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Started off like that but it’s not the way to go forward, hired an accountant to save me a bunch of time on that. Then employees to reduce workload. Otherwise you’ll just get burnt out and not grow as much as you could

Producing Spaceoceans ; & PREXENTS

Me, I'm struggling with becoming a marketer and sales person. I'm tech focused, and I know I can learn it but it's rough with bootstrapping.

Been at it for 6 years now.

Working on my side-project Tweera for the past 3 months

Try to find the best business to dive in I was thinking about selling car insurance

Here. I have an accountant that helps me file my taxes, that's about it.

I’m a Ecom seller selling on multiple platforms. I made a profit of $1.6 Million last year and on track to hit $2 Million this year.

Designed, developed and now market my own app! Its been tough handling it all but its going good so far.

This is my app, available on both ios & Android

I'm doing everything from development, design, email marketing, content and sales.

Here's my app: https://lebohire.com/

Video production/editing. I did about $750k last year with my own operation from my home office, hiring freelancers when needed. Just met with a colleague I’ve known for many years and planning to merge with his company in 2024 to combine forces and expand

outsourced the key stuff and put client service at the top of the list. try to make more good decisions than bad. run lean

Corporate lawyer. I advise Spanish and international tech companies in different corporate an bussiness matters.

Im an artist.

Me. Design, website managing, photography, marketing, packaging, shipping, sourcing, bookkeeping.

Only time I hired someone else is when I took a vacation and my cousin came in once a week to package and ship out orders. Otherwise, my company isn't too big yet to hire people. I can manage for now.

I do it on my own. Magazine owner and PR expert. I hire consultants for specialized things like graphic design or database building. Always hire for the stuff you dont have time to learn or the time to do.

Doing nothing But about to start making rugs which I think would be a good start by self. Any suggestions?

Not a "dude" per se but solo. I am a business coach. Love it. Changed careers after 20+ years in tech. So much to learn. Never a dull moment. This is living!

I definitely ran my first company and side gigs on my own. However, I outsourced as much as I could for accounting or shipping etc.

One man show here since 2019. Though, I stopped being able to handle it in 2021. It was too hard to keep selling and focusing on product and improving our marketing all the time... I eventually broke and started hiring overseas virtual assistants, sales reps, customer support reps, bookkepers, etc. - we have nearly 40 today with this provider that handles finding them/payroll/supervision/etc. Been able to scale my co to ~$20M ARR. It's lonely, it's hard, you often wanna give up, though I finally feel like I'm getting some of my time back.

It's still pretty hard though, because I still have to do a lot of the strategic thinking. Eventually in late 2022, I brought on US-based Head of Sales. So I can't really say I'm doing it by myself anymore.

Freelance market researcher, tech/article writer, and pitch deck consultant; 10 year+; have been doing everything on my own.

I sell coffee.

I started out by myself. For months I was coding, conducting customer discovery interviews, designing, networking with founders / investors, presenting click through mockup demo's, and applying to business programs. I'm sure I'm missing some aspects. All in all it was too much. I ended up getting a Co-founder. Also got a small team and things are running a lot more smoothly at the moment.

Small business websites. Quality results since 2004.

Every business is vastly different. I used to have 3 employees and only work 10 hours a week. It was nice, but I made almost nothing after payroll. I now do ALL of the work in my business. I make much more money now, have control over everything, and my customers like it a lot better because I simply care more about my craft than anyone else would.

With that being said, if I want to grow my business, i’ll need to start hiring again and delegating work. It’s a balancing act that you’ll need to figure out on your own and decide how you want your life to be structured.

Answer to question 1: Yes, I do it all by myself. No help whatsoever.

Answer to question 2: I simultaneously lose money and the will to live.

Freelance software developer. I do all my marketing, sales, networking, design, development, maintenance, and management.

Started off alone. Recently took on a technical co-founder. We do data analytics stuff with dashboards and reports.

I just didn't want to go it alone anymore. Even if I make less money (doing 50/50 split now) I'd just rather have someone to experience the journey with. Maybe I'm being naive. Time will tell

I am a techy am currently working on a platform to revolutionize education in Africa, Basically a database for learning materials for schools based on regions, sounds weird but have been working on it part time, for the past one year. It's almost going to beta, with technologies like starlink, I know it will be a success

Everything solo for now. I basically research and curate my favorite real-world B2B marketing examples in a gallery here.

I use it as a way to learn and grow as a marketer myself. Its not monetized yet though, still a new project

I started a staffing firm 8 years ago and did it all myself until I recently added an offshore virtual assistant to work sales emails. Best decision I ever made. Closed a new deal within 1 week.

Here. It sucks. I like to hire people for real estate flips because it's the norm and but fucking having a bitch of a time doing it with my video hustle... So much fucking douchebaggery in the video world just like the art scene people wanna fucking peacock how great they are not just make videos/art

I'm doing it solo at the moment. I run a dev/marketing agency. I've been lucky that I've landed some pretty big projects with good companies.

I schedule everything. Sunday night without fail I plan my whole week. Of course, things change, but any high-priority task, I don't go to bed without doing it. Every other week, I have a get stuff done day, where all the stuff I've been putting off gets done.

I'm at the moment only working 3 full days a week, and evening on the other days. I have a 1-year-old that I love spending time with while my wife is at work.

Don't get me wrong, it's tough some weeks, but I just have to suck it up and get on with it.

Me!

HTTPS://www.MarketingForFounders.com/ is a bootstrap marketing help platform for founders to get hands-on support.

I spend most of my time on the marketing and customer engagement. We just came out of beta so customer engagement isn’t a HUGE burden yet.

Marketing is a massive effort for this cause it always has to be really good, we are a marketing support service, after all!

I manage the P&L but have a partner who gets in there every so often to make sure it’s all good.

For taxes that’s too scary so I spring for an accountant lol. Small company so it doesn’t cost too much.

Yeah man…

Fintech, equipment finance, B2b.

Tried to build a platform and just been chasing the dragon down a rabbit hole.

So much success but so much time to get here.

I feel like that clip of a guy who tries to pick up his hat, but every time he bends over he kicks the hat further down the road and never gets it no matter how hard he chases it.

Me!

HTTPS://www.MarketingForFounders.com/ is a bootstrap marketing help platform for founders to get hands-on support.

I spend most of my time on the marketing and customer engagement. We just came out of beta so customer engagement isn’t a HUGE burden yet.

Marketing is a massive effort for this cause it always has to be really good, we are a marketing support service, after all!

I manage the P&L but have a partner who gets in there every so often to make sure it’s all good.

For taxes that’s too scary so I spring for an accountant lol. Small company so it doesn’t cost too much.

Is there a dedicated soloprenuer subreddit?

The first 10 years I did EVERYTHING (proposals, land the jobs, design, do the work, pay the bills, reconcile books, and and and...). I found that I was so busy working on the business I had no time to actually do the work!!!...so I hired a bookkeeper,a CPA, sub contractors...sure, it was an expense but now I leverage all that admin time through them allowing me to have more time to actually grow the business.