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  1. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    Brilliant story. These guys are everywhere. And often looked down on by ignorant folks, who don't have a tenth of their net worth.
  2. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    Marketing. Customer service. Showing up on time as promised. Having clean trucks and uniforms. (One plumbing company has radio ads that let the housewife know their guys don't smell bad.) When the mower goes back on the truck, come back to the house with the clipboard and sell this month's...
  3. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    I had no idea! Thanks for the explanation! And unlike selling something online, it doesn't matter if some hard working fence building kid in China can survive on a penny a day. That has nothing to do with the local pricing for your local market (assuming you're not in that part of China)...
  4. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    Not necessarily. If you do lead generation sites like Minivanman and Andy Black, you can start advertising poop scoopers tomorrow if nobody buys lawn moving services any more. The gas station environmental service is another example, you could be a courier for construction companies who'd...
  5. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    Oh hell no! There are plenty of little service businesses where customers complain about that tacky jerk who does the work, but pay him anyway! If you were the only one in your town with great customer service, someone else who also has a clue might want to join you rather than compete with...
  6. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

    GOLD! IDEA 
    I hope you've seen Mike Rowe's show by now?
  7. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    The name Taco Bell, the names of their own fake-Mexican food that can't be found anywhere else, and the recipes are all owned by the company. If you tried to launch Taco Bell yourself in a new country, they'd probably sue you. Even if they lost, they could afford enough lawyers to put you out...
  8. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    In Las Vegas, the Venetian casino hotel is owned by one corporation, and the Paris casino hotel is owned by a different corporation. The parent company of the Venetian got the rights to build new casinos in Macau. They built not just a Venetian Macau, but also a Parisian Macau. The concept of...
  9. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    There are Designers for interiors and landscaping of luxury homes. I wonder if there is, or could be a Design service that would create these spectacular displays for rich people who like to show off, but aren't visually creative themselves?
  10. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    I think the niche is high-end residential rentals, for people who'll have to pay a $200 cleaning fee when they move out of the house or apartment... unless they pay a cleaning service $100 to clean it for them.
  11. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    If you own a casino, you need to be personally licensed by the state. But aren't there many private day care centers, schools, and youth activity groups, where you could own the business, and hang out with the kids as much as you like, without needing an education degree yourself?
  12. Late Bloomer

    100 Unsexy Business Ideas: Name as many as you can!

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    Just out of college, I worked a couple of years for a company in this field. This post brings back memories. When you have an underground fuel storage tank, if it leaks you have to clean up the contamination. Gas and oil have all kinds of toxic chemicals that can cause cancer. You really don't...
  13. Late Bloomer

    Just overheard an entire Kiyoski based MLM pitch. Wow, that was painful.

    Scary thing is that's exactly how the salesman framed it, that he wasn't a salesman, he was sternly parental management. The "candidate" exactly fell into his scripted role of okay, now I have to prove myself to you, Dad and Boss and Judge. But he felt something was kind of off, so he didn't...
  14. Late Bloomer

    Just overheard an entire Kiyoski based MLM pitch. Wow, that was painful.

    You pay 10k for a done for you system to follow, just like a franchise, except the only thing you're selling is how to get others to pay you 10k for the system of how to sell the 10k system to others... ouch! That just shows how eager people are to have someone give them a roadmap, any roadmap...
  15. Late Bloomer

    Just overheard an entire Kiyoski based MLM pitch. Wow, that was painful.

    You might have missed an implied wink or groan. I got the impression that everyone here who described their experiences with this type of cult& culture, now looks back on their awful past with a sigh of regret or relief that it's behind them. I don't think the book scavenging thing was ever...
  16. Late Bloomer

    Set up the landing page before or after further testing the idea?

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    Instead of a conversation in which we promise how the future software will be great... we'll have a conversation about a diagram on the web site, which promises how the future software will be great. ;) I'm not really sure that gets you farther ahead. You might find the book Lean Startup...
  17. Late Bloomer

    Too old to be an entrepreneur, a little late in the game at 35? I was sick for long time.

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    Rollin' on the floor here, gettin' my abs done right in 30 seconds...
  18. Late Bloomer

    What if I don't have a have a meaning and purpose?

    MINDSET 
    Brilliant post. Thank you!
  19. Late Bloomer

    Set up the landing page before or after further testing the idea?

    IDEA FTE 
    You say you'll reach out to tell potential customers what you're working on, and invite them to have a conversation about what the upcoming product could do for them. How does a landing page visible to the world world (including competitors) help you reach this goal? Do you have traffic that...
  20. Late Bloomer

    I've been a loser now I MUST find a solution! Any advice?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Alexx, your new direction sounds really great!! Way to go! This sounds ideal for you! In this new role, you can at last be honest about your strengths and weaknesses. "If the algorithms make you dizzy, they do that to me too... I switched from learning code to learning sales, so that I could...

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