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  1. MHP368

    Business Debt Advice

    EXECUTION 
    Your business makes 36k a year NET and you have 30k in debt @ 12%apr so...your monthly payment just for interest is...350ish bucks? How much equity is in your house? how is your business structured? (sole prop? llc?) What are your liquid assets also hows growth in the business? can you give...
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    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

    GOLD! IDEA 
    The way I had it explained to me was that the angle for growth was concrete and construction. First you're filling holes in the lots you stripe , then bidding for sidewalk construction. Definitely unsexy but you can start for a few hundred dollars.
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    Should I just go all in on Facebook Ads?

    MARKETING 
    "You win wvery time" But then its 29.99 a month? , why not give it to me free and take a cut of my profits Your ad goes right to your site , i'm not invested. The elevator pitch just sits naked (im seeing this on mobile btw) What do the ads say? Hook me. You're apparently selling money...
  4. MHP368

    Human Longevity Breakthroughs, Resources, and Websites

    NOTABLE! CHAT 
    Tony Robbins did a long hyperbaric treatment for his spine and mercury poison at one point (iirc he went to australia for it) I wonder what the margins on a fancy health spa are? Seems like something that wouldn't scale well since youd need the boujie customer base.
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    Started a business with no sales

    INTRO 
    And it begins! :D , no market research? Yes. So , besides the ads , could you bring the prototypes to indoor rock climbing centers? Have a rock climbing blogger take a peak? (And maybe do a writeup?) I did the same thing myself (started a business on a hunch of market need) Next time i'll...
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    Visualizing the conversion Journey

    MARKETING 
    Visualizing the Conversion Journey | MarketingSherpa Blog Article for dicsussion, Who here has ever actually mapped this out for a product or service they sell? I see the terminology flashed about all the time but have you ever actually went through the funnel yourself (or sent a friend?) to...
  7. MHP368

    My Unusual Marketing Agency.

    MARKETING 
    So, had originally planned a nice daily play by play - then the plague hit and look who's swimming naked? Anyway - proper update at some point but I just had a realization I thought was worth sharing. So we have this concept the "only factor" , which is huge for maximizing your value...
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    If you had 2 months to learn a skill, that adds value and makes you money, what would you learn?

    HOT! 
    Door to door sales , roofing or solar in the US , some luck and some chutzpah you can clear 5k a week. No degree needed. You cant translate that into longer sales cycle or more technical sales but the essential skill of selling is core for entrepreneurial ventures and if you have a fat wad of...
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    What Are The Worst Mistakes You've Done In Your Entrepreneurial Journey?

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Funding a business with a credit card (because I only needed 1 wholesale account to pay it back! Derpaderp...) No market research (no need , see MJ's post above) "Me too" businesses / chasing money (because i'll get in and out real quick and then have proper starting capital! Ha)
  10. MHP368

    My SaaS is rolling (slowly)...now, how to accelerate?

    SAAS / APPS 
    Your asking for referals right? And hows your site traffic? All paid? Some organic?
  11. MHP368

    Will you take the COVID19 vaccine?

    HOT! 
    Yes , I had COVID once and got away with a moderate cold. Dont want to gamble on a second bout. All my joints hurt and even though I had no respiratory symptoms I'm slightly shirt of breathe. But , I took basic biology so i'm in a better place to read the studies and weigh / consider the...
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    They want to amend the IL constitution to eAT tHE rICH

    HOT! OFF-TOPIC 
    Wiki for the curious Not seeing anything about it being random.
  13. MHP368

    Mobile app Saas Business

    SAAS / APPS 
    That seems steep? I know a lot of bloggers who have patreon worked into it where paying members get to unlock special content etc and that's for a few dollars a month, could you monetize your base in a more traditional way without having to make new content? (publish snippets for free online and...
  14. MHP368

    How to find people to join my company on LinkedIn

    OFF-TOPIC 
    join some LION groups and just ask them (linkedin open networkers) , I'm sure plenty will be game
  15. MHP368

    30 Day Trials? ...for a SaaS

    SAAS / APPS 
    The company I resell for decided against it , in your case where it has custom parts and apparently you're having trouble onboarding (maybe assign someone as the "client success manager" and do a "welcome" call after signup for a walk through?) I don't see the value. you've said yourself here...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    I hear great things about your banter or...Craic? is it? :rofl: I have to visit sometime, moms parents moved from there in the 50's so I can get the citizenship via descent. Somewhere near wexford I wanted to visit...can't remember why right now.
  17. MHP368

    SEO Business Model

    You can try and rank and rent websites. So you make a generic website "tulsaplumber.com" or "kalamazooairconditioning.com" and then rank it in google (with a fake address so it shows on the google maps results, a big greyaht back and forth thing with google in itself right now) once you're...
  18. MHP368

    Health Insurance Options when leaving employer

    HOT! 
    Couldn't a bunch of entrepreneurs throw together and form a "group" and bargain for a health plan that way? , or would that sort of be moot (since the "employer" usually pays the lions share of the cost) I was thinking even if you we're still looking at 500+ a month per person just having...
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    Starting an eCommerce Competitive Intelligence Site

    EXECUTION 
    yeh market research is important. how many ecom store owners are on this very website opening up about their struggles? seems like gartner already did the heavy lifting for you and this blog summarized it
  20. MHP368

    Progress Thread- How bad do I want it?

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    The US, so I'm definitely not sure if my statement about digital marketing agency over supply would be the case in Germany (although long term its the same problem of no or low barrier to entry)

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