How are you guys earning more than 100k a day ??

[Ruturaj]

I've got law firm, restaurant, jewellery shop with all of them at 100% satisfaction but still can't earn more than 10 k a day overall ... Also marketing is 100%

Please help me! Thankyou

[Borfoid]

Clothing shops, Law firms, Web design... In that order, start with the most expensive places first if you can afford it, if it's a struggle start a couple of cheap locations and then you'll have more than enough to go do the big ticket businesses.

Keep in mind though it costs quite a lot to start those businesses up, the hiring process on law/web businesses is a pain too... Big profits vs more effort.

Also your law firm pricing is too low, no idea what it is but I know for a fact it's too low.

My best place gets about $1,100 per hour for law, my worst is about $800. If yours is staffed right and stats are all close to 100% you'll probably be able to charge 3x what you are charging now - or more.

[Ruturaj]

Originally posted by Borfoid:

Clothing shops, Law firms, Web design... In that order, start with the most expensive places first if you can afford it, if it's a struggle start a couple of cheap locations and then you'll have more than enough to go do the big ticket businesses.

Keep in mind though it costs quite a lot to start those businesses up, the hiring process on law/web businesses is a pain too... Big profits vs more effort.

Okay, I'll try setting up in expensive places and yeah I do have low rates I'll be changing that too..

[Borfoid]

Originally posted by Borfoid:

Also your law firm pricing is too low, no idea what it is but I know for a fact it's too low.

My best place gets about $1,100 per hour for law, my worst is about $800. If yours is staffed right and stats are all close to 100% you'll probably be able to charge 3x what you are charging now - or more.

Edited that in after you replied - look in to that first. You're missing out on free money.

[Ruturaj]

Originally posted by Borfoid:

Originally posted by Borfoid:

Also your law firm pricing is too low, no idea what it is but I know for a fact it's too low.

My best place gets about $1,100 per hour for law, my worst is about $800. If yours is staffed right and stats are all close to 100% you'll probably be able to charge 3x what you are charging now - or more.

Edited that in after you replied - look in to that first. You're missing out on free money.

Yes I saw that.. thanks

[sunscreemer]

Lots of factors affect things- places with low footfall may not do too well as you cannot change that stat (although advertising could help maybe). Busy places with higher customer capacity ideally are the ones to go for- one location with max capacity which I think is 50 for office and 75 for retail- will allow you to fine tune that business for the best returns. But the rent may be high- rents can vary for very similar sites in the same parts of town so I think there's a designed in element of seeking the sites that will cover their costs. Possibly those that best suit where your business is in its development- so maybe you have to start more affordable then grow from there as better locations will often have bigger costs, so could be a 75 capacity store will actually lose you money if you can only furnish/staff it to 10 capacity, so look at the details and work out what is the best fit.

Happy customers will return, unhappy ones won't so things like decor and trained staff should help too, buying stock when prices are lower, importing when reach a point you can do so.

Remember shops can sell products beyond their specialism so maybe add some extras to the main items so you're selling a variety, and remember wealthier areas will pay more so find the sweet spots for what you charge, also are any products not being stocked much by other businesses/ what's the demand for products etc

[Hartschteiler]

Imo the most important part that the game isn't telling a new(ish) player well is the customer-capacity and why it is important to manage it. In my experience (and first sandbox) it killed my whole game since i wasn't aware of the scaling (because i am stupid).

Make sure to always match the building-capacity No.1

[sunscreemer]

Originally posted by Hartschteiler:

Imo the most important part that the game isn't telling a new(ish) player well is the customer-capacity and why it is important to manage it. In my experience (and first sandbox) it killed my whole game since i wasn't aware of the scaling (because i am stupid).

Make sure to always match the building-capacity No.1

Indeed, the point on capacity is that your level of facilities (number of product display racks or ovens or desks and computers or whatever depending on business) will determine how many customers you can serve per hour. But of course this means higher costs getting these set up and stocking them.

This can hit your business hard at either end, one site has only 4 max capacity (which is possibly the lowest) so at that end you might find your business limited by not being able to expand, as I mentioned earlier at the other end of the scale a high capacity is not helpful if you can't afford to fill it enough to cover the higher costs of the site.

So look at all these little details before renting a site, does it have the space/capacity/footfall etc etc that suits your plans and funds (remember you need spare funds for staffing and the things that lose money en route to making it)

If you think you can make a profit from early on on a bigger site you may still want to go for a higher capacity even if you cannot fill it immediately, so you can grow into the space. But it's working out what will work that is key.

[Klab]

Clothing is a winner for sure, I set up my first clothing store in a 225m/30 store. Put in 24 clothes rails, 6 storage racks, 1 big checkout, painted the walls, put a sofa, chairs, coffee table with a speaker on it and a couple of changing rooms. Immediatley it was making between 20k - 30k a day.

Soon I built another identical store on the other side of town, same result. I did consider going into other types of stores and selling other stuff, but it makes much more sense to get a HQ and warehouse up and running for a single chain of stores imo.

My clothes warehouse now supplies 10 identical stores, I import 2500 of each 8 clothes products every 3 days, and they all sell.

Total daily income is 200k - 300k, weekends are best ofc, each shop is open 8am to 8pm.

So yeah....clothes :)

Edit: Prices are 70 for the cheap stuff & 140 expensives - work in progress.

[sunscreemer]

Some videos suggest business opening hours may also matter if peak/off peak times, so maybe also worth some experimentation, are you open enough/too much etc.

Not sure if you can do a midnight food outlet for a business owner with big ambitions who didn't have time to eat and doesn't even have a fridge yet :) , but you could try.

Technically a big retail shop could maybe sell everything (not sure if you can mix cooked food with products but you could always try, again experiment) so there may be ways to do a department store approach for good money, but again try before you buy. Or after they buy. Or something along those lines.

[Sistermatic™]

Crickey, I'm making $24k per day with a single 225m gift store. The only thing I did was find out donuts aren't as much in demand they say they are and 24 hour days are good for business.

My marketing is only 71% at 100% satisfaction. Cost saving right there.

[Borfoid]

Head over to Midtown.

47% Traffic index base, around that. 75 Cap.

Start up a clothing store. Sell pretty much everything in there, probably don't bother with expensive jewellery - but make sure you max out everything that actually sells. Get everything to 100% stats.

You should be pulling in 340k+ a day off that one store... On average.

You could probably take a few steps down from that too, the 75 cap would be better suited to a higher frequency store... Point is though, big chunk of cheese.

[RoofCat]

My best guess is marketing is needed to boost visitors.
If your shop is already at visitor capacity limits, marketing won't help much. It's about sales skills, employee satisfaction and store "comfort" at that point. Maybe district variables too. So food industry doesn't really need marketing, while jeweler can profit quite a lot.

Like for lawyers there is no way with just 1 lawyer working to get 2 customers/h. But once you have 5 lawyers and only 4 visitors, marketing should be able to change that.

[Borfoid]

Originally posted by RoofCat:

Like for lawyers

The problem there is you can never meet your pop cap. I have a cap of 50 and have never seen a value above 28, I may have seen a 29 once but I could also be lying to myself.

The traffic index on law and web businesses seem to be a bit different - you can never get the people in it says you can, which makes me think that the places I set up those offices in aren't the best places as they are massive and don't need 50 desk spaces.

I could do 30 desk spaces and I think it'd be the same result... There's some tweaking needs to be done with some of the businesses anyways.

[Vrost]

its clothing for me, absolutely, makes insane amount of money, after that its jewelry and lawyers.
one clothing shop is 50-70k a day, less midweek more towards weekends
jewelry is about 20k
lawyers with 15 people is about 9-15k depends on the day and i just upped the cost/hour

all in all its clothing, but you need a warehouse with some space

[X]

I had max 50k per day until i started a clothes shop with most room and most passage.
I'm still putting up clothing racks and got about 50k per day just from that shop.
Later i expand it's opening hours and do marketing.(now only from 10 to 17hours)

Btw, jewelry store is a good store to increase income early on. It makes +10k per day easy if fully stocked and manned. ( mine is open from 7 to 21hours.)

Ofc traffic index and max served clients for any bizzness...