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Recent content by Brrr

  1. Brrr

    Let’s grow an ice cream business!

    EXECUTION 
    Start on the new Production Unit Work has started on the new production unit, with all the electrics done this week and plumbing work starting tomorrow. It's been a really interesting experience kitting out and planning a unit that is 100% practical and 0% aesthetic. It's always had to be a...
  2. Brrr

    The Story of our Service Business

    EXECUTION 
    Have you tried repackaging your product sale as a "Home Office Specialists", I couldn't imagine a better time to be doing what you are doing! My guess would be that there is poor communication of what your work will do for your customer's life and you may be struggling to really justify your...
  3. Brrr

    The best business building tool and resources for your business...

    MARKETING 
    Canva - Lifesaver, absolutely shocked that this thing is free. Even a graphically inept person like myself can make decent signage, vouchers, posters, etc. Shopify -Pretty self-explanatory, sped up my website so much compared to Wordpress/Woocommerce and helped manage orders. Don't know if I...
  4. Brrr

    Building a subscription box business

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Hey, I had a little skim through your thread and I think you need to take a hard look at the growth of the business and what you are doing and decide if the issue is the product itself or the business model/way you sell. Not to turn this about myself, but I made some assumptions about my...
  5. Brrr

    Starting (and Fastlaning) a lawn care service business

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Nice one, I found a really similar thing with my production guy, he's made the business twice as efficient on production and so I am happy to pay him the 40 hour week even if it was 35 in reality. Just as long as the work doesn't get sloppy. We have a lot of variance in work demand and lots of...
  6. Brrr

    What does a day in your life look like? (Daily and Weekly Routines)

    EXECUTION 
    I think the answers you might get will be really way too varied to maybe apply. What I would say is, I start my day at 8pm, not 8am. What do I mean by this? I take 15 minutes to schedule my next day in the evening. I have a document open where I write out all the tasks that need doing under...
  7. Brrr

    Do you get a lot of shitty customers?

    For the number of customers we see, we get a ridiculously small amount of negative customer interaction. There are some factors that make us generally less prone to getting shitty customers in the first place, namely: Premium product and relatively premium pricing Setting up in more affluent...
  8. Brrr

    Do You Enjoy the Place Where You Live?

    HOT! OFF-TOPIC 
    6-7 years would put me at 17 years in the UK, so the same amount of time I spent in Italy. Also would mean that I've been in business for a decade, I feel like that gives me a realistic timeframe to grow my business into something substantial. Also, I feel like at 33/34 that's still an ok time...
  9. Brrr

    Do You Enjoy the Place Where You Live?

    HOT! OFF-TOPIC 
    Not really, I've been in the UK for 11 years now. All of my adult life and I've not been able to really properly make it feel like home, the winters are unbelievably depressing due to the lack of light and cold and the summers are generally nice, but I haven't been able to enjoy one since 2017...
  10. Brrr

    Let’s grow an ice cream business!

    EXECUTION 
    Making some really substantial progress at the moment with the business, things seem to be really coming together now although I've just come through a hellish week as someone turned the summer switch "on" in the UK. In the last 10 days, we've done over £20k in sales, as a reference all of...
  11. Brrr

    Small Business Owners

    PEOPLE 
    I wouldn't generalise in such a grand manner, most successful businesses had great employee's to build the enterprise. Success is subjective and different people look for different things in life. You can't forget that, especially as you hire! Running a business is not for everyone and that...
  12. Brrr

    Vent about the fastlane formula

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Even if you find an industry you are passionate about you will quickly find that running a business eventually starts looking very similar regardless of what you are selling. If that weren't the case business books would be irrelevant to 99.9% of the public. The feeling of success comes from...
  13. Brrr

    Growing to fast and I need help. Partner, employees or outscourcing?

    I would strongly recommend against getting a partner, giving away a bunch of equity because you can't be bothered to deal with customer service seems a little short-sighted. There must be a lot of overlap between the two businesses surely so just hire someone that can take away a lot of the...
  14. Brrr

    I feel like I'm wasting my time

    MINDSET 
    Dude, the University of Bologna is literally the oldest university in the world and probably the most respected in Italy.
  15. Brrr

    How/Where did you learn how to start a business step by step for the first time?

    Since you asked for specific examples, this is how I learned different things: I learnt about company formation when I was about to form a company, I did a lot of googling and then spoke to an accountant who took the time to answer my 100 stupid questions and my 10 reasonable ones. Any issues...
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