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- For those that lost a lot of money, what happened?
- Here’s how I scaled a YT channel from 2,000 views per year to over 2,400 views per day
- Do you ever feel like your business idea is just too “crazy” or unreachable?
- What is the (average) monthly revenue of your business?
- Roast my first ever website
- What's the IRRESISTIBLE OFFER you ever came across?
- How do you choose a name for business?
- Buddy and I want to open a gym - what are some must knows before we move forward?
- BUSINESS IDEAS
- A brief history of successful businesses in a nutshell
- How do I get information from people without being a kiss-ass?
- Top 7 Jack Ma's Advice For Young People
- working with family.
- What is your automation app / soft favorites I should / should not check this Black Friday?
- Building An Online Shop Without Social Media
- Looking for a group or to form a group of people who want to improve financially together. (read desc)
- Will this get me into copyright trouble?
- How can I copy followers from twitter accounts, create custom filters and visualize data on a dashboard?
- How much profit does your business make?
- INDIA - A night in India
- I request you to suggest me a practical Affiliate Marketing course for beginners.
- Private Equity wants to acquire us after 9 months
- Where do you hire engineers?
- Best website builder with a good SEO platform?
- 1000+ Software Deals Black Friday Compilation
| For those that lost a lot of money, what happened? Posted: 27 Nov 2021 02:02 AM PST Don't know if this is a sour topic, but was wondering if people could share their experiences of losing a lot of money, how they dealt with it, and whether they earned it back and or able to learn valuable lessons that helped them later on from repeating bigger mistakes. For me, I've lost maybe $20k in my life from garbage stocks, dropping out of university amongst other things like getting ripped off (badly) at a tailor shop in Thailand by the most lethal sales animals on the olanet . But I felt like it has made me more tolerable to taking risks and learned a few things in life which had helped me make better decisions overall. [link] [comments] |
| Here’s how I scaled a YT channel from 2,000 views per year to over 2,400 views per day Posted: 26 Nov 2021 05:37 AM PST Hey entrepreneurs, in this post I want to share my strategy that helped the KalariLab Youtube channel grow from 2k views per year to 2.4k per day, without uploading any new videos. A bit of backstory first. KalariLab is an online martial arts school located on a remote island in Thailand. Due to the lack of access to the physical location, we had to show people how they can learn martial arts just by watching a series of videos. Adam, the school's master, put together a video course aimed at complete beginners. When we first started I had no idea he had a YT channel so we tried lots of different traffic acquisition methods (FB Ads, Google Ads, Influencer marketing, etc.). Needless to say, nothing worked better than Youtube. At that point, I knew we had to try something a bit different, so we decided to start working on the YT channel. It was more of a test as we did not have any new videos, so I was forced to simply optimize the existing videos (that were a few years old!). These are the steps I took and what you should also do if you want to grow on YT. Competitors analysis and keyword researchThe first thing we did to grow the number of views and reach was to spy on competing youtube channels. The niche we were working on was extremely small compared to the mainstream ones. Even so, we were fighting against channels with over 200k subscribers and millions of views. We started by peeking at what tags they use, how they structure their video descriptions, and what keywords they rank for. One important point to keep in mind is that Youtube is not simply a search engine. It also has the functionality of a social network. Youtube will actively display your videos on the homepage, in the "Recommended" section of other videos, and even on other channels' pages. The Youtube algorithm analyzes different components of each video (title, description, tags, subtitles, etc.) and decides who would be interested in viewing it. Then it displays it to a small audience to see how they will engage with it. If all the signals are positive, the algorithm will increase this audience automatically until it reaches everyone. Keep in mind that you will experience a sudden and abrupt decrease in views once the audience has been exhausted. You should immediately start uploading new videos if for some reason you've stopped doing that, like in our case. Optimize the videosWith the main competitors researched and the keyword research done, we started looking for videos with the most chances of ranking. We were lucky to find that most were professionally filmed and edited, which was a big plus. We did several things for each video:
Special tip - tell Youtube what your videos are about by tagging other channels in your niche Tags are still extremely important for Youtube. They tell the algorithm where it should display the video. For the best effect you would have to use a combination that goes like this:
Remember that you can only write a maximum of 500 characters in the tags section, so stick with the most important ones. We went with different variations of the same keyword because the name of the martial art is spelled differently depending on the region. Video add-ons - Subtitles in multiple languages Youtube is the second most visited website in the world according to Similarweb. Moreover, Youtube's display language changes depending on your IP, which means that German people will browse Youtube in German, French people will browse it in French, and so on. Our videos were narrated in English, so one thing we could do to increase reach just a bit more was to add subtitles in different languages. This was relatively easy to do as Youtube has built-in functionality that would auto-generate subtitles for each video uploaded on the platform. All we had to do was to go in the settings, slightly tweak the auto-generated text and translate it into 8 different languages. Video add-ons - End screen and cards The first rule of UX is to make it obvious for people what's the next step they have to take after they did something you wanted them to do. This principle applies to Youtube videos as well. We wanted to tell people what they should do after they viewed a video by showing them the next one in the series. To achieve this we've used the end screen functionality to display a subscribe link and the thumbnail of the next video. Taking it one step further, we've also added video cards. These appear in the top right corner of the video as some sort of native advertisement. At first, we pointed them to a playlist, but once we hit the 10k subscribers mark we used them to promote the website. Special tip - Cross-platform promotion Simply creating posts for the community was not enough for us. We went one step further and created a 7-day challenge. The idea behind it was to encourage subscribers to practice a specific Kalari pose then take a picture or video and post it on Instagram using a specific hashtag. This would help us engage existing subscribers and convert them into brand ambassadors. In addition, they would also have a chance of winning the full course for free. All these things combined help us get traction pretty fast. We saw a big spike in just over a month after we started the optimization, without spending a single cent on ads or uploading any new videos. To sum up, these are the 3 steps I followed to reach 2.4k views per day: Research – We analyzed competitors' channels and what keywords we could rank for with Tubebuddy; Strategy – We put together a list of keywords and the most important channels we were going to associate with; Optimization – We optimized each video's description, title, and tags by following the previously created strategy. After we got new videos to upload we started the promotion part. We promoted the videos using the built-in Youtube community tab and engaging with practitioners on other social media platforms. I hope you found this helpful and please let me know what you think of this strategy. PS. I created a case study around this strategy so if you want to see the results you can go to this link. [link] [comments] |
| Do you ever feel like your business idea is just too “crazy” or unreachable? Posted: 27 Nov 2021 08:48 AM PST Without disclosing sensitive info, I've had a dream for several years now for a particular business idea. Something highly innovative, philanthropic, and of course a potential for solid profit. Months of sleepless nights working relentlessly on the computer, doing research, putting systems in place, and making contacts. Then comes a day where I look up at the ceiling and I think "I'm living in a pipe dream. There's no way this is ever going to come to fruition". Do you ever have days where you feel like your dream is just too high for you to ever be able to reach? [link] [comments] |
| What is the (average) monthly revenue of your business? Posted: 27 Nov 2021 04:54 AM PST I would like to see this poll, done right. Make sure you count revenue, not profits. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2021 05:50 AM PST Hi r/Entrepreneur, After trying and failing to launch hundreds of business ideas, I recently set out to create a simple website which I knew I could finish without any roadblocks. So often in the entrepreneurial community we hear about bouncing back if a business fails or showing resilience, however you rarely hear about how hard it is to even launch something in the first place. The sole purpose of this project for me was to launch. That's it. So it has already been a success. After countless lessons learned, wasted money (I'll label this tuition fees) and redesigns, my website is now live, but I want you to roast my website! What glaringly obvious mistakes have I made? What UI no-nos have I committed? Is my copy good enough for my landing page? I really appreciate any feedback you have... [link] [comments] |
| What's the IRRESISTIBLE OFFER you ever came across? Posted: 27 Nov 2021 05:11 AM PST Why it was irresistible? May be Price? Value? ROI? Scarcity? Social Proof? or any other things. Have you ever created an irresistible offer for your market? What was the response? What are your learning lessons? Any guidelines on "how to create an irresistible offer for any business?" [link] [comments] |
| How do you choose a name for business? Posted: 27 Nov 2021 05:59 AM PST I alway fails when it comes to choosing a name. I am either choosy or don't know how to choose one! My first Q ; how do you choose a good meaningful name for your business, do you pay for someone to choose for you or do it yourself, what is the process? Q: if I shortlist like 4-5 names, can I ask my already customer for a better name to choose by survey? [link] [comments] |
| Buddy and I want to open a gym - what are some must knows before we move forward? Posted: 26 Nov 2021 02:25 PM PST Just trying to cover as many bases as possible before we go ahead and shoot our shot. We plan on opening in the SF Bay Area. Any advice greatly appreciated :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2021 07:14 AM PST Would really love to start an online business. I have tons of things I like to some extent, but nothing where I'm like "okay, I can zero in on that and I knoe that I'm passionate enough about this to focus on it and lush through." Any advice? [link] [comments] |
| A brief history of successful businesses in a nutshell Posted: 27 Nov 2021 06:45 AM PST Pre fief : "I'm Mansa Munsa, bitch!" 9th - 15th century : "the kings got my back, peasants! Wanna fight about it???" 16th century - 19th century : "bitch I'm a bank. " 20th century : "The internet isn't big enough for people to know how shady we are. " 21st century : "AYT, NOBODY MOVE. I GOT A HOSTAGE!" [link] [comments] |
| How do I get information from people without being a kiss-ass? Posted: 26 Nov 2021 10:56 PM PST I was privileged enough to not have any survival skills. I've dealt with mostly nice people and was surrounded by a kind environment and its good because I had a good childhood, but the real world isn't a kind environment and we have to learn how to live in it. Plus it isn't 100% a good thing because now I can't ask for anything without wanting to give back 3x what I asked. The problem comes when I dont have enough resources to fund that kind of behavior. And I really need some information right now that I can't find on the internet. Do you know of any techniques to get information from people? Directly or indirectly? Ex of the advice I think I need: - make yourself useful to them, know what they can get from you if you help them I would do that only in this case I don't think its applicable. I don't know. I need advice badly (oh and also the situation is me wanting to get the contacts for this product's manufacturer cause im looking to enter the same field, so im gonna be asking for contacts, names, process, etc. so its very invasive and i dont know how to navigate it) [link] [comments] |
| Top 7 Jack Ma's Advice For Young People Posted: 27 Nov 2021 08:52 AM PST |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2021 08:21 AM PST Needless to say, working with family comes with a lot of benefits and limitations; In my experience, the Cons almost always outweigh the potential benefits. To be clear I'm writing this post to let off a bit of steam. Last week I started a construction project with my dad. He pushed his way into working on the project. The business I own and operate has two principles.
That's it. On the very first day he consistently disregarded my orders in front of my employees and clients. He forced my employees to cut corners when I wasn't on site. was rude to me; my employees and the neighbours of the client I was working for. Made the project last longer and cost more than it should have. And now to tip it all off is now demanding half the profit from the project (in cash to avoid tax) for helping to manage the project when he insisted he didn't want a penny for being there at the beginning and the fact is he only mostly drank coffee all day; watched and made my life very hard. Yes he did raise me and has helped me in the past. But never again. [link] [comments] |
| What is your automation app / soft favorites I should / should not check this Black Friday? Posted: 26 Nov 2021 01:47 PM PST I, as a most of you, probably, should answer the basic question (should I stay small on purpose or growth my small businesses?) - – I can't or don't want to grow my business? By staying small, I can keep controlling my business - However, I have low limit of potential revenue Anyway since I have a lot of routine tasks, I only can free up tome to grow my business by using automation tools I know all the basics
SO What are the tools to automate grow businesses you have start using this year? Thanks, [link] [comments] |
| Building An Online Shop Without Social Media Posted: 27 Nov 2021 06:45 AM PST Hey I want to sell my handmade paper and a few other things, but I don't like using meta based social media, and everyone always tells me I need Instagram to build my online business. Do I really need Instagram or are there other ways? I don't get out much and don't have any friends really and I also feel like pushing my business/products onto my friends is rude. I am also terrible with communication..social side of my brain is just like "nope" so my question is, what should I do? Is it actually even worth it to try or should I give up on this? I have tried selling things in the past by sharing about my products and myself on social media but I couldn't build any following and never made a sale. So I guess I am unsure how to promote my business correctly, any advice would be great. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2021 05:29 AM PST Hello all, So I have personally started 3 companies that all failed, I am almost 30 now and from all that I have been through I think the thing that is missing is network and using the network. Currently I decided I am not interested in a building a company, I just want to generate revenue. This is a wild chase but I was wondering if there are other people who want to do the same but need help for X,Y or Z. Essentially a group of people to match their skills to double on every chance. I am not trying to sell you anything, I am just looking to find a group like this or create one. What I can offer? I am a software engineer for 12 years so nothing technical should ever stop us. Level 2 trading? Flipping NFTs? Real Estate? Dropshipping? Forex? I am open to everything as long as we can double. I live in Europe/Berlin I believe being in the same continent would be advantageous but not a requirement. If I can not find any group like this, then I aim to make one. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Will this get me into copyright trouble? Posted: 27 Nov 2021 05:25 AM PST Do I have copyright problems when publishing a self produced video and using an already existing short story, told by myself, as a dub to underline the atmosphere and my intention of doing the video? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2021 01:01 AM PST I want to import twitter followers from few productivity/tech entrepreneurs who give out cool hacks to navigate the modern world. I then want to create custom filters like common links from all these influencers and create a visual dashboard showing the data collected. How can I do this using api and no code tools? [link] [comments] |
| How much profit does your business make? Posted: 27 Nov 2021 01:30 AM PST Anyone else genuinely interested to see the breakdown across this sub? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2021 07:19 AM PST A vivid memory from my India trip. - http://www.math-math.com/2021/11/a-night-in-india.html [link] [comments] |
| I request you to suggest me a practical Affiliate Marketing course for beginners. Posted: 26 Nov 2021 08:43 PM PST I have read many blogs and seen videos on Aff. marketing but I want a step by step guide for working everyday on Aff marketing. I know we have entrepreneurs in this sub who are doing Aff Marketing as a full time business. Please suggest me a good course as starting point. 🙂 [link] [comments] |
| Private Equity wants to acquire us after 9 months Posted: 26 Nov 2021 01:05 PM PST We have been around for about 9 months, but we started selling three months ago. We were surprised that we managed to get to $20k MRR so fast, so we hired and now we're growing faster than we can manage. The idea of an exit was surely on our mind, but we didn't expect we should consider that so fast. A PE firm expressed interest in buying us out for $3M and we don't know what to do. We are surprised but we are also not: we deal with a tech / financial niche and what we do could give PE massive data visibility to take educated investment decisions. We know that by end of Q1 we'll be at $50k MRR, so we might be worth more. At the same time, $3M for 9 months worth of work is something that's making us think. My question is not whether we should sell or not (we know this is an answer that we should figure out ourselves). But it's more about the valuation - does $3M sound like a good deal if you want to exit so fast? Or does such a quick offer mean that we might be able to snatch a much better offer if we kept going for a bit longer? Anyone had a similar experience? What did you do? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2021 02:55 PM PST We used to use Stackoverflow Talent but they are sunsetting it unfortunately. We've tried a few other platforms but nothing as good as ST. So as the title states: where do you hire good engineering talent fully remote? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Best website builder with a good SEO platform? Posted: 26 Nov 2021 02:59 AM PST Hey everybody! I would like to start a small tax business of my own. Therefore I am looking for a website builder that has a good SEO platform, so I can create relevant ads and so on… Now I made some research, but in conclusion websites line godaddy and wix aren't the best in terms of SEO. Besides that I am not a pro in this area, so I really don't know much about these things. Now do you have any recommendations for a good website builder with an even better SEO platform? If there is anything else that is important to give considerstion to, please tell me! Thanks and Cheers All! [link] [comments] |
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