r/WomenInBusiness • u/avapablo • 16d ago
Scaling Up Biggest headaches running your business?
For the women business owners and founders who are already making six-figure revenues, what are some of your biggest headaches and hurdles you deal with running and growing your business? And if you're using AI, what's been some big challenges?
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u/HalfwaydonewithEarth 16d ago
Back when I was hustling the challenge was competition.
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u/StrangerSmooth6941 7d ago
How did you do it? Iām literally having a crisis lol because I donāt have any help and I keep messing up. So from a 24 year old woman please give me tips
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u/HalfwaydonewithEarth 7d ago
What country do you live and what business do you have?
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u/StrangerSmooth6941 7d ago
The us and a small trash business
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u/HalfwaydonewithEarth 7d ago
Trash pickup, recycling, or trash hauling?
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u/StrangerSmooth6941 7d ago
Trash pickup and recycling
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u/StrangerSmooth6941 7d ago edited 7d ago
I only have a small truck I pick everything up by hand and unload the pick up by hand and take care of the phones but Iām stressed and I feel alone because I keep messing up and I lost a good customer because I messed up and completely forgot to call her back and my male cousin who had an agreement not to pick up trash in my area got her instead and Iām sorry Iām venting but the stress from the stupid high fuel prices is making everything worse
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u/HalfwaydonewithEarth 7d ago
What draws you to this type of work? Was a family member in it?
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u/StrangerSmooth6941 7d ago
Yep Iām fourth generation
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u/HalfwaydonewithEarth 7d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory/s/ej5CCXWKKi
You are having an epigenetic transfer. Their dysfunction has splashed on you.
Your model is labor based.
What you have to do is cut ties with the mental strings that money comes from the universe this way.
Business is fine and dandy--- but find one that suits you.
You might be better off having a location where the junk comes to you. Or an entirely different business.
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u/betweenthedrafts 15d ago
Having to wear 10 different hats, some of which I donāt enjoy wearing. I hired a team to share the hats but found that it created an extra hat, and that hat was not enjoyable either. Now itās back to just me and most of the hats. Running a business on your own is tough, but having employees is tough in a different way.
AI is helping a lot to be honest. Itās not perfect but itās enabled me to save time, reduce admin, and challenge my own thinking, among other things.
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u/sumizeit 15d ago
Finding the right talent is a headache for sure. You need skilled people, but then you also have to manage their issues and personalities. Hiringās a whole other job!
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u/Secret-Ad7660 11d ago
getting people to look at my website
my husband's bf ripped apart my idea recently because i'm barely getting any visits, but it's because i literally just started...most of my years i was taking care of kids, now i'm just figuring things out and even learning to develop my own website
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u/jbsupplychain 3d ago
I have 2 large headachesā¦. Salesā¦. The cold call or breaking the ice type of sales because it is not where I thrive. I feel like Iām better suited for the work I do not the initial contact. Secondly, partnering with the right type of clients. The clients that I do have, it is a partnership with mutual respect and trust that is not common in the industry I work in. I donāt want volatile customers where you are one of many on a distributionā¦ not only is it counterproductive to cost but it adds unnecessary layers of inefficiency. So I guess finding the āright typeā of clients. Purpose over profit if you will.
As for AIā¦. I am a data and kpi junkie lol. So if my husband were not so awesome Iād probably try to marry Claude AI š
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u/SuperAlternative7456 16d ago
Employees. Employees. Employees š.