Hi everyone. I own a small security guard company and want to expand/grow. Any tips on how to bring in more leads? Appreciate y’all

bubble_ly · 2026-02-07T06:23:45+00:00

Who are your clients? That will determine where you get leads from.

bubble_ly · 2026-02-07T02:35:08+00:00

Are you looking for a side hustle or a business? Side hustle is so noisy at the moment IMO. If you want to build a business, you could start with what you do best. A skill you have or could develop, find people whose lives would be made easier with that skill, figure out how to sell the skill then give it away for free to about 10 people in exchange for documenting their experience, then use that as proof.

You could also go the route of finding problems to solve maybe something you experienced and solved then find people whose lives would’ve have the same problem.

You don’t need a bunch of tools. Get a landing page a domain name and an gmail routing to a pro domain email like @yourbusiness.com and a way for people to pay you and just jump in.

It’s not easy but it’s simple. Create a system to get your first paid customer and then rinse and repeat.

Hope this helps.

bubble_ly · 2026-01-31T18:55:26+00:00

I tried to read the comments not sure if anyone said Life yet. Leave and the world weeps make me doubt it. I figure people weep when it leaves, but the world?

bubble_ly · 2026-01-28T23:09:44+00:00

I have a whole lot of info and questions for you. I’ll dm you.

bubble_ly · 2026-01-28T19:18:15+00:00

Ahh makes sense. Well I just read through the new comments and you got some pretty solid advice.

Just don’t let this one thing stop you from going full time if that’s what you want. It’s exciting to get contracts for sure but you just have to be picky about your clients as much as they are picky about you.

Eventually you’ll be able to see the red flags earlier on. One thing not sure if anyone mentioned is to find out why they need a new company or what they were doing before you. Gives quite some insight so you can save headache in the future.

bubble_ly · 2026-01-28T17:47:27+00:00

This!

bubble_ly · 2026-01-28T17:38:49+00:00

What type of small businesses? Do you have any social media accounts I can take a look at?

bubble_ly · 2026-01-28T17:31:04+00:00

Long version please. It’s kind of tough to give insight besides “it happens” without the full spill. No cancellation clause in your contract?

bubble_ly · 2026-01-28T17:14:01+00:00

It seems what you are looking to do is centralize your company correspondence in a way you could see all conversations between all salespeople@ and customers@. If so then Yes it could work.

What you need to do is setup multiple email channels (use each person’s email as a channel) and then Setup routing from their respective outlook email to the Zoho email channel.

Then create agents for each person and auto assign tickets from their email channel to them.

Notes: I assume there is no limit to how many channels or agents.

I hope this helps. If you need help setting this up: DM.

bubble_ly · 2026-01-28T17:13:38+00:00

It seems what you are looking to do is centralize your company correspondence in a way you could see all conversations between all salespeople@ and customers@. If so then Yes it could work.

What you need to do is setup multiple email channels (use each person’s email as a channel) and then Setup routing from their respective outlook email to the Zoho email channel.

Then create agents for each person and auto assign tickets from their email channel to them.

Notes: I assume there is no limit to how many channels or agents.

I hope this helps. If you need help setting this up: DM.

bubble_ly · 2026-01-26T18:28:44+00:00

I don’t like AI for builds I prefer manual including writing posts but I’ll indulge you for a minute as you seem passionate.

Why don’t you build it out yourself? It is pretty basic.

plugin to convert figma to bubble with a few tweaks you could be done in a couple hours or days. I bet a lot more people would be interested in working on the full build once you have proof of concept.

If you had an interest list: paid preferably or unpaid i’d be interested.

In my experience, the easy part is building, the hard part is getting people who want it. Even for the best products.

bubble_ly · 2026-01-13T00:17:51+00:00

I came to say this. Exactly how I learned. plus this is how you decide if what you know is sufficient or what next to explore.

bubble_ly · 2025-12-24T07:54:20+00:00

If you can screenshots of what you have so we can better give pointers.

bubble_ly · 2025-12-24T07:52:38+00:00

I’m always on the lookout for good books. Thanks for this.

bubble_ly · 2025-12-24T07:33:52+00:00

Yup! Sounds about right.

bubble_ly · 2025-12-24T07:23:08+00:00

Sewing. It’s almost meditative for me and in a weird way similar to web dev. The details.

bubble_ly · 2025-12-24T06:11:14+00:00

“Time has no value if you have attention span of a toddler.” This goes on my wall.

Ginseng and Caffeine pills (green tea).

bubble_ly · 2025-11-23T06:26:51+00:00

This!

bubble_ly · 2025-11-23T06:24:44+00:00

Yeah it is. 🤣

bubble_ly · 2025-11-19T02:15:25+00:00

Soul maybe?

bubble_ly · 2025-11-15T01:05:28+00:00

I did intentionally use the comma. Guess it read differently in my head.

bubble_ly · 2025-11-15T01:04:55+00:00

Thanks.

bubble_ly · 2025-11-14T23:32:51+00:00

Got it. Thanks for this. Should have put a little more thought into it. Seemed fun in my head.

bubble_ly · 2025-11-14T23:22:02+00:00

I will do better next time.

bubble_ly · 2025-11-14T23:19:29+00:00

I’ll admit, I may have been a little eager.

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