/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>55300816
bumping for interest.

>>55300816
I have been doing this casually on the side for about 1.5 years now. We do data science consulting for a startup - the problem is finding reliable clients. Finding leads and sales is a full time job, you need a partner who is good at this otherwise all you are doing is sales all the time.

>>55300816
Bump for interest. Here is a ramble of some of experiences (druk on a weeknight):

Digital Marketer by trade, recently laid off.
Having a hard time getting small clients to start up my agency, comes down to pricing and referral. Biggest challenge is beating outsourced contractors, etc etc.

I know the work (~4yrs exp) and I have a decent grasp on some of the higher end strategy. Anything I don't know, ironically just outsourced. Still, a big hurdle to jump through. The digital nomad larp is my dream, as silly as it sounds I cannot for the life of me imagine being a wage slave till death do us part. (31 KHV dyel manlet so its already over)

POD
>really?
Yeah, I fell for the POD meme a while back. Shopify CMS, Printify as my supplier. Shilling blankets and socks. Fun albeit expensive lesson. No sales but learned a few things here and there I would different if I wasn't unemployed at the moment.

Farmers market
Parents are cooks by trade and wanted to spring up a pop up shop at local markets. Thing is, vendoring food is a MASSIVE hassle. Tons of regulation that goes into it so it hasn't been easy to get off the ground. Plus food vendors are a dime a dozen so getting accepted is another challenge.

For this venture I got our LLC via LegalZoom, easy process although pricy at about 500+ to file. We didn't get an EIN as its mostly just family. As for a bank account I'll be taking a risk with square as they offer banking if you go with their payment processor. (Their initial card swiper is free so we'll be trying that before we purchase a beefier one)

Customers? If we get accepted I'll probably run some ad campaigns and some giveaways to get word of mouth going. Parents want to do catering but desu its yet another hassle. I might be unemployed but fuck working like that.

>>55300898
yeah consulting sounds like an ez gig to start but what do you actually do once you have a client(s)?

If I'm fairly tech savvy, good at sales, and working with people what's something like SaaS for example that I could sell? Or better yet hire others to help on the consulting?

>>55300947
yeah I have no issue handling the business, tax, payroll, bookkeeping, finance side. Maybe I should offer that as a service but it is boring tedious work but I guess I could train others to do the grunt work but still have zero desire to do it.

Unironically thought about starting a farm in another country to grow fruits and vegetables and export them to the US

>>55300979
You could probably get away with starting on your own, targeting small businesses then training others to take over.

BUT, I get the whole not having any real desire for.

I've unfucked wordpress pages so many times over the years.
>SEO this, backlink that, html there
I'm tired of it but its all I know...

>"Unironically thought about starting a farm in another country to grow fruits and vegetables and export them to the US"
This is the fucking dream. Just a piece of land to call my own, some baby farm animals, living off the land. Fuck this corporate hellscape.