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Other business owners, do you mow your own yard? I've always been in the camp of hell if I'm gonna pay someone to mow my yard! It only takes like 30 minutes. I'll do it myself better... But now I feel like those 30 minutes could be much better used on my own business and finding time where it's...

Here in Washington where Opiate82 is, every position is going up to $15.

I'm up to 4 employees now. Longest worker is at $15.50 Next is $13 Next is $10.25 Next is $13 So I've been planning this the whole time. My thoughts from the beginning of my business were, I need to make a way that my employees can make a living from me. If not I'll have high turn over...

Anyone have any services they like? I'm trying to find a video editor I can use to free up some more of my time. I shot 16 videos yesterday before working a full day retail. Then edited 10 of them after work.. And all that was on easter. I use rev.com for my captions. If anyone has leads on a...

I should probably reinstall that. I had it before I bought a new laptop for video editing. I use Tubebuddy pretty much exclusively.

My goal is to come up with a differnet promo/sale every week so they don't repeat in a year. Which will be difficult. But I agree that if every 3rd weekend is half off live fish. I'll have a problem on my hands. The weird part is, I'm seeing record sales but the items I put on sale, while are...

So just wanted to chime in and say promos/sales are totally working. Biggest month ever last month. If things continue this month. I'll crush last month by 8k.... Which last month was 35k.. So 8k is a huge precentage boost in sales.

I still maintain it is a racket. I had to have an appraisal. Well 3 of them in fact. To convince a bank to loan to me. That being said. I have infinite credit etc. I could have done without those 3 appraisals. It didn't protect me as I brought in my contractor who built my retail space, my...

Appraisals are a racket. I ended up having 3 when we bought our house. First one went just fine but the lender couldn't get thir crap done so we had to switch. next appraisal appraised 50k lower than the first one. Third appraisal came in right. Everyone claimed our house was unique and hard to...

Yeah I currently put out 3 videos a week. My videos are not highly edited or scripted. More of DIY, and vlog style I'd say. I seem to be gaining traction because I actually educate instead of try to game the system with as many 3 minutes videos as I can possibly produce. My Sunday series tends...

I'm working on growing my channel more/faster than in the past. It seems to be the best marketing money can buy for my retail business. Just looking to connect with others and talk over thoughts and strategies etc. I'm not a large channel by any means. Only 7.5k subscribers(which I know...

I run into this all the time. People can never find the time to do their "passions/dreams" They always say I work too much etc. The reality is, it's not your real dream if you can't find the time for it. People say thing like I work 60 hours a week at my job. I don't have time to do X. Yes you...

In my experience running a sale on small business saturday was laughable compared to black friday. I maintain that everyone is already broke by Saturday and or shopped out from Friday. So I run the sale starting black friday, anything left over for small business saturday. This lets people...

So oddly enough I was totally anti promo sales too. Basically like maybe 1 a year on black friday. I was convinced that it trains customers to wait for sales etc also. However over the past few months I've been running some sales. What I found was it does bring more people in my doors. The trick...

So I currently have about 950 sqft sales area. I also have a unit like 4 doors down from mine that is storage. another 700 sqft roughly. One thing I feel like I've noticed. If my stock is too heavy in store customers get the impression I'm not selling it. If it's a fish and I have 300 of them in...

i'll be interested to hear how the move goes for you Kiroy. I think about the same thing. I'm just worried that I'll expand and make less profit. Right now I'm capping out my space too so to speak, but I'd rather be super effecient with 1k sqft than not very efficient with 2-3k. Last year ran...

Well just when I think I have taxes done for the year. My personal return should be done today... I got an email from the state on Monday saying I've been selected for a payroll Audit. Anyone ever been through one? I have a feeling this can only end with me owing money as every I've talked to...

For the marineland double deep. just get a decent stand built. The wings on that stand you showed which has an acrylic tank on it is for anti racking. So that the tank stand can't fold over with force from the side. The larger the steel tubing the the less chance for racking. As for what to...

All I can say is I didn't use one. I don't think one would know what I was looking for in a building though anyways.

The trick is just add mac sauce. Order a double cheeseburger no pickles add mac sauce... It's amazing. Won't disappoint. I usually just get a single cheeseburger with this sauce though. The problem with the Big mac is the horse shit lettuce they use.

I really feel like you can strongarm them into getting the 3rd party company to cover this. Just be like I've been a long time customers blah blah, cancel my prime account, BBB will hear about this. I can't believe I order something, and the wrong item is shipped to me, and I'm the one who gets...

Got my first dose of old man today. Realized no doubt songs I was watching are 20 years old.No Doubt - Spiderwebs - YouTubeWhich also made me realize she hasn't aged at all in 20 years basically.

Yeah I can't drop ship you a 300 DD. You'd have to go through a local store to get it. They do go on sale about once a year.

Anyone have some ideas to light up a sign without access to power? For my business I need to light up a sign which doesn't have easy power access. I'm basically looking for Led lights that run on battery but WITHOUT the motion sensor part. I can't seem to find anything, anyone seen something...

We'll have to see how it goes post Christmas, some huge amounts of money can be spent the following days as everyone has gift cards and extra money in their pocket. Probably not as much for a pizza business. What are you guys' thoughts on using someone's name? I went and picked up mexican...

For those of you who own businesses. Do you find that your sales go up each year? I'm just sitting here feeling like a failure. I've got some friends who own a women's clothing store/air plant store and they have just been crushing me in sales this month. They've got essentially the same square...

This guy gets it.

When I started it I had 0. I used an angel investor, which is why I have a silent business partner. Terms were such that if I failed I owed nothing. If I was successful he owns 25% of the company. Without a deal like that I would have never started just knowing the odds of businesses failing...

Forgot about this till now. So catching up, sales improved a lot at the end of October and November. It started raining, what a shocker! Sometimes I think I need to overlay the weather with sales ,but it'll just show me what I know, rain = rain money. December starts off slow, like omg I'm...

I'll write some long winded post tomorrow when I open up the shop. Need to head to bed so I can get up early and pick up fish from the airport.

Don't know if you have a dog, but if you don't what about getting her a dog? Basically a present from you that will be with her every day for the next 15 years.

It's gonna be awesome, when you become manager, you life will really start to suck. You'll realize the guy was a douche, cause shit rolls down hill. Sure it could be roses. Or you could realize that the management that let that guy be in that position for that long will still be there and it'll...

So before I went into business for myself. I was a delivery guy for oxygen, which meant working with lots of cpap and bipap machines and sleep apnea patients. First sleep apnea is basically your brain waking you up out or REM sleep to get more oxygen cause your count is low. Lots of times...

Ordered the book. Been a while since I fell into the rabbit hole of business books. I need to space them out more as I tend to read 2-4 at once, then I forget ideas I wanted to implement.

Perhaps you need to change to a lifestyle where work is rewarded. If a project is due in 2 weeks, and it takes you 1 day. You get the same outcome whether you did it day 1, or day 14. If you were say a house painter, you get rewarded for painting that house today as you can do another one...

Maybe I'm bad at business. But I think the most successful business model that works is to profit share with employees. The guy who replaces you should be like 10% of profits. Then split 10% amoungst the crew based on longevity etc. You keep 80%. This allows you to actually step away from the...

Plan is to blow in insulation on Tuesday. I was thinking some 2 inch abs pipe connected to the end of the hose to get in the back. I've got some areas with MDF nailed down over the joists that used to be a deck for storage in the attic. While it could be a pain in the ass to remove am I...

The credit here is up to $450 when hiring a professional and have to get pre-approved. It would seem that from the numbers I've been finding that after the rebate it'll still be 2x as expensive as if I just did it myself.

No reason except it being a pain in the ass. I physically can't fit through the access hole. I may have an employee skinny enough to get through it, then I just have to convince him to do it, and do a good job while doing it :P

So I use a camera to see above the tallest roof point in that access. The good news is there is some insulation. It appears to be a mix of batt where the ceiling was low enough, and styro in other parts. My question is this. I need to google more, but it would seem I'm not using the right...