I recently added a heading in my resume called personal work, under it I put stuff that I have taught myself, or have just learned over time, but that cannot be placed into an actual work environment. As far as quantifying it, try not to learn things on sites that don't offer you some sort of proof that you actually did something. I do a lot of learning on Udemy.com, they have a lot of free courses that are very well done, and can teach you a lot, and once you finish a course they give you a certificate of completion. At least that would give you a tangible proof that you took the course.

Nice business application! Here are my quick ideas. I recommend you treat your app as if it were in beta. Go out to relevant audiences and seek free "tester users". I recommend advertising the search for tester users by finding forums with audiences who fit one of your personas. Start with Reddit, Meetups in your local area, local business incubators / accelerators, your Linked In profile. Then approach bloggers who may have a big network and ask them if they'd share it around plus angel investors for the same reason. If you think that Recruitment consultancies could use your app to enhance their applicants' resumes, go and approach them too because signing up one of them would bring you multiple users. Before making ANY of these approaches, you must have a very strong "how to" video on the site so people can see the benefits of your app. If you can also have some success stories (these can be plants written by your friends) that also helps. Happy to help you further with a 30 minute skype if relevant.

You need to practice the webinars alone but in record mode. Using GoToMeeting/GoToWebinar you can practice presenting to yourself or others in your organization. The benefit is you get used to the technical tools to prevent those technical mismanagement issues as well as practicing your pitch. I also mean practice them all the way thru completely. With the proper tools you can and should record them so you can review yourself and/or distribute them as branding materials.

Hi, this is Ann, a business coach for startups and entrepreneurs. One of the best social trading strategies is supposed to be "copy trading". Copy trading allows you to copy the traders who actually know what they are doing. And the more people do the same, the more it will increase in the value of the investment. So if you are new to the game, copy trading is the best way for you to gain profits and "learn by practise" so that you will be able to make riskier decisions in the future (the riskier the investment is, the more the required return will be). There are 3 things I would love to suggest if you use this strategy: - be picky when choosing who to copy: you would want to make sure whether "the one" is a serious investor or has "a strike of luck". - diversify: never put all eggs in one bag! - choose frequent traders to copy: the more frequent, the more reliable since short-term traders may have short-term strategies to get money. Hope that I have answered all of your problems. Should you need any help, Ann is always available.

This is personal opinion, more than an answer. You really needed to decide all this when you first set up the company. You needed to discuss with your partner how much money he was bringing to the table, and if not money the value of his contribution to the company. In the end CEO, COO, CTO, any other alphabet soup you wish to create are just titles, titles are used for talking wth other companies so that they know what your job is in an organization. As you grow, you will maybe get a larger board of directors, these will be share holders, and in order to get these you will need to each part with initial A shares in the company, what you need to worry about then is you and your partner always keeping a controlling interest. But at any time, if you or your partner have a falling out, one or the other of you could get the other members of the board to side with you, giving that board member the voting power to remove or buy out the other, that is just how businesses work. I give Steve Jobs as an example, he founded a company, was CEO, gave up the position of CEO to another, and was eventually voted out of his own company by the board. If this is what is worrying you, then you are wasting your energy, energy that could be used to make your company great. So stop doing that, and remember this... The past is the past, all you can do is learn from it, the future is uncertain, and you have no real control of it, so all you can do is work on right now, and that is where you should be focusing your energy. I am sure that others say that one person or the other should have controlling interest and that, I think depends on how they set up their businesses. You started this with a partner, someone I assume you like and want to work with, so why(in my opinion) are you try to gain leverage over your friend? My last opinion is that perhaps you should add one more person to your board, only because you do not have a deciding vote if things really did come to a 50/50 split. This person does not really need to have any A stock, it just needs to be in your bylaws to say that in the event of a 50/50 split vote by the board this person has the deciding vote. In the future, this person could be the CEO because in most large companies the CEO answers to the board, and is not the controller of the board. But all of this you need to sit down and discuss with all your controlling partners. In your case that is the four of you.

Great question - local marketing is absolutely essential nowadays. Especially as few people are navigating social media looking for tooth whitening services, these will become more profitable than online over time. Here's a quick list of tools I suggest using to bolster your current social media work. 1 - Set up Google My Business account and get it address-verified (they mail you a code) 2 - Key words - ensure city/ town / suburb / state or county are all included in meta data 3 - Directory listings - Get yourself listed on free and paid sites. If you can afford a small spend www.brightlocal.com is worthwhile 4 - Use Facebook local targeting for advertising / brand building 5 - Set up Google Alerts for key phrases in the news that could allow you to comment / contact / build a mailing list 6 - Join the local Business Associations and contact all the relevant local business members 7 - Go to Networking events (BNI, Chamber of Commerce, Meetup.com, Eventbrite) 8 - get happy customers to write Testimonials on Google My Business, Also reproduce them on your website 9 - Use media relations to get articles in local newspaper, local radio, local newsletters, (check out Yahoo Groups for local lists) 10 - Ask for Referrals - by sending two business cards with your invoice 11 - Make specific requests for social sharing via your accounts 12 - Surprise and delight the customer - e.g. pay it forward - you pay to have your teeth whitened and I give a free treatment each month to a deserving individual and use that for publicity. I hope that gives you a load of great ideas to be getting on with. But if you'd like specific coaching on what to do for this client - get in touch. You can buy 30 minutes of my time and I'll add to this.

These are all specific questions you need to be taking to a Tax attorney, or accountant. The laws are varied on all of your issues and need to come from one of the places I just suggestied, and not from a get help site. Good luck

Hi, Doing lunch and learns is a great way to get the word out about your business. Here's the catch; who are you selling to? Employees may be very interested in what you have to say but do they get to make decisions on how training budgets are spent? It's a real question. In some businesses maybe yes, maybe no. People who are independent sales reps or commission-based may be more amenable to what you're offering. Think of real estate agents, independent sales reps, etc. They have the mindset of running their own business and may be interested in making an investment if you can demonstrate a return on their investment. If you're chasing corporate business, maybe a lunch and learn in a neutral locale is the answer and invite training managers or HR types from many different businesses to attend. Also, you need to question whether people will want a weekend retreat. In my experience, entrepreneurs and the self-employed like weekend events because it doesn't cut into business time. Employees prefer weekday events because they view the weekend time as their personal time. I hope this helps a little. Dave

What you are asking for is almost impossible to answer. First off I would want to know from you, what do ou know about Virtual Reality? Because most of the answers are right there in your knowledge. If you know nothing as your question seems to indicate, then this is probably not a venture you really wish to enter. In general: Plans: You need to sit down and write a business plan, you need to know what kind of VR you are going to make. Equipment: You are going to need computers, and probably some very powerful ones, VR is very graphics intensive and large files and code, so plan on spending 49% of your budget here. Personel: Programmers, graphic designers, QA, the list goes on, you will need some, and they will need to be good at what they do, so expect to spend another 49% of your budget here. My advice is that if you are not already a computer type guy, working in a place that does this type of work, or something similar, then you need to find a partner who is, and let them help you.

Start by building your own web site, and make it look/work perfectly. You aren't going to get anyone to hire you if your own site looks shoddy! WordPress is probably your best bet as there are enough plugins to handle whatever your first few clients will want, and the community is there to help if you get in a bind. Joomla, Expression Engine and the like are a bit more complex to start. Steer clear of e-commerce as well, as there are too many things you need to be familiar with in order to build a secure, compliant site. The last thing you want is to have a site you built hacked, as you will be on the hook for any damages. Start with friends/family if you can, at least they will be a bit forgiving if you screw something up - a paying client will not be. There are so many developers out there, the chances they will pick an inexperienced one over a guy with 10 years experience who only charges $5/hr are slim - and there are thousands of overseas developers who fit that bill. You most likely won't be able to compete on the web or on sites like Upwork at first, so really try to get some referral business as that is what will really make you money down the road. As you build more sites and have a portfolio, you'll be able to get work easier.

Your question is very vague.... What are you looking for in "MLM" a way to track sales of each of the people? ODOO is a ERP system, what it tracks is up to you, and how you configure it. Another you might look at is one I support ERPNext. In the end you should come back with more info in your question, be more specific about what you want, and tell us what you think an MLM module should do for you.

In short No. There are laws that if you sell to anyone within a particular state in the U.S. you must obey each state's tax laws. However for the majority of the tax laws the exception (loop hole) is in the digital services realm - where you can claim income as 'advisory / non-physical services' and not pay in any of the states except for your own. If you are incorporated in a particular state you do have to pay taxes there - regardless of where you 'conduct business from' you are operating out of PA. I don't think you have to pay federal (unless your income surpasses their bracket which I think is $100k+ for those residing outside U.S. i.e. military contractors) But you do have to pay PA state income taxes that's why is wise to incorporate any form of business in states with the lowest tax brackets such as Delaware, Wyoming, Nevada...

Assuming your merchants 1) use web analytics, and 2) are honest, you could simply 'tag' people coming from your site in a way that your merchants will see in their analytics. In this way your merchants will be able to see how many tagged people went through their funnel and made a purchase. To tag people you can use Urchin Tracking Modules (UTM). Here's Google's UTM creation tool: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en Without UTM codes, once people get past a landing page, they all look the same, and are indistinguishable in analytics (i.e. useless for what you want). With UTM links on your site, your merchants can track people coming from your site all the way through their funnel. It tracks returning users too, so even if they don't buy on their first visit to the merchant's site, they should still be tagged if they return and purchase later.

This isn't something I've done personally, and I'm not the right guy to walk you through it. But it should be possible. Online I see some public discussion about how to do such things with Microsoft Rewrite and IIS. Apart from URL rewriting, by using host headers, you can even allow white-label customers their own themes.

Great question, this is something that can be handled with a proper deal structure involving some vendor financing. I recently did a video about this very topic for one of my YouTube followers. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/hWm4ZQxWlEw You basically make the vendor's outstanding gift certificates a 'currency' which can be used by the buyer to repay the vendor loan. It's a net-sum game for the seller since he's already received the cash without having to provide the goods or services. Hope this helps. Feel free to schedule a call anytime you have a question about business transactions. David

Why does your original goal have to be unattainable? Figure out another way to generate the money to go to your MBA school. That should draw you on. Honestly, you pick up the pieces by picking up the pieces. Wallowing in self-pity is pointless. We all go through ups and downs. If you get beaten once and give up, you won't be a winner. The key is in the getting up again. Every day there are goals which have plans for their attainment invalidated by events. The planners keep the goal...and come up with new plans to reach them. Perhaps a review of Think And Grow Rich will help you. It has been a goal of mine to be a public figure. During the years I was 27 - 30, 4 full years, I bent my entire life towards becoming a council member in my home town. I kept a fairly easy management job so I could focus on evening activities supporting reaching my goal. I joined fraternal organizations and rose in them. I was appointed to and participated heavily in committees of council. I produced press in the local papers and got the city's non-profits and business groups talking, and more. I viewed this as no less than a "life purpose" thing. The 2005 election came and went...and as if I had been standing at train platform, waiting for the thing to come along that was so important to me, only to find that it blew on past without stopping--I lost. If you feel anything like the sense of loss and confusion I felt at that moment...after 4 years of deliberate, consistent effort, and rising high in the related fields...coming so close to what I desired, only to have it fly away...then I understand how you're feeling right now. The goal didn't change, but the means of achieving it did. It took at least three years for the sense of bitterness to fade. I moved thousands of miles away to a different country. I changed jobs and got an entirely new focus. But the goal didn't change. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and ask yourself: What out of the MBA education is what I really want? Is it the diploma? Is it the skillset? Is it the prestige? Is it the key to unlocking some great job opportunities? Is it something else? I'll bet you can learn and apply whatever these things are some other way...or you can figure out how to get back on top and afford the program. First thing to do is get your head straight. You know the old homily, and I am not usually one to repeat them, but it is apt for you: The Man Who Thinks He Can by Walter D. Wintle If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world we find Success being with a fellow's will; It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are: You've got to think high to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the one who thinks he can.

Yes, you absolutely can have your virtual office wherever you wish for public facing correspondance. it is a good idea for your registered agent to be where you are incorporated. Most of your customers will not know the name of the corporation (unless writing a check to you or become a vendor for you), and when they do, they wont care. Any official documents will go to the registered agent. I suggest you also set up your business account with bank of america or wells fargo etc where they have brances in every major city. Besides the address there are other things to consider when setting up a virtual headquarters I am happy to discuss with you. Set up a call.

Start off with what you have written: Identify his message and mission. From what you write it sounds like his speaking presence is the way to go with this; maybe filming live presentations and selling them off as web/video. Or you could help him ghostwrite a book, and publish it yourselves on Amazon. Or he could become known in a youth program or some other type of charity, summercamps about baseball or something similar. With regards to message and mission, you could go in different directions with this, although they should most likely circle around one of these themes: - How he has transformed the MLB-experience into life lessons - How MLB has helped him become a different person (“Ugly duckling”-theme): - War stories from the dugout/lockerroom. A few ideas could be: - Life story: How did he become and MLB-player? So few become that at any level – what took him all the way? Physical gifts? Persistence? Grit from his childhood? Everybody loves a life story like that. - What has the MLB-experience taught him about life? Which tools from his career has helped him after retiring? - How do you maximize the chances to succeed in the big leagues? A How to-story for minor leaguers and college players to follow. - How to learn to hit a baseball? Document how his mind works. For the interested, that would be fascinating if told correctly. I think if you start off with 3-4 themes like these, he could become a motivational speaker. You could also limit this to pure MLB-war-stories, which would probably lower the volume of followers, but it would be a dedicated group. Then the themes could be more specialized also, f.ex.: - How I won the Silverslugger. - How I became a great hitter. - The numbers revolution in baseball – a view from the hitters box. (His view of statistics and its impact on modern baseball). Good luck with your positioning. These are just ideas I came up with while writing this response. If you want more or want to discuss these further, feel free to set up a call. Best regards Kenneth Wolstrup

Take half the money and start a business, it will likely fail. You will also learn a great deal. Take the other half of what you would have spent on university and start your next business. You will have a better outcome. I spent 10 years after getting my BBA degree un-learning what I was taught. Even though the degree is in Entrepreneurship, the majority of your credits will be preparing you for middle management in a Fortune 500 company. If you want to be an Entrepreneur, be one. Schedule a call if you'd like to bounce any ideas off me. Cheers Dave

1. Boise Cleaning Fairy, we sell residential & move out cleans. 2. We had no brand, no clients, no cleaning experience. 3. We wanted more customers. To do this we focused on review platforms that had very little competition. The top Yelp cleaner only had 7 reviews, the top Thumbtack cleaner only had 29 reviews, the top Google+ local page had 50 reviews. 4. After the clean was done, we asked the client if they were happy. If they were, we offered them $25 off to leave us a review on either Yelp, Thumbtack, or Google+ (because me & my cofounder were doing the cleans ourselves, this didn't even cost us anything). The end result is we became the #1 rated cleaning service in Idaho within 6 months and went $0-$10k/mo revenue. And we were only spending maybe $200/mo on advertising.

Expertise: I currently run a high performing referral channel with several million invites every year. As you build out your growth strategy it’s important to identify the main “macro” conversion. This is an action that you need users to take to make the product successful. In your case, the product goal is - get multiple people to commit to buying a single product. On the other side of this, your customer’s goal is - to get a deep discount on a product. On the surface it would seem that the more comprehensive way to get users to invite others to your service is to get them to go in on buying a product together. This would mean that you want to build your growth features around sharing product pages. However, one might consider that while friends and family might be buying same offer for things like food, activities and experiences, they might not be willing to buy the exact same shoes, dress or pants. That said, you seem to be on the right track with the referral link plan. The key to getting people to invite others is to clearly showcase the functionality and benefits. a) Triggers - you need multiple placements from which to invoke the invite flow. Product page to display -10% price with CTA to share ("Get this product for 10% by inviting friends) Home page (“Make your next purchase 10% by getting your friends to sign up and buy”) Emails promoting the program. b) Landing page that clearly explains the program (“Get $30 to spend when your friends join and buy”) c) 2-sided benefits, consider clearly offering something to the invitee other than your great group buying prices (“Invite your friends and you both get 10% off your next purchase") On the technical level for Facebook sharing you might want to consider Messenger vs. Wall Posts. While you might think that you’re getting more reach with a wall post, consider that Facebook algorithm is not very kind and your shared post might not get seen much. Direct messages on the other hand are user-to-user. They have a very high likelihood of getting opened and lead to much better clickthrough. This might be quite a bit to build on your own and you might want to experiment with a service like Extole. I haven’t used them myself, but I’ve recently reviewed their offering and it seems like a good way to get a new referral program started. Lastly, don’t discount email invites. They still perform really well in terms of engagement and can be fairly simple to set up with a mailer and a well optimized template. Most important - figure out what kind of numbers work for you. It’s easy to get a referral program get out of hand in terms of cost if you’re finding that your payback period is of significant length. Feel free to schedule a call if you would like to discuss further.

I am not a lawyer, and I suggest you get one and ask this question of them. When you have the lawyer write up the contract the best thing is to probably include a non-discloser agreement in it, that way they cannot disclose the workings of your code. Next you will want the contract to say they are just licensig your code, they do not own it, they cannot change your code and resell it, nor can they reverse engineer it to re-create and sell it. Those would be a couple of things to talk to the lawyer about. The lawyer will probably have more, the big thing is you want a contract that keeps this customer from taking your code and changing it to sell as something different. Goog luck, and get that lawyer.

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What I've seen be incredibly effective is to gate the webinars and offer them for email addresses. At this point you can drop these prospects into a highly targeted drip campaign. To use this most effectively you would want multiple webinars for each persona you are targeting and segment them by the stage in the funnel (education, buy ready, etc.) they're most useful for. This way, by simply watching the webinar, the prospect gives you the information you need to market to them effectively.