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Working for Massage Envy
I worked at Massage Envy for six weeks. By week two I discovered that my receptionist position was actually more of a salesman job. Selling hundred dollar products, spa treatment upgrades, membership agreements, etc.… I’m not a salesman. Receptionist work vs salesman work is quite different. I'm a great receptionist—appointment setting, answering calls, greeting clients with a smile. Selling overpriced and unnecessary product is not really my skillset.
By Stephanie Harper8 years ago in Journal
Business Ideas That Have Failed
I started off as attempting to be an internet search consultant in 2001. I went so far as to get myself a business plan with the City of Mountain View. I thought I could market doing internet searches for other people, but I didn’t advertise since I had no budget for advertising and the whole thing fell apart. I mean, I didn’t really try, nor did I put my profile up at Referral Key, for example, like I did with IriatheIrrepressible.com. When I started up Tough B, Inc., I managed to change my name on Referral Key, a networking website that I’m also hardly using right now in February 2018.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Journal
Starting a Business at Eighteen
I grew up surrounded by hardworking family and friends that led me to be the same. In 4th grade I asked my teacher for extra homework because I was bored. In high school I took honors and AP classes while starting work just months after turning 16. At 17 I bought a car with that hard earned money.
By Mercedes Lynn8 years ago in Journal
5 Things I Learned Running a Retail Food Business
Business books abound trumpeting effective ways to build a retail business. Many are full of useful tips and strategies for growing a business efficiently. I have read and put into practice much of the advice espoused in these books. My college Retail Management course of years ago was fine preparation for the vagaries of the retail world.
By Michael Ugulini8 years ago in Journal
Automation, E-Commerce, and Six Must-Have Emails to Nail Today
No matter what you're selling, social media is often top of mind for many an e-commerce seller. While being present on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, to name a few, is a valuable way to engage with your customers (both actual and potential) it is not the only option to get your products in front of the right people. Remember email? Your old mate might be the best way to get in touch with those same customers.
By Sarah Katherine8 years ago in Journal
Life as a Superstore Associate
I have been working for this superstore for three months now and life can show you what a challenge is. People come from so many backgrounds and yet they all have the same thought because why not? "He/she is an store associate so he has to know everything about the store so we better ask him/her all of out questions we've got!" And that is what a challenge you have to surpass once you become an employee of a big corporate monster that is willing to do anything to make the costumer feel better about themselves but they forget that their workers are humans too, but that's okay: your paycheck is your reward.
By Angel Ruiz8 years ago in Journal
Book Editing Website Business
One of my business ideas is a website that people can edit books on. It would have a back office where you can log in. Then as an editor, you can edit a manuscript inside the back office using a program that allows for proofs with a track changes feature, like in Word 2017 or below. People would make money getting paid for their editing work done entirely online without a need to print anything. Authors have tendencies to procrastinate sometimes, in particular with regard to editing. Editing is what causes ferocious and serious procrastination tendencies. Publishing a book requires persistence, as well as writing talent, which reflects consistency.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Journal
How To Start a Business for Those on SSI
I have an idea for a turnkey website designed to help people start a business rapidly. It would help people on SSI and SSDI make money to get off those systems and live freely. It would be a massive collection of links to Nolo press as well as city websites everywhere in the United States for every major city. It would be functioning as part social network, part database. The website would help a business owner write a business plan using business plan template software. We would make every Nolo press paper or paperless contract available on the site. SSI could use this to promote the PASS Plan that gets people to plan ahead financial self-sufficiency.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Journal
Enough
I was taught young to take pride in my work, work with integrity, and be dependable and reliable. I'm an 80s baby and this was even a course in high school. They called it a business class and taught me how to speak, how to dress, how to have a good work ethic; they taught me that this is how you build security and grow in a company. Unsure if it is a grand scheme, but they conditioned me to believe that was it—no options. I stepped into the world believing I had to work for a company.
By Kristen Bryant8 years ago in Journal
Not Just Books
I've already taken the time to talk about my passion; writing books. But, I've also skimmed over a few other things, and I want to fully take the time to talk about everything else I want to do, because there's quite a bit more I want to do. For sure, a hundred percent my passion and albeit aspiring career to be is to be an author, but I also want to do more than that. What I love about writing, and what being a writer offers is that your time is your own. I choose how I want to spend my time, and I choose how much time I want to devote for work hours in a day. Which, let's be honest, we'd all love that.
By Brady Young8 years ago in Journal
