[Y0005] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-10-03|score 90) Is there a super duper micro budget?
[Y0006] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-02-03|score 17) Yeah no kidding. Came here to say the same thing? 😂 $100 a day is considered a small budget?! what?
[Y0001] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-05-03|score 13) I want to let you know that I work for Google Ads and I agree with your Points on how to scale up with the small budgets as I tend to explain people that its about the data and not budget. I do want to add some tips here for example you mentioned about Pinning the headlines that is good but if you pin a headline and use keyword insertion and location insertion you are winning two battles at once which are showing to relevant location and focusing on one high value keyword. second one is if you are someone looking for e commerce advertisement on Google then shopping is not that great as the CPC in shopping requires lot of data and you can use Performance Max campaign and only list the merchant center as this would resolve the problem of high cpc as you are now the products directly and not focusing on few headlines Again Ben good work
[Y0008] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-02-03|score 7) @AmberBathCo You can scale these but it will all scale. They take you more seriously the more you spend, however you can make this work at $15/day.
[Y0027] (youtube|Josiah Roche — Google Ads + SEO Training|2026-01-03|score 4) Your city based advice was solid, but only 10% of people in a suburb will use a city name with their search query. Therefore, you can make even more by having campaigns for each suburb as well, so that the suburb name can be in the AD copy each time (increasing CTR by at least double).
[Y0004] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-09-03|score 4) That pinning headlines tip is a game-changer! Thanks for making Google Ads feel less overwhelming and more achievable for those of us on a tight budget.
[Y0030] (youtube|Josiah Roche — Google Ads + SEO Training|2025-12-03|score 1) Hey, awesome video! I've a question about setting up campaigns for lots of small towns: Small geo problem: If I put a bunch of small towns into one main campaign, Smart bidding always seems to send the whole budget to the cheapest/easiest towns, right? The other, maybe more important, towns get almost no traffic. What's your trick to make sure those slow, small areas actually get their ads shown and don't get starved by the algorithm? Since this happens, do you recommend using manual geo bid adjustments (like manually increasing the bid for the starved towns) to force the algorithm to spend money there? How good of an idea is it to create a campaign of this type?
[Y0007] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-06-03|score 1) @AmberBathCo This is really frustrating especially for small starter phase service based business. We thought digital ads will bring more close client. Instead it just bring the Leads and mostly Tire kickers. I still have trauma when thinking about my previous service based business.
[Y0029] (youtube|Josiah Roche — Google Ads + SEO Training|2026-07-03|score 1) Great video. I am working with a client, and there are no keywords with the city name (We have 2 branches in that city). Almost head terms and near me keywords. So I need to create 2 location-based campaigns targeting and that would work fine, right? Thanks
[Y0009] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-02-03|score 1) ​ @someonetookmine do you suggest that for someone like me? Im selling a blackhead remover so should I place a budget of 15 dollars a day? Ive also molded the campaign to have better images than top competitors so idek if that helps 😅
[Y0031] (youtube|Josiah Roche — Google Ads + SEO Training|2025-12-03|score 1) Great video ! What about near me keywords ? “Electrician near me “ etc you also target them ? What bid strategy would you recommend to go for emergency service ? Towing , locksmith ? Manual ?
[Y0025] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-11-03|score 1) Keep shining your light! The world needs more positivity like yours!
[R0003] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2025-08-30|score 0) I scraped 25K comments to find which AI tools actually make people money or save time. My last post here about side hustles absolutely blew up and is the 2nd top post in r/entrepreneur this year! Thanks guys!!! After that post blew up, my DMs got flooded with questions specifically about making money with AI. given the interest, i scraped another 25K+ comments across social media to see which AI tools are actually making people money or saving time. This time grok and gpt 5 deep research were used to analyze the data. Scraped from YouTube, Facebook Groups, Instagram, TikTok, X and Reddit. Here’s the list: Beautiful AI - make professional slideshows in just a few clicks. People report saving tons of time and there are even those who sell a service of redesigning ugly slideshows and are using this to do the work. Suno AI - make insane quality music in just seconds. People are making jingles for companies. Others are making songs, releasing them through DistroKid, then earning royalties from Spotify and streamers. Vubo AI - make viral worthy vertical videos in under a minute. People run faceless channels and earn through Adsense and sponsorships. Others use the video templates to make viral videos to promote their digital products or affiliate offers. Browse AI - scrape and monitor websites without coding. Marketers are using it to build lead lists, researchers are selling data reports, and ecom owners are tracking competitor pricing automatically. Chatbase - make a custom AI ch
[R0005] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-08-07|score 0) I just learned I owe $50K in NY State Tax, wtf. What the actual F. I'm reeling right now and need to vent/get some advice from people who might have gone through this. My accountant just informed me I'm looking at a potential $50,000 bill from New York State for back taxes, plus penalties. I'm based in Texas, and my team is distributed. We don’t have an office, let alone one in New York. About five years ago, I brought on a contractor who happens to live in Brooklyn to help with sales enablement for our east coast clients. Business has been good. We’ve scaled up, and a good chunk of our revenue now comes from clients based in NYC. I thought, great, we're growing! I pay my federal taxes, I pay my Texas taxes. I thought I was doing everything by the book. Apparently not. My accountant just gave me a crash course in a word I'd never heard before: NEXUS. He said that because we've been doing significant business in New York (apparently over $500,000 in sales and 100+ transactions in the last year), we've triggered what he called "economic nexus." I was like, "How? We have no physical presence." He told me it doesn't matter. NY uses "market-based sourcing," meaning they tax you based on where your customer is, not where you are. Then came the kicker. He said that even if we were under that sales threshold, having ONE SINGLE CONTRACTOR working from his apartment in Brooklyn likely gave us "physical nexus" this 
[R0006] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-08-22|score 0) Buying a business- what I learnt the hard way. It’s been a year since my business buying hunt began. Since this group has many businesses I wanted to share my observations. I started by looking for something in a very specific niche but after talking to few sellers and looking at an exorbitant ask, I decided to expand and look at similar businesses. I don’t have any personal connections with a business so these have all been interactions with strangers (sellers I found on broker websites). In total I have now looked at 16 businesses seriously (over 100 overall). Here goes: Almost 90/100 times - the business is overvalued - not just a little over but really overvalued - think $500k ask = $250k reality. A lot of them are getting this number from metric calculator or AI. They choose 1-2 years maybe 10 years ago to demonstrate “profitability”. Often, sellers are not realistic unless they genuinely engage with the buyer. Also, they often come up with numbers based on an upcoming life goal. Like a ladies kids were graduating and she wanted $79k for their tuition so she was adamant on the price. It had nothing to do with the books. Remember, you’re not here to buy someone’s retirement home. Brokers are the worse- at least the 29 of them I’ve interacted with. None of them come from finance and multiples are pulled from the magic hat. A lot of them misrepresent. There is a hands off business (absentee owner) floating on business for sale. When you talk to the manager- you find out he’
[R0007] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2025-08-21|score 0) From $6M/year to near-bankruptcy overnight - and how it turned into a $50M pivot. In 2014 I launched a Shopify store in an adult niche (cannabis accessories). Everyone told me I was insane. "Illegal", "will never work", "you cant advertise". But I saw where the legalization trend was going and pushed forward anyway. By 2016 we were doing $6M a year in revenue. 25,000 square foot warehouse, thousands of SKUs, private label containers arriving monthly, 60 full-time staff, free lunch, cold brew on tap, all that fun stuff. 99% of our traffic came from Google Search, because at the time cannabis accessories were banned from every major ad platform. We ranked #1 for bongs, vaporizers, glass pipes, and pretty much every other high-intent keyword. Then November 16, 2016 happened, one week before Black Friday. I woke up to $150 in sales instead of the $6,000 we’d normally have by mid-morning. Panic mode set in. The site was live, checkout worked, payment processor was fine. Then I checked Google Analytics and saw a 99% drop in traffic overnight. Search Console revealed the problem: manual penalty for link manipulation. The thing is, we had never bought backlinks. Someone had bought hundreds of thousands of spammy backlinks to our site in a targeted SEO attack, and it worked. The next month was brutal. We laid off more than 50 employees. I was personally on the hook for a $25k a month lease (with a $60k salary because we were reinvesting EVERYTHING), and h
[R0008] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2026-07-31|score 0) Got offered $1.5M cash for my business today. I'm 28. Talk me into it or out of it.. Started a home services company right out of high school, one service, one location, no franchise nonsense. Been doing right around $30k/month for the last 5 years, stupid high margins because overhead is low and the work is repeatable. Never really marketed it — literally just started running low-budget Yelp and Google ads a few months ago for the first time in the business's life. SEO and content foundation, however, is very strong. And now growth is doing something weird. Last month was our best ever. This month is pacing for $60k, basically double, and I don't fully know why except that the ads finally started working and word of mouth compounded? The offer is $1.5M cash, all at once, from a competitor. Not a strategic buyer, not private equity, an actual guy who does what I do down the street. Part of me feels like I'm about to sell right as the rocket ship leaves the pad. Part of me knows that a competitor offering that much probably sees something I'm underpricing — either the location, the brand, or how easy this would be to bolt onto their existing ops. I keep going back and forth between "take the bag, you're 28, you have time to build something else" and "you built the thing that's about to work, don't hand it off right before it pays off." Anyone been on either side of a decision like this? What actually mattered in hindsight?   
[R0009] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2026-02-23|score 0) I finally raised my prices by 40% after 3 years of undercharging. Lost 30% of my clients. Revenue went UP. Anyone else been through this?. I run a small service business (digital marketing/social media management). For 3 years I was charging rates that I set when I had zero experience and was desperate for any client I could get. Last October I finally did the math properly. After accounting for my actual hours, software costs, taxes, and the fact that I hadn't given myself a raise in 3 years, I was effectively making about $14/hour. For work that requires real expertise. So I sent emails to all 22 clients explaining that rates were going up 40% starting January. I gave them 3 months notice. I was terrified. Here's what happened: - 7 clients left immediately (most were the ones who haggled on everything and sent the most revision requests) - 2 clients negotiated a smaller increase which I agreed to - 13 clients said some version of "honestly I'm surprised you weren't charging more" The result? I went from 22 clients at low rates to 15 clients at higher rates. My monthly revenue actually went UP by about 12%. But here's the real kicker - my workload dropped by roughly 35% because the clients who left were the most demanding and least profitable ones. I'm now working fewer hours, making more money, and actually enjoy my work again because I'm not resentful about being underpaid. The part nobody tells you: the clients who complain about pric
[R0011] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2026-05-25|score 0) I fired an employee out of the blue yesterday with no warning, and she had an entire crash out. I am really struggling. We are a small business, like 5 employees. We own a dog boarding/grooming salon. Our one kennel attendant, is great with the dogs, treats them like her own, and that’s the part of her job that she is great at. When she is not being a pain in the ass. She has a somewhat toxic attitude. She is negative due to her own experiences in life. Complains sometimes about having to work with others, “people are mean to her”. She calls in a lot due to some medical issues. Probably about 3 times a month and will call in an hr before her shift or will be up to 1.5 hrs tardy a few times a month. I am a lenient boss and owner, I don’t micromanage my people but expect that they know they should be at work. Recently, she has been posting on social media indirectly about the company or myself. Saying things like “I’m about to just be done” “it’s always about my 1 year anniversary”. She recently called in and the same day I didn’t hear from her all day because she was sick, so checked in at 8:30pm and asked how she was feeling for the next day. And also added to see if she could come in an hr early to start cleaning for the day bc we had a job interview and would want to likely due a tour. (Context: on Tuesdays we are closed to the public and so she cleans as a way to keep her busy working full time hours) bc she was not here on Monday I couldn’t talk to her about the planned i
[R0012] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-11-10|score 0) PSA: Rippling and Wishpond, companies with negative reviews here, seem to be attacking the sub. Every once in a while some company tries to silence people who have had negative experiences and come here to post looking for help. I don't know if the the companies hire someone to bot reports or do the reporting themselves but the approach is the same: a ridiculous number of reports on old posts trying to trigger automatic removals. That doesn't work here because we actually look at the posts that get reported. Reporting something that doesn't break our rules but makes you look bad isn't going to cause it to be removed. If you as a subscriber have questions about these companies I'd suggest you search the sub to learn about them. If the posts are gone then someone has bullied the original posters into removing them. If you are an OP on one of these I encourage you to hold your ground on anything truthful you have posted. I'll stand with you and defend your right to post. If you represent one of these companies you'd be well served by finding and stopping any company doing fake reporting on your behalf. If you'd like to discuss legal action you should know that Reddit legal is VERY familiar with posting law and any truthful post not made with malevolent intent is likely safe under US law. You can discuss it with them at length if you like paying your lawyers. To everyone, thanks for reporting content that breaks our rules. We're in a long war a
[R0014] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2025-12-11|score 0) I quit my $300k finance job at 30 because I finally admitted I hated it - and the lifestyle downgrade has been absolutely brutal.. For 7 years I pushed through a career that looked great on paper but made me miserable. I finally walked away this year. No dramatic blow up, no big revelation, just the quiet realization that I could not keep pretending I enjoyed it. Since then, I bought half of a 40-year-old family business and started building a Miami-focused real estate platform. (Both sites were basically vibe coded by me with basic programming experience. Hiring them out would have been over $100k - irrelevant detail). What has been insane is the lifestyle freefall. I was always scared to become an entrepreneur because of this exact thing. Now I am living it. One business is profitable but still early stage. The other is a startup that needs heavy lifting. Both require marketing, ads, experiments, money going out before money comes in. I underestimated how competitive it is just to get attention. Meta ads, Google ads, creative testing, all of it. I really thought I could just show up and grow something. Absolutely delusional. The hardest part? Ignoring the headhunters calling with mid six figure jobs. I know I can go back. I know I can make money tomorrow. But that is the life I spent years trying to escape. And then there is the identity shift. Telling girls I am building companies instead of being the finance guy at a big fund. Not casually dropping $200 on sushi like it i
[R0015] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2025-08-06|score 0) I spent $47k and 18 months building an "AI startup." Here's the brutal truth about why 90% of AI businesses are doomed.. TL;DR: Burned through $47k building an AI tool that 12 people use. Here's what the "AI gold rush" really looks like from the trenches, and why most AI startups are just expensive tech demos. The Setup (AKA How I Got Caught Up in the Hype) 18 months ago, I was a perfectly happy software consultant making decent money. Then ChatGPT happened, and suddenly everyone was an "AI entrepreneur." My LinkedIn feed was nothing but: "I built an AI that does X in 10 minutes!" "Our AI startup just raised $2M!" "$10k MRR with AI tools!" I got FOMO and thought, "How hard can it be?" Spoiler alert: Very hard. The Idea (That Seemed Brilliant at 2 AM) I decided to build an AI-powered content creation tool for small businesses. The pitch was simple: "Input your business details, get professional marketing copy in seconds." Why this seemed genius: Small businesses suck at copywriting They don't want to hire expensive agencies AI can write decent copy Subscription model = recurring revenue I spent weeks validating this idea by asking friends, "Would you pay for this?" Everyone said yes. First mistake: Asking people what they'd pay for instead of asking them to actually pay for it. The Build (18 Months of "Almost Done") Months 1-3: The MVP That Wasn't Minimum I started buildin
[R0016] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2025-08-20|score 0) I thought I wanted to be “rich”. Turns out, I just wanted freedom. Here’s how I burned out building my business and what I’d do differently.. 10 years ago, I was 25 and convinced I’d be a millionaire by 30. I consumed all the “hustle” content Gary V, Grant Cardone, you name it. My diet was coffee, podcasts, and self-loathing. I started a small e-commerce store with literally $1,200 scraped from my savings. The first year was brutal: 80+ hour weeks, no vacations, constant stress. But it worked. By year 3, revenue hit $1.2M. On paper, I was “living the dream”. Here’s the catch: I didn’t see my friends for months. I was 40 pounds overweight. I once missed my mom’s birthday dinner because I was negotiating a $3,000 wholesale deal (that later fell through). My relationship ended because I was married to Shopify, not her. Financial breakdown (for the curious): Year 1: $36k revenue / $12k profit Year 2: $400k revenue / $85k profit Year 3: $1.2M revenue / $210k profit Year 4: $850k revenue / $120k profit (market shift + burnout = decline) What’s wild is that when I finally “made it” (six figures profit), I felt worse than when I was broke. I had money, but no life. The turning point was honestly embarrassing: I ended up in the ER at 29 with heart palpitations from stress + caffeine. The doctor literally said: “Your business is killing you faster than poverty would.” So I pulled back. Hired a real team instead of trying to be Superman. Sold off part of the company. Built slower, but m
[R0017] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2025-08-21|score 0) From “blocked by a top creator” to a working X growth system. TL;DR I tried to grow on X by being a reply guy, got flagged as “AI” and blocked by a big account, then rebuilt my process to sound human, be useful, and compound attention. This is the exact system I use now. No hype. No pitch. Steal it. (Read time ~ 8 minutes) Context and the punch in the face I am launching multiple projects this year. One shipped fast, but a social style product needs distribution. X turned out to be the best place to find users and get feedback. I went all in on replies. It worked at first. Then a top creator publicly blocked me because a tool rated my reply “likely AI.” That stung. It also forced me to fix my voice and my process. I kept what worked and killed what felt fake. What actually moves the needle on X Replies beat original posts at the start. Early replies under big accounts put you in front of more people, faster. Volume matters, but quality controls survival. 20 to 30 replies per day is fine. Weak replies get you muted. You need a spine of original posts. Aim for 3 to 5 of your own tweets daily. Talk about what you are building, problems you are solving, and small wins. Speed to comment is leverage. Sort by Latest in the right communities and reply fast while the first wave of attention is still hot. Pick your pond. Build in public, indie makers, SaaS founders, startup. Start there, then branch out to your niche. The daily system I use now Time budget: 60 to 90 minutes. Warm up, 1
[R0020] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2025-10-30|score 0) UPDATE: Raised rates 50% on nightmare client, went silence. Then this counter offer. Quick update to my previous posts about the nightmare client situation. Context: one client makes up $5k per month which is almost half of my revenue. They've been complete chaos, disorganized records, 2am receipt dumps, constant weekend emergencies. I posted asking if I should fire them and Reddit overwhelmingly said raise rates and set boundaries instead. I sent an email last week raising their rate from $5k to $7.5k per month and included an actual service framework with 10-day submission deadlines, rush fees for last-minute requests, communication hours Monday through Friday 9am-6pm only, and no more weekend work. They went silence for a week. I was legitimately convinced they were ghosting me and started mentally preparing for losing half my income. Yesterday they called me and we had this tense 20 mins talk with lots of questions and pushback, but I honestly couldn't tell where it was heading. This morning, I got their email response and I'm honestly conflicted about what to do. Screenshot attached. They want to move forward but counter offer $7k per month instead of $7.5k. They're also pushing back on the timeline, saying they want to start with 7 business days deadlines instead of 10 and work up to it over the next quarter. And here's the one that's really bothering me, they accept the Monday-Friday 9-6 communication hours but want to discuss exceptions for qua
[R0021] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-10-10|score 0) No one showed up to my event. I make websites and do digital marketing and there's so much going on in the industry with new AI changes, new tools, Google changing things up, new strategies, etc., that I wanted to try to make a meetup to meet new people (potential people to hire and potential new clients). I moved to a new city last year and in my old city there was a big scene for marketers with meetups and conferences every week, so I wanted to start something similar here. I spent $100 on the venue, $100+ on catering, spent money on flyers, and spent a lot of time making the presentation I was going to give, hanging up flyers at dozens of local businesses, meeting business owners, and promoting on meetup.com, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Several people RSVP'd and I had close to 50 people interested or saying they would come including my friends. I promoted the event with my small team every day for 5 weeks sending reminders just enough to not be annoying. I got there and set everything up and... nothing. No one came. One person had been asking me questions on meetup named Curtis and I saw one person there who looked like him so I went up to say hello and introduced myself and he looked at me strange and said his name was Shawn and it was nice to meet me. SO AWKWARD. I casually played it off and left him alone, then waited 30+ minutes after the start time by the front door of the venue like some kind of 1970's breakup song to see if anyone would show before packing 
[R0024] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2026-05-01|score 0) I built a business I’m too embarrassed to talk about. I started a mobile detailing business in college as a side hustle to make some extra money. I went to a great private college and now work full-time remotely for an insurance company in a finance position where I'm quickly climbing up. Promoted quickly, intern mentor, highest close ratio on my team, etc. Now, 7 years later, while detailing is still a "side hustle," the income the business generates in 9 months (the mobile detail season in my area) is quickly catching up to my much more respectable finance job and I'm not sure how to feel about it. I'm 26 and make ~$85k + 5% bonus at my day job. My business did ~$72k last year, working from March to November all by myself part-time, so nights and weekends only. I also own 2 duplex rental properties. Detail clients who I talk to tell me I'm crushing it and are always impressed, but I can't help but feel embarrassed to know that I went to such a great college for a finance degree, and here I am shooting soap at cars and chiseling melted candy out of minivan cupholders. I've even met a few business owner clients for breakfast just to chat about business. I have a fully custom trailer, and I just added a top of the line ford transist connect mobile detailing setup, wrapped with my logo. I also built monthly maintenance revenue of ~$5k each month, so those are jobs I don't need to find each month, it's my new base revenue. The business d
[R0025] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-10-14|score 0) I think I'm fucked. Edit: ok folks the fun is over. Not looking for any more comments, sales pitches or people telling me to work harder and cold call business. Answers to the so so so many comments about exactly the same things.... 1) we are residential cleaning 2) it's a lead gen business not a direct cleaning company. But we respect our cleaning contractors, pay them well and support them properly 3) we have great retention of contractors so stop telling me I'm a shit leader. 4) yes we have recurring customers 90% of our bookings are weekly/fortnightly 5) no I don't work 1 hr a day. That's just for the moment while I have a newborn child. When i can get more than a 2 hr block of sleep before having to change a nappy or support my wife breast feeding I'll go back to 60 hr weeks Now back to the original post so you can all roast me even more I've been running a semi successful cleaning business for 10 years. Have stagnanted at $300k annual revenue but have really struggled to get past that level. Last 18 months we've fallen in to Google's dislike pile and have been loosing traffic month over month. Tried fixing things but got on the bad side of the June/July core update and out traffic has almost zeroed out Going from 800 organic clicks per day 18 months ago to 10 per day now. Had a couple contractor teams leave. Latest one is going for surgery due to cancer in a week. Just had my first child a month ago. And I think I'm fucked. I can'
[R0019] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2026-07-13|score 0) landlord raised my rent 40% and told me "that's just the market." i have eight weeks to decide whether to close.. Café. Four years in that unit. Built the whole thing from an empty shell, my own money, my own hands, three months of eighteen-hour days before we opened. Lease is up. He wants 40% more. When I pushed back he shrugged and said that's just the market now, and he's not even wrong, because a chain would pay it. Here's what makes this rotten. My rent went up 40% because I made the street desirable. Four years of me being here, being good, drawing people in, is a large part of why this block is now worth more. I improved his asset with my life and now the improvement is being used to price me out of it. The math: at the new rent, I clear almost nothing. I would be working 60 hours a week to hand him the profit. The options as I see them: Sign it, work for free, and hope for a rent I can survive at the next renewal, which is naive. Move, which means rebuilding a fit-out I paid for once, losing every walk-in customer, and starting over on a street where I'm nobody. Or close, take the loss, and go work for someone else. I have eight weeks. For anyone who has faced a rent hike like this: did anyone successfully negotiate one down, and what actually moved the landlord? Has anyone moved and had the customers follow?   submitted by   /u/Visual-Basis3400 [link]   [comments]
[R0010] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-08-07|score 0) The Reason I rejected a large order that would have tripled my revenue. A boutique chain contacted me a few months ago with an enormous candle order, which was sufficient to triple my monthly income. It's not hyperbole. I was initially ecstatic, of course. The fine print, however, caught my attention. They requested branded labels, net 60 terms of payment, personalized fragrances, and the ability to return unsold items within 30 days. ""This is risky,"" my instinct told me right away, but the money was very alluring. In an attempt to defend it, I ran numbers and lost sleep for a few nights. Ultimately, I declined. Given the uncertainty surrounding payment delays and possible returns, I simply couldn't take on that much inventory risk. Rather, I proposed a smaller trial order that would be paid for up front and could be expanded if things worked out. They passed, but to be honest, I'm still happy with the choice. Since Alibaba is where I get the majority of my jars and labels, a sudden scale-up would have required significant financial commitment. Cash flow is crucial when managing a small business. If the terms could ruin you, not every ""big break"" is worth it. Saying no is sometimes the stronger and wiser course of action.   submitted by   /u/ReputationLonely3111 [link]   [comments]
[R0023] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2026-01-11|score 0) Why do people think tax write off’s are this magical thing. As an entrepreneur when I hear other people, W2 workers and other entrepreneurs, constantly say the rich did it for a tax write off. I automatically think this person is just dumb. Who in the world wants to spend a dollar to save 35 cents. It makes sense if you were going to do it because it’s a necessary thing for your business to grow but it’s just an expense, of course it’s not going to count towards your taxable basis. Can someone explain if I’m just missing something. I’m in real estate depreciation is much different because it’s a passive loss and gets added back to income which makes you more bankable. So I can see why cost segs under 100% bonus depreciation is hyped but not “write off’s” in other businesses Edit: People are not realizing I am talking about the people who say “you can just write it off” about everything. I’m talking about the items that aren’t necessarily needed, or a new one is not needed but someone is wanting to decrease their tax bill. The math doesn’t make any sense. Any expense necessary for a business to improve of course should be deducted as an expense   submitted by   /u/Cancerman691 [link]   [comments]
[Y0003] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-07-22|score 0) @Drejohnsonceolive Hello there, I do want to apologize first as I did not receive any notification of the comment. To answer your question you can start with any number of products until unless they are not ineligible and complying with google merchant centre as google only care on discoverability of the products so you need to focus how can audience reach out to you and post may 22nd 2026 its very important that you value the customer journey as it gives google an understanding of how did a customer find you and then try to replicate the same in finding similar audience and this is only possible if you are using Performance Max campaign and if you have an ecommerce then you go with Shopping in Pmax to reach to a larger audience with out loosing your budget comparison of audiences or keywords. As this is a 3rd party i cannot share my google email here but i do have my own agency if you are interested I can go ahead and set up your account based on your requirement at no charge. If you are interested then please feel free to reach out to me at omniadworks@gmail.com
[R0004] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-10-24|score 0) Nobody prepares you for how unpredictable income feels when you’re self employed. I’ve been running my own thing for about a year now nothing huge, just a small local service business and the biggest surprise isn’t the work itself, it’s how unstable the money feels. One week you’re invoicing five clients and feeling on top of the world, the next you’re refreshing your email every hour waiting for payments to clear while bills pile up like they’re on a timer. It’s this weird mix of pride and panic and no one really talks about how heavy that is. I’ve learned to build a cushion, track everything and celebrate small wins but the unpredictability still messes with my head. Last night I couldn’t sleep, so I opened my laptop and played myprize for a few minutes just to zone out before bed not even to play seriously just something brainless to stop thinking about invoices. For those of you doing this longer does the anxiety ever settle or do you just get better at living with it?   submitted by   /u/Special-Tax-122 [link]   [comments]
[R0018] (reddit|r/Entrepreneur|2025-11-04|score 0) Owning a business in Texas made me think differently about marriage. I run a small design business here in Texas, nothing crazy but it’s finally doing well after a few rough years. The weird part is, the more it grows, the more I’ve started thinking about how tied up my personal life is with all of it. I’ve seen friends lose half their business after a divorce, and it honestly freaked me out a bit. It’s not even about trust it’s just realizing how fast something you built from scratch can get tangled up in stuff that has nothing to do with work. I’m in a serious relationship now and things are good, but for the first time, I’ve actually caught myself thinking about stuff like prenups or protecting ownership. Never thought I’d be that person, but here we are. Any other business owners hit that point where you start looking at marriage a little differently once there’s a company involved?   submitted by   /u/Extreme-Eagle-3555 [link]   [comments]
[R0026] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-11-04|score 0) Best Password Manager Black Friday Deals?. I have been thinking about getting a password manager lately, but I want to wait and see if any good Black Friday discounts show up first. I am trying to find the best password manager Black Friday deals that is reliable, easy to use, and keeps everything synced across my laptop and phone without any issues. I know there are tons of options out there, but it is hard to tell which ones are actually worth paying for. Some look great on the surface but end up being buggy or overpriced. I do not mind spending a little more if it is actually secure and has a good track record. If anyone has seen early Black Friday offers or knows which password managers usually give solid discounts during the sale, please share. I am hoping to grab a good deal this year without wasting money on something I will regret later.   submitted by   /u/Fancy_Look1010 [link]   [comments]
[R0001] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-10-31|score 0) What’s the best site to buy Google reviews?. I’ve noticed more businesses quietly using review generation services to improve their local SEO. Some claim to buy Google reviews, but I’m curious about how effective and safe that really is in 2025. I’m not talking about random fake reviews, more like structured ones that help boost visibility in the map pack and build social proof for local searches. If you’ve tested any sites for this, how did it go? Did your rankings in Google Maps or local searches increase? Were the reviews written naturally or obviously templated? And most importantly, did any of them get flagged or removed over time? I’m trying to figure out if this still works for reputation management or if Google’s detection systems have gotten too sharp. Real experiences or insights appreciated.   submitted by   /u/Background-Shirt2415 [link]   [comments]
[R0002] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2026-07-28|score 0) I started leaving a simple one-pager after every job and my repeat calls went up. Small appliance repair business, just me and one tech. I started doing something simple this year and it worked better than I expected, so sharing in case it helps. After every job I leave a one-pager: what I did, what to watch for, and the two services people always call back about later, with a fridge magnet. Nothing salesy. Repeat calls in the six months since are noticeably up, my rough guess is a third more return customers than the same stretch last year. Costs me pennies to print. The trick was making it genuinely useful to them, not an ad. For other service owners, what is your cheapest thing that quietly brings people back?   submitted by   /u/raw-hit10 [link]   [comments]
[R0022] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-11-13|score 0) The best $100 I've ever spent. My partner and I run a small marketing agency. He does the client work but doesn't have much time for marketing himself, so I made a car sticker and had it printed at the UPS store for $50 each and put it on the side of our car. We needed some work done on the car and the owner of the repair shop saw the stickers and asked if we'd do a trade, website & some marketing in exchange for fixing the car 100%. It's such a small thing to get a car magnet, but now he's advocating for us and telling everyone about us and it's been a big boost, just because we did a good job for him and did what we said we would. Just wanted to share this story.   submitted by   /u/Background_Peach_162 [link]   [comments]
[R0013] (reddit|r/smallbusiness|2025-12-16|score 0) A competitor 100x bigger then me just ordered my new product what do I do?. This person ordered my product on Amazon and in the name it says "business name" LLC and the business name is a billion dollar company and in the shipping address I googled the name, and the name of the person is someone whos job title is new product development at "business name". I have a new innovative product and feel like they are going to try and copy it, I ship through Amazon fulfilled by merchant so I can easily not ship it if I don't want to to delay them, what should I do?   submitted by   /u/knock_his_block_off [link]   [comments]
[Y0017] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-10-03|score 0) This video caught my eye because finding ways to effectively use Google Ads on a small budget is such a valuable skill, especially for small business owners or startups. I'm curious about the strategies shared here that can help optimize ad spend while maximizing impact. It's amazing how a well-targeted campaign can make a big difference even without a huge budget. Looking forward to learning some practical tips and insights!
[Y0002] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-07-03|score 0) Anand, since you work for Google ads directly what’s your recommendation for a dropshipping/ecomm store starting out on Google ads? Is there a minimum amount of products I should have on my store? If you have a POC (point of contact) I’d like to reach out! Please respond with your details. Thank you!
[Y0032] (youtube|Josiah Roche — Google Ads + SEO Training|2025-12-03|score 0) @TheConversionClinic awesome strategy will try it , but for a bidding strategy to start with manual or auto conversions ? Because for example towing or locksmith cpcs on max conversions without cap can reach 50-60$ in big metro area .
[Y0028] (youtube|Josiah Roche — Google Ads + SEO Training|2026-01-03|score 0) @TheConversionClinic I am doing pay per call model in the plumbing niche, I think this strategy is good for pay per call, where the goal is 1 service in multiple locations, on a tght budget, what do you say? am i corret?
[Y0014] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-09-03|score 0) Wow, that pinning headlines tip is a total game-changer! Finally, someone explains Google Ads in a way that's both clear and achievable for those of us on a smaller budget. Thanks for empowering us!
[Y0024] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-09-03|score 0) That pinning headlines tip is brilliant! I'm feeling much more confident about managing my budget and getting better results. Thanks for the clear and practical advice.
[Y0016] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-12-03|score 0) This video is a real confidence booster! Thanks for providing such clear, actionable strategies to make Google Ads feel less daunting, even with a smaller budget.
[Y0022] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-09-03|score 0) That pinning headlines tip is a game changer! Going to implement that ASAP. Thanks for making Google Ads less intimidating and more approachable!
[Y0019] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-03-03|score 0) Appreciate the non-fluff straightforward approach. Was a great review for me. Thank you!
[Y0021] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-01-03|score 0) Your practical examples made all the abstract settings finally make sense. Thank you!
[Y0023] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-05-03|score 0) A good lecture that will benefit all who have followed this excellent explanation.
[Y0026] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-09-03|score 0) A really useful video for developing your mindset and improving your finances.
[Y0020] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-04-03|score 0) Thanks, Ben! Helpful for those of us navigating the disorienting first steps.
[Y0010] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-05-03|score 0) @Shortcake-07 Did you try running ads? I'm curious if you've had any success
[Y0013] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-04-03|score 0) Clear and understandable, I wish there was more information like this.
[Y0015] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2025-11-03|score 0) Your community is so supportive and positive—it's a great place to be!
[Y0018] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-03-03|score 0) Everything is clear. Brief and clear. No water. Thank you)
[Y0011] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-03-03|score 0) You just used it watching this lol
[Y0012] (youtube|Ben Heath - Google Ads|2026-05-03|score 0) 😅i with you on this question!😂😅🤣