if youre one of the employees that found out youre being paid significantly less than your team how do you convince your manager to increase your pay? Knowing youre high performing
If there is a reason that they are perceived as higher performing, maybe you can figure out why. What you might think is important might be different from what your boss think is important as a complete package.
Also a lot of people get really defensive and go into denial mode. Or are really full of themselves. People have a really hard time getting the straight out evaluation, or get despondent, and your manager is trying to give the feedback to the capacity level you have shown.
I don’t drop ship. Obviously it’s hard to find opportunities like the one I had, otherwise everyone would I have one! I bought this business back in 2000, when everyone was getting out of web properties so the price was very low.
My business is on the buying end. I do however consult for a huge eBay seller that had some pretty deep experience in drop shipping. They got out of that business in a few years and switched to private label products to reduce competition. The problems with dropshipping are sort of obvious: no exclusivity, nothing stopping your supplier from entering the same business, and massive supply chain problems lately.
How do you find ideas in this category? Simple: Just look at what people are already paying lots of money for.
Off the top of my head, consumers spend lots of money on education (courses, seminars, books, classes, workshops), events and experiences, travel and vehicles, rent and housing, clothing and accessories, food, hobbies, etc. Businesses spend lots of money on recruiting and hiring, hosting, advertising, marketing tools, analytics tools, productivity, real estate, etc.
I know tons of indie hackers building businesses that help others learn to code, for example.
Wes Bos, Adam Wathan, Joel Hooks of Egghead, Quincy Larson of freeCodeCamp, Jeff Meyerson of Software Engineering Daily, Ben Halpern of DEV, Jessica Chan of Coder Coder, arguably Ben Tossell of Makerpad.
They also require very different strengths & skillsets in founders. B2B products are usually sold, not bought. Sales skills in the founder are paramount, as well as a personality that can take rejection well and find win-wins and value-adds for the customer.
B2C products live and die by viral growth and word-of-mouth, because margins are not usually enough to support a consultative sales process or any sort of intensive advertising. That requires a founder that's really good at reading the zeitgeist and identifying needs that customers never knew they had, and that understands human psychology on an unconscious level. Often technical skills (on the founding team) matter more for B2C markets as well, because it's more critical to stand out from the competition.
Timing also matters more with B2C. There are some time periods (now, dot-com bust, or the late 80s & early 90s) where there are basically no viable B2C ideas available. There are also time periods (early 80s, dot-com boom, 2009-2013) where they are abundant. Unfortunately you often don't realize this until hindsight reveals all the people who kept working on their B2C ideas throughout the bust.
> There are some time periods (now, dot-com bust, or the late 80s & early 90s) where there are basically no viable B2C ideas available.
What leads you to believe that? I know plenty of people with healthy B2C businesses started recently. Heck, my business is B2C and while niche, it's viable for me.
About 2 weeks with 'low risk' foods, and up to 4-6 weeks with 'high risk' foods - low risk being low FODMAP foods, and those that you rarely hear of allergies with. 'High risk' were things like nuts, which many people react very poorly to. I'd add them to the foods I already knew were safe to eat. So for example, I've recently taken to adding buckwheat (which is weirdly a fruit) to my stews and granola after workout. I'm slightly concerned that I may react badly, so I won't add anything new to my diet for a while until I'm 100% sure that it's not causing any under-lying inflammation. I'll mentally keep track of variables like my gym performance, mental acuity, ability to absorb new information, tiredness levels etc. I very much play it by ear though. If I'm especially stressed, or miss workouts, or suffering from any other thing to could contribute to me feeling tired or down, I'll lay off adding any new foods because it will skew 'results'.
i could sense a correlation within my own body at a period in my life where i was eating just sugar and processed food, that habit manifested a deep depression which was only cured by water fasting for 23 days. After that experience, there was no doubt in my mind that the gut and mind are connected.
Interesting. I never thought depression could result from just diet. I thought depression is mostly a factor of your life situation, and how you feel about life.
Did you stay off depression long after your water fast? Do you regularly fast?
Nice find bananamansion. Actually you will see this with many big cooperations which also register domains such as <companyname>.sucks, <companyname>.adult etc. ;)
I've surfed for some free DBs in the past. Most free hosts don't allow remote connections. Some services I've seen 50MB and 20MB but were uselessly slow. If you're not paying, I suspect this is actually good.
