[PINNED] Promote your business, week of November 4, 2019 small business |
- [PINNED] Promote your business, week of November 4, 2019
- [PINNED] In this post, share your small business experience, successes, failures, AMAs, and lessons learned. Week of November 4, 2019
- Should I get an LLC when starting my e-commerce store?
- Some people take the 'hustle 24/7' thing way to far.
- Using InDesign to generate invoices on a per invoice basis?
- Help validating a business idea!
- A Smart and Effective Alternative to Meetup
- Asking For the Job of Social Media Marketer
- European skin care business - social media coaching
- Reasons for giving up on a business you started?
- Legally, how do I go about hiring my employees at our Beauty Salon business?
- Business professional up for a informal chat?
- Google ads worth it?
- Drone business struggle to find clients
- Ternvoyages: International tour packages in Chennnai, India
- Moving to a virtual office
- our success depends on focus
- Find your website target audience
- Started Business focused on helping SB's grow profitable...Let me know your thoughts
- Two 17 year old guys looking for advice about our startup. Really any advice is really gonna be appreciated like really since we are newbies.
- Can I Get Some Help Coming Up With a Slogan?
- How to price for consulting/contract work
- Philosophical question: Do you think the "disappearing socks" phenomemon applies also to inventory?
- Best way for an LLC, help?
- Bank Recommendations for a Small Start Up
- Print On Demand - Is It Worth It?
| [PINNED] Promote your business, week of November 4, 2019 Posted: 03 Nov 2019 04:39 PM PST Post business promotion messages here including special offers especially if you cater to small business. Note: To prevent your messages from being flagged by the autofilter, don't use shortened URLs. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2019 04:49 PM PST This post welcomes and is dedicated to:
/r/smallbusiness is one of a very few subs where people can ask questions about operating their small business. To let that happen the main sub is dedicated to answering questions about subscriber's own small businesses. Many people also want to talk about things which are not specific questions about their own business. We don't want to disappoint those subscribers and provide this post as a place to share that content without overwhelming specific and often less popular simple questions. This isn't a license to spam the thread. Business promotion and free giveaways are welcome only in the Promote Your Business thread. Thinly-veiled website or video promoting posts will be removed as blogspam. Discussion of this policy and the purpose of the sub is welcome at https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/ana6hg/psa_welcome_to_rsmallbusiness_we_are_dedicated_to/ [link] [comments]  |
| Should I get an LLC when starting my e-commerce store? Posted: 03 Nov 2019 07:13 PM PST I am starting an e-commerce store based around one product in the maternity niche. I want to get a trademark as well (I know it's better to wait but I still plan on getting one at launch lol) anyways would it be better to get the trademark under a sole proprietorship and test out the product and see if I can scale the company before getting an llc? Would o be able to change the owner to an llc later on the trademark? [link] [comments]  |
| Some people take the 'hustle 24/7' thing way to far. Posted: 03 Nov 2019 05:57 AM PST I'm a self employed guy, a realtor, you can argue amongst yourselves if I'm an entrepreneur. To be real, nothing is new anymore unless you're creating a machine that will transport organic matter to the other side of the planet in the blink of an eye, like a teleporter. Anyways. This 'hustle' nonsense is crazy. I buy rental property and sell real estate to buy more. I'm 40 and clear $3,000 in passive income per month. Im pretty happy right now and being where I am makes me wonder about some instagram 'influencers'. I'm talking about the grant cardones of the world and his disciples. You dont need a billion dollars! You dont need $10 million! Andy Frisella, what's this guys problem? He's gotta be clearing $100,000 per months, shut the fuck up and enjoy your life asshole. It's not just the famous one, I follow friends here locally that adopt and espouse these same ideals and beliefs, and I know they are already doing very well. When does it stop for these people? Are they simply narsiccisit psychopaths that would behave in this manner no matter what the circumstances? I think so. Get your shit and chiiiiil bro. No need to be up at 04:30 posting pics of your alarm clock when you're claiming to make $50,000 per month off of investments alone... lay in bed till she wakes up, fuck the wife, go back to bed and have breakfast with her, how bout that? [link] [comments]  |
| Using InDesign to generate invoices on a per invoice basis? Posted: 03 Nov 2019 10:00 PM PST I have used QuickBooks Online in the past. For the last few months I've been using a hand made invoice design in InDesign, and just filling it in and saving it as a PDF to be sent out. Wondering if this is worth it. I can see with InDesign my design possibilities are endless. QuickBooks Online invoices actually look quite good, but design possibilities are limited by their tagging docx system which i don't want to bother learning. Anyway, any harm in using InDesign to generate invoices? Or should I be moving to QuickBooks online asap (Xero is too expensive). Or should I use QuickBooks online just for accounting, but keep generating custom invoices with InDesign? [link] [comments]  |
| Help validating a business idea! Posted: 03 Nov 2019 09:41 PM PST Hi! Recently I started thinking about how slow business computers in college, in my gym, my friends company, etc are (I live in latin america btw). They usually take about 5 minutes just to turn on and be usable. My college professors get angry at the computers all the time because of how slow they are. One of my passions is building computers, and I know how to build one cheaply and with good performance. I checked out my college computers today, and they have like 1x4GB of RAM, an extremely outdated i3 and a turtle slow HD. The thing is, I think they're probably paying a lot for this, when they could be buying custom computers with SSDs and at least 8GB for about the same price or even less. Almost all business computers here are from Dell, and I would like to know why - I know it's probably because of warranty, pricing, installation, support etc. But I can't see why new companies aren't emerging to build custom solutions for businesses - with excellent performing computers for less $, since now more than ever new businesses, like startups, need better computers (I'm not talking about servers and cloud technology). I think I could build custom computers for these business according to their needs, and deliver great performance with the use of updated processors, SSDs and a good amount of RAM - even "cheap" graphics cards today are quite good. I've seen Dell's prices, and they're expensive - but I think that has to do with offering 5 years of warranty and etc. I know a lot of businesses just want to buy the computers and not have to worry for 5 years, but I'm shure there are companies out there wanting truly great computers, and they shouldn't have to pay that much for it. I would like to validate my idea, since I don't know a lot about this market (of selling computers B2B), any insights will be appreciated, thanks! - I'll leave the classic 'I'm sorry for my english, it's not my native language!' [link] [comments]  |
| A Smart and Effective Alternative to Meetup Posted: 04 Nov 2019 03:17 AM PST The tech-savvy generation is increasingly opting for online event planning platforms because of its many advantages. An essential factor in the success of any event is the event registration software chosen by the organizer. Meetup.com has been a popular preference among many online event planners for a while, but netizens worldwide have now started looking for alternatives after they announced a shocking change in their business model regarding pricing policies. The right online event planning system should not only be cost-effective for the organizer but it should also help in attracting a bigger crowd of attendees. Here is why you should consider Eventurbo as a smart and useful alternative to Meetup. [link] [comments]  |
| Asking For the Job of Social Media Marketer Posted: 03 Nov 2019 02:29 PM PST Long time reader, first time poster, just kind of looking for advice. My dad [55M] runs an accounting firm with a very specific type of accounting. He's been working on this and running the firm since 2015 and recently came into a lot of jobs. In the last year he hired on a buddy of his [58M] to run his social media accounts and to be in charge of email marketing and such. This buddy does this sort of work for a living and has gotten away with taking about half of my dad's earnings as payment for a good while. While I understand the need to have social media marketing, the amount of money and the types of posts that come out don't really make sense. For example: Posts riddled with misuse of hastags scattered across facebook, twitter, and LinkedIn. The Buddy was supposed to be in charge of an email list for holidays, big events, newsletters, etc. and he only really does those once, twice, or maybe three times a year, certainly not anything monthly. He rarely puts up photos or anything on facebook, never links to relevant articles or my dad's own written articles, and generally seems to just be mucking about and then taking payment for it. I [26F] have been working for my dad as a business and data analyst since the conception of this firm and more recently came on as full time employee after quitting my old job and doing a massive move. I work remotely, so I'm already monitoring my email and doing most of the work needed independently with little supervision from my dad. Recently my wife has told me that my dad's social media feed is "awful and unappealing". I feel bad, but I agree and hate that other people see the business on social media and are probably thinking the same. I designed the website for him, set it up, and then he handed it over to his Buddy to maintain and keep track of, but even the Buddy admits that he doesn't have to do much for it. I'm co-authoring my dad's accounting textbook that he is writing and in general have done my best to be an involved member of his business even outside of that analysis side of it. I want to be his social media person, want to take over and hopefully rehabilitate the accounts into something much more appealing, professional, and clean. I just don't know how to bring it up to my dad without sounding like I'm throwing his Buddy under the bus. Please help! [link] [comments]  |
| European skin care business - social media coaching Posted: 04 Nov 2019 02:53 AM PST Hi guys, I am starting a small skin care business in Europe. The market segment is a little bit different from pure beauty because it's sbout ingredients that help cure your skin problems - therefore making you beautiful by achieving a healthy skin. I have heard that the new trend is to see a lot of entrepreneurs - teach people how to be distributors and become profitable - how to use products, - teach sales people how to sell to a certain public (retail, corporate, etc). If it were only about featuring new skincare products, probably Instagram would be the go-to platform. But since this involves professional coaching and advice on how to run profitable business (more corporate presentation ), what do you think would be the best platform to reach a global audience? I am specifically looking for 1- Europe, northern America, Australia, new Zealand 2- frontier markets like Asia, middle East 3- optional: Africa. Thank you all for your advice! [link] [comments]  |
| Reasons for giving up on a business you started? Posted: 03 Nov 2019 07:11 AM PST I started an environmental consulting company and I am feeling overwhelmed and stressed. I have work but I'm killing myself trying to keep up with it and trying to find good help. I feel like throwing in the towel and doing something more simple that I might actually enjoy because the thought of doing this long term doesn't sound feasible. Have others here given up on their dream of being a business owner and if so, why? How did you come to terms with it? Or how did you move past the really hard times and stick with it? [link] [comments]  |
| Legally, how do I go about hiring my employees at our Beauty Salon business? Posted: 03 Nov 2019 06:15 AM PST As our business grew this past year, we trained and brought in an employee- they are paid strictly off commission 50 percent) and their share adds up to much more than hourly minimum wage. They work at our salon and we provide them the space as well as all supplies and client appointments. They just show up to our salon, perform the service and at the end of the week we give them their commission + tips. We've been doing this without any paperwork or contracts because it was such a tiny business at first and the person was a close friend but now with the growth and possibility of more employees, I don't want to risk legal trouble. So what should be my first step? Should my employees be W-2 or 1099 contractors? Are there contracts and policies I should have them sign? I also keep hearing about Gusto or Square for paying employees and wonder if this is reccomended for our business. Thanks everyone! [link] [comments]  |
| Business professional up for a informal chat? Posted: 04 Nov 2019 02:12 AM PST Currently a university student, for my co-op class I have to conduct a quick informal interview with an industry professional. I enjoy marketing, entrepreneurship and Finance. If you have a job in any of those fields and would let me ask you 3-4 questions for my interview please let me know. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2019 12:54 AM PST I had a rep from Google call me today pitching Google ads to me, and as I am very small (started my lawn care business a couple of months ago) organic traffic to my website is almost non existent. My main source of web traffic comes from a local business listing page which routes to my website. In your experience are Google ads worth it as a local service business? [link] [comments]  |
| Drone business struggle to find clients Posted: 03 Nov 2019 11:57 PM PST Hello all, Few months ago I bought professional drone looking to start my own small business with real estate aerial photography, Went to the meetings with all local estate agencies, sent dozens of email to the other agents that are further away. People I went to the meetings with seem super interested in my services as I offer good deal overall. Got dozen of them telling me they will start offering this to their customers. Had no one call me ever since. Not a single person.... What do I do wrong? This sort of business seem to grow drastically in USA. Not that much in Northern Ireland I'm desperate for any advice or offers [link] [comments]  |
| Ternvoyages: International tour packages in Chennnai, India Posted: 03 Nov 2019 11:13 PM PST Ternvoyages provivding services with a big discount on these packages such as Private celebrity getaways, Romantic getaways, Ladies only package, children exclusive package, Activity based holiday, Special occasion holiday and many more.We are the best service provider in Chennai, India. Visit Us - www.ternvoyages.com #Family vacation #Private_celebrity_getaways #Romantic_getaways #Ladies_only_package #children_exclusive_package #Activity_based_holiday #Special_occasion_holiday #Cruise_holiday #Gentlemen_holiday [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2019 03:13 PM PST We are a small software agency with a max of 5 people in the office. Our lease is coming up for renewal and I am considering moving us to remote working setup.
Has anyone moved to this model of working? How did it go. We'd definitely miss the usual office banter that goes on, but can that be replicated if we had a permanent Skype conference going on while people were working? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2019 10:28 PM PST For shoptech media, our success depends on focus.. we are a small team of ecommerce website developers.. and we only focus on 1 system/platform.. that is where our success comes from.. we do not want to be a know-it-all development company.. we want to be the best only on one area..and that is the best prestashop-thritybees ecommerce developer. https://shoptech.media/shopify-prestashop-thirtybees-which-ecommerce-system-to-use/ [link] [comments]  |
| Find your website target audience Posted: 03 Nov 2019 10:03 PM PST To find your website target audience is one of most important tasks you need to do as an ecommerce website lead digital marketer. It is the basis of all your online marketing strategy. It starts the moment you develop and name your products or services to the marketing channels you use to promote them. [link] [comments]  |
| Started Business focused on helping SB's grow profitable...Let me know your thoughts Posted: 03 Nov 2019 08:22 PM PST Hey everyone. I've been a long-time lurker of this subreddit, checking out other posts and trying to gain as much advice as I could before our soft launch. This is actually my first time posting on Reddit, and I figured others like me could benefit from seeing what I've been doing. I recently launched [Mavient Blue](https://www.mavientblue.com), a consulting and professional service focused on making your visions profitable. So I figured I'd share the start of my journey to entrepreneurship. Maybe it'll inspire some of you. Or perhaps you guys can make some suggestions for my site (that would definitely be appreciated!). After years of helping my corporate job grow from a small to midsize company to a prominently listed fortune 500, I finally decided it's time for me to begin my own company. I knew I could start a business based on the success I had growing the corporate company with the right strategies to optimize successes based on ROI, annual projected profit, and payback period. With this idea, Mavient Blue was born. So here's what I've done so far:
As I continue working on Mavient Blue, I'm excited to see how far we can take it. I hope you guys have enjoyed reading this and look forward to hearing from and interacting with you. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2019 04:54 AM PST We want to open a business, delivery business to be exact. To do that we needed to earn some money. So here we are spent 3 days sleeping at each others houses looking how we can earn the startup money and we found a way. A party. We went to speak to a club/restaurant manager setup a date and time and told him we're bringing 209 guests. Long story short we should be earning 1000$-2000$. Each guest has to pay 20$ the manager will take 8$ per guest since he is bringing a plate of food and drink per guest. Any tips guys? Any advice that could help us, mistakes we should avoid. Really we will be extremely grateful. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I Get Some Help Coming Up With a Slogan? Posted: 03 Nov 2019 07:31 PM PST Hi, I own a social media marketing agency called Avanzata Marketing. I gave it an italian name because my grandpa was italian and its family tradition to name every one in italian. This agency is like my baby so I gave it an italian name too. It means advance. Can I get a couple ideas around that that i can use for brain storming? [link] [comments]  |
| How to price for consulting/contract work Posted: 03 Nov 2019 03:14 PM PST I'm a big, big fan of Donald Miller's Storybrand process and I use it all the time at my day job. In the last few weeks a marketing company who specializes in Storybrand has asked me to help work with their clients to go through the process. I'm flattered that they value my work, but we haven't had "the talk" with them - that is, how I'll be paid for the work I do for and through them. This gig would be a side hustle for me, as contract labor, with the goal of going full time on my own someday. I'm not officially certified but I'm really good at this process. My big problem is, I don't know how to price myself in this role and I can't find a good guide on how to identify a proper pricing model. Any suggestions or thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| Philosophical question: Do you think the "disappearing socks" phenomemon applies also to inventory? Posted: 03 Nov 2019 08:24 AM PST I've noticed this both eons back when I had a programming job with a distribution company (all hands on deck for the once/year physical inventory) and now, running my own small online shop with in-house inventory. Stuff just seems to disappear, leaving your counts inaccurate. I know that it happens because staff take things and don't put them back where they belong, or if you have sloppy inventory-handling practices, or if your inventory software is crap. But I've noticed it happens even without those things, to a lesser extent perhaps, but it still happens. With my little shop, I carry only around $2-3K in inventory. It fits in a closet in an upstairs bedroom. I keep it very orderly, in stacks by color and size on labelled shelving. I do a physical inventory count 3 or 4 times a year. I'm using Shopify's native inventory management functionality since that's what I run my shop on and don't want to pay for anything more at this time. Shopify seems pretty reliable and I rarely have issues with it. I have no staff, so it's just me handling the merchandise, and I'm by nature methodical and put things back where they belong. And yet, I still occasionally accidentally sell a color of an item that I've run out of and have to apologize to a customer and offer a different color. Not often, maybe twice a year. I can't figure out how that's happening, so it must be the mystical black hole that is in our clothes dryers that eats socks. It's eating my inventory also, sometimes. Anybody else deal with this? Or a better question, has anybody managed to plug that black hole? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2019 11:19 AM PST I've been running my own pet sitting business for over about 8 years now. It used to be a side gig, I never had too many clients cause I always lived in very competitive states that also offer pet sitting/boarding. That was Texas and California, now I live in Mississippi and my business TOOK OFF! I started doing it full time and there isn't a day that I don't have someone booked or a weekend that I'm not running around to 10 different homes. I absolutely love it, it's been my dream job for so long and I'm happy to finally have so many clients that I can make a living off it now. I've been in Mississippi now a year with this business and have over 50+ clients with multiple pets. It's been a very busy year, it was an insanely busy Summer and I'm looking to hire someone next year to help me. Next year or possibly before this year ends, I will then make my business official LLC. I know nothing of making a business official. I've never paid taxes for my pet sitting cause I've never made a lot of money doing it until now. My dad still thinks I should wait till next year to save all my tax stuff up and do it next year instead but I feel like I should do it this year because I don't want to get in trouble at all! I love this business and what I do, I want to keep it and do it forever so I don't want to get into trouble! I need advice help! Best way to make your business LLC, insured and bonded, how do I cover employees eventually? How will they be able to pay their taxes when working for me? Do I need to provide pay stubs even though clients will be paying the employee directly instead of to me? I have no idea what I'm doing y'all. I just know how to care for animals, so I'm completely lost on this adulting shit 😠HELP [link] [comments]  |
| Bank Recommendations for a Small Start Up Posted: 03 Nov 2019 06:03 PM PST Starting a small construction/design/manufacturing business and looking for bank recommendations. Appreciate the help! [link] [comments]  |
| Print On Demand - Is It Worth It? Posted: 03 Nov 2019 05:09 PM PST Hello, I'm new to the sub-reddit, so I am sorry if this is off topic or against any rules. I was wondering what your opinion on Print On Demand services are such as printful? If it were me, I'd much rather be in control of my own product and understand the quality I am providing to my customers. With POD as your provider, the garment quality will be the exact same however surely the DTG (direct to garment) printing is less in quality in comparison to screen printing and the delivery time just shows customers that you're a dropshipping business rather than an actual passionate company? I am curious on your thoughts as I'm really interested in this. The service POD companies provide is amazing for the most part but surely POD companies are for people that want to dive into trends for a quick buck rather than build a sustainable business? Looking forward to your replies and I'm sorry if this seems a bit anti-POD. Thanks, Jon. [link] [comments]  |
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