Struggling to get to 100k

[Skowt]

Does anyone have tips on how to hit 100k without trying to speed through every day, since I feel like I've maximized my businesses potential?

I've got one business with 100% promotion and 80% satisfaction, running 9-9 since those seemed like the best hours after testing running 24hrs for a couple days.

Stocked the items most in demand for that area and am making roughly 4k a day. At this rate it'll take me forever to hit 100k.

I know at some point I'm supposed to open a new business but it's hard because I'm constantly needing to buy stock, work out if I need more furniture and then staff call in sick :/

What's the secret now that we've got 0.9?

[Brettski]

The game is all about opening new businesses. There is no first business that you can rely upon starting out for a lot of money. Use the bank (Jensen Capital) to borrow the max $40k and open another small business. And another as soon as you can afford it. Stick to cheaper to start out businesses (gift shop, floral shop) that don't require expensive startup furniture like a supermarket. Pay attention to the Marketinsider app to see where best to open those businesses.

[Skowt]

Originally posted by Brettski:

The game is all about opening new businesses. There is no first business that you can rely upon starting out for a lot of money. Use the bank (Jensen Capital) to borrow the max $40k and open another small business. And another as soon as you can afford it. Stick to cheaper to start out businesses (gift shop, floral shop) that don't require expensive startup furniture like a supermarket. Pay attention to the Marketinsider app to see where best to open those businesses.

Appreciate the fast reply! I guess I still struggle trying to make my businesses perfect. Finding the correct opening hours, trying to max the interior, staff skills, deliveries per week, etc etc.

How do you balance it? Do you just have very very rough businesses that are doing poorly but there's many of them? Or how do you know when to jump to the next one (can you tell I'm a bit of a perfectionist?)

[PaTryk_Gracz0l]

Originally posted by Skowt:

Originally posted by Brettski:

The game is all about opening new businesses. There is no first business that you can rely upon starting out for a lot of money. Use the bank (Jensen Capital) to borrow the max $40k and open another small business. And another as soon as you can afford it. Stick to cheaper to start out businesses (gift shop, floral shop) that don't require expensive startup furniture like a supermarket. Pay attention to the Marketinsider app to see where best to open those businesses.

Appreciate the fast reply! I guess I still struggle trying to make my businesses perfect. Finding the correct opening hours, trying to max the interior, staff skills, deliveries per week, etc etc.

How do you balance it? Do you just have very very rough businesses that are doing poorly but there's many of them? Or how do you know when to jump to the next one (can you tell I'm a bit of a perfectionist?)

do you have in your business all of the main products that have high demand sellable? do you have the product capacity filled? do you make from it enough money? have all the interior checked? i mostly move foward to the next business then, dont afraid to take a loan if you find some pefrect place for your next business

[Brettski]

Nope I'm much the same way. I've probably spent more time playing around with blueprints than I have in the actual game. But early game it's honestly not worth your time. I'm assuming you opened a business in an A1 or A2 sized shop. The hours you're open matter very little when you only have 2 employees working at any given time. I put all my first few businesses open from 8am until 10pm and moved on. That starts to matter when you have a lot of wages to pay per hour or employees that make a lot per hour like office workers. Minmaxing a few hundred dollars a day extra out of one business instead of making a few thousand more a day with a subpar second business is just not good business.

[Blackcobalt]

I'm not sure why we have to start with a A1 or A2 store. I've noticed the stores go from 75m to 250m too 1km. Are there not any stores that are 550m ? My game has a ton of those damn small 75m stores.

And can you start off as a Landlord and rent apartments then stores.

[Ernasty]

Keep opening businesses. Take a look at your rivals and the number of businesses they own.

[I C DEAD PEOPLE]

Best thing to do is going 20h 7 days a week. Even with lower sales I schedule my staff:
- 2 full time Mon-Friday 10h each from 4-24. Cleaners don't need to be there at all time. So have one show up in the beginning of the shift and the other 2 hours after the first stepped off.
- On weekends you do the same but with part time workers. (Office businesses do TERRIBLE on weekends. Keep them closed)

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Originally posted by Skowt:

Originally posted by Brettski:

The game is all about opening new businesses. There is no first business that you can rely upon starting out for a lot of money. Use the bank (Jensen Capital) to borrow the max $40k and open another small business. And another as soon as you can afford it. Stick to cheaper to start out businesses (gift shop, floral shop) that don't require expensive startup furniture like a supermarket. Pay attention to the Marketinsider app to see where best to open those businesses.

Appreciate the fast reply! I guess I still struggle trying to make my businesses perfect. Finding the correct opening hours, trying to max the interior, staff skills, deliveries per week, etc etc.

How do you balance it? Do you just have very very rough businesses that are doing poorly but there's many of them? Or how do you know when to jump to the next one (can you tell I'm a bit of a perfectionist?)

Don't bother maxing staff skill until you get an HQ. It's too much of a gamble that you'll have an employee want health insurance and after 50% their wages get too high. Train to 40 something percent.

Don't try to make everything perfect either; in the early to mid game. My first 4 businesses have the bare minimum to open, then I get stuff to sell every product in the help menu for the store, then I move on to the next. After I get everything the store can sell I will get a bare minimum interior of wood floor and red walls. Then I move on to the next.

Perfectionism is for when youre generating money. The early stages are just about getting 4 businesses open so you can. This is about the point you can support a decent HQ of 3 HR (one for every insurance except gold dont keep gold demand employees yet), and logistics manager, driver, and 4 purchasing agents and 1 or 2 headhunters and you can start training your employees to 100% with an HR that is trained to 100%

[Older Gaymer]

It also depends on what type of businesses you own. I make 30k / day now. I have about 8-9 businesses. Gyms and hair salons are cash cows imo. Especially if your gym is open 24/7.

[Skowt]

> do you make from it enough money?

Yeah I guess this is my biggest unknown. I've got all the main goods, I've got decent opening hours and am fully staffed but I make the roughly 4k a day and then need to rush to go and restock shelves that are empty. I get that I can use a wholesale delivery order but it's hard to know how much I'm going to sell if I have to change prices midweek or something like that.

I appreciate everyone's input! I shall try open a couple new businesses and try spread it to increase income per day. Although making 30k a day with 8-9 businesses sounds wildly low. So like just under 4k per business and all the overhead of making sure you have stock, everyone is happy and schedules and staff are all happy, while also working out the right levels for marketing and training? Hot damn.

Going to have a go at not being my perfectionist self and open barely functioning businesses and follow the advice of a couple of folks here, including Fighter of the Nightman who shared about knowing when to open the next business.

Thanks! :D

[I C DEAD PEOPLE]

Originally posted by Skowt:

> do you make from it enough money?

Yeah I guess this is my biggest unknown. I've got all the main goods, I've got decent opening hours and am fully staffed but I make the roughly 4k a day and then need to rush to go and restock shelves that are empty. I get that I can use a wholesale delivery order but it's hard to know how much I'm going to sell if I have to change prices midweek or something like that.

I appreciate everyone's input! I shall try open a couple new businesses and try spread it to increase income per day. Although making 30k a day with 8-9 businesses sounds wildly low. So like just under 4k per business and all the overhead of making sure you have stock, everyone is happy and schedules and staff are all happy, while also working out the right levels for marketing and training? Hot damn.

Going to have a go at not being my perfectionist self and open barely functioning businesses and follow the advice of a couple of folks here, including Fighter of the Nightman who shared about knowing when to open the next business.

Thanks! :D

- Fruit and vegetable store is not super profitable. You sell insane amounts for small profit margins.

- I did not have any retail stores to rent anywhere, only puny sized stores so I swiped a 1,000 square meter store in lower manhattan and started an electronic store. I made less than 100k per day then, the new store made a profit of 3.3 million a week. 500-600k per day.

[SpeedDaemon]

Originally posted by I C DEAD PEOPLE:

Best thing to do is going 20h 7 days a week. Even with lower sales I schedule my staff:
- 2 full time Mon-Friday 10h each from 4-24. Cleaners don't need to be there at all time. So have one show up in the beginning of the shift and the other 2 hours after the first stepped off.
- On weekends you do the same but with part time workers. (Office businesses do TERRIBLE on weekends. Keep them closed)

Also, when you're open early/late or 24h, remember that you don't necessarily have to have all of your positions staffed. If you only get 5 customers/hr overnight, just have one PoS open, and don't have a cleaner scheduled.

If you're still having to manually train employees, remember that they don't care how f-ed up their schedule is. For something like an office that's most efficient 10hr/day 5d/wk, you can hire all full time employees, have most of them working 9hr/day, and then rotate one employee through 9 workstations in 1hr intervals to fill the gaps.

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Originally posted by Skowt:

> do you make from it enough money?

Yeah I guess this is my biggest unknown. I've got all the main goods, I've got decent opening hours and am fully staffed but I make the roughly 4k a day and then need to rush to go and restock shelves that are empty. I get that I can use a wholesale delivery order but it's hard to know how much I'm going to sell if I have to change prices midweek or something like that.

I appreciate everyone's input! I shall try open a couple new businesses and try spread it to increase income per day. Although making 30k a day with 8-9 businesses sounds wildly low. So like just under 4k per business and all the overhead of making sure you have stock, everyone is happy and schedules and staff are all happy, while also working out the right levels for marketing and training? Hot damn.

Going to have a go at not being my perfectionist self and open barely functioning businesses and follow the advice of a couple of folks here, including Fighter of the Nightman who shared about knowing when to open the next business.

Thanks! :D

Go into the inventory page it will show last 7 days sales and stock. I always have my first couple businesses open from 11 - 9 then I wake up at 730 and check my inventory first thing.

[Adamas]

I always start with a few law firms that pay off my loan and then with that loan I start opening either jewelry or electronics stores, which are easely supplied by yourself until the supply chain is ready and dont require a complex setup, just a highly skilled purchase guy. I tend to have a headhunter (and hr) from the start for recruiting it seems to save me time and money on training.