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I bought a my cloud a few weeks ago. Basically think of it as dropbox but stored locally. It's pretty nice. To play a movie from it, it buffers for like 3 minutes then uninterrupted playback for the duration of the movie.

For monetizing you're going about it all wrong. Go find youself a local game store. Aka, a store like say gamestop except a non chain. Then strike up a deal where they pay you to produce content. You get to say this wrathcaster297 reporting for the store lame gamez. You let them have the...

Worked for 7 hours today on plumbing this tank, getting it setup with water, and starting to plant it. It's 72x48x24 tall. New show tank for the store mascot since the last tank flooded the store.

I'll Grab some pics soon for an update.

The shop is keeping me busy. Definitely growing. Still doing construction... 340 gallon display tank split a seam and flooded the whole store and shut me down for 3 days. Now a new tank is ready to be installed tomorrow and the front half of the store is being setup for more sales tanks...

Still available in Washington state.

I'd skip the direct mail. I've seen pretty low returns in my fish business from mailings. What has worked well is craigslist postings. It's free. Also go hand out your mailer. Take the post card you were going to send out. Punch a hole in it with a hole punch and loop a rubber band through it...

So in years past at another store. December was terrible. It's so bad industry wide that the fish wholesalers basically don't order fish and aren't open. This was the opposite of my experience this year. I was crazy busy. I had to go pick up fish in another state/struggle to get fish to keep my...

Still alive. Today I'm doing end of the year inventory. Might kill me. But then I can see how much money I made/lost etc. I'd of made money if I didn't have building costs$150k in sales in the 8 months I was open this year.

I bought one on ebay for $7 and it was in my email 2 minutes later.

Looking for a beta key if anyone has one sitting around.

You rang?

Awesome keep me posted

That's a good point. Perhaps next month I'll look into that more to go along with the mailer I'm doing.

Yeah I've done a couple of promoted posts. The problem I have with the system is, each post you put on facebook only reaches a % of your fans anyways. So I feel like it's kind of a fleeting thing. If only 60% of my fans see my message, thats not really good enough for me. Sure I can pay so all...

Still shopping around and waiting for square's latest release in November. I'm really hoping they have customer tracking. I think that is one of the biggest things I'm missing right now. If I can find a good package of software I like I'd jump ship on square before their release even at this point.

My experiences were different in school. My first problem was in middle school, there were HUGE overlaps in what was being taught. 6-8th grade was the Holocaust in history class every year. 6th and 7th social studies was just memorizing states/countries and capitals. I was interested in the...

I don't think it should say "what" is protecting your investment. I think it should say "who" or "are you?"

I agree. One of the videos that I linked earlier was basically saying everyone that is small isn't charging enough. Basically trying to compete... They say don't even try, but don't be WAY out of range.

I agree, I was thinking about this today actually. I'm thinking it might be a good practice for Lyrical to obtain the quotes from his competitors on every job he lands. If you can either offer a slight discount or just get your customers to give you those quotes and you put them into the excel...

So sales are down this month. This isn't that shocking to me. What is perplexing me is everyone else has been waiting for this time. Let me explain. Summer months are slow for tropical fish as everyone is doing outdoor things etc. All the people in the industry over the summer etc say oh man...

I can see what you guys are both saying. But I would agree that throttling your work load via price is smarter money than expanding. If you bid 5 jobs, and land all 5 jobs, you create a backlog. Lets say they are all 20k each. that's 100k. Lets say it costs you 10k to do each job. That's 50k...

So here's what I got from the last post. You are having a hard time finding the number etc. That means you're essentially cold calling them and then trying to sell them a service for $350? There's your biggest problem right there. Yesterday they had no need for your service, today you're telling...

Here's the problem. You're selling someone a service they don't need. Lets say I just inherited a ton of land from a family death. I want to farm them logs for money. I want to know how much you'll give me for my logs. I don't need to know how much my logs are worth. I want to know how much...

Yeah, I was thinking something like that would be one of my offers. It's kind of weird though. My store is built to just steal the money right out of your pocket if you're already into aquariums. Getting someone new into aquariums is a lot harder sell with the high quality I sell. It's kind of...

For taxes, yeah, I took advise from the internet. Every month I put my B&O taxes into a savings account. My sales tax rate here is 9.5% so it adds up quick. They have me on quarterly payment. That was like 4900 this time. I think my biggest factor to success besides having the right people...

Bring in 300 fish into a tank. Miss that they are sick, first day you can lets say 2-3, next day the rest are dead. Easiest way to lose a lot of money in this industry. This is why there can be high margins. Cause a Place like Petsmart etc, can't keep them alive. They can buy tons of filters etc...

I also have very low overhead. 950 sq ft store putting down 20k. Power bill for the last 2 months was $300 using LED lights everywhere etc so that's $150 per month for power. Rent is only $850 which is really low for retail spaces. The markup in my store is everything is at least 226% markup...

Takes 8k in sales to sustain my business including my salary and employees wages currently. So at 19k, That's roughly 5.5k profit which is going back into the business currently. I've been buying more and more advertising lately. Been investing $300 a month in adwords. Did $350 for a mailer...

Put just over 19k through the register last month. No new record, but I'm pleased. I really want to improve my inventory/customer tracking etc. I use Square Register. It's now lack luster in terms of what I need. However Nov. 19 an update comes out that'll link Square with quickbooks. I'm...

Yeah, I'm still packing lunches and we still eat a home, With us both working so much lately, its easier to spend time together out eating. Once her schedule settles down in a week or two it'll be more eating in again.

So here's what I don't understand after reading the thread over again. Why a Bar? Why a nerd bar? etc. You're picking a location etc and you've never worked in a bar. Why not become a bartender and then work at a bar for a couple years, then decide if you want to own/buy a bar. If you're good...

Last month was 20k through the register. This month is slower so far, more on part with previous months. It's still ridiculously hot here. 90 degrees here today. Which for a state where no one has air conditioning, the world has come to an end. Working on lots of advertising avenues and such...

I've never been here cause I don't drink at all. But lots of nerd birthday parties go down at this place and it's always packed when I drive by. http://www.afktavern.com/ http://www.yelp.com/biz/afk-tavern-everett-2

It's a real easy way to weed out who is serious. Not many other jobs offer 10% profit sharing with employees for what's basically an entry level job. The problem is your dad brought it up after you already worked for him. You bring it up before they work for you. You have nothing invested in...

For real. Just hire someone like this off craigslist. http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/evs/4008125254.html

I do pay this sign waver actual wages. Hes my employee in the shop too. When sales are slow, out to work the corner you go! Before they ban sign waving, they'll have to ban the people pan handling on the same corners.. I shit you not I see this sign the last 3 weeks. Going back to college this...

Or better yet, go park it infront of a government building and report it for suspicious activity. For good measure make sure there are 55 gallon blue barrels in the back seat.

So with the car still in her name isn't she liable for any damages etc? Or because the plates are off she is no longer liable? If you can't get it registered etc. You need to get it impounded and let those charges build up insane high etc. Or drive it into a building.

It's basically a sign that has my Logo on it, with 2 big white arrows that point in a direction. I'm having a new sign made that is an A frame sign to be stand up while someone is there doing random tricks. The guy doing the sign waving is a performer of sorts. When it's not in use with...