Promote your business, week of July 5, 2021 small business |
- Promote your business, week of July 5, 2021
- Feeling Defeated
- What do I do with this employee?
- Starting a vending machine business in WV (tips and info for startup)
- Connecting valued lives
- Commercial real estate question
- Got a biz site, but clueless about which companies to start calling
- Financial Aid
- Costs associated with incorporating a company in Delaware US
- Seeking Business Opportunities as a Supplier
- Is anyone else here SUPER detail oriented?
- Birthday sale
- Expense advice
- Needing help
- Starting my own business
- New EIN?
- Wanting to buy a business but trouble with downpayment.
- When does a side hobby of tutoring become a small business? Also ideas or ways to scale? (Canada)
- Would you use a site where you can promote your small business?
- I need someone to hire to help design a promotional flyer!
- Looking for friends who are business oriented mindset
- Tax rates for LLC in the US?
- How close is too close?
- Networking and client issues.
- Clothing Brand name
| Promote your business, week of July 5, 2021 Posted: 04 Jul 2021 06:32 PM PDT Post business promotion messages here including special offers especially if you cater to small business. Be considerate. Make your message concise. Note: To prevent your messages from being flagged by the autofilter, don't use shortened URLs. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 08:42 AM PDT A week ago I posted here to create free logos for small businesses. I was really excited to help people Kickstart their journey. The overall experience wasn't very thrilling. I came to know that some people were selling the logos I made to other companies. They were outsourcing their own works and using me as free labour. I didn't say anything to them but it feels really awful. I posted here with the intention to help small businesses, and some of the people were taking advantage of that fact. After I completed the logos, I requested people to fill a form for feedback and testimonial purposes, was dissapointed again, as very few people filled that form. I feel like the 30+ hours I invested on those logos were for nothing. Edit: Thank you everyone for your kind words. Since most of the people have ghosted me after receiving the logo, It would mean a lot to me if you guys could give feedback on my work in this post [link] [comments]  |
| What do I do with this employee? Posted: 04 Jul 2021 05:27 PM PDT I run a fitness studio. I've got an employee, let's call her Mary, who has been with me for about four years. Mary is the most popular teacher we have. She's always on time, friendly, hardworking and motivated. She's my right hand and has seen us through some very difficult times together (covid and raising a business from the ground.) She also is a pathological liar. I've caught her in many lies before, one of them was her selling her own private lessons to clients who were in my studio and then telling me that they were her clients. She, myself and two other teachers are creating a training and the teacher who is compiling, let's call her Sarah, found that another teacher had copy and pasted something from wikipedia. Sarah called Mary for help as I was on vacation and Mary expressed anger and disgust that the person had plagiarized etc. and gave Sarah advice about how to approach the other girl about it. Today I went over to Sarah's house and ran our whole, 300 page training through a plagiarize finding website and we found out that Mary had plagiarized about 80% (copy and pasted) or her share off the internet. For reference we charge people $3500 to take this training so it needs to be our own work. This is probably the fourth, really bad lie I've caught Mary in but I don't feel like I can lose her on the back of covid and her being so popular (lots of people have told me that her live online classes have literally saved them through this pandemic.) I'm so torn. On one hand I know I can't trust her but on the other hand I need her and the specific work that she does. We are losing another popular person in a few weeks to a move and I feel the blow would be a major loss to the business after a year and a half of losses. On the other hand I think I need to start to move her out a manager role at minimum and maybe cut her hours down. What would you do? [link] [comments]  |
| Starting a vending machine business in WV (tips and info for startup) Posted: 04 Jul 2021 07:32 AM PDT A buddy and myself are looking into creating an LLC to start a vending machine business. I've been doing a lot of research on the matter, but I still wanted to come to this community and see if we can get some help from people who have done this before. I'm big on learning from not only my own mistakes, but the mistakes of my peers, so as to avoid making the same costly mistakes. From the research I've done, we will need to do some paper work, and even have a place called One Stop Business Shop that will be able to help us with everything in person. And this brings me to my first question. I've read we will need a Registered Agent as part of forming the LLC. Who should this be? Should we hire an agency, or should we appoint one of ourselves (if able)? We plan to form the LLC in WV, but he lives in Ohio, so will this effect anything as far as forming the LLC, or his ability to be an owner of it? Additionally I have questions about control of the LLC. My buddy and I both plan to finance the same amount of money into the business to purchase our first machines, but I will be taking care of all maintenance, ordering products to refill the machines, and all other business dealings as far as deals with potential clients. What is a fair way to split ownership given the work I will be doing? As mentioned above, I plan on approaching businesses about becoming our first client to house our machines. With that being said, I understand typically the business that houses our machines will take a percentage of the revenue, while our business would retain the remaining revenue. What is a fair percentage, and how should we structure a contract with said business? Thanks in advance for helping a young man on his journey to entrepreneurial success! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2021 03:47 AM PDT Spotlyf is an AI-powered social media platform that helps to connect people with the same purpose to share values for their digital wellbeing. With its unique idea, spotlyf is introducing a platform that filters content according to user preference. [link] [comments]  |
| Commercial real estate question Posted: 04 Jul 2021 09:46 PM PDT Okay I'd like to preface this by saying that this question feels silly. Go easy on me here — I'm embarrassed to ask! TLDR at bottom. Basically, a colleague of mine put in an offer on some commercial real estate. The spot is beneath a luxury condo building. I will be renting space from her. Real estate broker spoke to the condo association and it sounds like everyone was pretty excited about our businesses going in. (We had info that there was another company who was interested but was denied based off their biz model pitched to the assoc.) Colleague and I met the owner multiple times, he even went out of his way to tell us how excited he was and that he enjoyed the idea of my business there particularly and that the residents would love it! Anyway, turns out they passed on our offer (asking price) a few weeks later; we (read: my colleague) immediately countered with a higher bid and they passed again. We cannot offer more money. We were told there is another buyer interested. We assume they can offer well over asking and way more than we can. They may have a better business model to suit the space, but we don't know. My silly question: would it be worth it to possibly write a letter to the seller, the way it's done a lot these days with residential real estate? We don't know if they have accepted an offer from the other company yet. Of course we don't want to sound s desperate, it's just... literal perfection. We've toured the space 5 times, gone in with our interior designer, met the head of construction we'd be working with. It was such a bummer!! And I'm sure this is naive, but I was surprised. It's just so disappointing. TLDR: Colleague put an offer on commercial real estate that was declined, then also a higher bid, which was also declined. Owner/management seems to love our biz models and us, but we know there is another company interested in the space. Is there any chance writing a letter to the owner would help us or is it too late/not something people do in commercial real estate like residential? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Got a biz site, but clueless about which companies to start calling Posted: 05 Jul 2021 02:23 AM PDT I am venturing into tech training, and I'm at a loss about which companies to start approaching. The service trains employees to work remotely using cloud-based services rather than email. I'm looking for suggestions: which types of companies/industries would right now be most desperate to raise their employees' remote-work literacy? PM for my website link [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2021 02:15 AM PDT Is there any hope for another round of PPP? My lender delayed until two days to the end of PPP to decline me. Now I've closed the shop and I'm at home [link] [comments]  |
| Costs associated with incorporating a company in Delaware US Posted: 05 Jul 2021 01:20 AM PDT I am planning to incorporate a company in Delaware (possibly an LLC). Does anyone know the cost to incorporate in Delaware? How much is it to do it yourself vs. hiring a company formation service? What are the yearly costs associated? (ie. filing fees, etc.). I want to have my budget fully prepared beforehand. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Seeking Business Opportunities as a Supplier Posted: 05 Jul 2021 12:05 AM PDT I am a Chinese supplier who owns several factories and has other sources. I am looking to start a supply chain business, stress quality and exquisite services. I could get you any product source you need and provide you with a stable supply chain, on top of that we support full custom design with the best price offer. Feel free to message me so we can talk more. Robert [link] [comments]  |
| Is anyone else here SUPER detail oriented? Posted: 04 Jul 2021 05:18 PM PDT I'm starting my own business and am about to launch my first product. It's insane how in-depth I'm going about how the product looks, how everything is worded, and to be honest it's borderline obsessive. I'm kind of making this post to see if anyone can relate. I feel like something is wrong with me lol. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2021 02:24 AM PDT It's my 23rd birthday today so i am running 23% off on items on my Etsy using code HAPPYBIRTHDAY - feel free to check it out [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:26 PM PDT I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right spot. I'm working on starting a business out of my home, and my wife and I are looking at doing a cash out refi for start up money. Doing that will increase our mortgage payment, and I want to pay the amount of that increase. Ideally I'd like it to be a business expense paid by the company every month and not paid from my paycheck after being taxed as income. The mortgage is in my wife's name, the house in both ours. Would the payment be made to her or directly to the mortgage company? What would be the best method to pay that expense? Thanks in advance [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 06:05 PM PDT Hey all, I'm needing some help marketing to small businesses. I've been an accountant in industry for a number of years and recently took on a couple clients on the side. So far, I love it. I'm looking for advice on: 1). How best to market to small businesses? 2). What service is of most value to small businesses? e.g. bookkeeping, accounting, tax, advisory? 3). What price business owners expect to pay? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 09:40 PM PDT I am going to be opening a clothing store in my city soon and I've searched the internet for hours trying to find shelving/racks and I can't find anything! Does anyone have any advice on what websites I can find stuff like that on or know how one goes about getting all the stuff I need for the actual store? Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 03:31 PM PDT There's such a learning curve. Whew. If you were once a 2 member LLC partnership and one member leaves - I understand the remaining entity uses their SSN for tax purposes for following years. But do you need to cancel the old EIN? Keep it on record? Use the same EIN if another member joins? [link] [comments]  |
| Wanting to buy a business but trouble with downpayment. Posted: 04 Jul 2021 08:58 PM PDT I have 13 years experience at this location with 5 year running it independantly. I have an alright salary, but a child on SSI. The business profits 110K/yr which is a large step up from my current salary. Everyone is agreed that we buy the business for 200K but we need 20K down. My daughters SSI has made it to where we can't have more than 2k in savings or she loses her insurance. This wont matter after owning the store but has prevented us from saving over the years. The bank suggested "borrowing" the money but otherwise said they couldnt see any reason we'd be denied. Can we get a personal loan for the down payment from an institution or was she implying we ask family? Family isnt an option for us. Any help? [link] [comments]  |
| When does a side hobby of tutoring become a small business? Also ideas or ways to scale? (Canada) Posted: 04 Jul 2021 05:00 PM PDT Hi everyone! After work and during weekends, I tutor accounting, math and english privately to students. So far, I've just been advertising online via Kijiji and make roughly $500 net profit a month. I'm by no means smart but enjoy teaching, while studying for my CPA (helps me review too). I've been lucky enough that my partner who's a computer engineer, is also helping me out expand. He tutors engineering maths and coding to students. I'm curious as to when a side hobby becomes a small business? Plus, if any folks have ideas or ways I can scale my tutoring services? [link] [comments]  |
| Would you use a site where you can promote your small business? Posted: 04 Jul 2021 08:01 PM PDT Hi all, Would you use a site where you can launch your new small business i.e. less than 1 month old, and sell via us before you start an e-commerce store? Or would you go straight to selling on your own store? Or would you do both, provided we can provide some extra customers for you at the beginning of your business? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| I need someone to hire to help design a promotional flyer! Posted: 04 Jul 2021 07:29 PM PDT |
| Looking for friends who are business oriented mindset Posted: 04 Jul 2021 11:27 AM PDT 4 months ago, I have posted here and few other subreddits that I was looking for new friends and it had amazing response, over 500 people joined in after the post and we build our small community. Some people join to help me to build the discord community (https://discord.gg/jNZt4tteYB ) (they made our logo, we came up all together with discord structure etc) some came to be admins - never participated and left after few days because they were not made admins/moderators others stayed and build friendship with each other. Some saw a post here joined the first day and forget to come back. We have interested mixture of people in our group, lawyers, boba shop owners (me), people who run boating business, copywriters, warehouse owner and dreamers who are in processes of building something amazing. We post ask for help, share our thoughts, complain and grow together, sometimes just open chat, we do open voice chat meetings and try to make friends with all amazing entrepreneurs who joined us from all around the world I want to post and thank everyone who joined and are active, and invite you all to come join us, We love to share our friendship with everyone Here my original post I am looking for friends who have business oriented mindset. Not sure why but for me its easier to find common topics to talk with people who are business oriented mindset. We can chat about business, life, challenges, victories etc... Most of my friends who are not doing business think those topics are boring, so I don't have anyone to talk with after I have started being self employed. Edit 2: Hey guys, looks like I can not DM anyone first, please send me DM first I would love to chat with everyone! Edit: Few people to ask about discord, so I just made one: https://discord.gg/jNZt4tteYB Old Post: [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 08:03 AM PDT I'm in the process of moving to the Minnesota with my wife and kids. Currently I live in Ireland and have a online marketing business which 12% in corporation tax on my yearly profits. I'll be opening a LLC and I'm trying to get an idea on how much I'll be paying in taxes? Will I also be required to pay federal corporate taxes on top of the state taxes? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 04:57 PM PDT I'm opening a coffee bar in a large metropolitan area and have been eyeing a place that fits all my criteria, however, there is another (smaller) bar just across the street. My city has a really high competition, there is a coffee place literally on every block, though pre-pandemic traffic would've been enough to feed us all (and a couple of Starbuckses). But knowing how little people go to their offices now, I'm wondering if I should just keep looking. The area is almost an even split between high-rise business and residential buildings. Would appreciate any thoughts and opinions! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 04:38 PM PDT I am a graphic designer and I run a small graphic business, I've been a graphic designer for over 4 years now and this year has been a struggle to gain any form of custom from anybody. I was thinking networking via something such as a giveaway or something similar would be a good idea to help with the struggle lately. I usually am always full of work to complete in previous years however to the end of 2020 to now has been so hard to get by. What do you think? What do you think is the best thing I can do to try get my services out there to recieve clients in return? I am struggling a lot lately so I really appreciate your advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jul 2021 12:50 PM PDT Hi. I am Brazilian and I am thinking about RORIA for clothing Brand name , but I don't know about possible conotations of this word in English. The pronounce is similar to WHORE? Is similar to other negative word? Roria is okay? What you guys think? Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
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