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Open but Filling Gaps

You're running. Fixing the foundation steps you skipped and getting to steady revenue.

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Booked three weeks out in month four: do I hire, buy a second van, or raise prices?

The van has been open four months and I'm booked about three weeks ahead, which I know is a good problem. It doesn't feel like one at five in the evening when I'm scrubbing the tub out in somebody's…

Lena KaminskiΒ·Β· 4active 4d
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A client ghosted on the final payment and I never had a contract to point at

One year solo doing video for local businesses, and I've been running on emails and handshakes the whole time. It worked until it didn't. I shot and edited a four video package for a regional…

Eli SternΒ·Β· 4active 2w
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Three months open and my books are a mess I don't know how to unpick

The store has been open since the summer and it's doing better than I expected. What isn't doing well is everything behind it. I ran pop-ups for two years out of a personal account and a card reader,…

Greg FosterΒ·Β· 4active 3w
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Two years in with three techs and I'm still running the whole thing off my phone

Plumbing company, three techs, two years open, and the business works in the sense that money comes in and everyone gets paid. Underneath that it's held together with text messages. Quotes go out as…

Jamal CarterΒ·Β· 4active Jul 28