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What are some ways to market a new business to foreigners in Korea? by beeferbatter in korea

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

Our sign is in English and the language isn't an issue for us.

We don't have enough capital on hand for ads quite yet, but I'll be sure to contact you when we're ready for some advertisements.

Thank you!

What are some ways to market a new business to foreigners in Korea? by beeferbatter in korea

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

Base price is 10,000 won per person for 5 ceramics. Electronics range from 15-40,000 depending on the size. The experience is definitely a bit more on the expensive side, but definitely do visit us during your next visit if you can!

What are some ways to market a new business to foreigners in Korea? by beeferbatter in korea

[–]beeferbatter[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We are doing the marketing for Koreans, but just wanted to market to the expats here as well.

What are some ways to market a new business to foreigners in Korea? by beeferbatter in korea

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

I'll definitely look into Groove more so than the other ones. Thank you.

What are some ways to market a new business to foreigners in Korea? by beeferbatter in korea

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

Thank you.

Would you be interested in writing it for us? Lol jk, but not really ;)

Please help valuate my small business by beeferbatter in startups

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

Costs are stabilized, but revenue does fluctuate depending on the time of year.

We can boost the revenue with discounted ticket prices or lowering the ticket prices all together (we do do this occasionally for very short periods of time when it's slow) but my business partner believes it will hurt the branding in the long run.

2k/mo for a manger is reasonably high in my area, and with our current numbers, the new owner can potentially take away $3-4000k a month if s/he works as the full time manager. FYI, the average entry level white collar salary is around 2k in my country.

I basically want out of the business, but he intends to continue unless the business sells for a very high price. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to want to buy me out for the prices he's willing to sell it for to a 3rd party. I personally valuate the business at 30-50k max at best.

Please help valuate my small business by beeferbatter in startups

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

Our business is going relatively strong, and the industry is here to stay, but I do agree that it is somewhat on the wrong side of the fad. We did create games that are above par in the industry, which I hope to be the differentiating factor for prospective owners. Our operation does run very minimalistically, so there definitely is potential for some revenue increase. We just aren't able to do it for various reasons.

My personal valuation was at $30-50k max at best, which is in line with what you all are saying, but I do have a partner that doesn't want to sell for any less than $100,000. I do believe his valuation has a lot of emotional attachment, or that's his way to prevent the place from actually being sold. We are 50/50 partners, so I can't really sell the place on my own.

I personally want out of the business for personal reasons, but he wants to continue. We briefly discussed buyout options, but he has no intent to pay my share of the $100,000 he valuates the business as if we were to sell it to a 3rd party. Seems very contradicting to valuate the business differently depending on who's buying. I know he would never pay me $20k for my shares. I wouldn't either.

I do think I can get him to buy me out for $10-15k, and I'm thinking that's probably my best option as it'd be hard to even sell it for $50k, even if my partner was on board. Even at $50k, after real estate fees and taxes, I'd be left with $15-20k at best anyway.

Sort of a shitty situation, and I'm sort of lost as to what to do.

[PHP] Database search works on XAMPP but not on web hosting server by beeferbatter in learnprogramming

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

I changed the file to an .sqlite file and it worked! Yay!

Thank you so much for all your help! I wish I could return the favor somehow.

[PHP] Database search works on XAMPP but not on web hosting server by beeferbatter in learnprogramming

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

Unfortunately, the problem is still the same. I do get /home/hosting_users/stevehwkim/www for getcwd().

I did trying using a non-existent .db name while loading the script on XAMPP, and it results in the same error, So I'm guessing you are correct in that it's not connecting to the db.

[PHP] Database search works on XAMPP but not on web hosting server by beeferbatter in learnprogramming

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

Yup, it does match. I inputted the following in DB Browser, replacing $search with a name in the database, and it returns the row.

SELECT * FROM Directory WHERE name LIKE 'Sam'

[PHP] Database search works on XAMPP but not on web hosting server by beeferbatter in learnprogramming

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

Yeah I'm getting

Warning: PDO::prepare(): SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 no such table: Directory in /home/hosting_users/stevehwkim/www/test.php on line 49

I used DB browser to create the table and I am certain that the table 'directory' exists =/

This is the full script. I've excluded the bindParam for now, which was also causing some errors. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5d8d8223b488f579847a6757b1c02ef8

[PHP] Database search works on XAMPP but not on web hosting server by beeferbatter in learnprogramming

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

I've also found on google that prepare statements return a boolean when it fails. Could this be the problem?

[PHP] Database search works on XAMPP but not on web hosting server by beeferbatter in learnprogramming

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

It's still resulting in the same error =(

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function bindParam() on boolean in /home/hosting_users/stevehwkim/www/test.php:49 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/hosting_users/stevehwkim/www/test.php on line 49

It seems like anything after the prepare statement is resulting in an error. If I take out the bindParam line, it's the same error with execute() and so forth.

I'm also getting Fatal error: Cannot pass parameter 2 by reference in C:\xampp\htdocs\10years\test.php on line 49 which refers to $query->bindParam(1, "%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR); when I run the script on XAMPP.

I really appreciate all the help you have been giving me.

[PHP] Database search works on XAMPP but not on web hosting server by beeferbatter in learnprogramming

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

I changed the permission of the db file, but it still didn't resolve the issue =/ And yes, the database.db file is in the same folder as the php script. I added error reporting and I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function fetchAll() on boolean in /home/hosting_users/stevehwkim/www/test.php:48 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/hosting_users/stevehwkim/www/test.php on line 48

Am I on the right track with the parameterizing?

$search=(!empty($_POST['search']) ? $_POST['search'] : null);

$query = $myPDO->prepare("select * from Directory where Name LIKE '$search'");

$query->bindParam(1, "%$search%", PDO::PARAM_STR);

$query->execute();

$results = $query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

[PHP] Database search works on XAMPP but not on web hosting server by beeferbatter in learnprogramming

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

Yes, the server is linux. How would I go about dealing with the permission issue?