If you had to explain what your business does in a few short sentences and why it's valuable to society - what would you say?

Like the titles says. I have been hassling someone over a product I sold them eight months ago. They owed me 400 bucks. I have a small supplying business and we work on a consignment agreement.

Business owner says he sold the products (10 boxes worth) a week after we sold it to him. It's been eight months and he still hasn't paid saying "business was slow" and that he didn't have the money to pay me. Today I showed up after much pushing and convincing over text (dodging my calls.) I threatened to sue him in small claims court and we had an in person argument.

He sent over 399.99 and told me that he hopes god is watching. He is aware the full invoice is 400. I want to know how to handle the issue, and if handling it is even worth it. It's about the principle at this point for me.

Hey so I started a company selling software so I was wondering if I could practice my sales demonstrations with someone who actually owns a business. Does anyone mind hopping on a quick zoom call and giving me some feedback? I'm willing to compensate.

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Anyone have any helpful insights or advice on shipping a load of backpacks FOB from Ho Chi Minh to somewhere in Europe? The shipment will be 321 kgs and 3.29 cubic meters volume, sea freight is fine, and it looks like LCL shipping will be my best option.

Ultimately the goods need to arrive in Switzerland, but I am wondering if it might be better to have them sea freighted to a larger port somewhere else in Europe, then I could personally arrange pickup from there myself. Otherwise, it looks like Basel Switzerland is a good transport hub.

This is my first time handling a large shipment like this so any advice is appreciated!

Hi redditors,

I wanted to share my view of getting customers trust. I have an web agency and we are running paid ada locally and getting some clients. When I tried to expand my reach and to get more customers especially worldwide and not local, I bumped into a problem of trust. We have a decent website and testimonials and projects that we’v built, but I guess people are just tired of spams and online scams. It came to me, after watching one of the Dan Koe videos, that fastest way to build trust is by creating video content. To be more specific, video content of business owner that talks about business related topics and share as much knowladge as possible. The idea is to make long form YT format videos, and upload it on YT, then cut it in short form and upload those to social media accounts and website. This should be the fastest way to accuire new clients and build trust with new people that see you fot the first time. Tbh, this really makes sence to me, and I trully se this as an fastest way to buidling trust with cold leads. Now, the problem. Does anyone else have a problem with recording and making video content? It takes much time to preprare script for videos and a lot more time to film those videos and edit them. Not to mention that I don’t like the idea of being “influencer” and posting all that content. Does anyone have a suggestion for this or simmilar problem? Please share your toughts.

I am seeking a new line of business to get into. I own a few different businesses and most recently have gotten into the weight loss business. I am expected to make $1M+ by the end of this year but want to diversify into other things.

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The busier we get = the more fees they charge.

In this day and age with inflation and small businesses tension to find the balance between rising COGS vs Sale prices , it’s simply not siding with small businesses like it used to be.

So how do we all cope with this robbery of Transaction fees per month? Or do we all just quit the POS and move on to another?

Is Square a good alternative?

We are based in Australia and in hospitality. We just called them because we got charged higher amount of fees for crossing over that threshold. We asked we couldn’t find this info on their website. Why being sus and not transparent if the fees are something normal and acceptable?

I asked them to send it and he did, which is in the “service agreement” fine print , not anywhere else easy to find. . (ofcourse)

He replied me “I personally don’t agree either and we got a lot of backlash but we can’t do much with the company decision to be a pos+payment company which is based in Canada. You can always move to the Lightspeed Payments, i will include the info on ur email.”

broken record of “move or else pay.”

I’m ready to move, as the more promotion we do to get more busy, they’ll take more money of us - on top of what merchant fee we already are paying too.

Thanks for listening! rant over lol.

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I am Samuel from Kenya and I have been working as a freelancer in the gambling industry. I have been in the process of learning to create websites and how to rank them but I need income from my writing business to scale things and grow.

Anyone with insights to help me grow my writing services business will be highly appreciated :)

I’m from India. I’m planning to start a business on crafts but I’m not sure on what to make and sell. I’m open to all the suggestions and tips to make my business successful.

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I have a very small 100 square foot commercial cold kitchen. Counter space is a minimum, but I’d like to have a solid blender that I’m not standing there for like 3 minutes with the blender stick trying to make sure everything is blended well. What’s the best blender to just throw it all in and press the button and more on the quieter side?

I have a business in California, I have to have an address registered with my business.. but don’t want to list my home. What do you do? I’m reading conflicting things about PO Boxes being sufficient. People talking about virtual mail..

Please share your insights - much appreciated

My landlord just sent me a text saying he has been informed a business is being run from the flat and it needs to stop immediately.

So over a year ago I started an online food/snack retail company from a small flat I rented out. We did around 1k revenue in our first month (about 2-3 orders a day). 1 year later and it’s grown more than I ever thought it would to 45k revenue a month and 50 orders a day.

Over this period a lot has changed. We have put up several large shelving units inside the living room to accommodate all the products, we get large HGVs coming to deliver pallets of products and cause so much noise and I completely understand it’s not really acceptable in a quiet block of flats.

I have been delaying moving to a warehouse to due to the impact it’s going to have on margins and the move and initial period will be a lot of work and massively increases the risk of the business failing with large overheads.

My question is, what do I do right now? My landlord wants to have a phone call later today about it and to ask me to immediately stop the business. What should I say? Can he evict me? Is it illegal and can any legal action be brought against me? Is it possible to convince him that I will stop within a month or once I have found a warehouse, whichever is sooner? I have customer orders that need to go out, I have Royal Mail doing daily collections from the flat Monday to Friday and I can’t afford to stop the business until I find a warehouse to move to, I have loans to be repaid, a fixed contract with digital marketing agency and suppliers to pay.

Edit:

Thanks for the comments and advice. Spoke to landlord and they are happy with us continuing living here as long as business moved out by end of week. The HGVs started a month ago and Royal Mail collections about 2 months ago. I totally understand I’ve been completely inconsiderate but it all happened so fast and I was already looking for warehouses. I realise I have been greedy by not transitioning faster and I can afford to do this on around 10% net margin.

Your comments have helped me realise what a mistake I was making by delaying the move to a warehouse and what an arse I have been to my neighbours these past 2 months.

We only sell prepackaged branded products from suppliers so no need for food standards certification.

Yes, we pay our taxes properly as a registered ltd company.

I have called a lot of people this morning and spoken to a supplier who has just told me they have a small warehouse that is not being used and we can move in within 3 weeks. In the meantime I will move to a self storage space, thank you for this recommendation.

I'm curious to hear from anyone in the USA, UK, Dubai, or other countries who imports products from India. What kinds of products are in high demand, and what factors do you consider when choosing suppliers? I’m interested in understanding the market trends and preferences from an importer’s perspective.

If you can recommend and specify the category that would be great.

Amex Reason for Credit increase denial

Has Anyone ever Amex say they will not up your limit Because they are classify your spending as personal not business purchases but it has only been used business purposes

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Hi, We sell on different online marketplaces in US. We are looking for wholesalers distributors for different brands mainly in the category of household essentials, grocery, cleaning supplies. Someone recommended me to post here. Any help regarding this would be much appreciated. If you can recommend some brand distributors or any good suppliers you are working with?

I'm looking for an online marketing side hustle, I'm willing to work on any platform needed and willing to market almost any product needed. I don't have any true work experience but can say I've taking a couple marketing classes before and am currently in both a web design class and a Sports Entertainment Marketing class. I'm a highschooler currently and live in Washington State. Thank you in advance!

I recently joined Faire and have been looking for spa, skincare, and cute cozy home decor stuff to sell at a monthly pop-up. I feel like I'm really struggling to find products that are good quality and different from the typical things on etsy, ali... what's the secret? Anyone out there finding really good stuff on Faire?

Hello!

Background: I’ve been at my current company for 10+ years. Worked my way to a software architect, primarily in the us healthcare sector.

Long story short. I don’t know what to target client wise. I like the concept of the solution architect for either small to medium business transitions. As well as enterprise software solutions.

My attempt at an initial concept would be to just have a consult with prospects who feel like they have issues/inconsistencies in their workflow. This was primarily targeting the small business to medium large business transition.

Something like $99-$199 for the brainstorm session.

Walk through their issues and talk through potential solutions, with an option to receive a detailed solution workbook. Including my quote to implement.

I’m guessing around $299-$499

They can then do it themselves, take it wherever they want, maybe their web developer, whoever.

Or, I implement the solution for them, based on the quote, probably $999-1999+ with their initial workbook cost deducted from it as incentive to have me do the work.

Target regions are US and Canada.

Any feed back would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a small business owner who makes wire wrapped jewelry and other various crafts, I'm having a hard time making sales recently and my following on social media is pretty much nonexistent. Would it be worth it to make a small "pr box" with a personalized piece of jewelry and send it to a creator in hopes they show it on their page and possibly tag me?? Wouldn't cost me much in supplies or shipping, mainly just time!

See my history for previous posts regarding GM or tl;dr.

Caught my GM posting illegitimate gift cards as payments in lue of cash payments.

All cash payments are missing. Operations Manager was told to ask him about it one day at end of day. GM said he'd look into it, never spoke a word of it to me but the very next day he posted no gift cards. Continued to post gift cards 2 days later when nothing was mentioned.

Total 140k is missing in gift cards that are not real. Gift cards arent used in my business. He posted cash he received as gift cards and it is my belief that he did this because he could pocket this money as no one was trained to look at the gift card column at end of day. Everyone simply looked at the cash totals and his totals were always exact. So he essentially pocketed about $300 a day in "gift cards" since 2/23 up to July of this year.

I made a police report. Things progressed slowly as I basically called everyone in the state. I needed this guy OUT. I needed him not only fired but arrested so he doesn't take my client list & trade secrets with him. I needed it to be a huge thing so that I don't get accused of slandering him but so my customers know that I didn't just fire this guy for no reason. People like him and he accounted for about 60% of my sales alongside my assistant GM.

I talked up my assistant GM. I told him how great he was doing and how he was over 40% of total sales and climbing. I told him he could do better. He just keeps showing up about 10 minutes late everyday. I told him I needed someone I can rely on to open. I did not mention anything at all about the GM. I just stated that if he could come on time everyday, not just on time but early, then I could rely on him to open and I could give him a raise on top of the extra commission he makes off the sales he's pumping out. He nodded and said thanks and said he would. Next day he came in 7 minutes late. I gave him half the raise I promised and told him again, I need him on time.

Police contact me asking me for more documentation and information. I finally get a meeting with the head of Financial Crimes. I have all the data ready. He's pocketed about 140k in the span of a year and a half essentially. The detective takes all the data and tells me he'll be bringing it to the prosecutor. I urge him to act quickly as I havent alerted anyone and my GM CONTINUES to keep doing gift card transactions. All the while Im recording all this. The ONLY evidence I dont have is him literally pocketing the cash as he does it out of sight, knowing where all the cameras are.

Nice little shot from left field as the Assistant Manager abruptly quits via text message Sunday night at 9pm. We open at 8am the next day. He explains he has a job opportunity he cant pass up and a huge paragraph detailing how I disrespected him by not giving him his full raise. How I dont appreciate him and he had to move on because he saw me interviewing people and offering them more money than he makes. (He makes 17 an hour but works 58 hours so he gets 18 hours OT on top of 5% commission on total sales he makes. Ive been talking to interviewers about working 40 hours and they all are in the 20-24 ask range with only 40 hour shifts) This guy completely disregards that hes making way more money than the people applying for 40 hours and he also conveniently forgot that he himself tried to bring in another Salesman that he's friends with. So even though he knows nothing about the situation and even offered to bring in his old co-worker, he tried to blame his abrupt departure on my disrespecting him. Oh, caviet is that he also conveniently took 40 hours of unaccrued PTO the Monday of the week he decided to quit. So I believe he took a job interview on Monday, got it and asked me to front him his PTO. Soon as he did that he finished the week to quit last minute.

Imagine that. Now I have a GM who most likely embezzled 140k but also the next in line, who was unreliable to say the least, abruptly quit. This leaves me with no one except my GM to handle sales. Yes, I can do it myself, in fact I did it all by myself during COVID. I set sales daily sales records during peak season whenever shit hits the fan and Im forced to mow through hoards of orders. An example would be last week when my GM went on vaction before Labor Day. I was essentially by myself with a new hire, who is seeking a new job as the environment is too high paced for her so we're parting ways once she finds another job, and I broke the day sales record once again (at the sake of my sanity though as I feel myself burning out even worse than the last few times its happened). On top of that, my operations manager went on vacation the week before that as well. So things that I need to do during normal business hours Im forced to do into afterhours on Saturday and during Sunday all day. If my wife wasnt away on vacation then I think we'd be having serious arguments about how little time Im at home lately, but I have no choice.

I learned my lesson in regards to the new hire. She was the best friend of my Account Manager. She claimed to speak Spanish but doesnt. She doesnt know typical words that are important for daily sales. As a result her total sales are not climbing to the appropriate levels youd expect. She swore shed study and do her due diligence in order to succeed. Only for her to still be using my cheat sheets 1 month in. She claimed due to her family she has no time to study. So the laptop I gave her to practice was never even turned on. So I was stuck in a situation where I had to consider firing her and risk losing my Account Manager! on top of all else. So I continued to have her, she does help some. She contributes about 16% of total sales.... Kills me a little everyday. Not only that, but she cries almost every day as she feels rushed and feels like shes always disappointed. Truth is, she always has a deer in headlights look about her and customers see it. She is always afraid and I tell her not to be but she says its not me, its the fast past nature that she just cant get a hold of. So she told me shes interviewing elsewhere and I reassured her like I did before that I wouldnt let her go without a job because she does appear to be doing her best. So we're on good terms, even though she shit all over the private toilet I give her access to and left it for whoever was next to clean up. Yup. Absolutely revolting.

Nonetheless, I've been interviewing new hires ever since things didnt improve with the new hire. I have about 20 potential hires of which only 2-4 seem like reasonable additions. I ended up hiring a retired veteran in the industry who will work for me for 40 hours and he seems super cool and knowledgable but the downside is hes 60+ and slow. Still, he's an invaluable addition and as he picks up more he'll be able to help more. I also hired a new potential GM incase the current GM is arrested or whatever happens. He started his first day today and ended the day saying he enjoyed working for me. He was way too slow for my liking and given his experience I expected more but that's a reach. It was literally his first day and he seemed ok and expecting anything more is just unrealistic. In 2 weeks Ill be evaluated both guys and setting them up with commission. Meanwhile, Im mowing through more interviews. I won't be caught with my pants down again.

I'm gearing up back up plans in case my Operations Manager ends up being a heroine addict who is secretly running a drug kingdom in the background somehow. I planning on having a new hire ready in case my Account Manager decides he loves his best friend, who is leaving us sometime soon, and decides he wants to murder me (hopefully fails) and goes to jail, and I'm definitely getting prepared for what happens if the GM gets arrested. If nothing happens to him then I plan on transitioning him away from a full 58 hour workweek and having EVERYONE work 40 hours. I'll hire as many people as I need to and just constantly rotate. I literally do not trust a single soul in my organization now as my GM was my most trusted employee since his co-worker passed away. He was the only person I truly trusted and it's why I blindly never checked his end of day appropriately until that one random day early July. I learned my lesson there truly.

Anyway, it's a waiting game now. Any advice is appreciated. I wont detail anything about my business on here so dont ask. I can run it on my own with the 2 new guys right now but it would be stressful and I'd have to be there everyday. If they can be trained up properly then I may be set on the right course.

It's all fucked up because I have all this shit going on, while Im literally having a baby that's due on my birthday (awesome!) while buying my first home (great! should be able to close in 30 days if appraisal hits and inspection passes literally happening this week) and also planning the wedding my wife deserves (next year hopefully my business hasnt imploded!) and yea, my fucking dad died right before all this happened. So yea, Im trying to figure all this out before I have a stroke.

Reached out to a lawyer a family friend recommended, waiting to hear back from him as well.

Let me hear your thoughts.

I’ve had experiences working with large businesses where accessibility on their site is a large focus for user experience and legal reasons.

For your website was accessibility a consideration when it has been created/ maintained? If you’re using a website builder are you making the assumption that it is automatically handling accessibility?

Thanks!

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Hello all! I own a small tutoring business and over the last year the business has grown. All my clients pay me through Zelle and I am having a hard time tracking the payments. I currently just have a notebook and track who has paid but this can be difficult because I have to send many reminders to parents to pay and if they pay later it may coincide to the following week and now I’ve lost track of the payments. If I’m not 100% on it I will get confused or parents think they paid for the week but they actually paid for the previous week since they are behind. Can anyone recommend an app or system to better track the payments? I don’t want to have parents pay with a physical card on the spot because I am in a public place.

Thank you in advance.