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Cake day: November 8th, 2023

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  • The real reason businesses do cash only is to avoid paying sales, state, and federal income tax. Between those 3, that’s around a 30%-50% savings depending on your states sales tax, state income tax bracket, and federal tax bracket.

    Many businesses get nailed for tax evasion not by the IRS, but by state sales tax audits.

    Credit card fees are really inconsequential relative to the tax savings of not reporting cash sales.







  • qookie_pussBtoSmall Business@indiehackers.spaceIs my offer bad?
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    11 months ago

    My guess would be that people who are interested in that price point would probably just use one of the plug and play providers like wiz or square space.

    Personally I would not trust someone who called me out of the blue to offer me web services. Actually it happens almost every single day. I don’t trust random strangers with something as important as my website. If I’m going to put you in charge of that, I really need to trust you.

    You may want to consider doing some work for free to build a portfolio, and then after that charge a reasonable amount. You need to make the case while you’re worth it.


  • Write lots of original high quality content, and post consistently.

    There are some tricks that I’ve learned along the way that speed up the process. Any article you want to write, you can start by doing a voice memo on your phone and then running it through software that will convert it to text. I find it easier than using voice recognition on my phone because sometimes I’ll talk for 10 minutes straight.



  • Be prepared to spend money on marketing. Even 7 years in I still invest at least 1/3 of my gross profits back into advertising.

    I’d just add that I viewed paying for marketing as “priming the pump” while I also worked on my SEO. I operate in a very small niche so I don’t pay for marketing anymore and all of my leads come from organic search and other online platforms.