In this post, an update about where we are in the Challenge and how effective Bandit Signs have been in promoting our little Screen Repair Bizness. Okay, so I haven’t posted in a while about the Thousand Bucks in 30 Days Challenge. Since we’re cutting it extremely close, I want to bring everyone up to speed. […]
5:49 pm by Leave a Comment
Learning Your Target Market On PURPOSE
You’re Probably Taking THIS Shoestring Step Already Without Knowing It… In today’s post, practical instruction on Shoestring Step Number TWO: Find Out Some W’s. The ‘dubyas’ stands for What, When, hoW, Why, Where, and MOST importantly… Who. In building a bizness from scratch, it’s most important to learn all you can about your target market. […]
3:06 pm by Leave a Comment
Update to the 30 Day, Thousand Dollar CHALLENGE
Hey Steppers! Here’s an update on the $1000 profit, part time in one month from scratch CHALLENGE… Okay, gang: the SS101 Bizness that my son Pierce and I started May 9 is now up to $739 gross receipts, with expenses of $248.54. Rounded down to the nearest dollar that’s $490 profit, about halfway to the […]
8:01 pm by Leave a Comment
Puttin’ Money Where My Mouth is, Part FOUR
WHY I Did These Particular Actions… The Shoestring101 Steps I hope that by reading the previous posts, you’ve begun to be at least a little inspired. You probably could see that my only initial investment was the advertising… most of which was UNpaid, and the paid portion was only $62.66. No further investment in equipment […]
8:01 pm by Leave a Comment
Puttin’ Money Where My Mouth Is, Part THREE
Wow, just a quick post. So my Facebook fan page… a FREE ad… put me in Google results for “Screen Repair Monument Colorado” and I gots me another customer that way. This fella doesn’t even want to be home when I come by, he’s putting a chekc for $39 in his barbecue on the back […]
7:24 am by Leave a Comment
Puttin’ MONEY Where My Mouth Is, Part Two
Okay, so we’re walking the Shoestring101 Steps for thirty days. I’ve managed to do at least a little of each Step in the last few days, and I’ll be listing them all here today! BTW, if you’re tuning in late to this station, on May 9 I posted that I’d start up a small Bizness… make […]
3:35 am by 3 Comments
Guest Post by my Fourteen Year-Old ENTREPRENEUR!
Guest Post By: *P-Dawg* (Pierce, my fourteen year-old son) Today, my son Pierce relates our experience putting out signs for the screen repair/window cleaning company we just founded. It looks as though we’re off to a great start 😉 Today my Dad picked me up from school. As we were headed home we noticed some […]
2:34 pm by Leave a Comment
Puttin’ MONEY Where My MOUTH IS…
Heya, Steppers! What This Post ISN’T About..! So, I’m working on a post where I found a guy that started a scuba shop… in COLORADO… to finance his own scuba habit. Don’t laugh. In a community where very few business owners make it past the first twenty-four months, The Underwater Connection has been thriving for […]
8:27 pm by Leave a Comment
What Exactly IS a Shoestring101 Business (BIZNESS)… Anyway?
Most of my posts on this Shoestring101 Blog revolve around the fact that it doesn’t necessarily take a lot of MONEY to start up a profitable Bizness… and that’s true. But today I’m going to concentrate on the fact that it doesn’t take near as much TIME as you might think, either. I got a recent […]
5:56 pm by Leave a Comment
You CAN Make Your Own Opportunities… Right NOW!
In today’s post! A short rant about unemployment, followed by some much more positive stuff to put in your head and life instead. Plus a video showing an activity that made me $30 bucks an hour easier than falling off a log. Oh, man. Whew. Thank goodness… I just sidestepped the ‘woe is me monster’ […]
