/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>20492320
This week I walked into my competitors restaurant, while sick with corona, and had a very enjoyable social outing.

>>20492397
Based superspreader
>This week
Finally sent off an article for review. The hope is this will be a good convincer for my consulting business.
Finished a scholarship application and sent it off. If I can get it I will gamble big next year safe in the knowledge I will have this to escape to.

bump for actual business on biz

>>20492397
Wait how will you stop him doing the same back to you?

>>20492320
Taking my business to my first farmers market. This week I've made 1300 shortbread cookies and will make 700 muffins Monday and Tuesday.

Just started 2 months before corona lock down so still very new to it all.

>>20492879
That's exciting; never gone beyond home baking so those quantities sound great, really big. I imagine the overage cost is pretty low too on that sort of thing? Has the market been running throughout the CV pandemic?

>>20492879
Cool anon, I truely wish you success, especially if you enjoy baking. Hands on is fun.

>>20492320
I swapped out the wheels on my sport car I use for deliveries, late this week. Went from low profile tires to nice big fat ones, now hitting potholes, rail road crossings and speed bumps is much more tolerable. Today I'm reorganizing my workshop to open up an additional parking bay, until the heat gets too intolerable. This upcoming week I gotta finish excavating next to a duplex I'm rehabbing so I can replace a rotten sill-beam that's holding me up from starting 100 other jobs I need to do to finish it.

i started a POD shop the other week. paid a fiverr pajeet to set up a few fb ads and have been seeing okay traffic from that but still no purchases. i’m off the next four days and am gonna work on a few more product pics and try to get a respectable IG set up. a few people here have said there’s more luck in getting IG influencers to repost your shit than with FB ads so we’ll see. i just want this to be a mostly automated side income, hopefully it works out

>>20492879
nice. do you have any sort of gimmicky packaging or anything? i feel like those are always the head turners at farmers markets

>>20493137
Feel really dumb for asking, but what do you mean by a POD shop? I've also beard fb ads get way less traction than influencers or even google ads

>>20492320
I'm trying to get into youtubing (mostly instructional videos) as a source of passive income.

>>20492320
>Back on the bus
Jesus I never wanted to smell the piss down the metro more than now can’t wait for this shit to go over

>>20493295
print on demand. i threw a few designs together and have a direct to garment printing company put them on tshirts whenever an order goes through. (or phone cases or tumblers whatever each company offers)

>>20493372
Busses here are stuck at 20/30 people per double decker so they are a lot better than normal. As long as the trains stay fucked I can enjoy remote working and keep shaving more time off for my freelance work, so I won't wish for a return to normal too soon.

>>20492580
What kind of consulting? How do you even start that sort of thing freelance without 50 yrs experience etc.

>>20493999
you can either gain experience or get really good at bullshitting. you’d be surprised what a set of nice professional business cards gets you.

>>20494108
Who are you consulting on what and how much do they pay you

>>20493999
>What kind of consulting? How do you even start that sort of thing freelance without 50 yrs experience etc.
The answers for me are sort of linked. I have a specialist background and most people that study/work in that capacity have zero head for business and prefer to go slave away for a big company. That helps to improve your odds significantly when a potential client wants to see 3-5 separate bids for a piece of work. I was also lucky to have a few unique pieces of work in the years immediately post grad that made really good convincers.

Additionally what people often need is someone who is 'literate' in a specialist area and their time. They don't wanna hire a full time person with these skills because they don't need it day to day, that's why they get a consultant; not because they need the world's leading expert. Also, not to sound like a massive boomer, but just approaching potential clients in a business like way helps a lot. Help them see what you offer and understand the value, even if they don't need it at that moment.

>>20494288
Sorry missed this, in my salaried job I work for multinationals, in my freelance gigs so far it has been NGOs mainly. Honestly surprised by that.

>>20494288
>>20494916
Oh and I charge between 500 and 1000 dollars a day.

>>20494519
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>>20494953
Thanks, really helpful posts. So were you a business studies double major chad at college? How did you have the balls to charge $500+?

>>20495340
500 is not very high for even small contracts. The smallest contract in my line of work is usually 20-30 thousand and lasts 6 months or so. That includes research material costs, hiring in primary fieldwork resources or lab space when necessary, and about 20-30 days of my actual time. 500 really isn't a 'high' rate for any consulting work and clients are more interested in the proposal and the headline cost. Picked 500 because it was my 'day rate' (not what I was actually paid) at my job at the time. I'm slowly increasing it with legacy clients, but that's obviously harder than with new clients.

>>20492799
Trying to stop this one dying too early

>>20492320
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>>20492580
>>20492879
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>>20493297
Don't own/have a business but wishing you all the best luck in the future anons

Did a catering at the event center owned by the shitbags who sold me my store yesterday, after years of them doing everything they could to turn the community against us it was cathartic to make them see how well we're doing.

Best part was when they idly asked how we were doing and they mentioned how hard they're struggling just to stay afloat, and none too subtly implied that they wanted us to carry their baked goods so they'd have a little more wiggle room with their finances. Telling them to fuck off without actually saying the words "fuck off" felt so fucking sweet.

>>20496055
Why were they trying to screw you after they sold you a property? Were they bounced into selling? Congrats on the success, cafe or something?

>>20496188
>Why were they trying to screw you after they sold you a property?
Short answer, because they're insane, petty fuckers who seem to take a lot of pleasure in scamming people (they did this while they ran the store, too; we won back a lot of the locals just because we don't do scummy shit like erase the expiration dates off products.

They sold us the store because they thought they could make more money selling their bakery shit out of their event center (and, as we found out later, lunches and possibly even caterings, which is in direct violation of the non-compete we signed), and they thought they were dumping a failing business onto me and my wife because we both called them out on their bullshit the short time we worked for them (and I do say "failing" literally, half of our equipment has required heavy repairs and is on its last legs even now).

They've told us, to our faces, that they didn't expect us to last as long as we have, and we've had to deal with several rounds of customers being surprised that we were open because of the "We heard you all had closed!" rumors that we have confirmed were started by the previous owners at least once.

We own a small grocery store in a small town, so word of mouth politics play heavily into the way we operate. The previous owners know this, and they've tried using it to their advantage. We've finally reached a point of getting ready to strike back, and we're gathering all the evidence we need to take them to court and get them to at the very least stop fucking violating our non-compete (I'm hoping for financial compensation, though I know it's highly unlikely).

>>20492320

Have any small/biz/owner anons out there had success getting clients or sales using networking groups like BNI or the like?
>https://www.bni.com/find-a-chapter

>>20492320
expanded my ATM biz to another location. Also approached my old boss, a pizza shop owner, about installing one in his biz as well.

Mine closed. Partner panicked and had majority share. Whatever. It was a very good idea and would have gone so much farther. I’d like to get into trading and asset mgmt. seems fun besides the TA bullshit

>>20496388
Sounds maddening. Glad you turned things around. But is it normal in the US to sign non competes for this kind of small scale?

>>20496055
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>>20496743
So what are your plans for the next week?
>>20497016
Planning to start something new? What was the business that closed up? Hope you got something out of the sale. Used to write research reports on specialist companies which was fun and avoided the need to do TA.

Keeping sbg alive for another hour until some crypto shit happens and it's pushed into the archive.