Thoughts on this website?

[Peal]

The request is for feedback on the site, not the concept. So I will stay within that lane.

Because it is a new idea, your copy should be as descriptive as possible. The FAQ and How It Works sections are clear. I would encourage you to orient the Hero section in the same way. I should know what you're offering and what I'll get out of it as as soon as possible - I care about that way more than the fact that "there are thousands of businesses launching everyday," that tells me nothing.

Good luck!

 

[Bekit]

Welp that sucks.

We find small businesses that sell services, and we help them turn their service business into a subscription service business - with the ability to attract and extract funds from customers via an online website.

So for example - a barber normally offers hair cuts to clients ... if they pop in to his store, he cuts their hair... and then when they need the service again... well then they come back (or perhaps they go to another barber).

With our solution we'd create a website / landing page that would allow the barber to get customers that want to get their hair cut - and get them to sign up to a monthly subscription - which guarantees an income for 6+ months for the barber - which means they can give a really great offer/discount in order to attract new customers that sign up to the subscription ....

Now you can promote the business using FB ads / Adwords ... and get 500 subscribers for his barber business... and he wouldn't need to worry about if there is going to be 100 customers or 30 customers next month, he'll know he'll still get 500 subscription payments.

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Of course that's just 1 example, we can work with practically any offline service business.

Ohhhh.

That's what you do?

That's actually awesome.

Turning your service into a subscription or productized service is hard for a lot of biz owners to do.

So if you can help them do this, that's enormously valuable.

Here's some suggested copy that you can use for inspiration...

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Tired of one-off jobs forming the bulk of your business?

Ever wish you could have more monthly recurring revenue?

Now you can turn your service into a subscription with 100k's easy method.

It's simple.

1. Offer a 6-month or 12-month package deal
2. Your customers pay you a fixed monthly rate for services they are going to buy anyway
3. Now they use you every time instead of hopping around to different providers
4. You enjoy the benefits of more predictable income, allowing you to plan for the future, set ad budgets, and make projections for growth.

Here at Subscription Cow, we'll help you...

• Define an offer that feels like a no-brainer to your customers so that they want to sign up.
• Communicate that offer to your customers in a way that doesn't feel sleazy or salesy.
• Implement the subscription back end with all the technology that makes it seamless for you to manage and simple for your customers to buy.

If you want to multiply your monthly income, win your customers' loyalty, get an edge on your competitors, and even out the slow seasons, work with us to implement this simple process.

[Button] Get started today

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[Knugs]

I don't really get it

I cant honestly imagine anything worse than working with 99 other "founders" that I dont know aynthing about. Choosing and picking the best people is the most difficult and most important aspect of any startup.

Everybody chimes in 20 USD/month and decides on an idea. I suppose they let an agency validate the concept (what a horrendous idea) and then hire a Project manager to develop a MVP (??!?!?!?). I'm not sure if they understand how expensive that can be. Then a marketing agency is hired to validate the MVP.

At this point everybody invests a 1000 USD to create a 100k Startup budget.


I don't see how this could work.

 

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[Isaac Oh]

The posts in this thread is an indicator that it might benefit you to put more text about the benefits and reasoning behind your service. Keep an eye out for what people say here, that's what business owners are gonna be thinking

 

[biophase]

A very bad idea. It’s not that everyone owns only 1%. But that everyone votes.

But who cares about the company formed when everyone gets 1% of profits. Nobody is going to give any good feedback or do any work.

 

[biophase]

So it's basically $50 to get into a group which is a incubator for a business idea. Once the idea is formed, it is $1000 to join into an LLC that will create the business idea.

I think the main issue is that nobody is in charge, unless you have your LLC in control of the decision making. Who is going to manage the money? Who has access to your bank account?

I just don't think this will work out well. You will get alot of newbies in your group and no veterans. Can you imagine how 50 newbies would manage $50,000?

 

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[Xavier X]

Make the branding itself less ambiguous.

Right now, reading DaCoop all over the page sounds more like you're talking about a chicken house.
As in coop, not a co-op.

A business co-op is always written with a dash, so in your copy, go with that option. Email addresses and domain names are fine without the dash.

Also, add the missing word in this FAQ - "who will cover the cost the market research?"

All the best.

 

[100k]

We lost two team members, we're now down to only 6 members in total.

We had launched this business www.subscriptioncow.com as our first MVP but we're having issues finding customers.

So we're trying to come up with a new idea to build a MVP around.

Thanks for all the comments & encouragements.

 

[100k]

What are your thoughts on this site:

Dacoop – Dacoop

dacoop.com

 

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[df1992]

What are your thoughts on this site:

Dacoop – Dacoop

dacoop.com

I don't really get it

 

[Knugs]

Is it for feedback for the site? I dont know; hence my question: is this the site of @100k?

What are some of the drawbacks?

Besides not wanting 99 partners.

I suppose you'd never own stocks in Google or any other public traded company - because you'd be an owner with 99999999 co-owners / shareholders.

There is a clear difference between a shareholder and a founder, the same way as there is a difference between a well stablished stock vs. startup with no concept. I dont care who the 99999 coshareholders are. I do care who the 99 other founders are.

The concept has a few drawbacks
-I dont know who the other 99 are. Are we passiv/active? Are we all just dumb-money?
-Why do I pay 20 USD/month for being a potential investor?
-I also dont know who the Project manager is/ who develops the product/ who leads the project? Also, I dont want to have a marketing agency. I have no say; absolutely no say at all.
-I dont get to make decisions although I'm a founder = absolutely no control (thats the worst)
-I have no influence over any of the process for example: I will probably disagree with your MVP approach and how you validate the concept based on "How it works"
-I'm absolutely no fan of a democratic process in a Startups. Same way as VCs destroy startups.

From the business point of view
-Its hard to attract 99 customers
-its harder to retain 99 customers who disagree with the democratic decisions and do not continue to invest
-Its going to be incredibly difficult to get 99 people in a LLC (I'm not even sure how it works) Just the sheer volume of communication alone sounds like a nightmare.
-You would need to have a serious startup foundation to understand and be able to lead and run such a startup

 

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[Ing]

The homepageis imo good,
It took me about 1 minute max to get, whats the facts. Thats important to make some one think further.

I d love to be able to create that clear structure.

The idea described may be good for the seller of the shovels.(goldrush...)
About the model I don’t know enough to say about it.

 

[Knugs]

What would you suggest?


I plan on making systems, telling people to follow the CENTS principles, when choosing who to work with, we'll hire people from platforms that have a rigid onboarding process - i.e only people that have been verified, interviewed and researched can join the platform and apply for work. Won't mention too much and give everything away, but there are companies like that.

How we'll develop an affordable MVP and validate the idea is something we gotta figure out as we are falling from the sky. F*ck I dont have all the answers, hopefully some of the people that join me will have some know-how.

I have learned that you need to validate each assumption for a new concept to work. If you make one assumption which doesn’t work-out, you effectively killed the entire business.

There are too many red flags fromboth Perspectives

 

[Lyinx]

Another "problem"

Pick a plan... but there's only one plan there... ?!
$20/month? for how many months? is there a limit (say 5 months max, and then free until an idea is picked?, because if you're being paid to come up with an idea, I want you to make sure it happens. If I'm paying you either way I'd question that there is more incentive for you not to find something rather than actually finding a business venture.
Putting a limit per business idea would guarantee my results that I paid for.

 

[100k]

Do you get 1% when you join for one month? What happens to your 1% when you quit the monthly payments?

I'm going to change it to a 1 time payment of $50.

Which would be the equivalent of 2 & half months payment.

I'm scrapping the subscription part.

Also just because you subscribe or pay $50, doesn't mean you own 1%.

You'll own 1% once you invest $1k.

The $50 fee will be used to sniff out business opportunities and carry out market research and viability studies on the ideas.

 

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[Lyinx]

Also, really curious how it would be handled in the scenario that the company needs an injection of cash, or it will go under, and the vote is made to put more money into it, but one of the "shareholders" doesn't provide the cash? This needs to be answered on the legal side of the business paperwork before anything gets set in stone (just my opinion)

 

[sparechange]

So it's basically $50 to get into a group which is a incubator for a business idea. Once the idea is formed, it is $1000 to join into an LLC that will create the business idea.

I think the main issue is that nobody is in charge, unless you have your LLC in control of the decision making. Who is going to manage the money? Who has access to your bank account?

I just don't think this will work out well. You will get alot of newbies in your group and no veterans. Can you imagine how 50 newbies would manage $50,000?

A beautiful office, the finest italian leather office chairs and business cards, LOTS of them! Maybe even a leased Benz

 

[100k]

A beautiful office, the finest italian leather office chairs and business cards, LOTS of them! Maybe even a leased Benz

LOL.

As I said before, I want to set up a framework and system - so that people don't just do whatever they want.

So they don't just come up with random ideas that can't scale etc.
So they don't use the money enrich themselves (i.e buy marketing from my marketing agency ...) etc.

 

[StillGrindin']

New website is coming along. www.dacoop.com

Its 95% done. I think I'm gonna personalize it a little bit more with some unique/branded/edited pictures (not of myself lol).

Website looks 1000x better with this template vs the bootstrap stuff on the old site. Very clean, very slick, very quick. Just wanted to congratulate you on the improvements and quick turn around.

 

[100k]

With Intellifluence you can, for example, adjust filters to increase or reduce the pool of potential influencers by defining your specialties, targeted countries, mininum audience size, maximum audience size.

MJ mentioned Intellifluence in Unscripted . They offer pricing plans from $99 up to $599 per month, depending on the number of campaigns,etc. you have in mind.

We are 8 members right now.

We had a vote Monday and decided to just get to 10 members instead of 100.

So we probably won't be doing any influencer marketing to get the last 2 members.

However, I'm working on another project on the side - and I plan on buying some tiktok shout outs for that project.

I'll see what results I get from that.

 

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[Raja]

Ohhhh.

That's what you do?

That's actually awesome.

Turning your service into a subscription or productized service is hard for a lot of biz owners to do.

So if you can help them do this, that's enormously valuable.

Here's some suggested copy that you can use for inspiration...

=============

Tired of one-off jobs forming the bulk of your business?

Ever wish you could have more monthly recurring revenue?

Now you can turn your service into a subscription with 100k's easy method.

It's simple.

1. Offer a 6-month or 12-month package deal
2. Your customers pay you a fixed monthly rate for services they are going to buy anyway
3. Now they use you every time instead of hopping around to different providers
4. You enjoy the benefits of more predictable income, allowing you to plan for the future and make projections for growth.

Here at [100k's business name], we'll help you...

• Define an offer that feels like a no-brainer to your customers so that they want to sign up.
• Communicate that offer to your customers in a way that doesn't feel sleazy or salesy.
• Implement the subscription back end with all the technology that makes it seamless for you to manage and simple for your customers.

If you want to multiply your monthly income, win your customers' loyalty, get an edge on your competitors, and even out the slow seasons, work with us to implement this simple process.

[Button] Get started today

=========================

there is a reason why people hire copywriters, now I see

 

[Isaac Oh]

A tinder for business partners might be cool. But that might be taken...

 

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[100k]

step 1 form a company of 100 digital marketers
step 6 hire a marketing agency

sounds great!

I am from a digital marketing background and most people with online venture experience call themselves digital marketers - I want to people with some experience in starting online ventures -doesn't really matter what type of venture, so long as they know the trials and tribulations, because they'd be the ones to appreciate what's on offer.

Newbies that don't have a clue about how hard it is to build a business with limited capital can keep thinking its super easy and try to go about it on their own. I'm looking for people that have been there, done that, have the t-shirt and hat - and now they want to try something new, because its insane to try the same thing over and over again when you keep getting poopy results.

With regards to digital marketers / online business people hiring /outsourcing the work....

The reasoning behind this is to not cause headaches and get people into hot water.

Imagine if someone within the company is saying they can do an awesome job with Marketing or Copywriting or any other field.

We then leave things in their hands and they fail (For whatever reason).

Everyone in the company is going to resent them for failing.

So in order to keep the peace, all the work will be outsourced to 3rd party agencies and freelancers so that if we are unhappy, the team/members are still cool with each other.

They'll take out their frustrations on the CEO / Project Manger and the 3rd party agencies/freelancers he/she hires.

 

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[Private Witt]

While completely different, I'm currently building a 100 person team for my cannabis media startup that is expanding nationally and I can tell you from experience dealing with large amounts of people in any type of collaboration is pure hell. First 5 is easy, but once start to scale HR, all sorts of weird shit starts to happen. I fell short of my goal for the summer, but at 30 solid and moving to new state next week to secure the next 20 and see how 50 looks.

I do like the 100 digital marketer idea, but I bet if you focus on a much smaller team of 5 to 10 and go through the learning process in a few years you can scale to 100, if found the ability to bring some fire.

 

[100k]

While completely different, I'm currently building a 100 person team for my cannabis media startup that is expanding nationally and I can tell you from experience dealing with large amounts of people in any type of collaboration is pure hell. First 5 is easy, but once start to scale HR, all sorts of weird shit starts to happen. I fell short of my goal for the summer, but at 30 solid and moving to new state next week to secure the next 20 and see how 50 looks.

I do like the 100 digital marketer idea, but I bet if you focus on a much smaller team of 5 to 10 and go through the learning process in a few years you can scale to 100, if found the ability to bring some fire.

Food for thought.

Though I kinda wanted to help the little guys that can only afford to invest $1k per project.

Hmm maybe starting with 10 people - build out the replicable / scalable system is the way to go first.

I might go down that road - if getting to 100 is too much of a head ache, then I'll stop at 10 and see if people are willing to move forward with just the 10 of us.

Thanks for your feedback and best of luck with your dope company.

 

[TheGreek]

I love your idea! It's unique, and you think out of the box. When I visited the website, I understood what it is all about. You can do some A/B testing to find the best colors and calls to action.

 

[100k]

I love your idea! It's unique, and you think out of the box. When I visited the website, I understood what it is all about. You can do some A/B testing to find the best colors and calls to action.

Thanks for your feedback.
This isn't for everyone - for some people this would be a total turn off, for others it might just be exactly what they need

I'm going to re-do the site then launch the site and see what the market says.

 

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[Lyinx]

All very well explained except for one nagging detail (I look for loopholes)

When does daloop get paid? (the website says, "DaCoop only makes money if the companies we build become profitable. " This can be interpreted many different ways and should be clarified.
When ALL the businesses become profitable (if we make 10 businesses together, and 9 are profitable, then Daloop still does not get paid because one of them isn't profitable)

And because the above mentions daloop getting paid, how much does daloop get paid? or is it only equal to their capital that they put in? or a percentage of the profit? or how is that figured out?

 

[Lyinx]

Thanks for your feedback.
This isn't for everyone - for some people this would be a total turn off, for others it might just be exactly what they need

I'm going to re-do the site then launch the site and see what the market says.

feel free to notify on here when you've re-launched and I'm sure we'll critique for you and tear it apart (again)

 

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[Lyinx]

Step 9: divide payouts, or reinvest into the company. Daloop gets 3% of the profits, plus the same % of profit as everyone else (based on money put in). The 3% of profits pays daloop for time to organize said project. It's pretty much a charity project, but we feel we deserve a small bit to cover office, coffee, etc.. BTW: buy us a coffee on Paypal! (link here)

note: I'm not actually sure on your compensation plan for daloop, but if you do so, the "buy me a coffee" link makes it appear that you're for sure doing this just for the fun and the networking opportunities, and hey, you might actually get a few coffees/bucks out of it.