Guest Post by my Fourteen Year-Old ENTREPRENEUR!
Guest Post By: *P-Dawg* (Pierce, my fourteen year-old son) Today, my son Pierce relates our experience putting out signs for the screen repair/window cleaning company we just founded. It looks as...
View ArticlePuttin’ MONEY Where My Mouth Is, Part Two
Okay, so we’re walking the Shoestring101 Steps for thirty days. I’ve managed to do at least a little of each Step in the last few days, and I’ll be listing them all here today! BTW, if you’re tuning in...
View ArticlePuttin’ Money Where My Mouth Is, Part THREE
Wow, just a quick post. So my Facebook fan page… a FREE ad… put me in Google results for “Screen Repair Monument Colorado” and I gots me another customer that way. This fella doesn’t even want to be...
View ArticlePuttin’ Money Where My Mouth is, Part FOUR
WHY I Did These Particular Actions… The Shoestring101 Steps I hope that by reading the previous posts, you’ve begun to be at least a little inspired. You probably could see that my only initial...
View ArticleUpdate to the 30 Day, Thousand Dollar CHALLENGE
Hey Steppers! Here’s an update on the $1000 profit, part time in one month from scratch CHALLENGE… Okay, gang: the SS101 Bizness that my son Pierce and I started May 9 is now up to $739 gross receipts,...
View ArticleGive me a Siiiiiign… Hit Me Baby One More Time!
In this post, an update about where we are in the Challenge and how effective Bandit Signs have been in promoting our little Screen Repair Bizness. Okay, so I haven’t posted in a while about the...
View ArticleWE MADE IT! (30 Day, Thousand Bucks Challenge)
Yayyy! So, my 14-year old son and I had a breakthrough in the last three days… seven jobs, some big and some small… rolled in at the “eleventh hour” and we were able to finish strong in the “Thousand...
View ArticleYay! First Dollars from My Information Product: How To Do 100 Pushups
Yay, Steppers! Just made the first honest-to-goodness money from my information product so far. To test-market, I posted on Fiverr.com that I would teach “how to do 100 pushups in a row for $5″. And...
View ArticleMy Take on the Sumo 24-Hour Challenge “Sumo Jerky”
Hey Steppers! Another brilliant one with less than 7 minutes reading time In today’s post: My insane jealousy rant glowing review of Noah Kagan’s recent $1,000 Challenge The steps that Noah followed,...
View ArticleEffective Marketing on a Shoestring Budget: The “World Domination from Zero”...
Today’s post is the: conclusion of my 4-part series on marketing a small business on a small budget. Total AWESOMENESS rating: five outta five stars, yo. ***** Check and see if I’m right. Return on...
View ArticleLocal Marketing Secrets From My New Book, “Get Paid TODAY…”
Heya, Steppers! I’ve been wondering how I can provide the best tidbits of small business marketing wisdom to you, my readers. At first I thought that this blog was going to be about how easy it is to...
View ArticleInside the $2 Startup: Making a Real Business on a Shoestring In Two Hours
Hello, Steppers! IN today’s post I interview Dinesh Agarwal, the “Head Dude” and founder at Flippiness.com. Flippiness is dedicated to helping people make thousands of dollars every month in their...
View ArticleHelp Shoestring101 Choose the Next 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge!
Greetings, Steppers! Today’s exciting post is about YOU… picking out the next 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge for yours truly. The idea of the 30/1000 challenge is to start with less capital than you might...
View ArticleToday’s The DAY! New 30-Day, $1,000 Challenge
To my faithful Shoestring Steppers: Hey gang! ’bout 500 words in today’s post. Take exactly 2 minutes to see what the next 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge is about. I’m not gonna get craaaazy today trying to...
View ArticleUse Fiverr to Validate Your Small Business Idea
This just in: “market research” shows that Readers of Shoestring 101 are more intelligent and overall attractive. HEYA GORGEOUS! Validate Your Business Idea: WHY and HOW Today’s post is about how to...
View ArticleResults of my Most Recent 30 Day, Thousand Dollar Challenge
If you were following Shoestring101 in January, you know that I did another 30 Day, Thousand Dollar Challenge. In case you’re tuning in late to this channel, I’ve been able to start a number of small...
View ArticleShoestring Marketing Strategy for Non-Profits
Hello Steppers! Today I’m writing about using a Shoestring marketing strategy… for non-profits. Shoestring101 is known for helping folks start a business, or revitalize an existing one with new sales…...
View ArticleBusiness Owners: This is the Next Thing You Should Do
In this blog post: a “dirty” secret about how to make more sales and profits in your small business, just by making a few tweaks to what you’re probably already doing. By the time you finish this...
View ArticleTake Your Side Hustle to Full Time Income, Part 1
I got an email from one of my Subscribers: “I have a side income and a full time job. I would love to just do my business, but can’t afford to ‘quit the day job’… yet. How do I take my side hustle to...
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