Heya, Steppers! I’ve been wondering how I can provide the best tidbits of small business marketing wisdom to you, my readers. At first I thought that this blog was going to be about how easy it is to start a “Bizness”… a small business that’s based around your hobbies and interests… by using all the […]
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Yay! First Dollars from My Information Product: How To Do 100 Pushups
Yay, Steppers! Just made the first honest-to-goodness money from my information product so far. To test-market, I posted on Fiverr.com that I would teach “how to do 100 pushups in a row for $5”. And there was a taker! In today’s post we’ll document Shoestring Steps ONE and TWO. By the time we get to […]
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WE MADE IT! (30 Day, Thousand Bucks Challenge)
Yayyy! So, my 14-year old son and I had a breakthrough in the last three days… seven jobs, some big and some small… rolled in at the “eleventh hour” and we were able to finish strong in the “Thousand Bucks in a Month CHALLENGE!” On May 9, I made the assertion that I could indeed […]
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Give me a Siiiiiign… Hit Me Baby One More Time!
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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
