Archives for May 2012

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]