How long did it take you? What were your biggest struggles? What were your biggest wins? What’s your margin?

EDIT: 10k per month

  • Sonar114@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think it took about 3 months. It’s in a service industry that I’d worked in for a 5 years so it knew what I needed to do from day one.

    Two pieces of advice.

    Only start a business in an industry that you know really well, most people don’t have enough capital to be able to afford to “ learn as you go”.

    Be prepared to spend money on marketing. Even 7 years in I still invest at least 1/3 of my gross profits back into advertising.

    “The business of a bakery is selling bread not making it” if you don’t know how to sell your product or service it doesn’t matter how great it is.

    • qookie_puss@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Be prepared to spend money on marketing. Even 7 years in I still invest at least 1/3 of my gross profits back into advertising.

      I’d just add that I viewed paying for marketing as “priming the pump” while I also worked on my SEO. I operate in a very small niche so I don’t pay for marketing anymore and all of my leads come from organic search and other online platforms.