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If you're not making money yet, try this mental reset

★ signal-weak   r/entrepreneur  ·  ↑ 147  ·  💬 32  ·  2025-06-02  ·  kw: automate pricing  ·  open on reddit ↗
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Entrepreneurs waste months on non-revenue activities (perfect logos, brand names, automation tools, funnels) instead of solving immediate problems and charging for them, delaying first customer acquisition and cash generation.
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Too many of us waste months(MONTHS) obsessing over the wrong shit. Perfect logos, clever brand names, automation tools, some genius funnel no one asked for. Meanwhile, folks are getting paid to fix “boring” problems like formatting resumes, removing backgrounds, troubleshooting slow PCs\*coughcough\*, or organizing spreadsheets. You don’t need to be a guru. You don’t need a $10k product. You just need to *solve something annoying* and charge for it. THAT'S IT. Start simple: What’s one thing you can do that other people hate doing? Offer to do it for $50(to get started or however a low price for whatever you decide) Do a damn good job. Send the invoice. Repeat. If you can sell it once, you can sell it again. That’s it. That’s business. One win proves it’s possible. From there, it’s just refinement and consistency. So stop overthinking. Solve something. Charge for it. Get that first win and run it back. You’re closer than you think. Good luck. I believe in all of you.

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[score=11] BuildtheBusiness
Great message and anyone building a business please listen to this. Also OP, what service did you end up picking to sell?
[score=8] Suitable_Article_574
This is such a needed reset. I wasted so much time early on polishing logos and obsessing over names while avoiding the actual work that gets people paid. The turning point for me was asking, “What’s a task people *hate* doing that I find easy?” Once I leaned into that, even something as unglamorous as cleaning up someone’s spreadsheet turned into repeat work and referrals. No crazy system, just consistency. One win really does shift everything. Appreciate you spelling it out like this.
[score=12] WestQ
Don't want to discourage. Owner of a business that is doing 100k a year. What you just wrote is a GPT lvl simplified stuff. Let's see when people get hacked, lose leads, customers, gotta fire / hire. If you don't have Grit or a capacity to return to work after a crisis. Better stay home. Grit it the only thing that makes this works, not mental reset. Mentally resetting when you have 10 people , hell even 1 serious employee under you, is impossible.
[score=2] Hi1mNico
Ngl Ive had the mindset forever to start with everything perfect and to see it as investment. It took me more time to build the website perfectly, getting the perfect domain, but not working. Money burning and time burning. Good that it wasnt that bad as I got no customers yet
[score=2] [deleted]
I love this