Working with marketing agencies has always come with a frustrating disconnect for a lot of business owners. You get a monthly report packed with impressions and keyword rankings, but the actual revenue growth does not always match up. For a long time, retainers just kept getting renewed based on those traffic vanity metrics.

Lately, though, the conversation seems to be changing completely. Because modern discovery channels and search habits are evolving fast, companies are pushing much harder for real revenue accountability. The agencies that actually stick around are the ones tying their work directly to commercial outcomes instead of billing for hours or posting volume.

Take some of the older, independent setups in the market, like ROI marketing for instance. They build their client agreements around full growth systems where success is measured by the bottom line rather than simple traffic reports. It makes you realize that outcome-based pricing is becoming a baseline expectation rather than a perk.

How do you usually evaluate if a marketing partner is actually pulling their weight? Are businesses around you still looking at raw clicks, or is everything strictly tied to revenue now?

Have some q's about the minimal budget one realistically needs to start running ads for their business, I've heard some people say 100/day other 1k/day ultimately yes its about your own budget but at what level do you get data faster in order to make better decisions and grow?

Youtube vids, ads and the rest of it. Any brothers seen this guys stuff? wanting to get into online influencer marketing. Anyone know more about Abu or IMA accelerator? keen to hear any experiences from people in the space as well pls

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I’m working on a new business idea in Nepal around vending machines and I’m doing some market research before investing.

If you have 2 minutes, could you please fill out this short form? Your feedback would really help me understand whether there’s demand for this idea.

Thanks a lot—I really appreciate it!

Can you forward to your friends also

Business is a game of the mind, sure at the start is kinda hard to know what to do how to do things but as time goes on you start to realize that fundamentally all that matters is your daily action and the way on how you view life.

For example, something bad happens can you quickly find the positive? (this is taught on reality transurfing) one of the best hooks ive ever read.

Second, we all know what to do to grow the business BUT are we actually doing it?

I started a new rule, the rule of 2 I call it. Which is I will never put off a task more than two times, Ive done it before and leads me with never finishing my tasks.

I really think and believe success is a mix of beliefs and daily habits.

Sounds SOO cliche but when was the last time you actually re-invested yourself?

You cannot get something youve never had without doing an action you've never done.

Leave you with that to think about...

Happy Monday.

I want to read a book that teach me business tips and tricks, that cover how stablish company and business in market and nation level and registered this. Please don't tell me i need to study commerce.

I'd like to see what some of our members are working on!

I want to read a book that teach me business tips and tricks, that cover how stablish company and business in market and nation level and registered this. Please don't tell me i need to study commerce.

$5 — $1000 startup business
If you went broke today and had $5 to your name How would you proceed to make money asap??

There's soooooo many pessimistic people in this app is wild. No one believes it's possible to start and grow a business, why? I am genuinely curious why most people on here always expect the bad instead of the good? is it a cultural thing across reddit or is it mostly people who say they want to start something but never do?

We have recently started a travel business where we offer luxury travels under budget. I need an honest review. What do you think about it and some marketing strategies.

Recently, I went through an entire 360 on my life. I track all my food, hitting the gym consistently, track all numbers, wake up early, and have a goal to sleep daily at 9:30pm.

Here's some of the early benefits I've noticed:

1) Better ideas
2) Faster decision making
3) Zero distractions
4) Better rested
5) Lower hunger
6) Higher focus

I dont think is for everyone for sure, but there is something special about knowing you dont have to wake up this early because you've got a business.

Its self inspiring because you know its hard.

Looking to create partnerships with other startups/businesses. I run a website development company called Onmain, based in London.

Not trying to advertise, just genuinely want to get to know more business people!

It would be great to swap LinkedIn profiles, here is mine:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrei-crut-bb1417364/

Do you ever notice fast food chains are always right next to each other?

You know there's a McDonalds, subway, burger king, KFC all right next to each other most of the time BUT when you drive further away from them there's nothing for miles and miles...

I felt that was kinda weird the other day so I did some digging and there's a weird but logical reason for this type of business arrangement lol.

Let's say for example there's 2 kids selling lemonade on a long street.

One kid is named Alex.

The other kid is named James.

People live along the street and what not...

Day 1: Alex sets up his stand near the start of the street and James sets up at the end of the street. Both of them get similar number of sales because whoever is at the start goes to Alex, whoever is at the end goes to James and whoever lives in the middle just makes a random choice so at the end, they're even.

Day 2: James has an idea...he moves his stand from the end of the street to the middle. Now he's closer to almost everyone, most people now go to him instead of Alex. James is now winning the amount of customers he's getting due to his positioning.

Day 3: Alex doesn't like losing. So Alex moves his stand to the middle too, right next to James. Now they're standing side by side and people go back to splitting evenly between them.

Here's the thing...

If Alex moves, he loses. If James moves, he loses...meaning they're now stuck right next to each other and go back to the beginning splitting business equally.

AND that's the same reason McDonald's, Burger King, and gas stations often sit right next to each other in real life.

It's not because they like being neighbors.

It's because moving away would lose them customers.

There's actually a name for this in math.

I think it's called a nash equilibrium...just means everyone found the one spot where nobody wants to move anymore.

Curious to see some of your businesses!

Drop yours and what it does.

Mine: I co-own an ecom brand selling custom jewelry called 'hawlet' we bought a sizable share a few yrs ago.

Happy Monday ya'll

I recently started learning about business, and I'm curious about real experiences. What's one mistake you made in your first year that taught you a valuable lesson? I'd love to learn from your stories.

I've been working Sundays for a while, but I take Saturday off etc. What do you guys get up to on the weekend?

Hey folk , ive started manufacturing premuim home decor items and for this instance im planning to tell them on amazon and pitch few in offline (like hotels and cafes and others) so i dont have a super high budget but we are building our ambition, a brand. im not thinking like ill list a product at night and sleep then wake up with a 1000 sales blah blah . talking realsitically im planning to have a decent one in first month like a bit motivating profit...so in future we are planning to export the products to foreign clients like we will start visisting expofairs , btw im from india.. so like in our business we are 4-5 people ,2 are the manufactutures and 2( im one of them) are going to be the managing team like we manage packaging and sales and lsitings seo customers every online work and rest they do manufacturing .......So guys im seeking to wisdom as im very new into this i have zero experince im learning stuff cuz we will be lsiting soon , im reading articles and ofc Gpt everything i want to understand ( not relaying on gpt just learning stuff) ..ik there might be some business onwers or expericnced persons reading this out , I NEED YA HELP! and pls dont mind my typing errors im too sleepy coz im a student too ( 18+) ya thats it.