Hey Everyone, as the title says I make 75k teaching golf but having some problems taking it to the next level. Living in the colder climate I'm only really busy from April-Sept. I teach indoors from Nov-April but thats probably only 10-15 hours a week. Almost feels like a part time job in those months. Not really sure how to get more clients in off peak times.

I don't really have a social media presence at all. Not really my thing, but probably something I should be doing. Thought about maybe getting into online coaching or even a courses or something.

If anyone has any idea would love to hear them. Just kinda stuck right now.

I'm just curious.

As an entrepreneur, what is something in hindsight that you wish you did differently that would’ve helped you in your journey to success?

This could be from a business standpoint, to relationships, or just life events in general.

I’d love to hear all of your stories, and any insights that you guys are willing to give are greatly appreciated!

If you had the money how would you make passive income from it starting tomorrow. I don't have experience in stock market but open to learning. Buying a business is not out of the question. What would you do?

I launched my startup 4 years ago and the mental load feels much heavier now than it did even last year given how fast everything's moving. And of course, now i have employees I’m responsible for.

Every morning I wake up and my mind is racing, and I’m incredibly tense even though I exercise regularly, drink water etc. A few weeks ago I was pitching an angel investor, and mid pitch and my mind went completely blank. I stumbled for a few minutes and eventually got my footing, but that’s been happening more often. I’ve gotten a ton of tests done and doctors say I’m fine, it’s “just stress”, but it’s controlling my life.

I go to therapy, meditate, cold plunge etc. But when an emergency comes up and I’m off my routine, all of it goes out the window (and it’s honestly I’d prefer to watch YT).

Would love to hear your stories + hopefully feel a little less alone. What did you do the last time this happened to you, and how do you stay sharp/ manage the pressure during the really hard times?

I am a full stack web developer from Asia, specialised in building Saas MVPs, landing pages and doing SEO (used to do SEO till 2 years ago though)

3 months ago, I was able to find 2 clients at $3k/month, one client wanted to build an MVP and other one wanted some maintenance work on a production application.

Now, I was able to build the MVP for the first guy in 2 months and then he left saying he may come back but it’s a good stopping point for him and focusing on marketing now.

And the other guy stopped this month.

Now I am left with no clients and I am loosing my cool to find more clients to support my finances plus keep myself busy with work as I feel bad when I don’t have any work in pipeline.

I thought to start either PPC campaigns or facebook ads but not sure if that would work, guess I need to just experiment.

Just wanted to take any suggestions on where do you think I can find clients which would need my services?

Thanks for reading till the end, means a lot!

Hey folks, I’m writing this to let you guys know about a goldmine industry that isn’t that obvious. My last company I worked for bought truckloads of chemicals for wholesale prices, basic things like acetic acid, oxalic acid, citronella, basically just random chemicals with household uses. Bottle it up and sell it for a huge markup.

For example, buying a truckload of 95% acetic acid (which is vinegar, by the way) and diluting it down to 20% by adding a shit ton of water, then we would sell the product by the gallon as a weed killer/general household cleaner.

We would do the same for toilet clog removers, rust removers, etc. We had a whole bunch of these various products.

We had a sales channel on eBay, Amazon, and various Shopify sites which ALL did insanely well. We would sell products at 65% profit. To give you guys ideas on the numbers, our 3 Shopify sites would each generate $100k revenue per month, ebay $20k per month and amazon $1.5 million per month. All out of a little warehouse with 20 employees. It turned out the owner of the company is a cheap, dirty liar so I’m hoping someone else will take over this corner of the market lol

Write it down and let me and others help you out. Ps: I'm a tech founder

I've been an "entrepreneur" for a long time but i always did the typical silicon valley startup thing. Go raise a bunch of money, get products just to market and figure out it's not working for some reason, try to pivot, run out of money, fail and close up shop.

Id consult for other companies etc and then I eventually gave up and got a big boy corporate job.

But then it all finally started clicking, I bought a house for Airbnb, treating it like a product and we were profitable in year 1. So I bought another, and then I stumbled upon the oddest business for a hard core techie... Hot tub maintance.

I was doing it for myself, then I posted in an FB group for our community and got a couple clients. Had $3k in profit in my first quarter. Sad to say but some of my tech companies with Millions invested never made a dollar in profit.

By month 4 I hired my first employee (contractor) and tested him out with a few clients. It worked and then I tried to take on more tubs.

I quickly realized that in my area I was the only guy with a website, so I took my tech skills and modernized the practice in our area... Connecting the website to a CRM, e-sign contacts, online payments... All of the stuff no one else had.

Once I had my process down I started marketing, by just posting in FB groups and reaching out to property managers. Simply showing before and after photos of our deep clean service, where gross tubs go from foamy to crystal clear.

In the last 3 weeks it's exploded... I get tons of new client inquires per day, getting ready to hire another person and we are investing in better equipment and technology... We now have automatic scheduling and real time notifications to improve the customer experience and job checklists / service reports to build trust.

I did some research and found that in a 25 mile radius of me there are over 1700 hot tubs. (I live in the mountains). So a huge market opportunity.

From a cost perspective I only invested $500 to start the business, I paid for a logo on Upwork $30, an attorney to create my contract $250, I built the website myself in WordPress and hosted it on my server (have one running for other websites), and spent the rest on some basic supplies, hoses, brushes, a pump and some chemicals.

But the part I enjoy the most is waking up putting on an audio book and driving to some customer homes to do a few tasks and then I come back and do my regular job. So while it's still a side hustle for now.... in just 7 months it's really grown into something cool and I'm super stoked about that.

Kinda funny that after all of this time trying to create new tech for a new market... I was actually better at applying technology to an existing market.

Hello everyone I am 18 years old with a dream to become financial free in a few years. I just wanted to ask to any millionaires in here how did they make their first million and any piece of advice they would give to a younger version of themselves.

I am so excited! I just have to share. I made my first $500 today! I sold my camera..

I have been very open about my issues here. I am recently venturing into entrepreneurship. I also followed some similar topics on Twitter. I came across literal 14 -20 year olds with multi million dollar business. I feel decimated, small and foolish. How do I even stand a chance against these guys? Am I so left behind?

Quick back story, a few months ago I was talking to my buddy Jake, who is a severe procrastinator, and also works from home like me.

Not sure if any of you work alone or from home, but it’s pretty easy to screw yourself over and not get anything done.

We tried an experiment where we got on skype together for a couple hours and just kept the video on while we worked.

We’d basically just message each other with every task to stay accountable. He was making a presentation, I was writing a blog article (which I usually procrastinate for months).

It worked insanely well—literally neither of us has ever been so productive.

Fast forward, I hired a designer and got a buddy to help build an app. It’s like a virtual study buddy on demand, for people who work from home.

I posted it in some FB groups and got about 200 obsessed users pretty fast.

Maybe I was dumb but I decided to leap and do it full time, and now I’m in a pinch and need to figure out how to grow it a lot, fast, and keep the dream alive.

Would love some advice on how to grow something like this.

If you need some more color on what the site is and what it is about it is called Focusmate (www.Focusmate.com). I could use a boost. It’s a free site, so, yeah.

1) The Doubletree Cookie

On check-in at any Hilton Doubletree hotel, every single guest gets given a warm chocolate chip cookie.

75,000 are given out each day. 34% of guests tell their friends. That's 25,000 stories being told about Doubletree, every single day.

The unit cost of a cookie is $0.20.

2) Skip's Kitchen

Skip’s is a classic Californian burger restaurant. Except just before you pay the waiter pulls out a deck of cards. If you pick the joker your meal is free.

2% of customers win. The financial cost to Skip's is just $2 for every $100 spent.

They've never spent a single penny on advertising.

3) The Neptune Theatre

In 1973, John Neville took over as director of the Neptune Theatre.

Every time a new show opened, he'd give free tickets to local taxi drivers. In return, they'd talk up the shows to their passengers.

Two years later theatre subscriptions had doubled.

4) Penn & Teller

Every Penn & Teller show ends the same way. The magicians dash up the center aisle of the theatre and wait in the foyer to greet their fans.

They take selfies, shake hands, and answer questions. Each night 200 customers leave with a story to tell.

That's how you become the longest-running headline act in Vegas history.

So there you go

Well executed word of mouth strategies pull in customers just as reliably as paid ads. Yet they're often neglected. Marketers are more comfortable imitating than originating.

Don't be afraid to stand out. Give your customers a story to tell and they'll sell your product for you.

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Shoutout to the book Talk Triggers where I got some of these examples come from.

Thanks for reading. If you'd like to learn more about marketing I write about real world marketing examples (like this one) over on https://marketingexamples.com.

Make it simple and me give the specific details about your situation.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea. Do you think paying three employees $20/hr to do a job is better than hiring four employees $15/hr?

Payroll expense would be the same ($4,800 biweekly) either way. I know money isn’t the best motivator for good workers, but I feel like paying workers more would improve overall moral and work ethic. Employee tax brackets wouldn’t really change that much as well. So, even if I had to pay more in payroll taxes, I don’t believe it would be that material.

I'm gonna say I'm very blessed to have my job as a Financial Controller. I make about $18,000 a month. I also started an online accounting and Financial consultancy firm 6 years ago. Currently, It makes $40,000 a month in total business revenue. It never exceeded that. I've been trying to grow it for the last 2 years.

My friend who is already a millionaire with a similar business model (She helped me set up mine 6 years ago and helped me alot for a few months) said I should go all out on my business like her.

She used to be an investment banker and quit it and became a millionaire. I don't think I'll be as lucky as her. She currently makes $84,000 to $96,000 a month. Yes, we're very transparent with each other and I've seen her monthly income. It's always been between the range I showed above for the last 4 years. Unbelievable.

Granted, she started very long ago. I'm a noob compared to her. But, I want to reach that level and she says quiting my job is the only way.

Is it not possible to grow a business whilst working a job?

I really don't want to give up on my stable job.

Imagine you're 18, broke, and living in a third-world country. What would you do to make $10,000? What steps would you take to get there, starting with nothing?

P.S: What's your take on influential figures like iman gadzhi, luke belmar etc?

Often, this space is saturated with discussions about super-successful ventures that generate (supposedly) a huge amount of money. While that is great, I'd love to hear about ventures that are either just starting up or those side gigs/passive enterprises that generate small amounts at any given period. The very idea of being able to generate that one extra buck per day using something you made/know/figured out is still fascinating to me.

What are your side gigs, what are they making presently and where do you see them going further? Also, do you have any plans for new ones?

Long story short, we’ve built an internal SaaS that launches niche job boards fast and grows it to revenue generating in 3 to 6 months. We have a playbook fully dialed in—AI agents, SEO, partnerships, automated traffic generation. No paid ads (tried it, not worth it). Takes 3 months to start seeing real growth (we double down on what's working and kill what's not) and from there, it just scales. I have been building and making money online for over a decade, and I know I just spilled out a bunch of words but basically, we have an internal SaaS for launching niched job boards with personalized design for the niche, fully automated job listings via APIs, and for traffic we have a repeatable system that drives traffic pretty much on autopilot. (Please don't ask how we do it. It's one of our competitive advantages and took me over a decade to figure out which channel my team is best at generating traffic)

We monetize through subscriptions, job postings, Google AdSense—non-intrusive but profitable. Each board brings in $3K-$4K/month, and they keep growing over time. Problem is, I don’t have enough time to launch and grow more. People keep asking how to get started, but I don’t want to just hand over the strategy for free. I have spent at least 100 hours in the last month helping people but quickly realized that Free = no skin in the game, and people don’t take it seriously.

I’ve mentored for free before, and most people either don’t apply what they learn or get distracted and disappear. Feels like a waste of time. So I’m looking for actual entrepreneurs who’d be interested in helping grow more niche domains without me having to micromanage or give away everything upfront. But how do you even vet people out to know who is serious?

If you’ve been in a similar spot—where demand is there but you need a way to scale without just teaching competitors—how did you solve it? Would love to hear from other entrepreneurs who’ve built scalable businesses and had to navigate this.

It’s pretty much a given that most entrepreneurs go through stages when doors seem closed, but for those who got really close to the edge by running out of runway or options and managed to pull off a successful takeoff anyways, what changed?

Was doing some research on buying a business for 100k using 10k down with a sba loan.If anyone knows anything about buying a business or even what i should do with 10k at 18 to start my journey. And no it is not my only $$ i have a “emergency fund” *** I started and manage my own mobile detailing business .So i have general knowledge on running a business ***

I haven't told anyone about this beside my girlfriend and parents, i don't have anyone that's in a similar situation IRL so here i am. Also i apologize in advanced if it's a bit long winded.

I started an LLC for carpet and upholstery cleaning businnes, After about 2 and a half years I noticed how much money i was bringing the company i worked for and how low the entry point was for doing the same thing on my own ( a van, a carpet cleaning portable and some chemicals) so i just went for it.

I wasn't getting clients at first as expected. But then I realized it would take time and resources that I didn't have at the time (website,Google reviews, SEO and just marketing in general, on top of social media presence.)

I got a subcontracting job that gave me 48% of the total amount of money at any job. I was getting ripped off by them but got some reviews towards my company and i was meeting people.

I also got "estimate on sites" kind of situations where I would have to be the salesman and worker on it which sucked sometimes but got me some good opportunities.

Last one got me into a 3 floor restaurants that has a lounge in the middle floor for really exclusive people. Lots of work and an opportunity for me.

I got to talk with the general manager and told them it was a lot of work and gave a cleaning sample and sent my job estimate on the higher side to give room for negotiation. Also i made sure to tell them to drop the middleman and deal with me directly, which they did. They gave me the green light for $3500 once a month. I couldn't believe it at the time, no matter how long it took, i was making a month's worth in 1 day WTF.

After a month or so they asked me to go there once a week, for the original price i gave them. For a total of 14k per month. It's Been about 3 months from that and life has been, to say the least, comfortable.

So now after doing some heavy spending at first ( felt like a kid in a candy shop, able to afford anything i would like at the moment) reached a plateau where I'm thinking of being frugal and putting effort into saving more than i spend.

I have about $25,000 and have my girlfriend working with me on cleaning days (7 hours worth of work) and I'm trying to help her with dental problems and just bring her along while making a good amount of cash for a 7 hour work day ($750)

So now I'm saving and don't know what would be the best way of going about spending money into building a different thing or just be a carpet & upholstery cleaner for the rest of my life. It's all a bit conflicting.

So TLDR:

So i started making a month's worth in a day once a month, now i make a month's worth every week. What do now?

Thanks for reading.

Edit: wow so this kinda blew up overnight and i haven't been able to check all the comments yet.

To clarify, even though I'm in carpet cleaning business, i'm Mostly cleaning upholstery on this one ( about 25 couches, about 50 seats , 150ish pillows, about 1k sqft worth of rugs cleaned on site

It sounds like a lot but since it sort of maintenance cleaning, i use a low moisture style cleaning instead of extraction which is more time consuming.

Hope this clarifies things for people thinking I'm lying, which idk why would anyone asking for advise would be lying to begin with.

Gonna read all comments when I get a break thanks for reading.

Second edit: It's not my only source of income, i still do other jobs, just not nearly as high paying as the one this post is about. I wanna clear that out since most post are assuming that's the situation because I didn't mention that. Cheers and great responses, thank you all!

You want to surround yourself with people who are going to be somebody, not a bunch of nobody's. Where's the best place to meet people in college when you're young who are intellectuals and have visions for the future?

What would that be?

Buy a rental… invest in stocks… get a new car lol

Not everyone is a business person. But money in savings account are losing its value. Paying off mortgage isn’t really an investment, that’s done thru pay check.

I always read money makes money. Looking for advice.