Helping my dad transition from brick and mortar to online small business |
- Helping my dad transition from brick and mortar to online
- High quality stickers
- How do I get the money to start something?
- StartSomeGood's The Starting Good Network
- Mailing letters to potential clients.
- Please I need advice regarding my artwork
- What should I charge as a teenager?
- I have a Remote Employee Who I think is Not Working Much
- Giving Quotes and How to React
- Business Car Wraps
- Is it a good idea to transform a small part of your home into a workspace to take clients?
- Online sales tax
- Spouse Relation in an LLC
- Question for those who sell food products online
- Employee talking behind our back and threaten to take staff
- What would you do: Employee uses cell phone a lot in the office, but it doesn't affect the productivity of their daily tasks, just some overall "catch-up" projects
- Why is USPS postage so high?
- Do any of you have an online document signature capture service you really like?
- Help Design the Future of Accounting!
- Contact Cloud | Text Message Marketing, The New Kid on The Block in 2020 [Infographic]
- Keeping the books
- Primary Market Research
- Do you require certificates of insurance from suppliers?
- My LLC is about to have a cash flow problem- is a personal line of credit with a daily interest charge my best option?
| Helping my dad transition from brick and mortar to online Posted: 21 Sep 2020 07:43 AM PDT My dad owns a brick and mortar that has been hit pretty hard by COVID, so I have been helping him set up his Shopify store. Problem is, his customers are not used to shop online and he has no idea how to do marketing/ads. He has done Facebook ads but gets less than a 0.5% conversion rate. Does anyone have experience with transitioning from brick and mortar > online? If so, what did you do to get started? Edit: he sells clothing/fashion [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 06:47 PM PDT Hey guys!! I was wondering if anyone knew of any websites that sell high quality decorative stickers. I'm not looking for any kiddy looking ones, these would be for decorating various items like cups, books, mirrors, herb grinders etc. Thank you in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| How do I get the money to start something? Posted: 21 Sep 2020 07:45 PM PDT I really want to open a 1950s style diner in my town. I know that it will be a huge hit here, but the problem is I don't have a single dollar to start. And I read that restaurants/diners cost about 300 thousand dollars to start up and in some cases even more. How do I get a investor or something similar to that to help me start? [link] [comments]  |
| StartSomeGood's The Starting Good Network Posted: 22 Sep 2020 04:51 AM PDT Social Entrepreneurs: Assemble! We face a type of uncertainty that this generation hasn't ever experienced before. The traditional ways in which we connect, engage and do business have been turned on its head, who could have ever imagined we'd be in a position of such economic and social turmoil and instability? At StartSomeGood, we understand the importance of seeing each obstacle as an opportunity to uncover hidden treasures. With each fall, we have re-emerged with a new resilient mindset and perspective that has shaped our world in a way that empowers us on our journey. It's in every great saga and story, that we, you, me, the protagonists of this world, face insurmountable obstacles in order to achieve our goals towards step into our highest potential. I can tell you right now, we at StartSomeGood would not be here today, without fully understanding and embodying this way of being. Who are we? StartSomeGood is an award-winning crowdfunding platform and innovation agency dedicated to getting social innovation funded. Over the last 6 years, we have enabled more than 1000 projects to raise over $12 million to make a positive impact in the world, with the best project success rates in the industry. We also power cause marketing and funding programs for partners across all sectors. What is the Starting Good Network? The Starting Good Network is a new collaborative and self-resilient community for social entrepreneurs, who are looking to support each other through the long-term journey of creating social change. Who is the Starting Good Network designed for? This is a community designed for social entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs, to help support each other through navigating our challenges together, seizing opportunities, and bringing our projects to life. Whether you're in the early stage ideation phase, or later stages of your journey, it's through hearing the stories, experiences and ideas of people on the same path, we are able to better pursue not just our social enterprise goals, but our personal goals which involve building the internal resilience and sustainability to actually drive our mission forward. What will the StartingGood Network look like? You know by now that being in a perpetual state of connection allows you to grow and as a result of this, our culture is now shifting from a place of competition into a new paradigm of collaboration. So we're thinning the walls to create a new haven for start-up culture to prosper by opening the vault to a plethora of content and industry accessibility, providing you with the knowledge based you need to take right-action and move closer to reaching your goals. This membership network has been designed as an ongoing service to support and equip you through the long-term journey of creating change, offered at a low monthly cost rather than an up-front investment. The Starting Good Network includes: · Access to all #StartingGood Summit Content (Over 140 interviews with successful Social Entrepreneurial Founders) and the library of Good Hustle interviews (20 and growing); · 2 Live Webinar Sessions + Q&A with leading social entrepreneurs each month: · A new community-based peer learning platform where we all connect, share, and grow together: · Monthly group meditations facilitated by Igor Kreyman, Founder of The Human Connection Movement and Co-Host of Good Hustle: · A monthly mastermind session with Tom Dawkisn · Discounted access to all StartSomeGood courses and services; · Discounts to a range of relevant courses and opportunities Join us: https://startsomegood.com/projects/starting-good/pledges/new [link] [comments]  |
| Mailing letters to potential clients. Posted: 22 Sep 2020 04:15 AM PDT Hello! I'm always looking for ways to expand my thermal imaging and home inspection business, up until this point word of mouth and door hangers have brought me quite a bit of business. I'm trying to reach out to commercial clients and I have decided to send them physical letters by mail. I feel like this would be harder to ignore than an email. Any suggestions? Should I make it feel more like a letter or more like a flyer? Has this worked for anyone else? Should I stick to emails? [link] [comments]  |
| Please I need advice regarding my artwork Posted: 21 Sep 2020 07:00 PM PDT Please I need advice regarding my artwork. I don't really know what to do or how to go about starting my own artwork business. I need some tips where I can sale my hand drawing artwork besides selling on Etsy. Please it's urgent and I'm open to new suggestions. [link] [comments]  |
| What should I charge as a teenager? Posted: 21 Sep 2020 05:30 PM PDT I am a teenager and I've posted a few times on various business subreddits trying to find ways to make money and start a business that's right for me. I finally reached the conclusion that I should start a web design business and have cold emailed some local businesses in the past week and finally got some response with a little push. I can make pretty good Wordpress websites but I'm don't really know what to charge. I have two businesses that want to talk further and here my prices/proposals. I've seen people saying they charge anywhere from a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars but I don't quite know here I would be as starting out and as a teenager. I'd love to here any and all feedback. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| I have a Remote Employee Who I think is Not Working Much Posted: 21 Sep 2020 09:48 AM PDT I have a team of remote workers on my team, but one causes me to be suspicious of what they are working on during the day. Some of our project work is on Office 365, so I can see live edits form team members. This team member only makes minor edits throughout the day and is sometimes hard to reach on Microsoft Teams. I had a video meeting with them last week to go over some optimizations on the spot, and it took me maybe an hour to find four changes. For them, it seems like that can be an all-day project. I understand that the skill set does not need to be 1:1, but I feel like I'm getting taken advantage of. While I normally don't care when people work, I get suspicious when projects seem slow to finish, and then I start to wonder what is even being done. What is your advice on what I should do? [link] [comments]  |
| Giving Quotes and How to React Posted: 21 Sep 2020 12:36 PM PDT I am a contractor working for a service based business. I have been around for a year or so and have a pretty good grasp on giving quotes and the man hours + materials needed for a job. I have given out plenty of quotes and occasionally (normally in the more expensive neighborhoods) the homeowner tells me they have gotten other quotes for much higher than my quote. This is both a good and bad thing. Good: my overhead is lower (single man operation with some part time help) and I am still able to make good money with the quotes I give out Bad: I seem like the cheap weekend warrior contractor Just today a homeowner was dismissive of my quote and had a tone of suspicion based on how low my quote is. Here is the thing, the quote was not crazy low. Based on the work and materials, I would still be making very good money. I am not trying to undercut the market/competitors but I do want to win quotes. I wanted to laugh at the tone of suspicion of the homeonwer when I was on the phone with him. My knee jerk response was to say the competitors who he had received quotes from are just overcharging but this response does not seem right to me. I ask you guys/gals of this sub, how would you respond to dismissive and suspicous homeowners following giving them a quote? Followup: Do you give more expensive quotes based on the socioeconemic standing of the neighborhood and ppl living there? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 03:58 PM PDT My business deals with video, design, and print. I was wondering how many other freelancers/small businesses have wrapped their cars in this field of work and if it has paid off at all. I'm going to include a link to the car wrap and I'm open to criticism on it. This will be my first car wrap after yrs of thinking about doing it so any feedback is welcomed. If not allowed, I'll delete the link. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it a good idea to transform a small part of your home into a workspace to take clients? Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:13 PM PDT So, I'm a freelancer who does artistic work per-project for clients where I travel to them. I work a flexi-time corporate job that I enjoy, and I freelance after hours. I've been freelancing for 6 years, but over the past 2 years there have been more clients approaching me and my business is rapidly expanding. I'd love to start accommodating them in a separate, bigger space. Here's my dilemma. I'm currently renting in a beautiful place; my landlord and his family are absolutely stellar, and it's heaven. Here, I've found the peace and sanctuary that I had been chasing my entire life. As per our agreement, I don't want to take clients from here because I feel it'll be a violation, and I don't feel it's appropriate. My place also isn't spacious enough to allow for that. I've been thinking of two options.
My main priority is to host my expanding business in a space that my clients would consider a 'haven'. I'm afraid of paying double-rent, but at the same time, a house-space may solve the problem of having to move from place to place when I could have everything there as a 'hub'. The area I live in is brilliant; it's close to everything I need: work, shopping malls, doctors, and places of culture, so whether I keep renting or choose to buy a place isn't dependent on the condition of the neighbourhood. Should I buy a house and allocate space, or should I find a 'studio space' in the meantime and keep my renting agreement? Even though I did tons of research, I'll admit that I'm still unsure about what would be the best course of action to take. I want to know what's the best arrangement that will pay off better in the long run (i.e. either save me more money so I could buy a bigger house, or pay off a new house quicker). I completely understand the concept of 'do what makes you happy' and I'm on board with that – I'm still keen to hear your side of the story that could help my business remain profitable for the future. The answer may be glaringly obvious to you – and this is a good thing. You may be noticing things that I've been blind to. I really appreciate your thoughts and suggestions (and your nuggets of wisdom). [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 08:37 PM PDT I have an e-commerce website which sells physical products (no physical presence/store). Buyers are from all over the US and world. I'm using one tax app, its only calculating taxes during checkout if the customers are from the same state as me/website. (It's a startup, 0 sales so far, so I guess I don't have to worry about nexus (I'm not sure how nexus tax works) So i'm not supposed to collect taxes if they are from other states? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 08:20 PM PDT Last year my husband opened an LLC for a side business of his and bought a related domain name, but there hasn't been any activity on it since. I am now transitioning from being an employed bookkeeper to starting a company of my own for bookkeeping/virtual assistance. Instead of opening a new company, I was wondering if there would be any drawbacks to using the company name he already opened. I would be getting insurance for the company and credit cards. My name isn't listed in the company paperwork. As his spouse would I have the same rights to the company's origination paperwork, income, and other such matters? How might things shake down for both of us in the event that he uses the company for its original purpose or - God forbid - we end up separated at some point in the future? Thanks in advance for your help. This community has helped me a lot. [link] [comments]  |
| Question for those who sell food products online Posted: 21 Sep 2020 04:50 PM PDT I'm wanting to sell a dry-mix product online. I am aware of the required local/state licenses as well as the need for food handler certification and commercial kitchen. However, I am unsure of what is required in order to sell nationally. Do I have to send my food in to a lab to have the contents analyzed or is there a less costly way to make a legitimate FDA nutrition label? Is there anything else that is required to sell nationally online? Do you know of any good resources for this general process? [link] [comments]  |
| Employee talking behind our back and threaten to take staff Posted: 21 Sep 2020 10:41 AM PDT Hi I don't know where to go and don't really have a mentor that I can bounce this off of so here I am. We are small scale fabricating company and I have an employee who is our shop supervisor. He oversees the the shop. But over the years, he has become more disgruntle and moody. We have discuss that and say that if he is unhappy, we can part ways. After these conversations, the attitude is better. However, it gets worst. He is very hot and cold at times. I just received an email from someone that knows us but I don't know him telling me that this employee has been bad mouthing us and talking about taking our staff with him to open his own business. I have no problem with him leaving except I know for a fact that one of the fabricator would leave with them. That person has a skill set that is very hard to replace. I have no idea to handle this. 2020 has been rough business and this news is not helping. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 04:28 PM PDT What would you do. I have an employee that has a set of daily tasks to do as well as more overall tasks that should be addressed (catch up tasks that are not time-sensitive but need to be addressed). Over the course of the day the daily/weekly tasks are being addressed without any issues. The overall project tasks are not, but those tasks are not tasks that can be done a few minutes here and there they need a designated set time to focus on those tasks. Since coming back to the office from the coronavirus shutdown, things have not settled down 100% yet. And we discussed that in about two weeks we will sit down to go over the big projects to set a normal schedule that they should be addressed. Currently though, he is using his phone during work, not in a distruptive way. but just on and off during the day. Bottom line is at the end of the day all the dauly/weekly tasks are addressed, just not the catchup projects. I am trying to decide how to address it. On one hand, if he would not touch the phone at all and focus 100% on work then we can probably make some progress on the overall projects. On the other hand, if I ban the phone usage, and he isnt able to move the other project forward, he would be sitting around not doing anything for part of the day. Basically, at what level/time do you decide that the cell phone use is too much and not allowed. Our office is a more relaxed office, and his tasks are ones that have some felxibilty for the most part as to when they are actually done. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 04:27 PM PDT I have a small shop on Etsy, and I sell small items. They're shipped in envelopes and usually weigh less than an ounce. My average shipping cost is around $3 - I buy the postage through Etsy. I've sold a couple things off Etsy, and I was shocked at how much higher the postage was. At USPS it was over $7 for the exact same package. I checked UPS and it was even more. Why is it so much higher? Is there a way I can get postage at the same rate as through Etsy? I see people selling through their own independent platforms and charging $3 or $4 for shipping so I know it must be possible somehow. [link] [comments]  |
| Do any of you have an online document signature capture service you really like? Posted: 21 Sep 2020 08:11 AM PDT My company works with global clients, so we need an easy way to send contracts for signature online. We've used rightsignature for years, but they've recently changed their UI and the changes have made the platform all but useless, especially considering the $600/yr they're getting from us. What platform do you use, and what do you like / dislike about it? [link] [comments]  |
| Help Design the Future of Accounting! Posted: 21 Sep 2020 07:08 PM PDT Hi everyone! We are a Canadian startup working to enhance the way that businesses acquire accounting services. We are conducting this survey to gain a further understanding of how startups and small business owners interact with their bookkeeping and accounting. If you are a startup or small business owner in Canada or USA that utilize bookkeeping and accounting services, would you be willing to spend 5 to 10 minutes to fill this survey out for us? We thank you in advance for your time! [link] [comments]  |
| Contact Cloud | Text Message Marketing, The New Kid on The Block in 2020 [Infographic] Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:52 PM PDT We recently launched revamped text marketing campaigns to our current database of clients, and the results were nuts. We developed Contact Cloud for this use case in mind. Q4 is knocking on the door and COVID has not made is easy on us business owners. Text messaging to your current database or new (opted in) prospects could be the answer you were looking for. We did a lot of the heavy lifting from a data perspective already. Check out our infographic to learn more about consumer behaviors, and an opportunity that could work for your business. https://www.bipath.io/posts/text-message-marketing-the-new-kid-on-the-block-2020 [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:37 PM PDT A friend of mine has asked that I help him "do the paperwork" for his small mobile mechanic business. I was completely upfront that I don't know how or what this means, but that I would do some research on it. How does one do this? We already filed his LLC, set up a EIN, a business account, ordered checks. What books am I keeping? Currently doesn't have employees, plans to hire one next year. Where do I start? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 10:19 AM PDT Hey, I am 3 months into my service based business and know that my sales are suffering due to a lack of market research. How do you initiate the emotionally draining task of cold calling to gather customer pain points? In my case, as soon as they pick up the phone I can hear the tone of their voice change when they realize I 'm looking for something. At this point it's just a conversation I want, I can't even get far enough into the conversation to offer them something in exchange for their time. I'm very introverted, so holding a conversation with someone is like pulling teeth for me. What methods have you had success with? Thanks in advance for any info you can offer. [link] [comments]  |
| Do you require certificates of insurance from suppliers? Posted: 21 Sep 2020 02:01 PM PDT Insurance company did audit and wants us to collect COIs from suppliers. I feel like it would weird or freak out our contractors or vendors to ask after working with them for this long. Is this normal? Do I just email and say hey insurance company wants you to send us your COI? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2020 09:57 AM PDT I have an LLC that I started right before COVID hit. It's a temp/staffing agency, and received a Covid relief loan of $8,400. The business has just started picking up, and I have enough temps that I'm making some pretty good side money as I slowly grow it. The problem is, I pay the temps weekly. I then invoice the company that my temps work for. When I invoice the company, they usually pay within 30-40 days. However, I have so many temps going, that I've blown through the government loan money. I know I'll recoup that money and then some, but I'm about to have a cashflow problem. I can advance money from a Wells Fargo line of credit I have. It has a 10.75% annual interest rate, but also a .03% daily finance charge. This daily finance charge seems like a lot- I have excellent credit; is there a better option I should apply for, before fronting myself ~$3,000/week from this line of credit until I get paid on the invoices? [link] [comments]  |
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