Heart and Share! Quote the Note! #grownostr "10 common small business mistakes" 1. Leave the customer in the dark. Chances are as a small business you are providing a niche product or service. If you leave them guessing, they will guess their way right out the door. 2. Clean and paint. As a small business, it is likely you already have a subprime location. Show you care about it. It will feel more welcoming, and your product or service will be perceived as higher value and frankly, probably actually is. 3. Outside services. This can go both ways, sometimes people underutilize resources, other times they over utilize them. As a rule of thumb it is something you do and time that is otherwise wasted, you probably want to keep it in house. If it is something that is done when you are the busiest you may want to outsource it. If it is essential to your business, you probably want to do it in-house or in close partnership with a highly trusted partner. 4. Cash flow. You need enough money to smooth out the bumps. This means keeping lines of credit, having cash reserves, or in some cases inventory or assets that can be quickly moved. In hard economic times, this one is especially important. 5. Human energy. Lethargy kills small businesses. Not everything has to be done at high speed, but you want people who are interested, engaged, and energetic in your business. This especially includes you. This does NOT exclude people who have disabilities. Do your best to get and stay healthy. For solopreneurs, your physical, mental, and emotional health and vitality may be the single biggest factor in the success of your business. 6. Listen and engage with your people. This includes customers, vendors, suppliers, service providers, etc. Be "stuck up", and you will be stuck alone. 7. Respect. Some would read this as love. Appreciate the people who make your business a success. Never talk down people who make you a success. People feel this deeply even though they often won't put it into words. 8. Know your business. Whatever business you choose, be that, and understand it. If you sell hamburgers, sell hamburgers and know what's in them. If you sell cars, know what you have on the lot. Track and understand your financials. Small business owners sometimes get lost in the busy-ness or minutea and forget to actually run the business. 9. Advertising and publicity. This is your chance to make a first impression. You may feel like it's the tenth or hundredth impression, but when you finally make an impression, it will feel like a first impression to them. Show them you care and are happy to see them. If they can't find you, you don't exist. 10. Organization. Doing business with you should be smooth. Some small businesses have a relatively long sales process, there's nothing wrong with that, but don't let it become chaotic. Bonus: Treat everyone well including yourself. Temporary personal sacrifice is acceptable, business martyrdom is not. To fulfill this last mission, you actually have to get out there and do the work. Comment and *Quote the Note!*

Is there an add-on yet for nostr so I can get ads? I mean, I'm missing half of the social media experience here. #grownostr

I'm on Amethyst using default relays. How much difference does it make to change relays or use paid relays? #grownostr

I'm so old I can remember installing the wikipedia software on my home computer and asking a dev for help because I didn't know what I was doing. Yeah, I'm that old, like I still remember when Wikipedia leaned libertarian. And Google was cool. Nostr kind of feels like those early days of the internet, but we know what we are doing now, and it is all happening much faster. #grownostr

One of the reasons I'm doing carnivore is because I feel the current world order dominated by the dollar fiat banking system is collapsing. I know, not the most popular reason to start a new way of eating. I figure I may need to live to at least 80, maybe 90 to have a good shot at seeing what is on the other side. And I have a lot of hope for that world to be a kinder, more earth and human centric culture, and I do want to see how it turns out. Besides all that, I'm just figuring out some things. And I need time and especially energy to do something about it. And the potential for future grandkids. And I don't want to be taking medicine or hurt needlessly. I needed a way to reset my cellular energy functions in a way I could implement into my current lifestyle. And that is the magic of carnivore way of eating.

#redworms #grownostr I came across an experiment to breed a bazilion redworms really fast in a really small space back around 2005 as I recall. I can't remember where I read it online, and I haven't heard of anyone else trying it since. The idea, as I recall, was essentially to put a lot of red worms in a container with soil (redworm bins generally avoid soil except maybe a small amount for grit)and relatively little food stressing them out, making them lay eggs and then to let the eggs hatch out into that environment where they would mature into small highly virile worms. Maybe I missed some of the details, but the author was implying that relatively few worms could be multiplied this way really quickly in a very small space where they could then be released into a more abundant environment. Does anyone else recall seeing this experiment or has anyone seen something similar happen?

Regarding the ongoing saga of trying to get my chipper blades sharpened locally. I took them to a local lawn mower shop today. The guy said he had never sharpened them, but offered to try. He quit about halfway through and charged me $6. I pondered the wisdom of putting them on and running it for a while, but decided to try again. This time I took them to the one shop everybody keeps talking about. I called to make sure they would sharpen them, and they said they did. And I walked in and they said they couldn't. We talked for a while about how they worked and finally settled on the way they thought they could sharpen them. They said they would have them ready in about a week or so. They didn't say how much. Something about the whole experience just felt disgusting to me. I get that their focus is woodworking tools, and I'm sure they do a fine job with those, but I mean... really. I think I'm going to look for someone locally that makes knives or else buy myself a belt sander or grinder that's at least 8". A 2" belt sander would leave a really nice edge on them, IMO. I'm less excited about a hollow grind, but if that's what I had I, it could work just fine. #grownostr

So I just got my worm hotel set up. The red worms should arrive in the next day or two. I just set up a lick bucket and added some manure, some aged partially rotting straw, and a few leaves for bedding and a fair bit of biochar to hold moisture and microbes. I'll put some kitchen compost on it as well. A lick bucket is what mineral supplement comes in for cattle. They are single use, so relatively commonly available in cattle country. #grownostr

Is there a way to get unencrypted direct messages on Nostr with always open backdoors for government agencies around the world like Twitter had? Can we get a dev to work on this? Maybe offer a bounty? AFAIK, even contractors at Nostr world headquarters can't read my personal DMs. How can they even censor my messages or share targeting information with advertisers? Sigh. Seriously though, can everyone just nostr already? I know it is young, but that is how good things get started. #grownostr https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-us-intel-agencies-full-access-private-twitter-dms-discloses-new-encryp

I'm pondering how to pulverize my biochar. My chipper will do it but only if it is pretty dry. A blender is too small. I took a look at harbor freight's electric chipper but it looks like sub Fisher Price quality to me. I might build a machine I'm thinking about going super fine with it.

I'm trying to get my chipper blades sharpened. It seems like almost no one does that. They are just a straight blade. I already have the blades off. Are sharpening shops a relic of the past? Is there a business opportunity? #grownostr

I'm teaching myself FreeCAD. I'm pretty new to CAD. I've done a very little bit of work in fusion 360 and Google SketchUp in the past. My goal is to be able to 3D print certain parts, and so far I'm really impressed with how mature the program seems. Not necessarily mature like build a skyscraper mature, mature like print cool stuff on a 3D printer mature. And it's open source and free. #grownostr #FreeCAD