I've run a few dropshipping websites and private label brands on Amazon - I like to experiment with online endeavors. The problem is having a large enough budget for marketing to scale it to a point where the time you put in is worth the profit you pull out.
A couple months ago I had a good day on Amazon but then I did the math on the time and money I put in and, after all was said and done, I really only made something like $10 an hour. Good learning experience to try something new and if I had more money to put toward marketing I would maybe jump back in. Until then I will stick with my day job and if that fails the NDP had made flipping burgers even more lucrative than bootstrapping an Amazon business so I'd probably go the McDonald's route.
I'd say own a video game store or comic book store but I think I'd very quickly begin to loathe my clientele. I'd only want to own that business if I were the only customer. Maybe a few of my friends.
Something where I'm surrounded by an ever changing roster of beautiful women who worship me sounds pretty sweet. I'm not sure what business that is though. Being a Sultan or a Sheikh maybe?
Something where I'm surrounded by an ever changing roster of beautiful women who worship me sounds pretty sweet. I'm not sure what business that is though. Being a Sultan or a Sheikh maybe?
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Goddammit I'm renting snorkels out of a conversion van and calling it Sketchy Pete's Breathe Shack. My name's not even Pete but Sketchy Pete sounds like a solid dude. I'd rent a snorkel from him.
You know how the Snap On truck is pretty much a Candy store for men. I was thinking I would buy a truck and outfit it with women's "fun toys" and hit the bachelorette parties and just random passion parties that they organize. Obviously I would need someone to run it because a guy running it would be creepy but I would be a good owner.
Realistically, a tire shop. And I'd like to have a lube bay and auto glass bay attached as a secondary.
You provide good, fast reliable service, and price is secondary. The difference between cheap tires and expensive tires of the same model would be a $20-30 swing per tire. Find a way to be somewhere in the middle, and offer first class same day service, it's almost impossible to lose. And it's something every driver needs at some point. The supply of customers is never ending.
4-5 years I plan to open one somewhere in interior BC, and possibly attach a very small, cheap used car operation to it.
A hillbilly country bar in Sunnyside located in that triangle of land between the C-train line and the Vendome Cafe. It would called the "Hitch'n Post" and have all the stereotypical cowboy stuff. Think like what Dusty's used to be like.
Yee haw.
I will go in with you if we put a texas style BBQ joint in it as well. We'll make a small fortune (and as an added bonus Sunnyside will smell like brisket 24/7). I want to be the pitmaster like this dude. https://www.kreuzmarket.com/pit-mast...-a-pit-master/
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i really enjoy the business i've had now for 17 years (for the most part anyway)
if i had to pick a new 'dream' business, i think a really fun business would be a vehicle customization shop - sort of like the 'west coast customs' thing. i love doing 'stuff' to my truck and think it would be pretty sweet to be paid to tear a vehicle apart and put it back together again with a bunch of modifications
i also LOVE to cook - part of me would think it would be neat to do the restaurant thing, but then part of me remembers what it was like working in a restaurant 'back in the day'. maybe a cool thing would be something like private functions at a location and you would prepare one dinner for all the guests (it wouldn't be like a typical sit down restaurant where you order something, your wife orders something else, etc. you would have already selected 'dinner xyz' for your function and that is what would be ready for you and your guests)
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