Why I switched from online businesses to local businesses

There is another top post in this sub that someone is having trouble finding niche problems to solve.

If people would just get out from behind their computer and look around them they would have no problem finding opportunities galore. I started my business hauling boxes up and down skinny stairwells during finals week. Sweating my butt off. I worked hard physically for a year or so then kept working hard from behind a computer. Now I don't do much work at all and the business is larger and does better than it ever has.

GET OUT FROM BEHIND YOUR COMPUTER AND LOOK AT THE PHYSICAL SERVICES PEOPLE PAY FOR EVERY DAY.

I am working to finish my basement right now. Can't get anyone to come out and even give me a quote. The trades I understand but you name it - drywall, tile, flooring, framing, cleaning, landscaping. Anything that requires a little skill or labor is so massively undersupplied right now. I called 10 tile setters (to do my shower) and not a single one even returned my call. If one person would answer the phone they could charge me $300 per hour and I'd have no choice.

You are competing against people with no websites and no management training. They run businesses like its 1985. They don't market. They don't utilize software tools that could make them way more efficient. They don't charge enough money.

You don't have to look far for opportunities out there.

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