{"id":474,"date":"2024-02-09T03:14:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2024-02-09T03:14:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:14:27","slug":"sauna-adventures-001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/sauna-adventures-001\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauna Adventures #001"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Starting a business is work. Never mind holding closely to your business ideas so that someone else doesn&#8217;t steal them; ideas are the easy part. This week&#8217;s fires:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Multiple calls with the lender and broker to try to finalize a deal before the closing date, just to find out the reason the seller has been dragging his feet is because he&#8217;s received a higher, cash, offer for the building from the current neighbors. <\/li><li>Calls and emails with my insurance guy and another insurance company in Minnesota who actually knows that mobile saunas are <em>actually<\/em> a thing. <\/li><li>Set up payment processing (Stripe and PayPal accounts), chosen because they&#8217;re recommended by my booking platform and PayPal due to some random YouTuber&#8217;s review of Acuity&#8217;s options. <\/li><li>Set up my booking platform (Acuity), chosen because it accepts promo codes and Calendly doesn&#8217;t. It is also reasonably priced at a fixed fee (starting at $16 for the basic plan) rather than a percentage of revenue. Most companies must not understand how much they&#8217;re giving away when they are pay 5-6% to their booking platform. <\/li><li>Set up a Google account for the business. Set up analytics for the website. <\/li><li>Impromptu visit to Scooby&#8217;s to validate installation location of horn for the truck. Need to let go of microdecisions like this. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting to get real. Needing to decide whether to attempt to pursue this full-time &#8211; against many people&#8217;s advice &#8211; or continue the day job. Even what I think are conservative scenarios provide me with a reasonable salary using only the truck. Bathhouse scenarios in the new building however&#8230; Have to keep telling myself: there are always going to be jobs that I can go back to if needed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a business is work. Never mind holding closely to your business ideas so that someone else doesn&#8217;t steal them; ideas are the easy part. This week&#8217;s fires: Multiple calls with the lender and broker to try to finalize a deal before the closing date, just to find out the reason the seller has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbblr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}