Just solo managing everything? Taxes, laws, supply, execution whatever… ? One man (or woman) teams?
For the most part, I’m still wearing all the hats. Hired a sales rep, didn’t work out. My wife occasionally helps me label and pack our products, but with a toddler she has to spend more time with him.
I’m tired.
My business consistently profits over 5 figures a month, but I’m in a position where there’s really no hiring I can do right now to take the load off. I’ve been considering using 3pls for a bit, but that’s just not the bottleneck that needs to be taken care of first. I’m taking a few days off after some big markets this week to sort of enjoy the holidays and refresh and then I have to get the rest of my end of years purchase orders out. After that, I’m hibernating and changing the way we do business to squeeze more profit with less volume as well as starting another business to help people in my position.
Started off like that but it’s not the way to go forward, hired an accountant to save me a bunch of time on that. Then employees to reduce workload. Otherwise you’ll just get burnt out and not grow as much as you could
Did exactly this. It is possible to keep your business alive - but it’s impossible to keep up with changes on your own.
This is the way. Still pretty small. But otherwise I’d lose it & go live in a hut in the woods.
How do you find a co-founder? I don’t have a huge network and don’t want to trust a stranger
Otherwise you’ll just get burnt out and not grow as much as you could
can you elaborate more and educate me into what you meant by (and not gtow as much as you could) im stuck in here i dont know how to grow my business
Producing Spaceoceans ; & PREXENTS
Me, I’m struggling with becoming a marketer and sales person. I’m tech focused, and I know I can learn it but it’s rough with bootstrapping.
What issues do you have in terms of marketing?
But did you start employing before your business bade enough profit or did you take loans or something?
If you are looking for help in sales, I have almost two decades under my belt in the tech space, both selling and building sales teams/infrastructure. I love start ups space I would love to help. DM if you wanna chat. Good luck out there!
This goes for anyone looking for the same btw.
There’s a whole gallery of different marketing examples you can check out here that you might find useful
What aspect of it do you guys find challenging (sales + marketing). I’ve gone from sales and marketing to tech so that’s the part I’m more competent at 😅
I’m a sales guy. Maybe I can help give you some guidance?
Why not hire an agency?
Dude me too… luckily i met someone thats helping out
What does your business do?
Been at it for 6 years now.
Working on my side-project Tweera for the past 3 months
Try to find the best business to dive in I was thinking about selling car insurance
Here. I have an accountant that helps me file my taxes, that’s about it.
I’m a Ecom seller selling on multiple platforms. I made a profit of $1.6 Million last year and on track to hit $2 Million this year.
Designed, developed and now market my own app! Its been tough handling it all but its going good so far.
U have to learn colour Psychology and the previews u posted in PlayStore are $hit af. U could improve alot there.
I’m doing everything from development, design, email marketing, content and sales.
Here’s my app: https://lebohire.com/
The first 10 years I did EVERYTHING (proposals, land the jobs, design, do the work, pay the bills, reconcile books, and and and…). I found that I was so busy working on the business I had no time to actually do the work!!!..so I hired a bookkeeper,a CPA, sub contractors…sure, it was an expense but now I leverage all that admin time through them allowing me to have more time to actually grow the business.
One man, kind of. I have one full time developer and the rest is me. It’s chill. My solution is software, specifically an AI assistant that joins your meetings and reads your emails, takes notes, updates CRM, etc
I did it before with 3 partners and grew it to 1500 employees…it sucked.
I have my leadership coaching company after 20years leadership role in corporate, I immediately got an accountant as I know I don’t want to spend time on this ( even though mg background was finance)
Me. Formulating cosmetics. But the past month I’ve been fully focused on Israel-Gaza and haven’t been producing at all.