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School for Startups Minutes

jim@schoolforstartups.com (Jim Beach)

The short vignettes are taken from School for Startups Radio. We release a quick thought to motivate or educate you about a different facet of entrepreneurship every day.

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SFS Minute 638: Repeat

School for Startups Minutes ·

2025/02/08

A shampoo bottle says, "Apply shampoo, rinse, and repeat", And if you take the instructions, literally, you had never stop the same as true for your growing business. Once you've had some paying customers, spend 10 percent of your income on marketing and grow slowly. It will be easier than you. Think your fifth customer is so much easier than your first.

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SFS Minute 637: Market

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2025/02/08

Step #4, once you have gotten some paying customers, probably from connections with your friends, it's time to go outside into the general public. Go on websites like upwork where other businesses post their design needs. Bid for those projects it'll be hard at first but soon you can make an entire living just doing upwork accounts.

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SFS Minute 636: Ask Friends

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2025/02/08

Once you have your own business website, the next step is to go, get some leads, tell your friends what you're doing, show them the website, go on Linkedln and make sure everyone knows your new business start social media and start bragging about your new business, two or three of your first, paying customers will come from connections with people. You already know that is so important. Your first customers will come from people you already know.

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SFS Minute 635: Build Portfolio

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2025/02/08

So step #2, once you've gotten good at building websites and have a portfolio of eight or nine websites that you've built for other people. Build a website for yourself, give yourself a company name, build a website for that. Company showing the websites that you've built for other clients.

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SFS Minute 634: Get good at Wordpress

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2025/02/08

Last we talked about how they build a product based business with verylittle money, you know, for a physical product, like a skateboard or an airplane engine or something like that. This week, we're going to talk about how to build a service based business, like an architecture firm or a web design company. You're providing a service, 70 percent of the United States, economy is service bass. So let's learn how to build one of those. With very little money. I'll give you the first step right after

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SFS Minute 633: Grow Inventory

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2025/02/02

If you set your price correctly on your GoFundMe account, that campaign should have generated 100 commitments, but enough Revenue to buy 200 or 250 units of your new product. You sell those extra units on Amazon and develop more Revenue to buy more inventory in repeat.

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SFS Minute 632: Launch – GoFundMe

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2025/02/02

Today, You have everything figured out but you don't have the money for your initial inventory. That's when a good GoFundMe campaign is your best strategy have all of your friends commit to buying a product, maybe even two start, a great aggressive social media campaign to drive awareness of your campaign drive as much attention, get as many pre-committed sales as you can and that's the way to buy the inventory with someone else's money.

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SFS Minute 631: Price, Packaging, People

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2025/02/02

There are many different versions of the three PS, but today I'm going with price packaging and people, you know, your sales and production costs. Now you need to figure out what you're going to charge for the product. How you're going to package it? What it's going to look like, is it going to be in a big shiny box? And then finally, the third P is the most controversial we're going with people. How are you going to deliver it into their hands?

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SFS Minute 630: Long Term Sales Channel

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2025/02/02

The next thing is to figure out your long-term sales Channel. How are you going to sell it? How do people buy it? Obviously, you'll sell on Amazon. That's the easy first step. And it could be a complete step, many great successful. Businesses only sell via Amazon. There's no problem with that. That's a great strategy, but take it. A step further, probably also they can buy directly from your website, so eventually your website will need to support that and then we'll go into other places late

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SFS Minute 629: Design and Production

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2025/02/02

A couple of weeks ago, I talked about businesses that you could start with very, very little money this week. I want to go step by step and show you how to start a product based business with as little money as possible. It's not going to be zero, but as little as possible. The first step in starting a product based business is to actually design the product itself figure out what it's going to be and how is it going to be made? If you're going to start a clothing company, you can easily find a

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SFS Minute 628: Basics

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2025/01/28

You will not get the benefits of neuroplasticity unless you take care of the basics. Exercise eight hours of sleep. Lots of water. I take vitamins and supplements and there are amazing Strauss naturals products for whatever your body needs. The most important thing. You need to build a foundation with the rest of your life so that the other things we talked about this week will actually happen. Go to school for startups.com minutes to hear all of the ways that you can continue to get smarter, no

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SFS Minute 627: Challenge Views

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2025/01/28

One of the best ways to continue to getsmarter is to always challenge your views, your perceptions, our brains work overtime, trying to convince us, that we are always right in talking to other people learning their ideas. Having polite. Disagreements is one of the very best ways to create new connections. New synapses in our brain, that is actually making us smarter. The neuroplasticity can happen when you challenge your views and talk to people you disagree with.

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SFS Minute 626: Generations

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2025/01/28

One great way to continue to be smarter. No matter how old you are, is to spend time with people of different Generations, particularly much younger people. If you can talk to someone 30 or 40 years younger than you, I promise you will be blown away. By the way, they think I have two kids in their 20s and every time I talk to them, my brain gets smarter because I'm exposed to their crazy ideas.

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SFS Minute 625: Experiences

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2025/01/28

One great way to make your brain smarter is to grow new synapses new connections by literally making new connections, interact with more people, learn what they are thinking about what their interested in and be exposed to all new ideas, go to more events, hang out at a bar more, join a group, or a club, take a class, join the Masons do anything where you can go and meet new people be exposed to new ideas. Expand your knowledge base and continue to be smarter.

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SFS Minute 624: New Ideas

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2025/01/27

I'm going to talk about neuroplasticity neuro! brain!, plasticit! plasti! The idea that we can really truly make ourselves smarter not better educated, but smarter, every day this week, I'll give you a new way to achieve that. It's just like a stroke victim learning to talk or walk. Again, I'll have my first suggestion right after this. First way to get smarter no matter how old you are seek new Pursuits. Lorna language, learn chess, take music lessons, learn how to do some art. Anything you're

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SFS Minute 623: WordPress

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2025/01/24

Start a web design business build websites using an app called WordPress. It is so easy to learn. You can learn it under two hours, watching YouTube videos, and then you can charge thousands of dollars for amazing websites. Some of the best websites in the world are built using WordPress and you can learn it under two hours.

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SFS Minute 622: Pallets

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2025/01/23

Today, My friend goes around to shipping receiving centers places like Costco's distribution, warehouse and picks up all of the old wooden pallets that they have some places pay him to take them away. Then he goes and sells those palettes that he got for free at a huge profit. Brilliant.

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SFS Minute 621: Next Door Yourself

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2025/01/22

Join the website nextdoor and start looking for jobs in your neighborhood. You will be amazed at everyone around you needs help with taking out the trash in their garage, or fixing a broken door, or painting a deck. All of these jobs that almost anyone could do, are sitting there begging for someone to come and do them make some money, go on next door.

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SFS Minute 621: Janitorial

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2025/01/21

Start a commercial cleaning business, it requires the broom that you already own and maybe a mop, and then a client go and call churches parking. Lots Supermarkets anywhere that has a lot of customers and say I will clean your parking lot. You're outside inside. Also, I will clean your building every night and then offer them a price. You make enough calls, you will get a customer. All you have to do is spend some time building the business.

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SFS Minute 619: Share

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2025/01/20

Every week, these segments are devoted to trying to give you some tips, to make you a better person, a happier person, and to fulfill your dreams. Many of you are dreaming of starting a business, but see it as a complete impossibility. Probably, because you don't have any money or maybe even a good idea this week. I'm going to give you five business ideas that you can start with zero money in the next week and get up and running and make money. Idea #1, be a part of the sharing economy, share your

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