Well met, folks. Thyme for another round I reckon!
The regular thread dedicated to discussing potentially the purest form of the libertarian capitalist abstraction - the humble solo entrepreneur, starting with just ideas, maybe minimal funds, maybe nothing, and beginning the quest to be the captain of one's own soul, the steersman of one's fate.
Any interesting quests, successes and Happy Accidents™ as well as questions and such can go in this bread.
Some links for inspiration (please add in this thread any you deem worthy to be added to the pasta here).
Very good to hear, connections are most of the deal in the artistic scene and I am sure at least the lineup side can be easily established. Who knows, maybe the bureaucrazy is not terrible in SA either. Let me know if I can help with anything from over in VIC-land.
Eli Moore
I know cunts were able to get bush doofs happening out somewhere in SA. Nice seeing AusBro's here
Eli Baker
G'day sire, indeed depending on the scale of the endeavour this may be very easily done. It can be as simple as just spreading word via FB with a simple banner tl;dr'ing the intention of the event and attending acts.
Justin Gonzalez
Yeah you're right, hope he jumps into this thread. For sake of the thread theme, I'm finishing up my portfolio on all the media work I've done to start approaching prospective clients. I have a 'job', which is a steady wage but it's time to start scaling, freelancing if you will. Any advice on cold-approaching would be great. What are you up to?
Aiden Adams
Very nice user! What realm of media is this - graphic designs? Have you considered how you'll market it? I found FB groups and theme pages on IG quite useful for just sharing one's work and critiquing/reviewing others, just to get one's name and work out there. All about exposure. As to yer job, consider even just scaling it down to allow you to have sufficient safe cash flow while working on getting your portfolio out there.
I am currently working on a way to advertise my herbal supplements business through digital channels to funnel more traffic to my webstore, which has been the bottleneck. Not sure if I want to go with the FB ads route or find influencers to test and market my items, maybe a bit of both.
It's a bit of everything - mainly creative photography, but graphic design, EDM's, social media management, product design... mind you, it's all very niche - it's entirely in football (soccer).
So I've been very niche for 5 or so years now. It's now a matter of expanding into different areas, to make more $. I love my job at the minute, amazing people and the lifestyle is perfect. I also have the funnest projects to work on which do make a difference, and it's very fulfilling.
Influencers are one tough bag to deal with from my experience. Be prepared to deal with big egos which expect the world from you, and a lot of nagging. Keen to know more about your supps though, what are they for?
Kayden Allen
Chess user here. Small update. I reached out to my artist in Kharkiv and he says he is doing ok considering the circumstances. Still, if that ends up being part of Russia I guess I won’t be able to work with him anymore due to sanctions.
That is a fine range of different media content. I like that it sticks to one niche, which in my experience is much better than trying to spread out and thus gaining a huge mental overhead for the sake of a wider reach.
If you love your job and it is as fulfilling and reliable as you reckon, then I'd suggest at least sticking to it for now and slowly expanding your freelancing endeavours, this way the risk is vastly reduced.
I've never reached out to any influencers, so I am intrigued to see how it goes. I stock a range of supplements for all sorts of general health effects, herbal remedies with a long history of use, to provide an alternative to pharma-cartel panderings. A very small endeavour, but it keeps me under a roof and able to put some cash aside for other quests.
Greetings ChessAnon! I am very happy to hear he's alright - what a wild situation and maybe he can emigrate if it comes to that. The Ukraine will face a big brain drain at the very least - never thought we'd see the USSR-meme rearing its head again.
Landon Lee
Thanks mate. I never meant for it to stick to one market, as niche as mine. After consuming lots of 'entrepreneurial' and 'freelancing' material I found that it's the recommended pathway. So now begins the slow and steady branching out.
My plan is to do odd jobs for people, with immense value for them. Low cost for the client, but it gets my foot in the door elsewhere with the many skills I have developed over the years. Just need to strike gold with a couple and then I'm set with steady flow of work.
Respect your work though, I have family who are into their herbs and alt. medicine. Here's to hoping you can scale it effectively and get some decent growth, after all this coof-19 shit people would surely be verging on the brink of looking away from conventional medicine towards alternative treatments.
Joseph Perry
I have great great Solidworks skills, and I want flexible hours.
Anyone know how to turn this into a side gig. Like a drafting business.??
Justin Hill
Draft up toys for manchildren. Manchild toy consulting firm. You can model and 3d print custom funko pops of your client.
Asher Phillips
Aye, the provision of highly valuable work to a grateful and 'loyal' clientele is from my experience the coziest and most reliable steady source of income. Also feels grand to have one's services truly valued and be able to discuss a given niche with those who are genuinely interested in it.
Cheers sire, a bit of a slump currently, likely with those floods on the east coast being a distractant from gathering supplements (Melbourne for example has only had 4 days of rain all summer, while sydney till brisbane is basically underwater, what imbalance!) but hopefully with autumn and winter the sales will pick up again as folks gather herbal supplies for optimizing bodily functions over the more 'sickness-prone' months. I wish you all the best on your quest also!
Howdy there user! I have never heard of this before, but after having a glance, the possibilities seem manifold - from toy model files as user above suggested to just offering freelancing services via Fiverr or Upwork and building a portfolio that way. Got any examples images you could upload for perusal?
Easton Martin
What do you think would be a better play for my music festival? Buying a big parcel of land out in the middle of nowhere and having a big fuck bonfire as well (might even make it an effigy of Putin that we burn), and a fuck tonne less restrictions. Or talking to council and climbing my way through the mountains of red tape and hosting it in the parklands? Which will absolutely mean no bonfire. My preference is the first one, but I feel like I'd probably have more success with option 2.
Isaiah Gray
Howdy FestivalAnon! I do like the first idea (though while I get the symbolic burning of seeming madmen, it subconsciously excacerbates the us vs them false dichotomy, what would be better in my opinion is symbology of unity and peace, not violence, as corny as it may sound, it gives better subconscious messaging). Rural land in SA surely cannot be all that crazily expensive (yet?) and maybe some farmer is good-willed enough to let it go at a fair price.
I'm looking at about 200k for a very big parcel of land. Was thinking since it's the first one and it's not going to be that big, could go for a significantly smaller parcel of land and just grow it depending on how well it goes, but really what we end up getting will depend on how successful our GoFundMe and fundraising efforts are. Was thinking could try to get Spotify as a corporate sponsor, since they've just suspended services in Russia.
Julian James
Man, Russia is going back to USSR times, this is so cooked. Surely 95%+ of folks over there have zero interest in waging war and they are the ones taking the hit, while rich cunts are laughing as always. Well, as to land - how many acres is the 200k plot? How many folks would one expect to come? Maybe have a geez at the original woodstock and what went on there in terms of attendees and land area, organizing etc. It is half a century ago, but similar vibes and lessons can be learned from it.
Daniel Martinez
Max Yasgur's farm was 600 acres, I was looking at about 250. Although, I'm pretty sure they only used a portion of Max's farm. idk, probably again something worth talking to the bureaucrats about even though they tend to stifle any sort of freedom of thought and are a bunch of sticks in the mud.
Leo Collins
wow, that is sizeable indeed! With the today's crowdFUNding abilities, the cash could be raised rather quickly I reckon. Just outline your plan in a few paragraphs and get the ball rolling with the squares; it likely is much easier than imagined and just requires some insurance nonsense and maybe starting a Pty. Ltd. for personal indemnity.
David Peterson
All I know is if things do start pushing ahead, I need to hire some uni student to film a doco on the whole process. If it crashes and burns then it'll be the little festival that tried, if it's a success then it's the little festival that could. Either way extra money can be gleaned from movie sales.
Dominic Moore
I have an Amazon store. It’s kicking ass. 60k in, it’s now doing 5k a month after a year. 100% ROI per year, give or take some fluctuations, with added value of the store real estate that I can sell later. It’s in a holding company and once enough cash is stacked up there, my business partner and I want to diversify stores. Amazon is good but there are many eCommerce platforms to tap into. What are good ways to diversify this eCommerce holding LLC? Walmart? Shopify? What consulting companies could help me run those stores with minimal effort?
