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- While OnlyFans bans porn and then changes its mind, here's the story of how they've built their porn empire with 100M users within 5 years
- Thought I would feel amazing after quitting my job to pursue my side-business full-time; but imstead I feel insanely anxious.
- How many businesses have you failed before succeeding?
- I put in my two weeks yesterday.
- 16 year old guy looking for ideas
- I want to buy underperforming sites or partner with someone that needs help managing them.
- How do I leverage NIL for my business?
- Abusive chargeback, how to handle?
- Advice on Protein Candy Company
- How I Pre-Launched my Product on Reddit to get 1,000 Signups in 1 Day
- Eatable Mystery Boxes From India To USA. How successful they are?
- Who here is successful without a degree?
- Podcast average monthly revenue for first 90 days.
- I’ve got a dedicated active user base that’s very specific and I’m sending 500k+ emails per month. How can I monetize that?
- What are some ways to find out willingness to pay and market validation - without having a product built?
- How could I expand this?
- Pandora for Hold Music
- tangible items that make you money
- Any success stories of folks who got a SBA 504 loan to buy land &/or construct a building? Thinking about starting a business that needs both.
- Tactics on Hiring for New Company w/ Uncertain Work
- Successful service companies: what's your exit strategy?
- Product proposal
- Novo vs NBKC vs BlueVine
- If you know something definitely 100% going to work, but everyone think you're wasting/mocking your time, would you take it?
- Does anyone else actually use Facebook for their business? I'm trying to learn the specifics of the Boost function
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Posted: 28 Aug 2021 07:04 AM PDT I made the decision to quit my job and to pursue my business full-time 3 weeks ago, and it's currently one week in being fully self-employed. I know it's only been a week so I'm trying not to be too negative so soon, but the sudden loss of my second income stream is definitely hitting me harder than I thought it would. Most of my anxieties have to do with unfounded fears (will I be able to land a job again, what if this business completely fails tomorrow etc.) but damn if they don't feel real right now. In hindsight I also feel like I might've pulled the plug a little bit too soon, and maybe I should've stuck to it a little bit longer. Just feeling that swirling pit of anxiety in my chest right now and I don't know how to process it. Any ords of wisdom or experience would be greatly, greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] |
How many businesses have you failed before succeeding? Posted: 27 Aug 2021 07:45 PM PDT Curious about everyone's failures. It's a tough road indeed... [link] [comments] |
I put in my two weeks yesterday. Posted: 28 Aug 2021 09:24 AM PDT I was a Software Developer at an independent trading firm. For the past year, I've been saving as much as possible, along with learning everything I can about the business and marketing side of running a startup. In addition to my savings, I have a couple side hustles (I edit a friends' podcast, have a few crypto investments) to keep me afloat while I build my dream app. If it doesn't work out within a year, I'll be back working for the man. Here's to building something profitable! [link] [comments] |
16 year old guy looking for ideas Posted: 28 Aug 2021 01:27 PM PDT Hi there, I am looking for something to create a solution for. I was wondering if you have a problem that is bothering you a lot, that I could try to solve for other people as well. I am a kind of developer and I want to do something with AI too. [link] [comments] |
I want to buy underperforming sites or partner with someone that needs help managing them. Posted: 28 Aug 2021 07:05 AM PDT I've realized I'm not great at starting sites, but I'm good at optimizing existing ones. The only sites that I know of are Flippa and Empire Flippers, but they seem shady/low quality. Does anyone have tips to find underperforming sites, sites no longer being maintained, or sites simply for sale? I'd also be fine with partnering with someone with an existing site. [link] [comments] |
How do I leverage NIL for my business? Posted: 28 Aug 2021 01:15 PM PDT I have a business in the online education space and I'm currently launching my first ad campaign. I am looking for information regarding how I can leverage the NCAA's new NIL policy to promote my business. Any ideas, advice, testimonials, etc... would be greatly appreciated. NIL - For anyone that doesn't know, the NCAA changed it's policy so that student athletes now have the ability to monetize their name, image, and likeness (NIL). Here is a link to their website to learn more. [link] [comments] |
Abusive chargeback, how to handle? Posted: 28 Aug 2021 07:55 AM PDT I have a customer that's purchased a a total of 8 times from me these past few months. This past week she's been raising one dispute a day per transaction for item not received (I have successful delivery proof per tracking number and fighting each dispute). I've tried sending her emails to ask her to kindly stop otherwise I will take legal action for her committing fraud…but obviously she's continuing to raise chargebacks. Money aside I'm more worried about my merchant account having a sudden influx of disputes in a short timeframe. Any one have any suggestions on how to handle this? [link] [comments] |
Advice on Protein Candy Company Posted: 28 Aug 2021 08:43 AM PDT I recently have embarked on the journey to start a protein based candy company(see post history for more info) and have come to realize I know nothing about starting a company that involves selling food products. Does anyone have experience in this field and can give a young entrepreneur some advice for cutting costs and overall success? [link] [comments] |
How I Pre-Launched my Product on Reddit to get 1,000 Signups in 1 Day Posted: 28 Aug 2021 11:45 AM PDT Hey guys! Two months ago, I tried a challenge: Build the MVP of a startup idea in under 1 day. Then take another day to get 1,000 signups for the pre-launch. In this post, I want to share the growth hacks I learned. My background is in software engineering, and these types of posts would always help me, so I hope this can do the same for you. I am not some kind of expert. I just talk from personal experience. That challenge was part of a video series "From 0 to 1" that I am doing on my yt channel. Using this strategy, I got:
I am currently working on developing the product, and plan to use this strategy again for the public launch. The IdeaThe product I built is a gamified learning platform to teach people how to code. I knew there was a need for it, because a lot of people are complaining about online learning and the fact that it's not engaging enough. My hypothesis was that gamification could fix it. I wanted to get a bit of feedback before I started building, so I made this quick post on r/learnprogramming. Unexpectedly, it blew up: 1.3k upvotes with 164 comments. (Btw that post got taken 2 weeks later, but I will talk about it more at the end) This is nice, because it validated the idea, but also because it provided me with momentum that I could reuse to spin up something quickly. That's why I tried to act so fast. After a day of building the MVP, it wasn't ready to be publicly released yet (still buggy), but it was enough to be able to make a landing page with a real video demo and get people excited to signup for early access. The founder of Dropbox actually used a similar strategy, he hacked an MVP and made a cool video show the concept of how Dropbox would work. Got a ton of signs up like that, and later funding to build the idea. I called my platform The Last CodeBender. Note that having a catchy name is super important. I thought a lot about it. It's not required, but it does help a great deal. A lot of people signed up just because of the name. Find the Community-Idea FitThere is a community for pretty much everything on Reddit. That's why it's such a powerful place to validate your ideas and get your first users. If the community picks it up, it's a great sign that your idea as potential. First, you need to find all the subreddits related to your niche. For me, it was programming. The best ones I identified were: r/learnprogramming, r/learnjavascript, r/coding, r/compsci, r/programming, r/web_design, r/javascript Make sure you check all the rules on those subs, specifically their rules on self-promotion. If you have doubts, just message the mods before posting. It's also possible your post will get taken down no matter how useful it is. If that's the case, message the mods to get the reason. Usually it won't change anything, but worth trying. Sometimes it could just be your messaging. In my case, I realized that posting in 7 subs was actually too much. In retrospective, I would do less, maybe 3-4. Because after a few days, mods noticed that I posted the same website in multiples place, so all of my posts got taken down. The other reason was that it was sending people to a pre-launch website with a waitlist, instead of the actual product, which they didn't like (even though the community received it very well, most comments were positive). Either way, sometimes you won't know before you try, and as long as you do it genuinely, it's worth trying. Craft your messageOnce you have identified the subs where you are confident you can post, it's time to craft your message. In order for you to make one that can go "viral", you need to first understand what are the kinds of posts that actually perform well with that community. So spend a bit of time in each sub to study the top posts from the last year and from all time (reddit has a feature to sort through those). Like do pictures perform better, or long texts, personal stories, videos, memes, etc. From there, you just have to tailor your post to one of these patterns/structures you identified. It can be the same between subs or it can be different. In some subs I posted a video, in others simply a link to the website with a good title, and in others I posted a lengthy description of the platform and why I am doing it. You have to adapt to each community otherwise it won't perform well. Post it & EngageAs soon as you are done with one messaging, just post it. Don't wait to be done with everything. While you are crafting the other ones, people might react to your current ones which can give you feedback to improve your wording. It's like an iterative process. Make sure you engage and reply to all the comments. If those comments can lead to conversations, that's even better! You could reply with just "thanks", but that's too simple, whenever you can, try to ask questions that will lead to more comments. That will boost your post and provide you more feedback. Links to the posts I didHere is the complete list of the posts I have made. Some succeeded and others failed. Sometimes it can just be a question of timing, that's why I didn't want to limit myself to posting only in one sub. This strategy requires multiple communities for it to reproducible. But like I said earlier, if I were to do it again, I would post in only 3-4 of them to avoid being flagged as a spammer and get all the posts taken down.
___I feel like I wrote a lot but I also feel like I might have missed a few things here (I went into more depth in my yt video since I recorded everything), so don't hesitate if you have questions! I will try to free some time to answer them! If you want to talk privately, you can DM me on Twitter at Zaurbek Stark. [link] [comments] |
Eatable Mystery Boxes From India To USA. How successful they are? Posted: 28 Aug 2021 07:35 AM PDT Have been thinking on this topic for a while. I need some advice on this if its a good idea to start something like this. I have friends ready to drop ship mystery boxes in US. Shipping cost is not that much. Your thoughts are welcome. [link] [comments] |
Who here is successful without a degree? Posted: 27 Aug 2021 08:21 PM PDT |
Podcast average monthly revenue for first 90 days. Posted: 28 Aug 2021 01:25 PM PDT What is a reasonable projection? Existing audience via IG (12.3K), sponsor revenue only, no paid adds/ cross promo strategy only [link] [comments] |
Posted: 28 Aug 2021 01:17 PM PDT Hello fellow Entrepreneurs, I've got a sport specific app that has highly engaged users and I'm sending 500k+ transactional emails per month. The majority of the emails are "Are you coming to the game?" with a couple call to action buttons. How can I monetize these? Is the best bet to reach out to sport/health brands and ask if they want to advertise? How do people charge for these ads? Clicks, opens, or just a monthly fee? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] |
Posted: 28 Aug 2021 12:32 PM PDT What are some ways to find out willingness to pay and market validation - without having a product built? [link] [comments] |
Posted: 28 Aug 2021 12:14 PM PDT Ive been reselling cars from auctions as a side hustle but now it turned into my main job. I usually list them on social media and seller marketplaces and sell them locally or to people in other states. I've been doing fine but right now I'm not sure how to potentially scale up. Most of my traffic comes from Fb marketplace but I don't have like a business page that shows what I'm about. Should I run google/Facebook ads? Open a Facebook page or website? any suggestion is appreciated. [link] [comments] |
Posted: 28 Aug 2021 12:13 PM PDT I haven't put too much thought into this. But instead of the cheezy elevator jazz while you're on hold, why not strike a partnership with a music distributor that plays pre-assembled playlists of your favorite genre? Press 1 to hear top-40, press 2 to hear rock hits from the 80s 90s and today, press 3 to hear country, etc. You'll never lose your place in line and music may be interrupted at any point. [link] [comments] |
tangible items that make you money Posted: 28 Aug 2021 07:48 AM PDT most people say if they got money they would buy a nice car/clothes/shoes/toys etc. But what physical item can you buy that "pays for itself" my ideas are *riding lawn mowers *pickup trucks meant for work *pressure washers etc. -discuss [link] [comments] |
Posted: 28 Aug 2021 09:56 AM PDT Looking to hear any success or failure stories of folks who secured a loan, or more specifically a SBA 504 loan, to purchase land, construct a building, or both. I've been talking with my gf about starting a somewhat niché business for the last few months, then I just found out someone locally has already done it very successfully, which then kickstarted my due-diligence obsession. Part of this plan would be to acquire ~1.5 acres of land, and construct a ~2000sqft pre-fab'd steel building which would have a small living area upstairs, but mainly for the retail space below. Either I personally, or the business entity, would own the building, and the other would lease out the space needed as a tenant, which would guarantee a set amount of revenue each month, and give us a place to live until the business kicks off and hopefully we can use that as an Airbnb. I would think that using the funds to buy land and erect a building would be preferential to a lender since they would serve as collateral, but would love to hear some other folk's experiences on this. I think we may be looking at a loan somewhere ~$750k-$1m to buy the land, construct & buildout the interior of the building, and have the land excavated/prepped/landscaped. [link] [comments] |
Tactics on Hiring for New Company w/ Uncertain Work Posted: 28 Aug 2021 07:15 AM PDT Hello World, I work for a property management company. They are regionally based and are thus not local and depend on me to do some maintenance and cleaning and hire local vendors for whatever I am unable to do. The company is looking at acquiring some more accounts that are going to require cleaning services but are going to keep me too busy to do the cleaning myself. My idea is to start a cleaning company to win these properties' accounts. I want to hire someone to start part time for this work till we can grow. The biggest unknown, though, is exactly how much these new accounts are going to be willing to pay out for cleaning and how much cleaning they will need - daily, weekly, etc. I want to be ready to act and get work done when the opportunity arises but I realize that the idea of convincing someone that your "maybe" job could be a hard sell. Otherwise someone else will get the accounts and I will be leaving money on the table. Do I just hire them for an estimated number of hours contingent on the acquisition of these accounts? Do I set a pay-price for each cleaning "job" and hire cleaners as private contractors till we can offer a better hiring package? Or leave it at this if it is preferred? And one last inquiry for you, Wise Reddit. I cannot acquire a company vehicle yet, and if the hired cleaners are my employees, how do you recommend compensating for mileage? I am not a cheapskate but I am quite frugal and would like to pay competitively but also secure the business. Thank you much. [link] [comments] |
Successful service companies: what's your exit strategy? Posted: 28 Aug 2021 09:04 AM PDT Selling products (software or hardware) is relatively straightforward, but how do you successfully execute an exit of service based companies like consulting, hospitality businesses? Do they get acquired? [link] [comments] |
Posted: 28 Aug 2021 11:38 AM PDT Hi all, I have a product that will help mobile auto detailing business. How should I contact individual owners and offer my product to them as private label. Thank you [link] [comments] |
Posted: 28 Aug 2021 11:35 AM PDT Starting an eCommerce business through Shopify and think these are my final three options for banking. Customer service and not getting hit with surprise fees are definitely a priority of mine; headaches caused by the bank are not something I want to deal with too often. If any of you have experience with these banks and can offer any insight that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! [link] [comments] |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2021 11:20 AM PDT Sorry, i bet Facebook isn't as popular as other markets but its one of the best formats imo for flipping collectibles imo. I use sales GROUPS that are for specific audiences, i do not use marketplace. There are mechanical differences between a group sales post and a marketplace post, and turning one into the other, as well as differences between local marketplace and items with shipping. But I'm specifically referring to posting to sales groups, and using the marketplace feature so that i can promote my posts with group users. When you 'boost' a group sale post, you must crosspost to marketplace. It shows a preview of your boosted listing and how it will appear on news feeds, including the group name - so it will boost to more users of those groups? When you boost, you use a 3 day campaign that ends when you sell the item. If you mark it sold in marketplace but not the groups, will it continue to boost to group users? [link] [comments] |
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