NooB Monday! - (June 29, 2020) Entrepreneur |
- NooB Monday! - (June 29, 2020)
- I've been creating content on LinkedIn for 1.5 years now. This is how I create a year's worth of content plan in a day. (Full guide inside and you can use the strategies for other platforms)
- I'll make Your website for Free
- I spent 10 months coding before going to market....almost failed before the launch
- My boss is starting a new buisness and asked if I'd be a partner
- My wife is planning to open a small cafe preferably sooner rather than later, and is wondering what a safe amount to have in savings would be before beginning her venture.
- Is the life of your Landing Page worth $1,000 to you?
- Hi! I am a young entrepreneur, looking for advice.
- My First Side Project: Good Annotations
- Box truck - logistics.
- What is a Product Roadmap ? A deep dive into Roadmap and its Types - and how a misunderstanding causes disastrous results.
- Where do you go for product design without spending Hundred's or thousands?
- Can someone make money off a free Slack workspace?
- Insane Facebook Social Proof Hack - Will this work?
- What's your experience hiring commission-based salespersons as a Web Designer?
- How is this buisness idea?
- Anyone want a hey invite?
- Most efficient way to customize clear plastic cups for logo?
- How I used Side Project Marketing to Get 4000 views in 2 days
- Business Plan for a Software Development Company
- Question About Advertising On Instagram and Copyright Policy. Worried About My Business Going Belly Up
- Looking for cheap solutions for recording / monitoring work
- Social network for selecting gifts. Please, leave a feedback
- What are some signs of being mentally weak?
- What type of low-barrier-to-entry side-hustles could a wine-expert and sommelier do?
| NooB Monday! - (June 29, 2020) Posted: 29 Jun 2020 06:11 AM PDT If you don't have enough comment karma here's where we can help. Everyone starts somewhere and to post in /r/Entrepreneur this is the best place. Subscribers please understand these are new posters and not familiar with our sub. Newcomers welcome! Be sure to vote on things that help you. Search the sub a bit before you post. The answers may already be here. Since this thread can fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 06:16 AM PDT Hello guys, Social selling on LinkedIn is not easy. You should frequently post to get results. This guide will teach you how to keep up with all these things. And make it doable by teaching you:
But you should be consistent. And once you get the rhythm, it'll become natural. Onwards to the guide. PS: I'm not using LinkedIn articles. This guide is about regular feed posts on LinkedIn. Part one - Understanding the difference between publisher and library profiles.Publisher
Library
If you want to be a thought leader, you should be a library profile. Part two - Creating topic clusters.A topic cluster is a group of smaller that are built around one broader topic. See the pic: By creating a topic cluster, you'll get rid of this question "Okay, what should I post next?" Here is an example: LinkedIn marketing
And so on. But it doesn't stop here because every sub-topic has its own sub-topics. Such as: Linkedin Sales Navigator
You can create a map by using any mind mapping app to get a more clear picture. Part three - Finding content ideasI use Reddit <3, LinkedIn, Quora, LinkedIn and FB to find my audience and pick their brains. On LinkedIn, you don't have to care about SEO keywords. If you can find popular questions, discussion or topics in one of these platforms, you'll more likely get attention. Popular = Proven. Now I'll show you how I move around in these platforms. But before that A tip to help you write faster on LinkedIn: Researching without taking notes is just consuming content. I use Evernote to capture the answers, sentences or language people use on these platforms. Then when I create content, I rephrase their sentences or ideas. In time, it'll make you a better copywriter. You already know how to use it. Here are quick 5 steps.
QUORA You don't have upvotes on Quora. If a topic is popular you can understand it by checking three things:
Here instead of Subreddits, you have Spaces. They're the same thing. Again you'll pick keywords from your topic cluster and search popular answers, check comments and so on. Little known trick:
Go to search, click the content section in the search and enter your keyword. Play with the filters and see what content works best on LinkedIn. FB Find and join the related FB communities and monitor the topics in the group. You can use filters and group search to see popular posts. Part four - No content is limited to single-use.This is important and I'll say it again. No content is limited to single-use. Let's say you have a comprehensive blog post or long format content. You can squeeze it and extract tons of content out of it. How?
You have raw footage of video from an interview or seminar or workshop.
You see what I am doing here? I tear down huge content pieces until I have nothing in my hands. Here is how my content pyramid looks like (I interpreted Gary Vee's content deck for my needs) By creating this system, you could make 30 out of 1 content. ------That's all folks. Thanks for following until the end. I hope you learned something new. I've also written a post about how to write content for maximum engagement on Reddit. You can go that post by clicking here. All these navigations and tutorials might be difficult to understand without visuals. If you want to see the longer version of this post with images and tutorials or just to bookmark it, you can check it from here. [link] [comments]  |
| I'll make Your website for Free Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:24 AM PDT I'm a full-stack web developer, I specialize in ReactJS (frontend) and Meteor (backend). I know there are many people here that just browse and are looking for an opportunity to start their projects. So if you are in need of a simple website (not going to be making the next Facebook), then send me a dm. Gonna be selecting one, sorry if I have to decline some offers, if more people are interested. Why am I doing this? I'm currently in between jobs and have some spare time on my hands. I thought it might be a good opportunity to add something to my portfolio and help someone out in this community. Hope to get in contact with you. Will be waiting for your DMs. [link] [comments]  |
| I spent 10 months coding before going to market....almost failed before the launch Posted: 29 Jun 2020 08:41 AM PDT Key takeaways
1. The AHA moment• Freelance projects might bring new ideas/needs from clients Future client (former colleague) "I'd like to monitor some KPIs. The information is spread on different databases and in one webservice. I spend hours gathering the data to create reports in Excel. Can you send me a proposal to automate it?" Me (after analysing the request) "Well, it'll be expensive (~$40k) . And also, I wouldn't like to deliver it in your timeframe. As you know, I burned out. Don't want to work under pressure" I have a proposal, 10x cheaper than the bespoke project. But will deliver in my timeframe. And also, will make it flexible enough to sell to other companies." How I came up with the idea? (Image from text above) Similar to how Tyler Tringas' Storemapper started https://tylertringas.com/storemapper-bootstrapped-to-50000year-in-2-years-with-live-metrics/ 2. Company creationSo excited. Wow, I'm an entrepreneur! Well, Just need a name for the company, website, email, logo, product name, leaflet, etc. After more than 1 month along with my 2 co-founders working part-time, the company (Everesti) and product (Nera) are named. Everything else is set up, we can start. 3. Just one more feature…Now, onto the product. Let's build an iPhone app! 2008. That will be cool! Clients will close deals as soon as they see it! New things to learn! So, I bought a macbook (I'd never used one before) and an ObjectiveC book. I'm a Java architect. Will build the architecture and the product. I don't want to hard-code anything, of course. We need a dynamic product to be used by new clients. One more feature and we can sell. Ok, let me implement another one. Got an idea for a new page, just one more month….time has passed...Finally after 9 months, my baby was born! I'm so proud! Built this amazing, state-of-art architecture. So many features like signup/signin/sms alerts/email alerts/SOA bus/connections with loads of different DBs/Webservices/Text files. Time was running out. Almost one year with no income. We're ready to sell! Our pricing strategy is set. Well, we didn't talk to any potential client, apart from the one we previously "pre negotiated". My product, after 10 months 4. Build and they will come…well, not reallyPotential users: "What can I monitor with your product?" Me: "Anything, any area of your company" Potential users: "What industries and KPIs are you focusing on?" Me: "Nera can adapt to any industry. You define the KPIs and with our self-service dashboard, you don't need us" This is how my meetings gone (image from text above) After tens of meetings:
At least, we made a deal with the potential client that requested the project. Took us "only" 10 months. Obviously, they used only a tiny part of the massive product we created. 5. What would I do today?
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| My boss is starting a new buisness and asked if I'd be a partner Posted: 29 Jun 2020 09:36 AM PDT I really have no clue what I'm doing, I've been part of the business for 9 years and know the ins and outs of managing it as well as great knowledge on the products they sell. My boss asked yesterday on the spot if I'd be intrested in becoming partners in his new retail store. Both are petstores. I'm flattered he has that sort of faith in me but I really dont have anything to offer monetarily or to risk. I have no house or car...anything really. Hell I dont even have a GED. He mentioned I'd be managing the store and making sure employees are doing their job. He said I'd essentially do everything hes currently doing for the other store. What are my risks? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Im just afraid things wont work out and I'll be in debt, is that possible? I currently have no debt and that's a big fear of mine. I'm 25 and I dont have a ton of life experience. My boyfriend thinks this is a great idea since I am truly good at my job and I enjoy working with animals. I've always envisioned having a pet related buisness. Any advice appreciated, of course I'll get everything in contract as well! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 12:56 PM PDT As the title states, my wife has decided that she wants to open up a small cafe around Seattle. It won't be directly in the city of Seattle, but most likely in one of the surrounding towns. She's heard from one of her friends that a safe amount to have in savings before starting the process is $100,000 and that number kind of disheartened her. Right now she's just working as a server so getting that much in savings could take 10+ years. Have any of you guys opened up a cafe? What would you feel is a safe number that is also realistic? She already has some money saved up for this, and she would ideally rather start sooner (within the next 1-3 years) rather than later. (She's currently 28) [link] [comments]  |
| Is the life of your Landing Page worth $1,000 to you? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 12:56 PM PDT If they're looking they wanna buy! Do you know how to motivate your customers to buy? Why would any person buy a product on a website, they can't see, touch or try on a item? The life of your website is your landing page, product descriptions and copy writing. You want your customers to get a clear and easy message about your services or products. I have seen a lot of very, very bad websites with great products, but the product descriptions were horrible and I was not influenced to buy. A example would be like for some clothing, you will see a great looking picture of the product, but the description would be like.... A black T-Shirt with a bird on it. please buy now! If this is your website with that type of weak product description, you are not going to make money at all!! You'd better off hiring me, a professional to help you sell your merchandise, before you give up or lose all money invested! Then you'll be giving those black T-Shirts with a bird on it to Goodwill and they'll probably make money on them. What should a good landing page look like?
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| Hi! I am a young entrepreneur, looking for advice. Posted: 29 Jun 2020 11:36 AM PDT Currently I earn £350-£400 a week on my salary. I also make extra money of my own self-led business repairing iPhones, maybe a extra £200 on a good week. I have lot's of free time and I was wondering what to do. I have tried to learn web development - but I find it very difficult. What should I try to invest my money in? I currently have £500 in savings. I am trying to create digital art and use it to create a passive income stream, I also have a buisness idea - however this involves creating a app and that is not my speciality. I am looking to do some graphic designs on it soon though. [link] [comments]  |
| My First Side Project: Good Annotations Posted: 29 Jun 2020 08:58 AM PDT I've been working on www.goodannotations.com for a few months now and have created a tool suite for people who build and write content on SaaS platforms. The main function is to make your product screenshots look awesome and allow you to annotate them. I offically went live at the start of June and have seen some good traffic in my first month hitting around 3,500 visitors. This month has been the month of feedback and thats what I'm looking for from you guys as I'm hoping this might be something you find useful. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 01:52 PM PDT I've been laid off 10 weeks out of the last 12, with the covid pandemic going on... A lot has ran through my head while sitting at the house. Let me start off by saying - I'm a union pipefitter, who rather stay home, than be on the road for months at a time. The company I work for works local for the most part, never further than 150 miles from the house. Between being laid off (with benefits about to run out, and no hope in sight) and a narcissistic boss who mentally abuses everyone who works there (he really doesn't care for me) I've considered buying a box truck for logistics, shipping and hauling freight. How do I go about any of this? Where do I find contracts... Planned on working for myself, just me, no one else as of now until Capital is settled and I can hire. Thanks for advice! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:04 AM PDT A Product Roadmap is the most common, and yet one of the most vaguely defined aspects of Product Management. From a "high level visual" to "list of tasks", you can find literally everything being called a roadmap. As an example, look at the following definitions from the top search results on Google when searched for "Product Roadmap". Different Definitions of Product Roadmap
In this essay, I have tried to dig deeper into the types of Roadmaps and why you should bother to recognise them. [link] [comments]  |
| Where do you go for product design without spending Hundred's or thousands? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:01 AM PDT I have a product, but the design belongs in /r/crappydesigns. Where do you do for design help? [link] [comments]  |
| Can someone make money off a free Slack workspace? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 01:42 PM PDT I have an area of interest and was considering opening a Slack workspace for free. Would there be ways to actually make money off of it since I'm actually spending time on it. It could possibly turn into something else but I think a community for my interest would be nice and the making money or somehow evolving to a business is an afterthought/side effect. I might do it anyways. I did a quick google search and didn't notice that what I was intending was coming up, perhaps it isn't even a thing and this is more related to instagram. [link] [comments]  |
| Insane Facebook Social Proof Hack - Will this work? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 01:38 PM PDT I've watched some videos about facebook ads where they show how to get likes on an facebook ad to gain social proof by targeting cheap countries like Philippines etc. A lot of people are against this strategy because it can ruin the facebook pixel when doing retargeting etc. But what if you just pick 5~ cheap countries to pay for social proof then you EXCLUDE every cheap country you used for social proof when you start running conversion campaigns. Would the conversion campaign or Facebook pixel still suffer from the earlier social proof campaign? I started Facebook advertising this week so I might be missing something. [link] [comments]  |
| What's your experience hiring commission-based salespersons as a Web Designer? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 01:14 PM PDT Hi everyone. I am a web designer & developer looking to increase the amount of projects I get and have seen posts proposing to hire a salesperson to do this. Thing is, they are not big numbers. 500 to 1.5K USD per website, so I cant hire a salesperson the conventional way. It would have to be commission-based only, 30% of the website price. Do you think I should use my time trying to find a salesperson under these circumstances? If not, what do you recommend to keep growing? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 01:13 PM PDT Call out phone repairs, a uber type service when you book a phone repair from a technician and they will be there within a hour. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 01:06 PM PDT I've got one and can give it to 3 other people, comment if you want... If this is a thing that anyone actually wants... [link] [comments]  |
| Most efficient way to customize clear plastic cups for logo? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 12:51 PM PDT Screen printing, stickers, stamping them, or ordering them already customized? Currently using printed labels and placing the labels on clear cups manually. The cost being per unit 0.04 cup 0.03 top Any info is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| How I used Side Project Marketing to Get 4000 views in 2 days Posted: 29 Jun 2020 01:15 AM PDT I run a website called Career Fair. I launched it a month ago and response was good. Views, emails, tweets - you get it. I was feeling excited. But over the last few weeks, the initial surge of traffic died down. I needed something to get that engagement back up. On a whim, I built a website that was related to my niche (tech startups) and launched it on Reddit + Twitter. The goal: link Career Fair on this "mini-website" to get traffic up. The result: 4000 views driven in less than 48 hours to the side project + 500 views to Career Fair. How did I do this? Enter Side Project Marketing So it's a Tuesday night and I'm sitting in my bed bored. Trump recently put out an immigration order to limit H1B visas. I'm on an H1B visa. That's not good. Instead of feeling bad about myself, I tried to think of constructive things to do. I could email the white house. I could call my state senator. I could call The Rock. Ok I'm about to give up and go watch a movie when.. It hits me. What if I built a website showcasing successful immigrant startups? Like just a nice, dynamic website showcasing basic stats, employment numbers, and descriptions? I would be able to link my website Career Fair on this site too if it got traffic. Sounds like a plan. Hell yes. 2 problems, though.
Time to build I decide to take the only rational option: pull an all-nighter and ship in the morning just in time for tech twitter to wake up. I crack open a redbull, put on some techno, and open up my text editor. Step 1: Collecting immigrant startups data. Easier than I expect - I find a PDF table online from 2018, good enough, and export it to a JSON file. After a few hours of cleaning the data, it looks good. Spin up a Postgres Database and we are in business baby. Step 2: Building the front end. I suck at design but I know how to steal. I look up some awesome websites and merge them together to create a website baby. I end up getting something somewhat reasonable. It's now around 5am. My eyes are slowly starting to shut. I regret this. I regret everything. I wish I had asked Jen out a year ago...concentrate!!! I use Ruby / Sinatra to structure my web application, purchase a domain name, do all the big boy things. And then at 7:30 am, I have something I can ship. Launch time I peel open a Banana and start posting everywhere. Hacker News, Twitter, Reddit. I also send out about 20 cold emails to journalists and famous people in the immigration field. Someone's got to like this damn website right? My website starts getting a few upvotes. I get that dopamine rush and feel on top of the world. Okay this might actually work... And then I pass out. 7 Hours Later, 4pm Rise and shine. I open my eyes and frantically search for my laptop. Groggy eyed I log into Twitter and...boom. An immigration lawyer with 30k followers picked up my website and shared it. It drove over 4000 views to the website as well as 500 views to Career Fair. Bingo. I got some email signups and a sweet backlink. Ending thoughts I love to build things so I use that to my advantage. Viral side projects are a great way to market your business and to get exposure. Act fast, be bold, and just ship it :) I'll be in the comments if anyone has any questions! [link] [comments]  |
| Business Plan for a Software Development Company Posted: 29 Jun 2020 12:20 PM PDT I want to start a Software Development Company, I am not in a rush to get into the market, I have the time and I want to start it in the proper way (I want to build the first bricks approprietly). I read this article on inc.com about writing the best business plan, the article was good, however the example it provided was about a Bicycle Rental Store, even though there is no need to look at other examples, but I believe doing so will help me gain a better insight on the topic of writing business plans. Also, I have never written a bussiness plan, this is my first time ever. Where do I find examples of business plans for Software Development Companies? I want to know how other companies in the same field as me do it. Thanks in advance [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2020 11:17 AM PDT Hi all, So I have started my small business of buying things on discounts and selling them online. My main communication and advertising avenue is Instagram. I have spent about $2000 on advertisements, and made about that in net profits from my sales. Which is fine by me as I am investing in my account/reputation. When I post and pay to promote a post, I have been using images I got from the internet with small texts edits on them indicating the price as I found those to look more professional than the ones I take myself. Here's an example of an image I would use: https://imgur.com/a/UWqjHCU I would just type the price using MS Paint to grab the customer's attention. Now this image is all over the internet but it has to have an original creator right. Maybe Gucci itself or an offical retailer made it. Here's what keeps me awake at night. Could using these images get my account a copyright strike? I have tens of those posted and promoted in my account, if a brand were to copystrike it, will it count as one strike, or would it count as tens of strikes, one for each image (if so the system would probably count me as repeated infringer and sack me immediately). I would really appreciate any advice. Should I remove all the images on my account and stop my ads, or is what I am doing it okay. Losing my account would be devastating to me as months of work and hundreds of audience will go down the drain. My business wouldnt be able to function without Instagram and would go belly up immediately :( [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for cheap solutions for recording / monitoring work Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:56 AM PDT Any suggestions on something similar to Upwork's recorder? [link] [comments]  |
| Social network for selecting gifts. Please, leave a feedback Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:42 AM PDT Hey, Reddit. My team and I developing new social network for shopping fans. It gona be something completely different from other ones. The network will be something like the alternative of YouTube channels like "25 unbelievable goods from AliExpress". It will be not a shopping app! One of features will be that we not represent any shops. We will impartially choose the most interesting products not for advertising, but for fun. The interface will be similar to Tinder. In your feed you can swipe products to the right and left to mark it interesting or boring. A smart algorithm makes a rating of your interests. And the main feature: your friends can see what u like to get as a gift and see it on the store(one of several). Moreover you can put the product to a friend in the feed to see his reaction. Your friend will think that it another automatically generated product! So your present will remain a surprise! But the main direction of development is the main direction of the service development is to make it interesting for you to scroll through the feed. And now I would like to know your opinion: 1) Would you use such an app? 2) What format would you like to see the products in the feed (Photos, videos, or gifs)? 3) How much text should there be in the description? 4)What would you prefer: our app or video-reviews on YouTube? 5)Which direction of development do you consider the most promising for us: a service for viewing interesting products or a service for selecting gifts? What would be more interesting specifically for you? Thank you for your feedback! [link] [comments]  |
| What are some signs of being mentally weak? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 11:49 PM PDT You always hide in your comfort zone. You don't try new things because you fear failure. You give up easily because the tasks are too challenging. You complain a lot to the people around you. You are always looking at other people's lives and never working on yourself. You let society dictate your goals and dreams. You are a people-pleaser. You are afraid to voice your true opinions. You let people step all over you. You seek the easiest way out. You readily give up your morals or principles in exchange for something gratifying. You don't fight for what you want. You follow the herd. You make up excuses convincing yourself you can't accomplish the things you want to do. You engage in useless gossiping. [link] [comments]  |
| What type of low-barrier-to-entry side-hustles could a wine-expert and sommelier do? Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:17 AM PDT A friend of mine is a trained sommerlier and wine expert, currently managing a shop, selling wine. I feel her talents could be put to better use, for her own benefit. She is great at connecting with people, has 5+ years experience in wine retail and doing wine-tasting events - and I assume her wine-knowledge is top notch (I barely know red from white). She has talked about opening a wine-bar (a huge money-pit, I fear)... There are already hundreds of pretty good wine shops online. Opening a retail-shop would be difficult in her area (solid competition). She talked about opening a wine-bar, but I fear it would be 5% wine and 95% managing other stuff, which I think would not be a great fit. What are some things she could do, to start her off using her knowledge to start a side-hustle, that might be able to develop into her own full-time business later? What are some examples of interesting small- or solo busineses in wine? I am looking for inspiration to show her, so she can believe more in herself. Market: Denmark [link] [comments]  |
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