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- Enployees use phone to often during working hours
- I don’t know what to say for my moms nail salon. Should she just give it up as planned to the landlord, liquidate what she can inside the store, or try to sell it off?
- How do I structure my business so that it's two separate businesses under the same person
- How to be heard as a small business dealing with giant corporations?
- 250k+ turnover - never done marketing/sales. Now I need to do some - Is there a go-to 'manual'?
- business name
- Has anyone used legalzoom to set up a LLC? Would you use it again? Pros and cons?
- Can anyone help me figure out which services to use to put educational videos online for purchase?
- Hiring students in summer
- I'm looking for a POS system for an office building with a coffee bar
- Conflict between owners on where to head
- To Retail business owners or store managers - what is your biggest trouble with your own salespeople?
- Who do you use to send a wire transfer to Mexico?
- Banking address issues.
- "We'll Get Right Back To you" ... NOT
- Enforcement of non-compete in Florida
- business at beach
- Reopen Google My Business after being marked as Temporarily Closed, how?
- Is hiring a pro ppc consultant a worthy investment?
- Vending Machine Company? Small invest?
- Business Account help
- FFCRA Question
- Phase 0.01 - Starting
- How to budget around receiving multiple years of payments at once
| Enployees use phone to often during working hours Posted: 26 Jun 2020 01:31 AM PDT My dad owns a small dessert store and he is often at the shop when it's operating. I've been there many times and often, I see employees(teenagers) on their cellphones, as if they have nothing better to do. Meanwhile I also notice that sometimes my dad does the stuff that they SHOULD do like sweep the floors, wipe down tables, wash cutleries etc. At the end of the day he mostly comes back exhausted and it really bothers me seeing him like this... he is paying employees to use their phones? I've told him about this before and he just replies that he does it because he is better at it. How should I convince him to make the employees do the tasks rather than himself? He is kinda stubborn and it's tough to make him see things in another way. Anyone has a business that hire teenagers who are also allowed to use cellphones? How do you deal with that? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 08:54 PM PDT I don't know how to structure this and it's nothing beautiful tbh (I've been quite sad thinking of my moms future), but I would really appreciate some help on whether my mom should just give up everything to the landlord, liquidate whatever is inside, try to sell it off once again, or continue operations? Some context: My immigrant mom owns a nail salon in Texas, USA that has been in business for over 10 years now (salon produces over $150k a year but has been steadily declining in business due to lots of factors, but primarily local competition). With COVID-19, she had declared unemployment (for what I know that is). About the nail salon: It's a decent sized shop a part of a strip mall and has about 7-8 technicians and their tables and respective leather chairs for the clients (for what I remember since I haven't gone to the shop in a while) and about another 8 of spas. There are two large TVs, a drying/UV table, some leather chairs for the waiting area, and two back rooms with 4 massaging beds for masks/waxing. There's also a large L shaped front reception/checking out desk. Like any nail salon, there are a plethora of chemicals and such nail supplies, bottles for such chemicals and towels, and lots of nail polish (Name brand and like over a hundred or two different colors). Attempts to selling: A few years ago, my mom was trying to sell the shop as she wants to get out and work on other things (burnout), and had a buyer in line for $80k, but unfortunately, the buyer fell ill. Then not too long ago before COVID, she had another buyer in line for a price I do not know of, but they have since dropped out for fair reason considering the current environment of small businesses. With all that said, what should my mom do? She's not a tech person and I worry for her. I don't know if I should help her a lot by continuing on the business, or let it die, to the landlord that will take everything inside? I didn't realize how downhill things have been going until now (I do not live in the same city as my mom). My mom and I are supposed to meet soon to discuss of this because she said she was going to give everything to the landlord, and I was like hell no. Is there still a chance for liquidation, selling to a realtor or another buyer, continuing on the business with a new POS system and store layout in mind with social media pages (my mom never used any social media to grow the business these past 10 years), etc? I'm open to all ideas, and TIA for any advice and reading! [link] [comments]  |
| How do I structure my business so that it's two separate businesses under the same person Posted: 25 Jun 2020 08:50 AM PDT Man, there really is no better way to phrase that title, sorry. Here's the issue. I've had a clothing line under my name for 10+ years as a sole proprietor. I do it mainly for fun, and it doesn't make a whole lot of money. My wife makes cosmetics (hair pomade, hair oils, beard oils, etc.). We cannot get a crafter insurance policy if we keep it all under the same business because then everything wouldn't be 80% homemade (their policy). So I figured it would be easy for my wife to just use her name as the sole proprietor and get the policy for the cosmetics and we could just sell them together in the same shop (online). At this point, I'm just thinking of getting an LLC, but if I do that, can I register both under the LLC, keeping them separate but also under the same LLC? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| How to be heard as a small business dealing with giant corporations? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:31 AM PDT I have been responsible for getting our small medical practice credentialed with all of the major health insurance providers and Medicare. The process has ranged from relatively straightforward to painfully frustrating. With a background in retail pharmacy, I have a lot of knowledge about how insurance companies work, and their reimbursement practices. I knew that getting paid would be challenging, however, I never imagined that simply joining the network would be such a nightmare. I started the credentialing process with Aetna LAST SUMMER. Every step of the process takes "up to 90 business days" for them to compete. It takes ages to fight through their phone tree to talk to an actual human being. Not one of their employees has ever followed up with me in the time frame they promised, or ever. We have multiple patients that have been patiently waiting to see us until we are in-network with Aetna, and I feel bad calling them every month with no real update. Eventually, they will take their business elsewhere. We are a single location, single provider practice, so we are a very small fish to Aetna. But jeez, I can't imagine dealing with them will be any easier down the road, and we have a lot of potential patients who have Aetna insurance. I would rate their customer service as 0/100, and no employees I've spoken with have seemed to care. How do other small business owners deal with being a small fish when working with huge corporations? How do I get heard, and get my needs met?? [link] [comments]  |
| 250k+ turnover - never done marketing/sales. Now I need to do some - Is there a go-to 'manual'? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 03:53 AM PDT (NOTE: If you want concise, skip this thread). Video business in the UK. Covid has hit us very hard. Basically had about 5k turnover since January when it was forecast to be somewhere in the region of 60k for first quarter, higher for the second etc. I've used the time to develop a new website, including lots of analytics on the various channels, develop SEO by writing lots of relevant high quality blogs, trying a PPC campaign and more recently cold emails to leads (Heads of Marketing/Comms at various companies I'm interested in working with / should have budget / would benefit from my services). I do all this myself - the business is basically me with everyone else freelance. I've looked at expanding skills from shooting clients / projects on location to setting up a studio where I've invested in some equipment for tabletop food / product video which can be done remotely (think flat lays of food / nice slow mo shots of liquid pouring etc). I'm not comfortable pushing that yet as frankly I don't think I'm there yet in terms of results. However we are able to get out and film again and I'd like to do that. We've done a lot of work in the past for automotive brands (car sales groups) - they're having a very rough time at the moment and I got in touch with the big 10 in our region. I use Hubspot and can track email opens etc. Had several opens from 2, the others didn't touch the emails (unless they can disable hubspot tracking somehow - entirely possible I guess). Of the 2 that opened the email I followed up with another email. Had responses from one thanking me and saying they're not looking for professional footage due to the market needing to recover / budget cut backs etc. Should I say: OK, thanks for getting back - I'll try again in a couple of months. / Or should I push it and say 'don't worry about the money', it's not as expensive as you think and the value it brings far outweighs it etc. I'm OK for cash (had a stupidly busy November/December) so I could offer discounts if it would help establish the relationship. I'm (clearly) no sales expert but my hunch is that devaluing your product isn't a great opening gambit - then again lots of businesses have a 'try this first' model. I could also offer some kind of buy now pay later deal? But again that might open me up to risk. Currently they do lots of video but it's all crappy mobile phone videos - shaky / low res / terrible framing / unintelligible audio etc. (I know there was a push among marketers to do this kind of thing "because it's authentic"). If they had some clearly higher quality content it would invite more clicks and those with appropriate remarketing could lead to conversions. --- TL;DR I've basically never done sales and marketing before. All of my existing clients (since 2011) have been word of mouth / repeat business. I've never needed to grow it so never pushed sales. Now I need to and have no idea how to approach customers : ) Is there a non-snake-oil idiots guide that people recommend for 2020 for a business like mine? Thank f* I'm married. I remember being this useless dating. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:53 AM PDT Hi! I've been having a hard time thinking of a name for my liquor business. Can u suggest one? :) [link] [comments]  |
| Has anyone used legalzoom to set up a LLC? Would you use it again? Pros and cons? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 08:56 AM PDT I'm located in Chester county Pennsylvania and looking for an easy straight forward way to set up an LLC and legalzoom was one of the first things to pop up. [link] [comments]  |
| Can anyone help me figure out which services to use to put educational videos online for purchase? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:26 AM PDT Hey guys, I have a service based business that I have owned for the past 6 years. I have been teaching a class in person for all 6 of those years and now I want to sell my class online. Does anyone know what services I can use (software/hosting) to allow my clients to buy it online and be able to pause and rewind...potentially even view it again? I'm not even sure what search terms to consider. Thank you all! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:18 AM PDT If we hire, say a 16-year old kid for some unloading work in a warehouse, do we need to put them on payroll or can we just cut them a check at the end of the day and send them a 1099 if they go over $600 for the year? [link] [comments]  |
| I'm looking for a POS system for an office building with a coffee bar Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:03 AM PDT Hi all, please tell me if I'm in the wrong place. So, I should be heading back to work soon and I'm a barista at a bar in an office building. Usually I would serve clients at the bar and also go to specific offices to take orders. However, since COVID things will have to change. My boss wants absolutely no one to queue at the bar (it's small, so it's to maintain social distancing) and it be purely delivery service. However we only have one phone at the bar and with the amount of clients and offices, and only two baristas, the phone line is going to get clogged. I'm trying to find some sort of order system like an app for example, where clients can just hop on their phone and send orders through straight to the bar with their location too. I'm open to all sorts of suggestions. Also importantly, all the coffee and tea is complimentary :/ no one will be charged for anything. Based in London, UK. [link] [comments]  |
| Conflict between owners on where to head Posted: 25 Jun 2020 11:48 AM PDT So, I'm a young student in college that has been working in bicycle shops for a few years and recently started doing repairs for one of those aforementioned shops. For the past few months during the coronavirus pandemic we have seen a massive spike in sales unlike anything ever before and we were very lucky to have ordered so many bikes before the whole thing started. Now, I have a few friends who also know how to repair bikes and we have been seriously considering opening a workshop of our own, independent from any particular store, since all of these new bikes will need service and the number of capable repairmen nearby is very limited. We are debating amongst ourselves whether we should just own equal parts of the company, run it only during the summer when we are out of school and pay ourselves profits of the company or if we should hire employees, give them proper training and guidance and make this into a full time company, only managing it during the winter. Any and all comments are welcome and greatly appreciated. -Cheers [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:56 AM PDT Question covers it mostly. What are you struggling with? What are they missing in their training? What should they do better to help store's revenue grow? I have been in sales industry for few years and opening up a business with a friend with the focus of helping companies generate bigger revenues and profit, by offering great in house training program. Where we would go to the company, analyse their salespeople and try to figure out, what they could do better in order to better help their customers. What is something that if fixed, would help you generate better profit and revenue? [link] [comments]  |
| Who do you use to send a wire transfer to Mexico? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:14 AM PDT I have a customer in Mexico that double paid an invoice. About $500. I sent them a check twice and they never received them (neither check cleared. Both have been cancelled with the bank). I come to find that our credit union does not do wires. Our other bank (PNC) wants to charge $100+. We used to do international wires using AMEX FX Int'l Payments but closed the account years ago. I really don't want to set the account back up for just one transaction. Any suggestions? TIA [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:17 PM PDT Hello! I recently incorporated in Wyoming, EIN in Wyoming and have a registered agent there as well. I live in California. I am using alzo and it is saying that my address is a virtual location or PO Box. It is telling me to use my home address. If I use my home address, what are the tax implications of this even though I am conducting business in Wyoming and am incorporated there? [link] [comments]  |
| "We'll Get Right Back To you" ... NOT Posted: 25 Jun 2020 08:57 AM PDT I started a small car dealership in NY about a year ago - over 6 months of that time was spent fighting for State approval. That's another story in itself. When it comes to trying to actually run my business, there's one huge thing that is absolutely suffocating me: nobody does what the hell they say they are going to do. 'I'll get that right over to you by the end of the day ... first thing Monday we'll have the paperwork .... I'll have a proof sent over within an hour ... I'll let you know if we have that tire size in stock after lunch ... our loan officer will give you a call first thing tomorrow morning sir.' BULL F$$kIN SHIT YOU WILL. All I do for endless hours a day is chase down other businesses that said they'd do what they did tomorrow 2 weeks ago. Why doesn't anybody do what they say they will the FIRST time around? Is this just a common issue when dealing with other businesses? It's absolutely infuriating and devours so many hours a day that I should be devoting to - god forbid - actually trying make sales happen for my own business. Please tell me I'm not alone in this. [link] [comments]  |
| Enforcement of non-compete in Florida Posted: 25 Jun 2020 09:22 AM PDT When I began employment at my current job I was required to sign a non compete. I am now in the process of opening up a business in the same field in a neighboring city. The type of business is home service related. What kind of consequences would I face if I were to be sued for breach of the non-compete. Some information I discovered... the trade is not one where information on how to do it could not be easily accessed online. I am just a general employee so therefore I have no knowledge of their internal policies and procedures. Also I have no access to client lists or account information nor do I intend to compete with clients in the city they serve. Do you think a suit against this non-compete would be successful against me by my employer or would it be most likely in my favor? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 07:15 AM PDT Hi Guys, I have a question I couldn't find anything about online even though i searched the last couple of days.. I wanted to find out how much it costs to open a business at the beach ( in the water ) like a jetski rental for instance. And i'm only talking about rent costs at beach. How much would that cost per month ? I know it surely depends on the country/city.. I would appreciate it if you guys have some info i didnt find.. Thank you ! [link] [comments]  |
| Reopen Google My Business after being marked as Temporarily Closed, how? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 03:48 PM PDT Opening up tomorrow, finally, I found this article on Google to change the temporarily closed status, but it's been a good bit of time and still isn't updating yet. Any ideas? [link] [comments]  |
| Is hiring a pro ppc consultant a worthy investment? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 06:41 PM PDT hello all, I recently launched my own auto motive glass replacement business. Things are off to a really great start, and work is coming in. Thank goodness. I notice that my competition in the area isn't really online. There appears to be very little seo efforts if any at all. This gives me a huge advantage, right? I have some experience with seo, as it was one of my first side hustles, but that was a few years ago. I hired a successful freelancer on upwork to nail down the local seo. I think she did a good job. We'll see what actually gets indexed though. Up to this point, I've gained customers through an ad in the local paper, and I like to leave cards on cars with broken windows when im running errands. Sometimes I get to talk to customers and tell them what Im all about, so that helps. Im thinking of where to go next. I think ppc is a good idea. What do you think? [link] [comments]  |
| Vending Machine Company? Small invest? Posted: 25 Jun 2020 10:20 AM PDT Vending machine company good or bad? Vending Machine Company? I been thinking about starting up a small vending machine business and I say small bc be with only like 3k but witch would get me started I'm in no need of quick money just want assiets. I understand you can grow from 4 machines to 6,7,8 and so on. Feel like me at 20 owning a house and truck with a car. I'm ready to start a little side hustle. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 03:11 PM PDT I'm currently doing research on small business and how they use their business accounts. I'm an aspiring UX designer and I'm trying to do a case study. if you have any experience with business banking please could you take some time out answer a few questions for me. It would be much appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 02:45 PM PDT We are a small employer in Washington, which is one of the states seeing a surge in COVID cases. We're anticipating several of our employees needing to use FFCRA leave over the next few months, particularly as it's looking increasingly unlikely schools will be back to anything like normal in the fall. I know that the federal reimbursement for the 10 week portion that's family leave is limited to 2/3 of the employee's salary or $200/day, whichever is smaller. Here's my question: Are we allowed to pay them their full salary during that period, knowing that the reimbursement will only cover 2/3 of it? That is, can we cover the rest? Or are we capped at that rate and we aren't allowed to pay them more? Trying to do what we can to make sure everyone in our company makes it through this as unscathed as possible... Thanks for any help anyone has. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2020 06:51 AM PDT Hi new to this sub. So I've got my business idea and a name, I want to start an e-commerce site selling t-shirts hoodies etc. Now I want to do things right, so hope people can advise what order things should be done. (I'm in the UK) - Registering with companies house - Opening a business bank account - Any other legal considerations before starting to sell [link] [comments]  |
| How to budget around receiving multiple years of payments at once Posted: 25 Jun 2020 01:40 PM PDT Hey everyone, happy Thursday to you all. I'm going to find an accountant who can will handle my business, but I wanted to see if anyone has a similar business model and how they manage it. Longstory short, I own a service business that deals in multi year contracts. We work with partners who sell our service on a 5 or 10 year contract. We operate in an approximate 39% net profit and the contracts are small ($529 or $879). Were doing good revenue so far, averaging around $15.5k in revenue per month. Theres a healthy amount of profit which I'm not touching as I don't have a need for the cash at the moment. My question is how should I manage all this? I have X revenue/profit all hitting on day 1, which I need to make sure is accounted for 5 or 10 years of service for the end user. The business is very simple, and eventually i may need to hire a second worker besides my main guy. I could always do the work myself which would increase my margin drastically, but this is more of a side hustle. Its profitable, but its confusing getting all of your profit up front. I'm assuming a good CPA will know how to manage all this, but does anyone have any experience they would like to share? [link] [comments]  |
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