Work hard, work smart, pay close attention to the pleasuers and pains and how you can provide a solution. Solutions to pleasure sells as well if not better than pain.

Don’t do that.

That’s a concise and well structured elevator pitch.

Business is always hard. The economy always sucks. People are vindictive assholes.

You should read Warren Buffet’s autobiography, and perhaps some of his other books.

F&B

You apparently have some innate sales skills which is a huge asset. Hone that skill. Find something to sell, and sell the hell out of it.

I was at the shopping last month getting lunch and saw a mobile car wash service van. I pulled and how much for his basic detail service. He said 90 bux for first time customers. I asked how much much for a no frills exterior wash, he said 30 bux, I went to lunch, he washed my truck for 30 bux, did a good job.

Should have, not should of. Success is in the details. Life is not a bowl of (insert favorite fruit).

Here’s my mindset for all the businesses I’ve owned: I didn’t start them to become wealthy, I started them them to get “healthy”. Healthy in this context means to earn enough money to live comfortably and be able to move through a life catastrophe successfully. Not to say I wouldn’t complain if I got wealthy, but “healthy” is my benchmark for success in business.

On every corner in every medium to large city in the world there is a web builder. The other three corners are occupied by a professional photographer, an MBA and a guy with a pressure washer.

I’ve owned four businesses over a span of forty years, some of those businesses overlapping. All were were local service businesses, lot’s of sweat, most weeks were 60 hours or more. Not once have I ever experienced “burnout”. The worst thing that can happen to a business owner is not being able to recover financially and emotionally after a business failure.