Entrepreneurship is wild, and sometimes the most random things turn into profit. What’s that oddball thing you did (or stumbled upon) that ended up working?
What's the weirdest way your business started making money?
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Posted by Dependent_Day5440
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For me was marketing and how it really started to work. Took me a good month to really learn it.
Without it I wouldn’t be in buisness. Beginning of this year I had less than 3 k in the bank reinvested it all into the buisness year prior. Financed a frailer with no jobs lined up. I’m in the fence and hardscape industry
Put 2 k into marketing that month we made 30k.
Its not really weird but feels like im cheating lol, Ive done door knocking, posting on Facebook, Nextdoor, with little to no results.
But as soon as I put some money into marketing and sit in the office waiting for leads. Only time I leave the office is to go close the client.
Sent an email to someone asking if they need our services, they responded back saying they did.
Was dumbfounded for days.
My newsletter. Its the holy grail but everyone looks at you like you should be in an insane asylum.
The numbers are crazy and the amount of work it takes is minimal.
The simplicity of it is nice, don’t mistake that for easy. It’s not necessary easy, it’s just simple compared to other businesses I’ve ran… like a home organizing business, which has extra difficult in so many ways.
I can’t forgot one method I’ve seen 10+ years ago.
A known guy of mine was giving a free desktop product that was used to create mockups/basic designs.
It was FREE to use. (remember, a desktop windows app)
Fully featured, nothing restricted.
The catch?
You could not close the application (the windows app) while not paying for it. You could only use Task manager and close it from there.
I remember one month he was doing $10k (or that was what he mentioned). It didn’t lasted long. I don’t know what he made in the meantime.
But crazy idea, right?
A car decal. Only had a small one covering a side window.
Never thought they worked.
Well I only got one order off it so far but it was a $400 order so it paid off several fold
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Selling in 2005 my World of Warcraft Char for nearly 6000$