As the title explains, I am collecting responses from SMB owners on repetitive/tedious tasks that take up more time than it’s supposed to on a daily basis. For example, responding to emails, calls, setting appointments, delegating employees etc. Would appreciate your valuable feedback!

  • cassiuswright@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    The majority of this sub has become people doing market research for a product or service and has absolutely nothing to do with running a small business. It’s the same over in r/entrepreneur and it’s to the point of making the subs useless.

    Mods can you enforce a “no data collection/market research” rule please? All these posts defeat the entire point of why we gather here. 🤷

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      1 year ago

      Hey thanks for the feedback. Anything that would benefit this subreddit and make things better for the community moving forward would be great. Like I asked above, what do you think would be a better and less “soliciting” way to reach out to SMB owners? Thanks!

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    1 year ago

    Talking to customers. Nearly all of my customers want to have extremely long conversations about our industry, like 10-30 minutes a piece. It’s usually fine when they’re listening to what we’re saying and reciprocating information. Too often, they don’t listen at all and just talk AT us. It’s a huge bummer especially when you would have other wise been concentrating on a task.

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    1 year ago

    the #1 thing that prevents us from up scaling is finding reliable hard working people!!! year after year its gets harder and harder…all the other crap can be easily done.