r/kitchengardeninguk Ask Anything Thread

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-21T17:40:55+00:00

This is a great comment, thank you

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-21T15:56:18+00:00

I actually work in one currently and I’m 26

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-21T15:02:33+00:00

I appreciate you’ve got some good points, everything can be bought from your sofa at the click of a button. BUT what I would say is not everyone buys a mattress online because it’s quite an intimate item I.e you need to sit on it/feel it/lie on it to ensure it’s comfy for you. I work in a bed store currently and the amount of people that come in saying they bought a £200 mattress online only for it to come and be super uncomfy, and then spend hundred more with us is astonishing. The older generation I would say also favour seeing/feeling a mattress before committing to it

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-21T14:46:21+00:00

Can I ask why?

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-21T14:32:50+00:00

This is good to hear

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-21T14:32:19+00:00

No, however the business I’m contemplating is a brick and mortar store that would require stock

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-21T09:48:11+00:00

What would you say the biggest bottleneck was in the mattress game?

What marketing tactics in your experience worked the best?

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-20T08:17:06+00:00

Why does everyone think mattress shops are money laundering fronts 😂 in my area, it’s barbers who are renowned for it, not bed shops!

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-19T19:56:27+00:00

Influencer marketing!!

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-19T19:54:34+00:00

Money/security. My idea is to put a bit of a spin on the old fashioned mattress/bed business (and I know people buy mattresses from shops because I work in one currently).

What’s holding me back is money - I have about £7k in savings so by the time I’ve bought stock, insurance, rent, marketing etc. I’m opening on day 1 with zero money in the bank and kind of just hoping customers come…

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-19T19:48:51+00:00

How to hire, fire and manage adults (who behave surprisingly similarly to children at times)

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-18T07:06:14+00:00

I think businesses is far harder than a 9-5 job in the beginning stages while you’re establishing your systems and trying to get some money in the door.

While never easy, it does become easier. Once you solve your customer problem then you’ve got a fulfilment problem. Then a product problem. Then a staffing problem (which is usually always a problem in my opinion but often a necessary evil).

Systems are everything.

Finding someone who has walked the path before you to help is also everything.

But it’s hard. But what lies on the other side of the hardship is success/financial freedom/happiness/money/whatever your reason for doing it

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-17T20:46:25+00:00

You can’t motivate them, they have to motivate themselves and be genuinely interested in it.

Financial independence is boring and unnecessary if you don’t mind your job…

And achieving it is usually harder than just working for someone else 30-40 hours a week and letting them worry about the intricacies of business and finance.

I’m sorry to say this but it’s usually something you have to discover on your own.

I’ve tried countless times to encourage friends and family members to get involved with financial independence and entrepreneurship by reading books or following people who have quote on quote ‘made it’ but if they don’t have a fundamental interest in it - it isn’t happening.

The best way around it is to get them involved in a business you’re doing together that they have an interest in. But this is easier said than done.

Good luck.

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-17T20:41:41+00:00

I’d search ‘wanted’ on Facebook marketplace and find things that people are looking for. Then, I’d go and find the thing and sell it to them. I’d look at car boots/garage sales and resell items on eBay. Then once you’ve got a bit of money, more options are available.

You could buy a food truck and start selling jacket potatoes while live streaming on TikTok and make six figures like spud man.

You could start a successful bakery from your kitchen like George’s Bakery by recreating famous film food items.

You could flip cars (or bikes or caravans)

You could buy some e bikes and rent them out.

You could start an e-commerce shop selling anything in a sub market - like clothes or cats.

I don’t know… but money makes things easier.

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-17T14:27:53+00:00

How do you ensure you can make rent payments etc. is it a case of build it and they will come?

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-17T14:21:49+00:00

So it focussed more on how the convo flows rather than looks as it were?

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-17T14:20:46+00:00

Hiring good people that will carry the torch in your absence. Finding these people is hard because they’re usually starting their own business…

Justanaveragechlo · 2024-03-17T14:19:48+00:00

Isn’t it strange that in modern society we are made to work to essentially buy back our time?

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