What sort of SMBs are you looking for? There are over 5.68m SMBs in the US and you would be hard pressed to find a public list of each one. However, if you know a location and/or an industry, you can start with a place like hoovers.com or yellowpages.com. Hope this helps! Let me know if you ha...
I have a membership site with video training that companies use to train their salesforces. Having set up many paid and commission-based sales teams over the years, here are the main issues: > the less effort you put in at the beginning, the more turnover you're going to experience > if you do...
Based on my 15+ years of experience in the Contact Centre technology space and given the requirements you have outlined for high volume inbound & outbound calling I would look at solutions from Avaya, Genesys or Cisco. there are others around but these have a history in Contact Centre Each of th...
One of the best ways is to contact those on your industry and just ask them. Contact Adam Bry from Skydio. There are working on the technology of the drones (software) so they will probably know a lot of hardware suppliers/companies and it won't be competing with them. You can even become a clien...
This is a typical problem with any start-up, i.e. intention to trade everything for equity. I am assuming that you're trying to trade equity for cash. In that case I would suggest you to look out for individuals with diversified skills and competencies. The reason being, less the number of indivi...
Here are a few ideas for monetizing your traffic: - Offer a premium subscription to your site & added benefits for those folks who pay a small monthly fee. - Recommend to your audience relevant products and books using an Amazon affiliate link. - Consider charging a small fee for some of your ...
This has been discussed many times before and rather than repeating a lot of those things here, I will direct you to one of the best resources on this topic. Clarity CEO Dan Martel recently released a video "Raising Capital Like a Pro" that covers most things you need to know about fund raising....
So the bar patrons drive the value, right? If your fellow students start using the app (and start asking the guy at the door, "Can I pay the cover with XX app?"), then the bar owners will be the easy part. Focus your efforts on driving adoption. If you've already got 2 bars on the hook, then prin...
If business model was all about "revenue" then you could have hit somewhere on the dart board. However, if you've passed the information to your friend under the hashtag "Business Model" then I would like to ask "What's the business idea?" I am a bit perplexed to read your suggestion about tradi...
This is a tricky question, because it's very difficult for a consultant or PR firm to get major press like this for a startup unless the startup has an amazing, innovative product, is doing something so incredible that it has to be talked about, or has a fantastic story behind it. A PR firm is ...