{POLL] -- Q4 Is Here. How's Your Business Faring? How Are You Driving Revenue?
How's everything going as you're preparing to dive into Q4? And how are you dealing with gas prices, interest rates and more? Please take just a few minutes to fill out our monthly poll, and give us the latest, so we can let policymakers know what's really going on. (Thanks in advance for your time).
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Mr. Casto, with my 21 years sobriety, 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry (Motion Picture & Music Industries) and the experience of losing my father at 9 yrs young. I believe I can make a difference with legal, proper help of others with the same desire to give our children a better life
I legalized my foundation, "The Fatherless Foundation Inc", in 2016, after 40+ years of visions I had to help the Fatherless, which I lost my own father by a drunk driver, when I was just 9.
I've had many obstacles I've gone through or around to make sure I do NOT let down these Fatherless children in all our communities.
This is the #1 problem within all inner cities, per tenants and representatives of inner cities. "We have no father or big brothers around to help lead, guide, discipline our children. So most of course go into other "family oriented" groups (gangs, drugs, etc).
OUR CHILDREN NEED A CHANCE.
Food cost is to high . its much more than 30% ! And if I raze the prices , again! I will loose a good percentage of our local customers. I can't blame them because they are having financial problems also. It boils down to this ! To high Food cost, Liquor Cost to high, To many taxes that drain our bank account , Electric and propane gas are much to high, high cost of payroll even though I run on a skeleton crew!! And that will go up even higher when they raze the minimum wage again! We are on a treadmill , and can't get any were ! Ed Aulich / Chuds
I’m not really sure about this . All I can say is be honest in everything you do , even if it hurts at times . People need honesty! No crap .
quality work and honesty. Times are a changing fast . If you’re not diverse in the biz . Your done . Take the small jobs and grow the honesty. Respect the customer and support them
Our 3rd quarter faired better then I thought. Here's hoping for a good 4th quarter.
I skipped many of the "before and after Covid" questions, because the major impact for business for me, was a couple years ago. I'm back to normal for quite some time now. End of 2020 and all of 2021 were horrible. My business has always been 100% virtual, so the entry into virtual meetings was actually a boost to my business. However, the loss of employment and income from the population, reduced my business by 50% in 2021.
I saw the downward trend in LED sales due to the fact that LED lasts so much longer and we were running out of customers to do a Energy efficient Upgrade to . So I sold my 23 yr old company to one of the largest Manufacturers of EVCharging Stations . We will continue providing Lighting LED and Full Electrical Services but now we will be ADDING EVCHarging Stations and we will be under a new name - InCharge Energy ,INC. If the other LED Lighting service companies don.t find another service to provide they could be in trouble moving forward .
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However, I don't have time to do this poll every few months. I finally finished one, but usually get about 10 questions in and stop. I'm getting no benefits from alignable that I know of, only loss of time.
Restaurant business is tough in this economy, but we seem to pay our bills. All our expenses continue to increase, Food,Groceries,Insurances,Payroll and Rent. In our business we do not have a choice but to increase Menu prices, or Close the doors.
Besides being in the news business as Editor in Chief and Senior Writer for CWEB.com, I have other businesses which relate to the pulse of the economy. My freelance content writing has slowed down due to customer budget constraints. But when they stop promoting their website content, their business ends up suffering. In addition, I own an e-commerce company where we sell to Walmart etc. Consumer spending is down- plain and simple, and I see the numbers in e-commerce ahead of everyone else. We sell over 5,000 SKUs in a few categories. People are not spending as much right now due to inflation, insane gas and food prices. My advice is to market wisely and concentrate on re-marketing to current clients who are mostly likely to buy from you again. Then concentrate on getting new clients. You don't need thousands to get good content marketing- or even a website. You can do it in stages and break it down to an affordable package, and reinvest some of the profit in marketing and paying your bills etc. Be wary of those charging thousands up front. Know your budgets and think realistically and work with someone who can understand that. Most people here are small businesses. You have all taken the risk to succeed. Those that can make it in this economy certainly have thrived. Remember this saying? " Jack be nimble- Jack be quick."
I am so long established and singular that I ride the changes easily.