# Suggestions box 📥

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**Category:** Small Business System\
**Created:** [November 9, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/suggestions-box/1924 "2024-11-09T04:58:43Z")\
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![money](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/uploads/default/original/2X/3/325aa8bc14cd9b8cf51ba2bc19bf6517a7168759.jpeg)

Working thoughts, I can see the categories in the 20s being _something like_:

- `21 Channels`
- `22 Products`
- `23 Customers`
- `24 Marketing, advertising, & communications`

This keeps the flow of things. Per the dotted line through the middle of the diagram:

- You earn money,
- via a payment processor,
  - both of which live in `13 Money`

- linked to a `channel`,
- where you sold a `product`,
- to a `customer`,
- because you convinced them to buy it with your `marketing`.

# What type of business are you?

The shape of `20-29` will change depending on the type of business you run.

- **You sell something physical**.
  - POP Canberra (a local tourist/novelty store).
  - Farmer.
  - Restaurant.

- **You sell a physical service, but the primary product isn’t a physical thing**.
  - Hairdressing salon.
    - Although you _might_ still sell some stuff, e.g. fancy shampoo.

  - Gardener.
  - Masseuse.
  - PT.
  - Cleaner.
  - Outdoor adventure.
  - Driver.
    - This isn’t just a service as it’s impossible to do remotely. Being in a physical thing – the car – is integral.

- **You sell a service**.
  - Adam the financial advisor.
  - Celebrant.
    - You could, theoretically (if the law allowed), do this remotely.

  - Teacher/tutor.
  - Accountant.
  - Consultant geologist (Lucy’s dad).

- **You provide a digital product**.
  - When we sold the JD workbook.
    - It’s a thing, but it’s not physical: so no stocking, manufacturing, etc.

  - Decimal.Business. It’s all digital.

For some of these, the ‘freelancer pattern’, i.e. [expand an area](https://jdcm.al/13.21/) might be more appropriate in some sections, e.g. customers.

TBC! HTH? TTFN.

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