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Walked into that new co-working space on Woodward and the wifi was slower than my basement setup

I was trying to load a single Figma file for 10 minutes while the guy next to me was streaming 4K video on his laptop, how are they charging $400 a month for this?

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lily_torres31•16h ago

Spent $60 on a cheap CRM for my landscaping side gig and it saved my butt after one season

I been running a small lawn care biz on the side for like 2 years now. Kept track of everything on paper and my phone notes. Got busy last summer and forgot to follow up with like 5 customers who wanted quotes. Lost maybe $800 or more in jobs. So I grabbed a basic CRM called FreshBooks for $20 a month and set it up in a weekend. Tracks leads, sends reminders, even invoices. After 3 months I picked up 12 new clients from follow ups I woulda missed. Pays for itself easy.

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Walked into that new co-working space on Woodward and the wifi was slower than my basement setup

Spent $60 on a cheap CRM for my landscaping side gig and it saved my butt after one season

Spent 3 hours trying to troubleshoot a DNS issue that was just a loose Ethernet cable

That coworking space on Woodward I tried for 3 months

Our POS system crashed during a $1200 brunch rush last Sunday - total chaos for 20 minutes

Spent 4 hours trying to fix a printer that just needed a firmware update

That time a small landlord changed my whole take on security deposits

Pro tip: Stop trusting those free website audit tools for Detroit SEO

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Two years ago I swore off digital tools for my flooring business, now I use them everyday

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The coworking space in Brush Park that made me rethink open offices

Figuring out my business accounting was backwards for 2 years

A marketing guy told me my website was too wordy and he was absolutely right

That feedback from a client on my packaging design changed how I approach fonts

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Picked the cheaper cloud server over AWS for our Detroit startup - now I'm scrambling

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