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    What will you focus on in 2022?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Buying a duplex and renting out one side and living in the other thus solving my biggest problem at the time (living situation) Scaling my lawn care/exterior maintenance company Learning and implementing a lot more sales/marketing/copywriting skills into my business ventures Leaving the past in...
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    $20.000/month ecommerce - Should I just sell it?

    So the contingency to sell was that one of the manufacturers or suppliers had to accept the deal as well? If so you were screwed from the beginning there.. At least you learned a lot of good business lessons.
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    Seasonal service business and have 3 months off - not sure how I can learn sales or other valuable skills in that time

    EXECUTION 
    Hi everyone, I run a seasonal service based business - mainly doing pressure washing, gutter cleaning and christmas lights, but going to be getting into lawn care for the scalability of it come March or April. As of right now I have the next 90 or so days off - I'm going to be working on...
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    Lawn Maintenance As Service

    EXECUTION 
    I read your other thread and see you're selling a product on Amazon as well, which business do you plan on focusing on in the event you need to drop one of them? I'd also look into yard signs, great way to advertise as a smaller business. If you're able to start with lawn care, and expand into...
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    Have no direction with my career, advice needed

    What advice are you looking for? To be blunt, it looks like you don't have the self discipline/mental will power to put forth the effort needed to succeed in the field you chose. If you can pivot to something else and put more effort, you'll be fine. Do you have a steady job right now, or the...
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    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

    GOLD! IDEA 
    For now since I'm just starting and will only be doing 5-15 houses this year, I just went with lights from christmaslightsetc. Comes out to a little over $1.10 a bulb for C9 lights, with everything else (clips, spool, plugs, handmade extension cords) my cost is likely going to be around...
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    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

    GOLD! IDEA 
    Not sure if this one was mentioned yet, but Christmas lights seem very profitable. About to go into my first year of hanging lights and my minimum is $700 to start with. I'd imagine if you could get a decent sized crew together, you could sell over $100k+ worth of lights and labor from...
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    A Story to Inspire (From drug addict to entrepreneur)

    NOTABLE! EXECUTION 
    Not ChrisGav but I run a pressure washing business so I can give you a good answer. You should rent a machine for a day, see how you like pressure washing (make sure you wear ear/eye protection) and then jump in and get a 4 GPM machine with a honda engine and get jobs and just learn on the way...
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    How much of a difference do Google reviews make to your business?

    HOT! MARKETING 
    I'm in the pressure washing business and these google reviews are HUGE. Obviously every business is different, but pressure washing we need a LOT of customers in order to get above 5 figures revenue. I figure it costs me about $20-$35 to acquire a new customer, and I've gotten a few off my...
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    Where to park money from business sale? Anything better than a savings account

    INVESTING 
    What is the time frame that you need/plan to need the cash? If you have 7 figures, you should be able to get a good blend of stocks, a small amount of crypto, real estate, and opening another business (even if its part time) to get a return of around 6-8% per year. But every option listed above...
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    Idea to make millions

    IDEA 
    Jason Scully created the grapplers guide which has probably brought in 6 figures+ of revenue. It just depends on how good you are and who you're trying to market to. I personally bought the grapplers guide lifetime access for $97 and it's about $300 right now, and has been worth every penny...
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    Using bundling to create value - how do you go about sourcing items that need to be bundled?

    SOURCING 
    Hi all, I'm trying to learn a bit about e-commerce right now (my main business is pressure washing which is mainly in season around here from March-June). I found a product I'd like to source for FBA, and I'm working on fixing the flaws in a current product to provide more value. One thing I...
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    I will help you find a product to sell on Amazon

    GOLD! 
    Got it, I'm definitely going to ditch that idea. I've been doing some research and after going through dozens of ideas, I found another idea I like: a snake catcher tool/snake prongs. The item would be around 2-3 ft and the value add would be my item would build off of current flaws of the...
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    I will help you find a product to sell on Amazon

    GOLD! 
    Hey Biophase, I'm currently working on building out my seasonal based business. I offer pressure washing, just started offering gutter cleaning and will be offering christmas light installations). I still find myself with quite a bit of time during the off season (mainly pressure wash from...
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    Utilizing for sale and previously sold businesses to see in demand markets -- is this a good idea?

    IDEA 
    One thing that I've been doing recently is looking at for sale businesses or recently sold businesses across the country that have sold for 6, 7, and 8 figure amounts, then doing some research to see how well they would fit in my local area (these are mostly service/local based businesses, not...
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    Only need to make $1000 a month just to get me started

    INTRO 
    Follow Lowteks advice and report back when you've made your first thousand dollars this month. There are hundreds of sweaty startups/service based business ideas on the internet already. I do pressure washing and can make a thousand dollars in a day with a $1000 machine.
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    Only need to make $1000 a month just to get me started

    INTRO 
    Open a service based business near you, low competition and high rate of pay for your time.
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    What does a day in your life look like? (Daily and Weekly Routines)

    EXECUTION 
    Wake up at 6 am, throw myself out of bed, workout, shower, then start my weekdays WFH. I'll work from 8-5 and sneak in some time to work on my side hustles (I have a few) and research new business ideas for the long term planning during this time, and occasionally run errands if necessary. After...
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    Ask me anything about eCommerce (Ongoing)

    GOLD! 
    For sure, I want to expand the business to have multiple products in the home decoration/garden decoration niche. Would it be reasonable to acquire 2 or 3 more good selling products then start on shopify and try to start building the business from there? The eBay thing is nice but I really want...
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    Ask me anything about eCommerce (Ongoing)

    GOLD! 
    Biophase, I'm trying to break into e-commerce as a side hustle to my existing business and full-time job. I found a product that I'd like to sell, and bought 144 units of it for about $4 per unit. The units are pretty good quality and I've been able to sell 30 or so of them for between $12-$20...

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