It’s not bad when you’re 22. In fact that’s the age to do this type of stuff

Describe your challenge to ChatGPT and dialogue with AI with simple, intermediate and hardcore solutions/efficiencies.

1- Custom client price quotes,

2- Checking vendor books for accuracy then contacting vendor when there’s a mistake and disputing extra charges no or providing proof of their mistake

3- Sourcing raw materials and then going back and forth with several vendors for pricing, and then submitting PO, credit apps, etc, revising PO because of some minute detail that was incorrect (e.g. they used a different lb to kg conversion metric)

4- employee reviews

5- logging into Teams when a client wants to use Teams and Microsoft resets my pw each time, or doesn’t recognize my camera

6- reviewing employee work for mistakes, then telling them to correct it, then finding more mistakes, etc

I have a database.

suck it up. There probably are only a handful that will do it, right?

It’s cheaper to give the discount than it it is to pay for return shipping, credit them, and then they buy it on sale.

NGL, I bought some electronics stuff on amazon this yr, then literally 1 day later was the prime day where the tech gadget was half off. I did chat support they said no they wouldn’t honor the discount, so I returned it and bought a new one. I just kept thinking they probably wasted $30 between various shipping, processing labor and all this other junk. I felt bad (as bad you can for mega corporations since the tech was from a megacorp and Amazon itself is), but it was a few hundred bucks that I wanted back!

And for amazon, I imagine since they’re so humongous quite a few people do it and i was surprised they wouldn’t honor the discount because I was 24hrs early.

What you can you do is when you send your email blast for Black Fri is NOT send it to people who purchased in the last 10 days or whatever.

Your dad probably has better customer service skills so they reached out to him. Improve your cusr service skills or be glad that you’re dad is helping u on customer service. Most bakeries would dream of that kind of help

If you don’t already use it don’t buy just cause it’s a deal. Chances are you won’t use it

Just make a 10% “inner circle” discount that you give out. Reset the code every 6 months. Have it in your back pocket not just for friends/family but the people who keep hitting you up on social, etc.

Just take the photos. Problem solved

Referrals man. Word of mouth. That’s going to be your best ROI by far.

Send postcards to all your past clients from the past 18-24 months. PUt a nice pic with you and your family and write good copy that you are a local small guy supporting your family through good old fashioned hard work to make beautiful construction. And be direct that you need referrals as that’s what’s enabled you to survive.

Important is not to make this a one time thing. Create a flow with 5-7 touchpoints.

Week 1 postcard

week 3 - email

week 5 -phone call

week 6- email again

week 8 - misc touchpoint

week 11 - postcard 2

Otherwise, there are local facebook groups that you should engage with, and also local industry rags. In my community FB group there are ALWAYS tons of people looking for good remodeling help (now most of them want it done for 20% of the actual cost but that’s another story). Pick niche publications as well. We have a lgbt focused weekly in our town where a lot of high end custom builders get quite a bit of biz from. They offer some sort of thing where if you pay enough they do an interview with you too.

Local delivery for commercial and industry. Equipment, a couple pallets of stuff, etc that businesses trade with each other on projects

Charge $350 for in town b2b with 30 min load and 30 min exit. Probably need a liftgate though or be sick high

NFL. I mean at the very base layer how dumb is it that throwing and catching a ball between a few people generates 20 billion per year and at the same has convinces the public that they need to be a nonprofit exempt from taxes.

That’s entertainment.

Just chill. Yes, it’s annoying. But so is brushing my teeth and filling up the tank with gas.

Soon there will be AI agents in inbox that better manage inboxes. Probably within the year.