bigsparra

joined 1 year ago
[–] bigsparra@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Sms (text) messaging. Genuinely couldn't see a reason why people would pay to send a written message rather than make a phone call. Couldn't have been more wrong.

[–] bigsparra@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Gift items. Etsy seems very seasonal for us. If you're not busy in the next month then it may not be the platform for you.

[–] bigsparra@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Practical advice - read a book on time management and exercise the 3 Ds (Do, delegate, defer). Don't give out your phone number anymore and set an auto respond on your email explaining that everything will be dealt with in turn.

Philosophical advice - being really busy is good. It sounds like you've built a great business. The pressure you feel right now is a muscle that you exercise and you'll only get better at dealing with it with practice.

[–] bigsparra@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You may take a while to accept this answer, but I hope for your own peace that you do consider it. The ability to handle the humiliation you feel depends entirely on how much you give a f*ck about what your family think.

You get to choose that. You wouldn't be an entrepreneur if you thought like everyone else. Lean into it. Make a joke of it. Do whatever you have to do then get cracking on exciting future plans.

You don't expect them to prove anything to you do you?

Good luck!

[–] bigsparra@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Email 50%, Google organic 25%, organic socials, meta and TikTok ppc the last 25 combined.