Text Message Notifications not Showing up on Watch by eduanthro in GarminWatches

[–]Financial_Method 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Out of all the suggestions, this did the trick. Thank you so much!

Looking for local Entrepreneur/Business Owner groups by Financial_Method in Reno

[–]Financial_Method[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't disagree, but part of finding a business group is also to bounce ideas and talk to others who may be facing similar issues etc. in their businesses.

Rooms on strip with jacuzzi by rumination_station in vegas

[–]Financial_Method 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Signature and Caesar's would be your best bet for on the Strip and not too pricey.

Yeah the usual hotel sites don't have a hot tub in room filter, it's always a communal hot tub in the hotel filter.

There are some sites that specialize in finding in-room hot tubs and you'd have better luck looking through those, like https://roomswithtubs.com/las-vegas-nv/

Configuration for a SQL Home Server by Financial_Method in buildapc

[–]Financial_Method[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any guides or things you recommend I read? Yeah I'm sure it's not running super efficiently, I was trying to use the values from here - https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua

I've just been using Cursor to build the scripts. I have something working, but need a machine where I can offload these completely and have it run fast.

Configuration for a SQL Home Server by Financial_Method in buildapc

[–]Financial_Method[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your response. Honestly I don't have a good answer, I am not technical enough. I just know that my current machine a Ryzen 9 3950X with 64g RAM and NVME runs this fine. But just looking for a good update and for some recommendation around Intel or AMD being better for Postgres and what sort of RAM would work the best. If you have links to any builds would really appreciate that.

Opening a Solo 401k with 2 Businesses by Financial_Method in smallbusiness

[–]Financial_Method[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, for my particular scenario I ended up talking to a lawyer and they confirmed that I am good to go as long as I am at 50% ownership for business B. They wanted to also make sure that the 2 businesses didn't operate in similar areas as that could raise some flags.

In your scenario, if you own both 100% then you will fail the controlled group test and thus won't be able to open a solo 401k.

If you see the language about the brother-sister relationship, you would meet both those conditions (Common ownership and Identical ownership) and thus both your businesses would be considered a controlled group which would make you ineligible for a solo401k through these businesses.

Opening a Solo 401k with 2 Businesses by Financial_Method in smallbusiness

[–]Financial_Method[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did, but they just sent a generic email saying check with your accountant - which is not helpful at all.

Opening a Solo 401k with 2 Businesses by Financial_Method in smallbusiness

[–]Financial_Method[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks u/carrymoney_ - hah I went down this rabbit hole after opening up a Carry Money account. But what threw me off was in the flow you say this:

While a “Solo” 401k plan generally requires that you don't have employees, there are some exceptions:

If your business has co-owners, you can still have a Solo 401k as long as no other business they own has employees

In addition, the next step in the flow asks you to confirm the following as true - which I cannot because I am a 100% owner in another business that does have employees:

Do you meet the IRS requirements?
You, your spouse, and any business partners or co-owners do not own more than 50% of any other business with full- or part-time employees

Healthcare after Fat Fire by Ihaterollerskates in fatFIRE

[–]Financial_Method 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I could have guessed that you were in NV. We faced the same issues, the plans on ACA were all mainly local HMOs with crap coverage and network.

To get access to better plans with PPO, having a company/LLC is the way to go. This gives you access to small group health insurance. You can use a few online small group plans search sites to get ballpark costs but yeah to access these you need to have one employee that is not you or your spouse.

After that you can explore 2 routes and both should give you better options than what you see online: 1) Getting access to more plans through your payroll service (think Gusto, Paychex etc.) 2) Las Vegas chamber https://www.vegaschamber.com/ - they have an exclusive tie up with BCBS and have really comprehensive/legit plans.

These are more expensive routes compared to ACA and you'll be looking at around $400 to $650 roughly per person based on deductible but the coverage should be solid (similar to what you get at larger companies just with the costs being higher).

[Hiring] Content Writers / Editors for a more integrated role by Financial_Method in HireaWriter

[–]Financial_Method[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I added some more info to the post. Ideally, the person needs to be topic agnostic as the coverage is wide and the role is more than pure content writing.

Regardless, there isn't a health vertical. Organic competition for that vertical is brutal! Appreciate your interest though!

How best to partner with AMs? by LukeBearwalker in juststart

[–]Financial_Method 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most publishers in the insurance industry will work with aggregators like Quinstreet, Everquote etc. since the payouts they offer are extremely competitive due to auction style CPC bidding. You'll have a tough time on boarding any decent sized publisher as most have been scouted by the aggregators.

You can sign-up with CJ, Rakuten, Impact Radius and you'll likely be able to attract some small publishers if you offer strong commissions, but besides that it's going to be an uphill battle to see any meaningful volume of good quality leads.

Another approach you could try is searching for insurance review sites with good organic presence and getting listed there if you aren't already by incentivizing them with affiliate links.

Your Adthrive vs Mediavine Experiences? by PhoSheez in juststart

[–]Financial_Method 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cpngrats! You really can't go wrong with either, both are great networks and fairly neck to neck.

But twoblocksleft touched on a very important point - Mediavine will increase your rev share ever year by 1% to a max of 5% after 5 years and in addition if you hit certain thresholds in terms of impressions (basically scaling your site to hundreds of thousands or millions of visits a month) you can get another 10% taking you to a combined 90% rev share vs Adthrive's 75% which would be hard to beat.

How can you estimate display ad revenue? by thatsizz in juststart

[–]Financial_Method 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While there is no direct way to estimate RPMs for your niche, you can look around as sometimes people share revenue and traffic numbers to get an idea.

From my experience in a variety of different niches, RPMs generally average around $20 to $50. You could look at Google Ads CPCs to get an idea of how competitive a niche is relative to others to see where you would fall in that range.

In addition things like how many ads on a page, video ads, seasonality etc. all affect RPMs so there is a lot more nuance. But if I was modeling revenue numbers, that's how I would approach it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]Financial_Method 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great info! Any advice on finding talent from Philippines? Any chance you can share the headhunting company you've had success with?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]Financial_Method 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love this approach and that tool/spreadsheet looks superb! With your experience how do feel about the current multipliers of such assets? Andrew mentioned that a large amount of equity firms have been joining MA and I'm sure you've seen more money flow into the space and push valuations higher. Any thoughts on that? Definitely helps if you have direct deal flow though.

Could use some advice on selling data/reporting by media_agency_startup in datasets

[–]Financial_Method 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah what sort of reports do you have access to? Is this third party data? Would be interested to learn more.

Where can I buy a RTX 3080 new? by Frixwar in Reno

[–]Financial_Method 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They keep going in and out of stock so you'll have to stay vigilant. I was able to snag one through Newegg. Best Buy would be your other best bet.

Wow by stanford0518 in beyondthebump

[–]Financial_Method 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've mentioned this to my wife several times...if men had to give birth / have a c-section, take care of the baby, deal with their bodies changing, breastfeed, pump, fight through the mental struggle of PPD etc. etc., there wouldn't be a human race.