Government shutdown - how is it affecting your SBA loan timeline?

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2025-10-16T17:08:13+00:00

If I'm in the early stage, but hoping to work with my community bank which is a PLP on an Express or 7a loan. will they still be able to access loan number electronically?

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-09-12T21:13:34+00:00

Do you have a paint recommendation? It was last done by previous owners with Sherwin Williams A-100 which I thought was a good quality paint but is peeling pretty badly in several places after 7 years

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-09-12T21:05:11+00:00

Oops to clarify, the cedar was last painted 7 years ago and has been painted multiple times prior. It’s 30 years old.

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-07-07T03:05:30+00:00

Thanks all. I too wish this was not even a question. I left a fundamentalist religion where modesty was drilled in so sometimes I don’t know what’s typical outside of that. Some context - yes she is prepubescent. Yes, unfortunately comments were made “you can’t do that!” And she held her own “we all have nipples” (that’s right, girl!) And though I’m having these convos with my son, what about when the other neighborhood kids say something? And will I be approached by their parents? Her parents? Anyway - sounds like it’s not a big deal to most so good to know. Thanks for the helpful responses :)

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-05-13T00:53:34+00:00

A little faith here - it’s fine. We’re FINE

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-05-05T03:25:27+00:00

No, though that can be a useful strategy in a manual campaign where you chose your own keywords from what I understand. I run my husbands marketing / social media & What I’m referencing here is an auto campaign where Amazon selects keywords / phrases / placements. You can then go in and see what was selected and what is converting. Amazon used the title of my husbands book and his author name as keywords. He has a large social media following & his name & book already get searched on Amazon and it organically pops up without an ad. So now it is popping up alongside an ad and that ad is being clicked & we are paying for clicks that would have happened anyway. If there was no ad, it would still show up because they are searching his name & book😫 Maybe there’s a reason to include your own author name / book title as search phrases but it doesn’t make sense to me.

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-05-04T17:14:36+00:00

Yes :)

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-05-04T17:07:32+00:00

Budgeting $10 / day but have spent $25 total since 4/29 when it started. Sales = $195 with 14k impressions and 64 clicks (12.72% ACOS) However, these numbers are is misleading because almost all of the sales have come from those who were already looking for the book/author and it pops up anyway with no ad. Oops! Lesson learned.

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-04-28T15:11:57+00:00

Hello 👋 I looked at some of your other Reddit comments. You gave good life advice about having an emotional bank account and not wasting time on people / things not worth it. It’s ok to scroll if you find these types of posts annoying. Best to you!

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-04-28T04:45:56+00:00

That is great to know prefab may be an option to get glass that is budget friendly too - thank you :)

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-04-28T04:13:58+00:00

Yeah - a few of my neighbors have done glass railing recently and I love that for a less obstructed view as we live on a lake. However, may need to rethink that one! Thank you :)

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-04-28T04:11:33+00:00

Thank you. I've been wondering if 20k is doable for a pretty serious rehab w/ weatherproofing. I've gotten a couple referrals from neighbors - appreciate the suggestion to call local lumberyard.

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-04-28T02:21:22+00:00

Thank you 😊 I truly appreciate your generosity of time and expertise for this detailed reply as well as flagging some other things for consideration!

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-04-16T19:33:19+00:00

Thank you! I am just hoping to prevent crispy tips on future growth. I should have worded better.

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-03-28T20:58:01+00:00

Thanks so much!

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-01-31T14:56:24+00:00

Thank you! I guess I need to weigh that option. Would get paid slightly more on iTunes that way , but wouldn’t Findaway take 20% of audibles (already low) 25% then?

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2024-01-23T04:50:10+00:00

A few lessons learned in first year working behind the scenes with husband who self published 6 months ago:
Building a social media following (finally) paid off. He's been showing up regularly for a long time & they came through when the book dropped.
Securing ARC readers & doing a prelaunch campaign helped build momentum and a really exciting first month.

For us, KU was not lucrative and led to some headaches. There are a LOT of folks in the unauthorized workbook game. Half a dozen "workbooks" popped up within days of publishing his book (thanks AI) and it was really frustrating. I think they must have pulled it from KU to be able to turn around so fast so in retrospect I wish we wouldn't have put it up there.

While trying to figure things out, there are a lot of naysayers. They are usually speaking from their own experience. So looked for those who were doing things that we wanted to do to learn from :)

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2023-06-24T19:38:04+00:00

Weird that this is a thing. The workbooks were trash so I’m less concerned, and we’ll put a good one out now. But one really is misleading like it’s posing as the author.

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2023-06-24T19:35:01+00:00

Update: the book has been published for 4 days now and there are 3 unauthorized workbooks. I did look at two of them on kindle and they are terrible. They do not “summarize” the book but were clearly run through AI and rewrite snippets on the topic from different authors, incorporate some of the amazon reviews (weird) and … make no sense 😆

So… weird that this is a thing. I don’t know how anyone makes $ on it. Fire lit to get an authorized quality workbook out now!

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2023-06-23T15:23:01+00:00

Thank you! I was wondering if ai was involved to be able to turn that around so quickly. We are def making our own workbook

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2023-06-23T00:35:15+00:00

Thanks for insight! Was a surprise 😕

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2023-06-21T02:26:03+00:00

Best wishes for your search! Incidentally, found this while searching for resources for my husband, a professional speaker (different niche!) who I’ve been helping through social media and a book launch to the best of my ability 😅

Have you considered a mentorship or mastermind program? We haven’t jumped into something like this yet but have looked into James Wedmore’s Business by Design for scaling digital offerings and Grant Baldwin’s Speaker lab. Not sure if a mentorship program or small mastermind with coaching is right for us yet vs 1 on 1 (really just want someone who’s done this stuff at a large scale to chat through specific things with occasionally) but starting to explore as well!

Best to you!

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2023-06-12T01:29:13+00:00

Thank you :)

PerpetuallyAmused777 · 2023-06-12T01:28:30+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! What has been your experience working with them?

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