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Overheard a guy at the coffee shop say his tiny local bakery hit 50k in sales last quarter
I was waiting for my order when this guy next to me was on the phone talking about how his bakery grew just by focusing on repeat customers instead of ads. He said they only spent $300 on marketing the whole time and the rest was word of mouth and handwritten thank-you notes. Made me wonder how many of us are overcomplicating growth when simple stuff like that still works.
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miles_garcia25d agoMost Upvoted
My buddy runs a hot dog cart and the only thing that grew his business was personally remembering people's orders. He never spends a dime on ads and his line is around the block every lunch.
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kim_johnson5125d ago
Wait, was this at the Daily Grind on 3rd Street? I swear I overheard the SAME conversation there last week. That story honestly changed how I think about my own side hustle. I stopped spending money on Instagram ads and started writing little notes to my regulars, and my sales went UP. People just want to feel remembered, you know? It's so easy to get caught up in fancy tools and forget that a handwritten note or a simple 'hey, thanks for coming back' can do way more than a thousand dollars on Google.
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