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    Anybody Ever Use Flippa.com?

    Anyone can say that they make X amount a month or that a website gets X amount of traffic a month. There's even bots out there that inflate traffic, facebook likes, etc... I wonder if someone just list a website on Flippa and just claim to make 1 million a year profit? Is there any...
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    What are the chances student loans get wiped out?

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    No. I did read the entire article. The difference in default rates is because while some loans aren't in default now they are expected to be later. So I would consider the $20 billion in loses to be more accurate if the projections are correct. So saying that student loans are profitable for...
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    Patent Attorney May Have Screwed Up?

    You wasted a time and money on that patent attorney. It costs at least half a million to enforce a patent. Big companies can do this but you can't. So unless you have at least 500k - 1.5 million to enforce infringement claims you shouldn't patent something unless the patent itself could be...
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    What are the chances student loans get wiped out?

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    http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/04/pf/college/federal-student-loan-profit/ Losing 20 billion from loaning out 100 billion is pretty bad if you ask me. Too many people are taking up useless studies such as art history or theater. Maybe if the private sector was totally involved they would tell...
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    Need help, my business is failing!

    It does not boil down to commandment of scale. It boils down to the lack of demand for the product and margins. You shouldn't sell something that doesn't have the potential to make a profit and you can't sell pet rocks to universities. Control is not more important than need. If there is no...
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    Need help, my business is failing!

    The idea is terrible. You have to spend a lot of time getting new clients to get little money, advertisers won't pay much for placemat advertising, the amount of clients is very limited, cost in printing placemats and transporting them is inefficient to other operations. Going to food courts...
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    How to Make $49,000 in 4 Weeks Without Using Banks or Credit

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    If someone can't sell their car for $4,000 and posted it online then it's usually because it's too expensive which means you're even more unlikely to sell it for more. Also the difference in price is likely to be very small if it does sell. The problem isn't marketing if the car had some...
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    What are the chances student loans get wiped out?

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    I don't understand. After graduating weren't you supposed to get a high paying job, buy a big house, nice car, and live the American dream? Why are people even asking such a question? The worst thing that can happen is free college. College costs will continue to go up, students will be more...
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    How to Make $49,000 in 4 Weeks Without Using Banks or Credit

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    Ok let me break down exactly why I think that this is a bad idea. You have to market to people in order to get business. This means putting up signs, making phone calls, emails, etc... There is time and cost involved. You can't really hire other people to do what you're doing. They'll just...
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    How to Make $49,000 in 4 Weeks Without Using Banks or Credit

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    Wow he didn't even make a profit and put in hours and hours of time? Total failure. I still don't understand the idea completely but from what I read so far I think this idea sucks. There's CPA and only a limited amount of people willing to do this. Who made the $49,000 in 4 weeks? The...
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    How to get profitable or fail fast with Google Ads

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    For some competitive keywords to get any decent traffic you have to lose money first in order to make it thanks to recurring customers and competitors' campaigns/websites that are already optimized. Here's what I think. You should bid to get the highest profit or least amount of loss with...
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    23 and own shave ice shack, coffee shop, yet stuck

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    What about the sales to rent ratio? What is the breakdown in expenses? How much more revenue would you need in order to always have an employee there and breakeven? Also did you check your monthly sales? Is there a trend? I'm sure you have these figures on hand since you likely had to...
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    23 and own shave ice shack, coffee shop, yet stuck

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    Wow the coffee shop looks nice. In that case I would try to improve it as much as possible to see if it can come close to sustaining an employee since it costs a lot of money to make a coffee shop nice so you probably won't get another opportunity for a while and you'd have to risk a lot more...
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    BigCommerce Rest In Peace (Alternatives Re: Price Increase)

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    I've been with WooCommerce for this year since I moved from BC and it's been very good. Costs are low and will stay low. I also have a lot more control over my website. Was able to do things not possible on managed platforms such as Shopify even if I were to get an enterprise account. I...
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    23 and own shave ice shack, coffee shop, yet stuck

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    Wow that's a really good point. Libraries are filled with homeless and very cheap people. I think what happened is that the OP got sucked in with really low startup costs from free equipment/furniture courtesy from the library. With the low amount of foot traffic and bad clientele OP didn't...
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    23 and own shave ice shack, coffee shop, yet stuck

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    Ok so you're in a public library? That changes everything. It means that the publicly funded library might not be busy enough because it doesn't have to make enough to pay overhead such as rent. A private bookstore that isn't busy enough would go out of business. How much SQFT is the...
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    23 and own shave ice shack, coffee shop, yet stuck

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    All the big successful coffee shops have fraps so why would it be a bad idea to at least try it? Nobody here owns a successful chain of coffee shops so that means no opinion should be considered? https://news.starbucks.com/news/frappuccino-turns-20 They had just 300 stores before it was...
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    On my way to a million

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    I think that saying you'll become a millionaire in 2017 is a little too much. I only see five deals done for the past 1 1/2 years and the triplex is likely a one off thing. Did you put in any money fixing the homes or putting up signs? You can't just look at check amounts. As you know there...
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    Navigating thru a lot of Bullshit

    There's so much BS out there that I can't even scratch the surface. Clear examples of BS: http://clickmoneysystem.com/main http://quickcashsystem.biz/ http://pushmoneyapp.com/privateinvite.php http://cobra5tradingsoftware.trade/ http://aurumtechapp.trade/ http://binarytoday.com/megaprofix/...
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    Take my Business for Free!

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    I think that the business is a bad idea. Moving companies can offer the same service and more. Home Depot has cardboard boxes for $1 in different sizes and you get to keep them. They are going to Home Depot anyways to buy foam/paper for plates and glassware. Then there's the constant...

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