, is that average? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2019 02:46 PM PDT Bringing a retail product to online exclusive but worried about making errors on logistics along the way? Anyone have a crash course either in written or digital form? Thanks guys [link] [comments]  |
| Need help and advice with running small dress store Please help �� Posted: 10 Oct 2019 11:52 AM PDT Hi! So I've been running my family's dress store for the past two years, we're in a large metropolitan city in the US and we've done well for ourselves so far. There are some issues I've been grappling with and would love some outside perspective especially from other small business owners and workers! Some background info; I work for my cousin and aunt as they are the owners, I've been working here for 4 years and I'm fast approaching my last year of college and wanted to spruce things up before my departure (in the near future assuming all things go well.) We're a women's evening wear boutique specializing in prom, weddings (we get many Lebanese, Persian, Albanian, Turkish and many other nationalities who tend to have elaborate weddings.) We strive on a positive and inclusive business model making it a point to treat all customers respectfully, kindly, and truly care about their purchases rather than pushing for a sale. All things considered here are some issues we currently are having.
Any and all advice is truly helpful and means the world to me! Thank you all for your time and I truly appreciate everyone that posts and comments on this thread cause I've learned so much! [link] [comments]  |
| internal paperwork(standard operating procedures) to get things done consistent? Posted: 10 Oct 2019 12:53 PM PDT How does a business get good at written standard operations, polices and processes. Should the standard protocol be that there is a checklist that is written in one department, and it gets passed around the required department in a chain of command? Meaning if the planning team finds out it needs to make this new product, it notifies the manufacturing team, the manufacturing team might send a report that they need new machinery to make that new product, and that goes to the financial department for approval. Is it as simple as all the internal business departments send request aka paperwork to the upper management? And upper management aka corporate level deals with this? [link] [comments]  |
| i wanna start a business selling self-designed t-shirt , should i start it online or offline ? Posted: 10 Oct 2019 07:40 PM PDT I will work with several mates to start a self-designed store but we have not decided to start up an online store of rent a place to do offline business , which one is better ? coz online store has lower cost but the ad fee is expensive ; offline store has high rental but natural and organic traffic. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2019 01:28 PM PDT I'm not sure in what way(s) anyone may need help. But, if you go d2d for a service business then I can probably help, so reach out. [link] [comments]  |
| Thinking about starting a drone business Posted: 10 Oct 2019 05:48 AM PDT Anyone start their own drone/UAV business? Thinking about starting out at 1.5k on the phantom 4 v2.0 for some 4K video. Would love to get into the advertising or real estate industry. Having the idea of starting an instagram page to advertise and post some of my work. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2019 08:09 AM PDT I own 2 successful preschools, both the business and the properties they are on. I want to do a third location, but the down payment will be between $200k - $350k for a 7500sf building and land. I don't want to have to wait 2 years to save this up. I am considering working with a company who will buy the land, build the building to my specifications, and lease it to me. I have met with one builder so far with plans for two more. They quoted $22 - $28sf +nnn depending on the land price/location. Is the price worth it? Seems like a lot to me. A 20yr mortgage at 6% for $1.8M is a $12,500/month payment. They're asking me to pay up to $5k more per month. Should I just wait and save in order to have control of it all and a lower payment each month? Or get into the building quicker and start making money sooner? What drawbacks am I not seeing? Thank you for your opinion and feedback. Really appreciate your time! [link] [comments]  |
| Cheapest way to ship small, 1 lb item? Posted: 10 Oct 2019 05:07 PM PDT |
| How do I/should I report some people using stolen credit cards at my business? Posted: 10 Oct 2019 11:02 AM PDT Basically, I have a service business that has some packages that can be expensive. The other day I noticed a group being extremely weird and shifty, so I asked to see their ID and credit card. They made some excuse and left without going through with the service they "paid" for. I thought it was very fishy so I saved the surveillance footage. Fast forward to today, I got a dispute from my processor for their transaction. I'm 99.9% sure these guys were using stolen credit cards to try to steal hundreds of dollars worth of services from me, which really pisses me off. Is there anything I can do to help on the investigation against them? I have photos and videos of them in my space, but I'm not sure if the police will even care? [link] [comments]  |
| Shipping solutions for small, light products? Posted: 10 Oct 2019 04:43 PM PDT I've been selling my woodworking products online, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to ship them. So far, UPS is too expensive and USPS has been a headache because my local post office is always extremely busy. Any recommendations? [link] [comments]  |
| A good name for a business helping expats with their daily struggles in their new country Posted: 10 Oct 2019 10:38 AM PDT Hi! I live in Prague and actually am from the Czech Republic. I hang out with a lot of expats because of my work and also because of my boyfriend being one. I very often help my foreign friends with stuff they struggle with when they don't speak Czech. Like making phone calls or writing emails to companies when there are some issues. Or telling them where to go or who to talk to regarding different problems. Often translating a lot of stuff for them too. I realized I could expand beyond my friends group and offer services like that to the growing community of expats here in Prague. And perhaps start a little business out of it that would involve virtual assistant services but also possible travel plans/tips/guided tours etc. Right now however I am struggling to come up with a name for the business. I do not want to include my own name in it. Can you guys possibly brainstorm some? Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Protecting Intellectual Property/Timing of establishing a small business Posted: 10 Oct 2019 03:51 PM PDT I created an acronym to describe a protocol for helping students with disabilities. I plan to write a manual and start a small consulting business. Should I apply for a trademark? Do I protect the acronym now, even though The manual isn't complete? When do I establish the small business? Thanks for your help! [link] [comments]  |
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