Thank you Thursday! - May 06, 2021 Entrepreneur |
- Thank you Thursday! - May 06, 2021
- I tested 8 biggest website hosts (1 month before the big Google update)
- What are the best marketing techniques to promote a start-up?
- I know people talk about passive income a lot. But what about semi-passive income? Something that you still have to work at for like 5 hours a week, but other than that it's pretty much passive.
- What’s a business you can start with $10,000 startup funds?
- I am offering wholesale Drop Shipping Inventory Lists 2000+ Products Any Category CSV FORMAT!
- Cryptocurrency Mining in Latin America (just the beginning)
- What machines can you buy in order to make money? For example: vending machines, 3d printing machines, crypto mining GPUs. What else is there?
- "Quitting" a job and taking the former employer on as a client?
- What are some side hustles i can do to start making money this summer?
- Cannabis Business Viability
- Reality Show / Documentary following entrepreneurs?
- Ways to decrease innovation failures?
- Advice For China To UK Delivery
- How to use leverage as a mental model to get more results
- Using Company's Logos/Emoji's
- Sales Copy Question
- TikTok is adding lead gen to their ads - should help conversions
- Ecommerce website makeover tips (recorded livestream)
- Online store in 2021?
- personal productivity tools
- Ways to improve your local SEO for your business
- NFTs: Fad or Future? Uncovering the Truth of the Hype
- Mortgage broker + side hustle?!
| Thank you Thursday! - May 06, 2021 Posted: 06 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Your opportunity to thank the /r/Entrepreneur community by offering free stuff, contests, discounts, electronic courses, ebooks and the best deals you know of. Please consolidate such offers 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]  |
| I tested 8 biggest website hosts (1 month before the big Google update) Posted: 06 May 2021 07:05 AM PDT Hi all. As you probably know, in June Google is rolling out an update that will rank sites according to their speeds. Slower sites will be lower in the search results, faster sites will be higher, and maybe even marked with a special icon. As I was going to start another site, I started comparing hosting providers. I created a test site and duplicated it across the board to check the scores for the same set-up. TL;DR: 1st place goest to Kinsta (expensive) and SiteGround (medium price), 2nd place goes to Dreamhost (cheap) and GoDaddy (medium price). What I didMy goal was to create a regular run-of-the-mill non-optimized website (as opposed to clean or super lean installs that other testers use) and see how it performs across the board. Then, I downloaded a copy of the website using Duplicator and installed it on the eight largest shared hosting providers. For each hosting provider, I opted for the cheapest package and, if available, chose the data center closest to the central US. Then, I ran the official Google Page Speed Insights tool and the third-party GTmetrix tool on the site and recorded the results. Test resultsDespite the fact that I was installing the same website everywhere, the results were pretty different, and there were clear winners and clear losers. I focused on three things:
Here's a link to the details like the actual set-up, exact scores, and Google Drive with the result pages. In other news
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| What are the best marketing techniques to promote a start-up? Posted: 06 May 2021 04:22 AM PDT Hello there! I hope to find someone experienced enough to help me a little bit with my start-up. I would like to determine which marketing techniques are considered the most effective and less costly for a start-up? How did you promote your business? I started a business with my college mate, and so far, we are not that profitable. I'm not going too deep into details. The main thing I can say that we operate primarily online. We don't sell any goods and don't have a warehouse and stuff like this. We work online only. Still, I know that there is a demand for our services on the market. But so far, we have only a couple of clients, and we are not making enough profit even for the minimum living wage. We started with cold calling. We didn't have a budget to hire someone. I'm not even talking about outsourcing our business to India. We did everything ourselves, and maybe that's the reason why we have only a few clients. I believe that marketing strategy is crucial in any business. I'm thinking of borrowing some money from the bank for business development. But this time, I want to do everything right. I heard that cold calling can help bring many clients if it's done by a professional. But is hiring a professional can guarantee you any result? I always have to take into account the possibility that something might go wrong. Also, I consider this option of hiring an SEO company. From this site — https://www.searchbloom.com/national-seo/, I found out that SEO can increase organic traffic. Hence, it can attract new potential customers, and this is what we are looking for. But again, I have no idea how effective it might be. Obviously, doing both SEO and call calling would be way more effective and efficient. But, unfortunately for us, we cannot afford it at this point doing both. That's why I'm asking for your recommendations. Thank you for taking your time reading this, and looking forward to your piece of advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 May 2021 12:34 PM PDT I gave up on the idea of passive income, it's quite honestly not feasible, at least for me. I don't see it happening, a pipe dream is what it is. But a semi-passive thing sounds quite possible. If I could only find the right thing. I don't have any ideas though, sure would love to find a source with some ideas. [link] [comments]  |
| What’s a business you can start with $10,000 startup funds? Posted: 06 May 2021 09:56 AM PDT If you had $10k what business would you start? What are some business ideas you can think of? I'm just curious if that amount is even big enough to start something? [link] [comments]  |
| I am offering wholesale Drop Shipping Inventory Lists 2000+ Products Any Category CSV FORMAT! Posted: 06 May 2021 11:42 AM PDT I am offering free wholesale inventory lists 2000+ products any product category for Dropshipping CSV format including Title, Image, Description, Price. Simply use the free inventory list to create product listings then send me your daily orders and I will respond with all the product tracking numbers free! [link] [comments]  |
| Cryptocurrency Mining in Latin America (just the beginning) Posted: 06 May 2021 01:46 PM PDT Hello Community! Thank you very much for accepting me. I am Jonathan A. from Mendoza, Argentina. I am 30 years old and I have been dedicated to web positioning (SEO) in Google for almost 10 years. I have been with cryptocurrencies for about 1 year, I especially like mining. I currently have a mining rig for Ethereum (ETH) with 12 GPUs. I like to undertake and do new things not only that add economic value, but also support social changes (perhaps my childhood and the difficulty of growing up in Latin America has led me to think big), as has surely happened to many of you. I have been planning a project for a long time where the main objective is to create mining farms, specifically for Bitcoin and Ethereum. The project is based on mining, however I plan to accompany it with social changes such as: Cryptocurrency mining related jobs. Free courses for university students and public students with the aim of improving their educational level and supporting them in the immersion of this new blockchain world. In the long term replace the use of electrical energy with clean energy such as solar panels among many other things. Currently my project is in the financing round and I would like you to be interested, ask me your questions and if you find it attractive, join. Any comment, suggestion or question is welcome. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 May 2021 09:37 AM PDT Is there like a list of such things or something? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| "Quitting" a job and taking the former employer on as a client? Posted: 06 May 2021 09:29 AM PDT Hey everyone! I was just wondering whether anyone here has ever quit their full-time job but immediately taken their former employer on as a client? I have been designing a website for the company I work at in-house for the last little while, and it's almost done, but it's going to need regular maintenance and updates and I'm the only one who really knows the finer details of how it works (I have been documenting everything and plan to make instruction videos though). I have had a big opportunity come up in my freelancing, and I need to be able to devote time to it immediately (like Monday). So I guess my plan is to talk to my boss tomorrow and "quit," but say that I am still very interested in working on the website project for 20hrs / week instead of 37.5hrs, and also at $30/hour instead of $17/hour. I chose this price because I'm already anchored kind of low with this company, and also this means he doesn't have to mess with his budgets too much because he actually pays me slightly less per week – I just work half the time. I think this is a reasonable deal, because the alternative is me quitting entirely and them having to figure out someone else to run the website. This at least gives my boss an option to choose what's best for his business. I wouldn't really be able to give any "2-weeks" notice if he chooses the latter option though, which I don't feel great about. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone has any advice on this? I know the timeline is very sudden, but but I'm in a fairly good financial position and it wouldn't really matter to me whether I am able to get my boss on as a client. I'm just trying to help him out because I don't want to burn bridges. Does anyone have any advice? Has anyone ever done anything similar? Just looking for some perspective because this is a bold move for me. [link] [comments]  |
| What are some side hustles i can do to start making money this summer? Posted: 05 May 2021 07:59 PM PDT i'm 16, don't have my full license yet. i have a job and have $400 saved. What are some ways i can make money? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 May 2021 06:57 AM PDT I've recently had an idea to create a company that comes to your home like a personal gardener. The only difference between a regular gardener and my company is we grow your weed! Virginia just legalized 4 plant personal grows starting July 1 and I think this would be a good intro to get my foot in the door of the industry. So far I've came up with some creative ways as to how the process with a client would go, (regular weekly visits) and I'm now compiling a list of materials that would be needed to get some prices for our service down. I'm kind of in the idea phase right now, and I really want to progress quickly into doing business. What do you guys think? [link] [comments]  |
| Reality Show / Documentary following entrepreneurs? Posted: 05 May 2021 11:02 PM PDT Anyone know if any good reality shows/documentaries that follow entrepreneurs from the very beginning stages of a start up? Kind of like if the Truman show and Kickstarter had a baby. [link] [comments]  |
| Ways to decrease innovation failures? Posted: 06 May 2021 06:43 AM PDT If you're as interested in innovation as I am, you must have seen many epic products fail and thought: Is there anything companies could have done better to prevent them? I have been working with Design Thinking for five years now, and I believe this method is evergreen and universal. Mainly because prototyping and testing are much cheaper than developing the actual product. PwC recently published a study where they surveyed over 1200 executives from over 44 countries. Open Innovation and Design Thinking outscored all other methods of innovation. I would like to share some answers on how innovation actually works, from my point of view.
Nowadays, all companies are aware of the urgency of implementing future proof innovations in their strategies. When established corporations work with innovative startups and their target users, unique opportunities arise. A combination of entrepreneurial activity with corporate ability can be very potent. Both sides generate fresh ideas and test the ideas before spending money on building the product. In other words, that is what open innovation is all about: sharing ideas and resources with external collaborators to broaden the company limits.
Corporate-startup collaboration seems like a match made in heaven. But often, in reality, bridging the gap between the two worlds can be very challenging. It is quite a gamble for established companies to leap into the unknown. For the complete process to go evenly and efficiently, it requires facilitation.
The innovation intermediary's job is to follow the freshest trends on the market and integrate them into the existing business models. They hold a range of skills and play several roles. The most relevant is matching and coordination and between the participants.
This methodology allows prototyping and testing the ideas in the early stages of development. The iterative and non-linear steps offer hands-on learning from the mistakes, adjusting, and trying again until the ultimate solution. It's pretty much like a classroom where failure is considered a gift allowing the students to develop a better solution. What are your experiences and how DT helped you solve problems? [link] [comments]  |
| Advice For China To UK Delivery Posted: 06 May 2021 10:17 AM PDT Hello everyone, I'm currently dropshipping and my products are talking like 2 weeks to get the customers in the UK. Does anyone know a way around this? Any good shipping courier that I can pay monthly or weekly to pick my good up and ship faster? I'm so desperate as my orders are going up and I can't have people waiting this long. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| How to use leverage as a mental model to get more results Posted: 05 May 2021 05:03 PM PDT I came across some interesting advice recently:
Obviously, as you progress to the next stage, the prior one(s) should serve as a baseline.
This post will look at being more strategic. Specifically, in your career and life. One way to do this is by identifying opportunities for leverage. In this article, I'll be discussing how you can use leverage to multiply your output in your career and life.
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💁🏻♂️ How can you apply this?To increase leverage, you have two options:
Both options apply to different people in different scenarios.
Applying leverage in a corporate jobAs I progress through the early-mid stage of my career, I've been thinking about how I can be more strategic. And how I can pick smarter bets and be more intentional in my work, rather than brute-force delivering as much as I can. For illustrative purposes, here's how I would think about leverage in a corporate job setting if I wanted to maximize impact.
My goal could be to hold my input constant (e.g. work 55 hours a week max) and maximize the outputs listed above.
The common theme above is that all of these optimize for validated output, or potential future output. This list also isn't exhaustive. There are probably hundreds of other tactics out there you can incorporate. Applying leverage in lifeThis section is dependent on what your goals are, so it may not be completely applicable. Let's say that my personal goals revolve around developing new relationships, learning new things, and making people happy.
Understanding how to apply effective leverage in your life will ultimately depend on your own circumstances and goals. This thought exercise can help you understand how to be more intentional and strategic in making highly leveraged decisions. Think: What are your goals? What are the outputs that generate desired goal outcomes? What are your inputs? Thank you for taking the time to read — It took a while to put this together. If this was helpful, I really do appreciate it if you check out my blog![link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 May 2021 09:30 PM PDT Hello, if I am creating a long informational/educational digital eBook that I am planning on selling, and include company logo's as part of a chapter explaining how they belong to specific industries/sectors, is that okay and considered "fair use?" I am not providing my opinion/adding any bias, I'm simply stating a fact. Similarly, am I allowed to use Apple's emojis for people in my eBook for infographics that I design myself? To clarify, the entire written contents and graphics are being created by myself from scratch (and incorporating these logo's and emojis). Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 May 2021 09:51 PM PDT Hey entrepreneur gang, need help picking which iteration of my sales copy to use. Which one speaks to you the most?
Please pick a number :) Much appreciated entrepreneur fam. [link] [comments]  |
| TikTok is adding lead gen to their ads - should help conversions Posted: 06 May 2021 08:34 AM PDT A while back I wrote about how you absolutely need to get your business on TikTok. Well I guess TikTok was listening to me too, because now they're making it easier for brands to engage with users. Introducing: TikTok Lead Generation! GIMME YOUR DATAThis new feature functions very similar to Facebook Lead Ads. Users of the platform see your ad which will now have a button called 'Register'. Once the users clicks on it, they're taken to a lead gen form that asks some questions about them, which is then punted over to you and your sales team (which also may just be you). The information collected isn't onerous. It's your name, email and phone number. It should make it easy for potential customers to convert into a lead. Which is solid stuff because TikTok is growing significantly as a place where your customers might be hanging out GETTING ATTENTIONTikTok has been around in its native Chinese version since 2016. It entered the North American market in 2017 with the purchase of Musical.ly, a short form video app that allowed users to create lip-syncing and comedy videos. And it's been on a roll ever since. TikTok now has 800 million active users and is growing. While the audience is skewed to 56% male, and 41% of its users are between the ages of 16 and 24, marketers are starting to notice that TikTok ads are converting very well with females over the age of 35. That's a market with rising disposable income. You should want to talk to those people. Influencers are also flocking to TikTok. According to Insider, it is now the second most popular spot for influencers to Much like our LinkedIn story on Monday, there's a simple formula at play here: Lots of users X low overall ad count = cheap ads that convert So, make sure you're still posting on TikTok. But now you have more homework to do. You should be looking into potentially advertising there as well. Head spinning yet? Isn't internetting fun??? WE ACTUALLY LIKE THIS CONCEPTAll kidding aside, and we could keep going with jokes all day about influencer stuff, we think this is a good idea. As a small business owner you should pay attention to how this rolls out. Influencer marketing is notoriously effective at getting attention to your stuff. But you're admittedly wading into the weeds a bit trying to figure out what's what. It's very easy to be screwed over or get nowhere. So if there's something that centralizes it and makes it easier for businesses to more effectively market their products this way, we're all for it. Stay tuned. Facebook and Instagram kinda suck sometimes at rolling out new features (by new we mean copied since they seem to have largely lost their creative side), but they are good at making options that monetize well. So this could be a game changer for smaller businesses, creators and influencers. Now to dig out my Speedo... ------------------- Thanks a ton for making it this far! If you liked what you read, maybe I could entice you to join my newsletter by signing up here. It focuses on small and family business news, ideas, insights and tips that are actually useable. Thanks so much! ❤️ [link] [comments]  |
| Ecommerce website makeover tips (recorded livestream) Posted: 06 May 2021 04:30 AM PDT If you do business online, watch this Youtube video for lots of tips to improve your engagement and shopping cart conversions: [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 May 2021 03:40 AM PDT For the last few weeks i've been doing some research and I decided to follow a long time dream which is to create a little webshop in the handmade niche since it's a passion of mine. I know I could probably handle it with etsy but in the future I'd want to up the scale of the project so I want to start with something more professional and tailored to me. I wanted to ask y'all how would you personally go about developing and running a webshop in 2021. Is wordpress with woocommerce still a good choice? How to best handle the shop promotion, getting traffic and sales and overall online presence? Any tips are welcome. Thanks a lot! [link] [comments]  |
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| Ways to improve your local SEO for your business Posted: 05 May 2021 09:01 PM PDT I want to share how you could improve traffic to your website with local SEO. Local SEO essentially means to optimize your website to attract more visitors to your website with relevant local searches. You want to optimize for two things really, normal organic search results, the local Google My Business 3 pack and other local directories. To rank locally you need to have a keyword list. A few ways you can come up with keywords for your list is to use phrases you think customers search for. If you want to optimize for 'plumber syracuse ny', then some keywords could be:
To expand your keyword list you could use Google intuitive search. So type for example 'plumber syracuse'' in the search bar of Google without pressing the search button and see what comes up in the auto complete. Google's keyword planner is another tool you could use to find more keywords. With this tool you also get some insight into how much traffic a keyword has and what the competition level is. There are also paid tools like Semrush that you can use to find and build keyword lists. Then look at your top ranking competitors' websites and see how they have structured their pages. Simply scan through it to see what words they use and where they use them. Are there any keywords in the URL, H1 tag, anchor text, how much text does the page have, how many images and/or videos, number of internal and external links, etc. Just get an overall feel for what the competitor is doing and how they use keywords on their website. To see what pages your competitors have, you can search in google site://domain.com. This shows you all the pages a website is ranking for. Based on the info you gathered when scanning through the website, start implementing the keywords in the same places. For example if the competitor had the keyword in the H1 tag then you want to do the same. If the competitor had 1200 words on their page then you want to have at least the same amount, ideally more. Having google maps with your location embedded on your site can also be beneficial for your local SEO. Include external links to authoritative and local websites and businesses throughout your page as well. You can find your competitors' backlinks with Semrush and see which are the ones that are of interest to you. Another way to get backlinks is perhaps from a networking contact or another business owner that has authority online. The more authoritative backlinks you have the better your stats will get. In order to rank in the GMB 3 pack you need to do a few things:
That is pretty much it. I hope this provides some value and helps you rank better for your local SEO! If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. [link] [comments]  |
| NFTs: Fad or Future? Uncovering the Truth of the Hype Posted: 06 May 2021 06:38 AM PDT Hey guys! In this article, we tried to answer -- What is the future of NFT? 🤔We asked experts in different industries to comment on this matter and included the most interesting replies in the article. You might find it worth reading. https://2muchcoffee.com/blog/nfts-fad-or-future-uncovering-the-truth-of-the-hype/ Comment below on what's, in your opinion, the future hold for NFT👇 [link] [comments]  |
| Mortgage broker + side hustle?! Posted: 06 May 2021 06:36 AM PDT Hey guys so im a mortgage broker here in canada and looking to add an additional stream of income away from my mortgage commissions. I was debating between financial planning/life insurance or damage insurance (car/property insurance) Do you know which pays better and if either have residual/trailing commissions so i can build a form of passive income and book of business? TIA [link] [comments]  |
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