I know this isn’t the answer you were looking for, but here it is anyway.

Why in the world would you want to put your designs on cheap business cards? A business card is often your first impression. The price difference between a cheap card and a good card is not so big that you shouldn’t do it. $0.10 a card is stupidly cheap and I don’t know if you could reach that without printing your own.

I use moo.com, and you get exceptional quality that stands out. I can’t recommend them enough. You DO save money for higher orders and they do discounts for vendors. They have tech to allow multiple designs for one side of the card allowing you to print cards with many different names. But they are by no means cheap.

Have you worked with them before? Seems like your basing your opinion on other agencies rather than what they do, because from a technical standpoint they’re doing everything correct and then some.

Wow, it’s not a lot I get to say this but I’m happy when I get to.

What they do is excellent, top to bottom. Their pagespeed is great, their technical SEO approaches are excellent. Their website is well design with a good user experience, fast load time, great code quality. Their theme appears to be either a custom theme or a well customized theme framework. Their SEO results are off the charts.

If their prices are in your range I would say go for it. From what I can tell, everything they do they do really well and this is uncommon for digital agencies. Good for them!

I’ve found a version of this model that works stupidly well is to offer a daycare PLUS a gimmick to go along with it. A former client was making a killing at a gymnastics park and then added in a daycare program to the park. The same is true for a lot of martial arts studios, summer camps, and art studios.

If you can add an attractive value add to the daycare model you can not only charge more but you’ll scale faster, being able to hire more people.

Just a thought. Regular daycare programs are stupidly competitive and your minimum earnings is quite high. Once you get started, get the insurance and find the gimmick, the business builds itself and you can hire as you grow.

If you have no operating agreement, he isn’t providing capital, and his name isn’t on the business, I fail to see what the problem is. “Hey, I’m going to move on without you. You’re not able to provide what you promised and we need to scale. I hope we can stay friends, but if not I understand.”

Social media companies that post everyday but with no likes, no comments, no engagement and ultimately no increase in sales.

There are ton of these agencies printing money because of the ignorance of their customers.

“Graphic design is a low paid service” is about the silliest thing I’ve read this month.

Good design and UX is worth its weight in gold, and there are lots of examples of designers making good money. Most of my design clients come in at $2500 minimums.

Dragging and dropping canva templates does not mean you’re a graphic designer.

Shopify does this out of the box really well

Just know that you’ll do is going to be not as good as what a pro would put together.

If you’re ok with that than go for it

An E-Commerce with reseller and shipment capabilities.

If you spent the next 3-4 years learning 40 hours a week you might be able to pull off something decent after that much learning.

This is bordering on application development. You’ll need some programming chops. I recommend a Vue Front End Laravel back end type stack but you could do well with a lot of JavaScript centered stacks as well.

You MIGHT be able to pull this off with Shopify but without the coding part it’s unlikely you’ll do it well.

Unfortunately resin art is easy to learn and oversaturated in the craft space. There are 313,744 results on etsy of current resin art projects for sale. What sets what you apart from your competition? You need to do something unique.

Craft fairs and getting a bigger inventory is also a good idea. Perhaps offer to teach resin art in people’s homes for a fee.

Bright local will do this and more. Unless you have hundreds of clients every month, most agencies that offer this are renting you someone else’s software.

A billboard is a high visibility low converting form of marketing. It’s akin to an awareness campaign. Is anyone going to get out their phone and call you while driving? Almost certainly no. But they might remember the name.

These kinds of campaigns are best when you have maxed out the rest of your marketing funnel.

Does your website get a lot of traffic? Does that traffic convert? Are you ranked well on search? Are you leveraging paid ads like Google and social? Do you remarket to your visitors? Do you have regular emails going out to people? Have you tried yard signs or direct mail? How about advertising in cheaper stationary media like phone books and local magazines.

To be billboards come right before radio and TV ads. If everything else is crushing it and you have marketing budget to burn? Then sure give it a try and make sure to do call tracking so you can measure it

But I can promise you any advertising that’s built on “I hope it works” definitely will not work. You want measurements results from a full marketing strategy.

It sounds like your website does not do a good job at converting. Before you spin up any strategies for paid ads and SEO you need to make sure the pages they land on actually gets them to take action.

Did you build the website yourself? Do you have any good experience in design and User-Experience? If not you might want to hire a professional rather than buying traffic for a website that doesn’t work.

The first thing you should do is contract an accounting firm that specializes in business evaluations. If the number they come up with is one your are happy to sell for then sell it. If not you should build an exit strategy that includes maximizing the value of your business.

I know a great firm in the U.S. that can help with that if you don’t have one in mind. The thousands you’ll spend on the eval is well worth the info you’ll get from it.

Ignore the negative reviews and encourage positive reviews and it shouldn’t be a problem. If 1 bad review is that much of a big deal you have a bigger problem than just that review.

A good website is where all digital marketing campaigns lead to. Yes you need one. Google will give you one for free and you can have your own domain for $10-$12 per year so you don’t really have an excuse to not have one.

Also make sure to get your free google business profile also so you show up on search.

My biggest client was a brick and mortar store. We started selling their products online and they do millions every year on online sales alone. Do not underestimate the value of a good website.

The official SBA website has a lot of info regardless but beware, those interest rates have been known to blow up.

First of all, you have an OUTSTANDING voice for voice acting. That’s really going to give you a leg up on the competition. I do have some notes and suggestions:

• It sounds like your overall audio quality needs some work. It’s a bit muddy. Are you recording in soundbooth? You can build a diy soundbooth for less than $200. You need to have AT MINIMUM a noise floor of -60db to be considered a pro. Many companies will not even consider you if you can’t have that.
• In the demo reel there is a TON of background music, and it’s loud enough that it makes you more difficult to hear. Decease the background music volumen and for some samples remove them completely.
• The most successful voice over person I know gets all of their work from Fiverr. It couldn’t hurt to try there, keep your prices high enough to be worth it.

This can be done and has been done. It GENERALLY requires a high value and in-demand skill. A handyman business really only requires tools and a google business profile to get started. There are also services that will send you out.

Once the business DOES start making money you should probably be spending 20-30% directly back into marketing to keep growing.

Marketing is a good idea, but figuring out your brand strategy and your target audience and who your niche is before you market is an even better idea.

There are a ton of retail clothing shops, and many of them are failing. What sets you apart and why? What does your customer base look like? Where can you find them?

I have a branding workbook I send to my clients to help them dial in this vision. Let me know if I can send it to you to help.