TJW1984

Most software has this built in. Like Shopify. What is your friend using exactly? Is this like a Wordpress powered store? This is a decent tool.

Same for me as well. I like to do yearly goals and planning. If I try to stretch it out too far, I find myself worrying too much about the future before it is even here yet. Just makes life harder to manage and puts me in a place where I can't focus.

I like this. People often overwhelm themselves and forget to just take a step back and take time to give their minds a break. Stress makes work so much harder. It is not worth trying to push through it if you do not have to.

It's not. It is very niche. It can be successful for the right fit though. I have seen people make great revenue with this and really push their business (online in particular) to the next level. One guy I knew ran a craft store. Ended up being bought out by one of the chains. He retired before he was 50.

It would appear that for this year, we have seen a massive growth in entrepreneurship. I read that roughly 33%, or 1 in 3, American adults has plans to either start a new business or new side hustle within the next 12 months. This is a massive increase from 2025 of over 90%. I think this is down to AI as well as avenues online that allow the younger generations (Z and millennial) to get a foot in the door and start earning in areas where it once took a long time or knowing the right people.

Do you have any experience with lead generation or know someone that is in this line of work? I was recently reading about how AI has helped this sector a lot. It is not something I ever was into or interested in but for someone looking for a business niche, it might be a good fit. Here is an explanation of what it is: "Lead Generation business models are those where a website is used to attract traffic and convert users into leads for a sellable service (e.g. car insurance). Typically the site owner creates a website of relevant content for the lead-type and then employs an internet marketing strategy to attract traffic to the site. User information is collected (usually through a customer form) and then the lead data is sold to companies interested in marketing to or selling to those collected leads. The quality of the lead (contact information, conversion rate) will correlate heavily with the price paid."

I have heard of that too. Making a section just for mobile wallpapers. It will bring attention to your profile and some people make click around. Good one.

Yeah the platform is losing quality and value IMO. I see so much AI stuff that is not fun or interesting. A lot of it is old news, fake news, or just BS pandering for politics. I understand the space has largely been political for sometime but it drowns out everyone and everything else.

I would say the risk is higher. Not to butt heads on the topic, I don't want to get into an argument or anything... But if you trade for a living, your odds of making a riskier call go up.

Let me know if you need any help with it. I have been messing around with these models a bit more and have a better understanding of how to talk to them to get what I want done.

Inflation has impacted everything for me from personal to business. It is frustrating because I am good with money and know how to manage things well but because it shot up so fast, it messed up so much for me with budgeting and planning.

I don't really focus too much on the holiday season. I know I probably should but with what I do, it isn't necessary. I think if you are going to do it though, hitting October is a good idea cause of Halloween.

I think it is mostly used by businesses and companies. I don't think it is suited for someone looking to manage things solo but I could be wrong. I just had never heard of anyone using it outside of the context of a business (i.e. having a business with employees).

It is cleaner and makes it easier to find them. It is not necessary though. A lot of accounts have different tags for them because it is honestly very hard to do this these days. You could pay for it if it is an option but I don't think you need them all to match.

Yeah I would just do it as well. If you just let it sit there, it won't help. I think over time social accounts get deranked when they are not being used anyways. So yeah, just do it. Update us on how it goes.