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Is it worth it starting an ecommerce business now?

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Ripul Chhabra

AI & MVP Expert

As the business environment and economy can vary drastically from one area to the next. That being said, if you're thinking of starting an ecommerce business, there are a few things to keep in mind: 1. Make sure you have a good product - If your products aren't good enough, no amount of marketing will help them sell. Make sure you're always testing and tweaking your products to make sure they're of the highest quality possible. 2. Be prepared for a long haul - Starting an ecommerce business is definitely not a quick fix - it's going to take a lot of hard work and dedication over time to see any real growth. Don't expect things to be easy from the get-go - it will take patience and perseverance on your part. 3. Get organized and stay on top of things - Running an ecommerce business requires a lot of diligence and organization - make sure you have everything under control from start to finish so that everything runs smoothly. Whether or not starting an ecommerce business is right for you is ultimately up to you - but these tips should help get you started in the right direction!

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Meeting Planning

How do you start a client meeting?

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Natasha Christine

Clarity Expert

Are you referring to doing an intake call, discovery call, sales call...?

Ripul Chhabra

AI & MVP Expert

There are a lot of different ecom/business niches that can be sold both as products and services or experiences. Some of the most common ones include: 1. Home and family services - This includes things like house cleaning, pet-sitting, and grocery deliveries. 2. Services for the creative industry - This includes things like photography, graphic design, and web development. 3. Fitness and wellness services - This includes things like personal training, yoga classes, and meditation classes. 4. Services related to food - This includes things like cooking classes, grocery delivery, and meal preparation services. 5. Services related to home improvement - This includes things like painting, carpentry, and renovation work. 6. Services related to pets - This includes things like dog walking, cat boarding, and dog daycare services. 7. Services related to children - This includes things like daycare, preschools, and after-school programs. There are endless possibilities when it comes to niche marketing for ecom/businesses. As long as you have a good idea of what you're selling and how you can sell it better than your competition, you're on your way to success! For any further questions, you can schedule a call so I can help you with my ecommerce experience.

Kamal Sharma

Clarity Expert

There is a tremendous amount of buzz surrounding content marketing and its need within a brand’s overall marketing strategy. Doing content marketing is much more than publishing on your blog occasionally and posting your thoughts on social media. “Do stuff and maybe it will work” is not a strategy, it is a gamble. A risky and expensive one, at that. Even so, many brands have yet to create an effective content marketing strategy. What does such a strategy look like? Where are the examples of brands doing it well? Here, I will show you examples of an effective content marketing strategy and offer ways for you to craft your own for your business. What is Content Marketing Content marketing’s purpose is to attract and retain customers by consistently creating and curating relevant and valuable content with the intention of changing or enhancing consumer behavior. It is an ongoing process that is best integrated into your overall marketing strategy, and it focuses on owning media, not renting it. This generation of customers are taking drastic steps to avoid marketing messages. As consumers, we use DVRs to skip television ads, pay internet radio subscription fees to avoid commercials, mentally block out — or use plug-ins to avoid — internet click ads, and gloss over road-side billboards, rendering them useless and ineffective. So how are marketers supposed to combat this shift? Education. Consumers are still buying and making purchases, but the way they go about making a decision has changed. With all of the world’s information at their finger tips, savvy consumers are doing enormous amounts of learning and self-education before stepping into a showroom or talking to a salesperson. Knowing this is a huge opportunity for brands. If you know consumers are looking for information, be the source of that information. Not with sales-y content that puts your priorities before theirs, but information that the buyer really wants and needs. The Marketing and Sales Departments must align to create a buying path for this new era of consumers that provides authentic and transparent information about a product or service (the mission of Marketing) and closing the sale (the mission of Sales). Content marketing closes this gap by using brand-created educational content to satisfy the prospective buyer while helping the sales team convert anonymous visitors into buyers. Thought leaders and marketing experts from around the world, including the likes of Seth Godin and hundreds of the leading thinkers in marketing have concluded that content marketing isn’t just the future, it’s the present (see the video below on the history of content marketing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OHgMMpGLzk The key ingredient to using content to attract new customers is in the advanced planning. The strategy. What is a Content Marketing Strategy A content marketing strategy is a roadmap; a “User’s Guide” to how your brand will do the following: - Meet the customer at their specific point within their buying cycle - Align the customer’s needs with your knowledge and expertise - Use your brand’s assets to meet these objectives Business-to-Business marketers who have a documented content marketing strategy are 66% more likely to consider themselves effective compared to only 11% of those without a documented strategy. A content marketing plan helps you see the end-game before you have even started. Further, it gives a clear, articulable vision for your entire team and keeps you on track throughout the campaign. Just like New Years resolutions often fade into a foggy memory, our intentions are good – but we allow resolutions to fail. To be successful in any strategy, we need to be intentional. For proper sales and marketing alignment, and for the success of your bottom line, you must have a plan in place. How to Start Your Content Strategy The framework of a content marketing strategy is fairly straight forward: - Who are you targeting? What are their needs? - How are you going to reach them? (Attract new and nurture existing) - What content do you have now to get started? - What is your plan to develop and share more - How will you measure your efforts 1. Personas Take some time to consider who you are targeting. Are they male or female? Does it matter? Do they have a career? Children? Are they affluent? Coupon cutters? What are their goals? What happens if they do not reach them? Is their a monetary penalty for them? Will meeting this goal further their career? Will it make them happy? Clearly defining your targeted personas will save you a lot of time, energy, and money as you continue your business. With this person in mind, your content marketing strategy will begin to fall into place and you will feel that you are having a conversation with this “person”, rather than blindly throwing stuff out there. 2. Outreach Content marketing and social media are often used synonymously. This is a mistake. Content marketing is a broad method of marketing whereas social media is a tool that complements getting your content seen. Imagine your website as your online hub, where all of your brand-controlled content resides, your social media profiles are spokes that lead back to your home base. Social media has the power to reach incredible numbers of potential customers, influencers, existing customers, and even the opportunity to convert customers from competitors. Social media, in and of itself, is not content marketing. It is one of your outreach tools. 3. Available Content Next, take stock of materials you have on hand already. Many of us sit in offices filled with brochures, flyers, handouts, manuals, and documents loaded with helpful information, but we do little to extend that information to potential customers on the web. Make a list of the content available to you immediately and start identifying which persona is most aligned, where they are within their sales process, and what pain point they are currently facing. Getting started, you can use what you have on hand. But I recommend expecting this low-hanging fruit to run out. You should plan on developing your own, unique content. For a number of reasons, search engines reward fresh, unique content. Further, your prospective customers will be looking for information that is not available everywhere. Your unique perspective and “voice” (the tone in which you talk, the way you communicate, and what you share) may be the first experience a prospective customer has with you. This is the beginning of a long business relationship. 4. Schedule and Share Your Content After you have compiled your educational materials, grab a calendar. I recommend looking out 3-4 months to start. Mark holidays, special events, and milestones. Working backwards, prepare your marketing message for these campaigns. For example, one client of ours hosts 4-5 annual sales. They all surround major US holidays (New Years, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving/Black Friday). By knowing this, it is easy for us to prepare everything from banner ads, Pinterest images, blog posts, Facebook Status, videos, and even newspaper ads (don’t shoot the messenger). Once you have those events marked, consider a “theme” of the week for those 3-4 months. With that theme, and your personas in mind, write out the following for each week: - 2 Blog Posts - 8-10 Facebook updates - 20-30 Twitter updates - 4-5 product photos for Pinterest - 3-4 Instagram ideas - 1 Video By no means is this list all-inclusive. It is a starting point to get you thinking about how to plan content. To get a specific content marketing plan designed for your brand, I need to interview you and understand your goals, personas, and timeline. 5. Analytics Finally, how are you going to measure your work? Remember when we set up our goals earlier? Were you specific in identifying how many leads you want to generate? “Get more leads” is a horrible strategy, better is “Gain 50 new leads by September 1st” or “increase from 6% conversion rate to 12% conversion rate” These types of goals are easily measured and tracked. Do you have a mechanism in place to measure, monitor, and gauge your efforts? Further, do you have the right people on your team to help you know what is working and what is not? Can you explain why certain marketing dollars are generating a return on your investment while others fall flat? Final Thoughts Just like runners know the course of the race before they start, your brand should know the route you will take to your finish line. Having a strong content marketing strategy in place will ensure your team is setup for success. I'm happy to help and provide more specifics. All the best, -Shaun Shaun Nestor

Samuel Lai

Tax Expert| Tax Planner| Entrepreneur

It depends on the type of business product or service. If it is a service basis company, and all the services have been done by the owners in PR, then the income would be not the U.S source of income. International tax is one of my expertise. My tax firm, SBS Tax and Consulting Services, works closely with foreigners who own businesses in the U.S. Therefore, I can answer any tax questions you may have.

Ripul Chhabra

AI & MVP Expert

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Brendon Fields

Top 10 Amazon Seller | Founder of Rebaid.com

This is a common challenge for e-commerce brands. Amazon sales can quickly grow and account for an excessive percentage of total revenue leading to concentration risk. So diversifying your revenue sources is important but not always easy to accomplish. If you're operating your own e-commerce website, Google will be your main source of traffic and sales. A combination of effective PPC advertising and SEO is essential to generate substantial revenue to your store. On the SEO side, the best way to growth hack your way to page 1 of google is co-marketing. Contact other established businesses that offer products commonly paired with yours, but not competitors. For example if you sell grill cleaner, contact grill manufactures. Suggest a co-marketing deal where you post a blog article with backlink to their site, and vice-versa. This will allow you to quickly grow your backlink profile with links and traffic coming from relevant sites. Your store will begin rising in the Google search results and you'll see an increase in sales. You'll also start getting the attention of distributors who will be essential to getting your product in B&M stores! Best of luck!

Shubham Kumar

Microsoft Technology and Networking Expert

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Ryan Draving

I Grow B2B SaaS. Clients: Hubspot, QuickBooks...

Hi, by "story writing" do you mean you're writing fiction stories / books? If so, I can give you fast tips in 15 minutes, tops - no need to go longer. In the past 12 days I've written 37,000 words of a book using AI to turn my own experience into rapid, high quality content, and can show you how to do that. --- Minor note: I can connect you to a person who markets books without charging (he takes a cut of the book sales) if you're trying to bring your book to market.

Stuart Prestedge

Software startup advisor, mentor & coach

Hi Valentin, Have you considered splitting the research phase and the development phase? You can quote a fixed amount for the research phase (I'm sure you can estimate this in weeks and take the hit if you go over). You can say to the client that you will quote the development once the research phase is over. Plus, they can take the research phase output to other providers if you do not or cannot do the work or the quote is too much. Call me to discuss further if it helps. Kind regards Stuart

Software Project Management

How to estimate and charge for software development

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Ryan Draving

I Grow B2B SaaS. Clients: Hubspot, QuickBooks...

Hi Valentin, For projects that are fairly open-ended, you can provide a fixed quote that takes into account enough buffer to ensure you are safe. The downside is that could mean losing the opportunity due to having a price that's not competitive. However, that's better than risking your business / layoffs on what could become a wildly unprofitable project. There are plenty more ways to go about it, but in the end it's going to come down to either (1) determining the price where you feel you have derisked enough to make the potential reward worthwhile, or (2) seeing if someone with experience in the project area can give you a more accurate estimate. Wish you well with this! Ryan

Ripul Chhabra

AI & MVP Expert

There are a many ways to setup payment in online marketplace. Here are a few examples: 1. Use a credit card processing service - This is the most common way to handle payments, and it's easy to set up. You just need to sign up with a reputable company and enter your billing and shipping information. 2. Set up a gateway account - A gateway account is a type of payment account that allows you to take credit or debit card payments online. This is a good option if you want to accept payments from a large number of customers simultaneously. 3. Use PayPal - PayPal is one of the most popular payment methods online, and it's easy to set up. Just sign up for an account, add your business information, and start accepting payments. Whatever payment method you choose, make sure to keep your billing and shipping information accurate so that customers have an easy time paying for your services. And last but not least, remember to keep your business running smoothly by keeping an eye on expenses and making necessary adjustments as needed!

Ripul Chhabra

AI & MVP Expert

In order to calculate combined velocity, you need to know the total amount of time that each team is spending on the story, as well as how much work they are producing per hour. Then, you can divide this number by the number of hours in a day, and multiply this figure by 100 to get your combined velocity.

Ryan Draving

I Grow B2B SaaS. Clients: Hubspot, QuickBooks...

Investors are notoriously fickle - they scare easily. It's a survival instinct, and it keeps good firms alive. That said, this is certainly not a huge red flag - just a yellow one to proactively address. If the split wasn't publicized as one over fundamental inability to work together well, you should be able to get over that speed bump. Your Chair and advisors are probably right though - I'm answering based on limited data, and when you get enough people in the room saying something, it could be a sign that there's more to it than we may be seeing on the surface. Or it could be related to other motivations they have for keeping you out of the business. If you want to chat it through feel free to let me know. Ryan

Ripul Chhabra

AI & MVP Expert

There's no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the funniest way to introduce a high-end sticker to an art market will vary depending on the art market in question. However, some general tips that may be useful include, creating buzz around the sticker in advance by posting about it on social media and other platforms, arranging a showcase or presentation where potential buyers can see and touch the sticker, and giving away free stickers to people who are interested in purchasing them.

Kenneth

Apasionado por crear comunidades digitales.

Puedes desarrollar una unidad de negocio o crear un producto externo. Algo como hace Microsoft (Microsoft teams, outlook, etc) o como hace Alibaba que es un holding empresarial (aliexpress, alipay, etc). En cuanto acciones,si es algo que se crea de la misma empresa. No todos los que trabajen en el proyecto pueden tenerlo. Todo depende de la política de la empresa. Si deseas crea una startup funciona así normalmente: 25% futuros empleados, 35% rondas de inversión, 40% inversores (puede ser variable).

Ripul Chhabra

AI & MVP Expert

Yes, there are quality services that can help fix your spam issues. However, before you can hire a spam removal service, you first need to identify the source of your spam. There are a number of ways to do this, including using anti-spam software or tools, checking for unusual email addresses or domains in your email traffic, and looking for known spammer tactics such as automated SpamAssassin rules violations. Once you have identified the source of your spam, you can then contact a spam removal service to take care of it. Yes, there are quality services that can help you fix your spam issues. However, before you choose a service, it is important to understand the different types of spam and how they are created. Once you have a better understanding of the different types of spam and how they are created, you can make an informed decision about which service is best for your needs. There are two main types of spam - automated and unsolicited email. Automated spam is spam that is sent automatically by a computer without human input. Unsolicited email (UEM) is spam that is sent without the person sending it having asked for the recipient's email address. There are several ways to deal with automated and unsolicited email - some services will simply remove the email from your server, while others will send an automated message to the sender informing them that their email has been blocked for violating our terms of service.

Henry Mosley

Content writer

While admissions counselors may read a few parts of your college essay, you shouldn't lie. While you may be tempted to make things up to impress them, this is not a good idea. Instead, you should show them that you truly have special skills or interests that set you apart from other applicants. If you need help, you can contact https://writemypapers4me.net/ service, I used it myself, and everything was fine. Don't oversell yourself, but make sure to talk about them honestly and show them why you're a great fit for Notre Dame. While you may want to show your sense of humor, you shouldn't lie or embellish your essay. Although some essays might be funny, keep the tone clean and businesslike. Colleges don't know who will be reading them, so avoid anything that will make them uncomfortable. Don't write about subjects that will make people uncomfortable, such as drug use or illegal activities. Instead, focus on things that you have already accomplished.

Ripul Chhabra

AI & MVP Expert

Yes! Here are a few more tips that may be useful when planning and hosting a virtual conference or online event: 1. Choose a date that is both feasible and convenient for participants - You don't want your conference to be too difficult to attend, or too inconvenient for participants. Choose a date that is both reasonable and accommodating. 2. Decide on the type of event you would like to host - There are many different types of virtual events available, including webinars, web conferences, video conferencing, and roundtables. choose the type of event that will best suit your needs and the interests of your participants. 3. Choose the right platform - Once you have decided on the type of event you would like to host, you need to find the right platform. There are many different platforms available, and it can be difficult to decide which one is best for your needs. Consider what features are necessary for your event, as well as how easy it will be for participants to access and participate in your event. 4. Plan Ahead - One of the most important factors when planning an event is preparing ahead. Make sure to have all the necessary materials ready (speakers’ bios, initial agenda items, questions for panelists), as well as any promotional materials (posters, flyers). This will help ensure smooth execution of your event and minimal disruption during its run.

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Vaibhav Panchal

Sales person turned into Entrepreneur.

Drop Shipping businesses are good to start with. Handling the business from a garage or home per se is always a better way to start business. Before entering into such businesses make sure you are way clear about the commissions from each portal (Amazon, Alibaba, Etsy, etc) are giving away. Reading the fine print in their terms will always be helpful. Stay consistent,stay focussed and keep hustling. Ofcourse would be happy to understand more about the portfolio you would be trying to manage and products that you would like to sell. Always happy to assist. Happy Selling.

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Alex Marshi

Writer, financial counselor, digital marketer

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