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    Buying Wine Shop

    @yurtal Amazon has been stomping on small business for years. This is no different.
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    Buying Wine Shop

    @onthemoon Wine sales are dropping everywhere and there's is no reason to expect a reversal. I'd seriously investigate the market before putting money into it. TBH, wine accessories will have you competing with amazon and getting people to pay for classes or tastings will be difficult. Yep.
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    We did it. First big painting job, full house in 3 days. Got a painful customer. Are customers this bad, usually

    @liamdude5 All you need to do is hold up your end of the contract and tell the customer everything else is out of scope and you would be happy to write up a new proposal for the extra work. Make sure it's an expensive one. Don't start doing work for free because it will never end. She knows...
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    6 months from now will be the best time in history to open a restaurant

    @summerwillow Yeah, I'm thinking it's going to be more like this Until there's a vaccine or reliable treatment, popular tourism, cruise ships, resorts, dense cities, big restaurants, bars, public entertainment and a bunch of other stuff I'm probably not thinking of is over. Home cooking and...
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    6 months from now will be the best time in history to open a restaurant

    @brooklynn0o0 For some reason, people aren't willing to spin the Wheel of Horrible Death for a chance to have some food that they could learn to make at home with a little effort.
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    Decluttering service: tag. If haven't moved in x months then charge to keep

    @thistle0sifter /r/oddlyspecific "Hi, I'm here to catalog and label your sex toys."
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    Just bought a mini digger how best to structure pricing, UK

    @jasonf That's way too low. You could get that for a half a day.
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    Part 2 of Stripe shutting me down and kicking me in the teeth

    @rhid1985 With over 200,000 transactions you're hardly a "little guy". You need a real commercial bank and a real credit card processor.
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    Alibaba almost sent me to jail. Determined to start again and never let this happen. How do I proceed?

    @logansc Yeah, that would make me suspicious too. As far as I know, jail time is only for criminal charges such as intentional fraud. I'm absolutely not a lawyer but I don't think you can go to jail because your vendor gave you a wrong number on a form. In fact if you were threatened with...
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    The bar is low my friends

    @micmic0929 I care about reputation since it allows me to keep raising my prices and profits.
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    The bar is low my friends

    @inmatetalks I get a ton of jobs like that. Probably 20% of my google reviews mention that I actually showed up. Every time I read one, I think "Wow, there's a bunch of lazy-ass businesses out there" "How did you get the job?" "I showed up and wasn't stoned or drunk"
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    Starting a trades business but sub contractors do the work?

    @velaut Depends on a number of factors. You would need to check the laws in your state/country.
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    Starting a trades business but sub contractors do the work?

    @velaut It has nothing to do with being able to sub work. It has to do with mis-classifying workers and the British tax authority coming back and reclassifying your workers as employees instead of contractors and then handing you a huge fine and a bigger tax bill and making you pay for all their...
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    THIS is why you need to know your numbers and use that information to negotiate

    @heyheyheynoname That's fine too. Just wanted to mention that a lot of people don't respond well to being pressured into a sale.
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    THIS is why you need to know your numbers and use that information to negotiate

    @heyheyheynoname I'm glad you got the job, but I can tell you that anybody who says anything to me that even resembles that, will not get any work from me, ever.
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    Setting up a custom email ID for free

    @anonymoususer More importantly, business live and die on email. You don't want to glue it together with smoke and mirrors because when it breaks you'll have no idea what's wrong. If you want to spend a little time and learn the stuff listed in the above post, you can put together a mail...
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