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  1. J

    What am I looking for? Accountant? CPA? Finance person?

    TAXES | REGS 
    Makes sense and thanks for your insights. I think 2024 is going to be the more complex year for me and 2023 taxes should be pretty easy for the most part. I just have no desire or time to do it myself. Even if it's just a few hours of filling in an SOP. I'd rather just pay someone to do all the...
  2. J

    What am I looking for? Accountant? CPA? Finance person?

    TAXES | REGS 
    Thanks @Bounce Back and @Beerbread! That makes sense. I setup Quickbooks online and have been paying for it for about 2 years but ran into a ton of issue with things syncing up properly and it's a mess. Sounds like I just need to pay someone to go in and spend a couple of hrs cleaning it up. On...
  3. J

    What am I looking for? Accountant? CPA? Finance person?

    TAXES | REGS 
    I'm not so great with finances and tax and I'm curious if anyone here can point me in the right direction of what I need here. As we head into this next tax season I want to finally get my finances under control. My situation looks like this: - Full time job in the six figure range - My own...
  4. J

    Business models: which ones are best?

    IDEA 
    So not true for SaaS. Yes when you nail product-market fit it becomes a bit easier, but it's not just about dumping money on the fire. There TONS of factors that go into this. One simple example — let's say you're an enterprise SaaS with an average contract value of $20k-$100K — good luck...
  5. J

    Just launched my B2B SaaS Product

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    Congrats on your launch. I have my own B2B SaaS as well. It’s a ton of fun. Hard but fun. Now here’s my biggest piece of advice. By day I work in the AI space for a company you’ve probably heard of that I cannot name. So I have data and insights into what’s working and where the...
  6. J

    I sold my AI tool for $35,000 (Reddit Post)

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Yeah I’ve actually fired customers haha 100% - I’d go annual. If someone doesn’t want to pay more than once for something that you built, maintain, and pay to host then they aren’t worth having as customers. If you feel like there’s not enough value to justify recurring payments then just...
  7. J

    I sold my AI tool for $35,000 (Reddit Post)

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    And by the way, i did the lifttme deal thing with mine as a test. Made $30k real quick. Brought me the worse customers ever. Never again
  8. J

    I sold my AI tool for $35,000 (Reddit Post)

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Probably depends on goals and where you’re selling but my understanding is it’s very damaging for SaaS. I’ve talked to people about this. I know one SaaS person who buys companies who won’t touch anything that’s pure lifetime deals. It’s not sustainable unless there are other goals or it’s part...
  9. J

    I sold my AI tool for $35,000 (Reddit Post)

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Haha tell that to the bootstrapped SaaS that I worked at making $35 million ARR from subscriptions. For the founder I worked for who sold his SaaS for millions after building it for a decade If i got rid of subscriptions with my SaaS I’d have no business Worst advice. And spoken like a...
  10. J

    How do you balance life, your day job and business?

    QUESTION 
    Congrats on your progress. It’s 5am here. Been up since four. Feeding a baby and working on my business at the same time before going to work. - morning are better - 5am to 8am Monday through Friday and then like 5-9 on weekends. If I didn’t have kids I’d go harder on weekends but I need some...
  11. J

    Getting consistent with healthy habits in 75 days

    HEALTH 
    If there’s one thing one the list that can have the biggest impact it’s this. I haven’t touched alcohol in 7 months and it has been game changing for my productivity.
  12. J

    How long is too long?

    QUESTION 
    To be completely honest, even at $10K/mo I still struggle with this feeling that I'm making no real progress and still wonder if I'm working on the right thing at times. This got really bad when I spent time on social media, seeing people younger than me apparently growing 6-7 figure SaaS...
  13. J

    How long is too long?

    QUESTION 
    Not sure if this helps but.. Hitting my first consistent $10K MRR took me 4 years with my business. But realistically it took me 10+ years to get to that point when you count my failed stuff. Other people seem to do it 10x faster than me. So this leads me to the answer you prob don’t want...
  14. J

    What is 2023-2024's drop-shipping/gold-rush?

    PEOPLE 
    I thought it was going to be no code SaaS for awhile there. I agree with AI wrappers. I work in the AI space and seeing a ton of this. Also it seems like everyone on my LinkedIn is becoming a “fractional CMO” or consultant nowadays.
  15. J

    I just got laid off. My e-commerce business has had 0 sales. Get another temporary job or go full force?

    FTE EXECUTION 
    First, sorry to hear. My advice from someone who has been there: Unless you have money to fallback on or are cool with going without insurance eventually (no clue what your situation is), then your number one priority should be getting income. Maybe that's a job, maybe not I was laid off...
  16. J

    MVPs are they advisable or not (Minimum Viable Product )

    Depends on your situation. If you're bootstrapping then yes. To give you an example: A little over two years ago I had a SaaS idea that I knew could get pretty sophisticated. Took about $2k and had a dev build a very lightweight version of my idea. From there, I just kept iterating and...
  17. J

    Help! How do I sell my SaaS application to HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Maid Service, Yard Care, etc., Companies?

    NOTABLE! HOT! MARKETING 
    Based on my experience so far: My SaaS deals with this group but in the majroity of cases I don't sell directly to the local service businesses. I sell to agencies and marketers who do all of the steup on behalf of them. When a local service business does enter my funnel, I contact them and...
  18. J

    How do I choose my MVP?

    Yeah, I could see it working. Personally, I'd rather build something really small and test with that so I can get better feedback about something real, especially when dealing with customers who are busy. If I had just thrown up a landing page and based things on conversion rates then things...
  19. J

    How do I choose my MVP?

    I went through the MVP process I tried the MVP thing a few times. Never had much success with the whole launch a B2B SaaS thing with a landing page. Even if someone opts-in and expresses interest, it doesn't mean that they will pay you when the time comes. My take on the whole thing is that...
  20. J

    How to get feedback from page visitors?

    Yeah you could setup a simple survey with my tool and have it pop-up. It's like an interactive form tool that could be used as a survey. Although price would probably be an issue of that's all you would use it for. I don't want to link it because I don't really want to self-promote. Other...
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