Journalist, writer, publisher, blogger
Hey. I think there is no perfect essay writing service, since I tried a lot of them in my student years. What can I tell you, choosing a good service is not difficult if you pay attention to three components: price, quality and reviews. The latter is especially important, as you should see real results from real students like you. So first of all, look at the reviews. I myself can advise reading reviews here http://papercoachreviews.com, since I already took work from them. Good luck with your training!
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
If you feel that Clarity isn’t secure enough for your needs, you’re welcome to use another platform. Also, if you have something that’s extremely private, your welcome to use another platform. Clarity is a great platform with great customer support. I’ve needed them numerous times and they’ve always been super responsive and helpful. I only wish they promoted the platform even more. Good luck
Entrepreneur and Strategist, COO, CFO
Shopify already has the feature to connect you as a store owner to the wholesalers/dropshippers so that you only need to discover from their network and put them on your e-commerce site. In terms of financial needs, you could ask suppliers for payment term so that you can get paid first and pay them later. This will limit the financial needs for inventory.
Consultant on Business & Political Strategy
Thank you for asking this question! As someone who has owned multiple small-medium sized businesses, I know the importance of managing purchases in relation to cash flow. I prioritize the following when considering this question in relation to my own businesses. 1. Cash Flow-It is critical that you manage your ordering and expenditures as much as possible. For example, one of my businesses in the hospitality industry does a smaller business during the summer due to tourism taking away revenue whereas business booms during the fall and winter. There are two ways to consider this. You can either prioritize lean ordering/purchasing decisions in order to maintain a healthy margin during the summer months or you could use the summer months as a time to make necessary upgrades/purchases; especially if there are deals during that season. For example, I plan to make some upgrades this summer that will not be covered by summer revenues BUT I have put money to the side for these projects since September. 2. Customer Habits-Some items sell much better seasonally. For example, in the bar business, I generally place my liquor orders early in the week, have them delivered on Thursday’s in anticipation of the weekend rush, and pay the bill on Monday or Tuesday. This way, I get the benefit of the weekend’s credit card batches in the account before paying and I get the bill taken care of right away. During the summer, for example, I order less often and less of a quantity per order. 3. Purchasing-Big ticket items, briefly mentioned before, are often difficult to manage for small to medium sized businesses. As I stated before, I find it is vital to plan these projects in advance as much as possible and to create a buffer in the business account to cover unexpected purchases. The size of that account depends largely on the type of business and the rental agreement/real estate situation. This is less of a concern for my E-commerce businesses because they require much less monthly cash flow to run and there are generally no real estate expenses associated with operating them. If you have any follow up questions, please feel free to ask. You’re also welcome to schedule a call for us to discuss your specific needs in further depth.
Founder, Author, Business and Life Coach
Hone decor / furniture industry is one of the highest profit promising industry today. The profit margins on home decor ranges from 20% - 45% depend on the price of the product. If you're looking to get quickly popular, I suggest you start with the online store and promote it on offline as well. Keep the margins low initially so that you can attract more buyers. As the business grows, reinvest the amount back on the business so that you can stock more varieties. All the very best.
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
Hi, This is a huge question and one that I often get asked - from various aspects (investors, founders, service providers...). General answer: there is no 'magic percentage' that a founder should hold - it all "depends" on the founders, on the investors, on the size of the investment, the industry and 10 other things. For example, the larger the share value, the lower amount of shares founder's are usually willing to have. Or if there are more founder's then each founder understands that they'll hold less shares. Or if it's an investor's market (wasn't until a few ago, now it is again - Corona virus...) then founder's know they will be expected to give up more. and more and more situations...so it depends. As with any business deal, an investment is a negotiation, and you need to (1) know the market, (2) know the other side's interests/needs and (3) know what you want and what your BATNA/red line is. If you read the other side well, you will know how many shares are enough for him to 'have skin in the game; Also, in your example you need to remember 2 important things: a. If there are 4 founders and you give one more %, then there will always be a feeling of inequality which will lead to problems. b. On the other hand, If there is an equal division (25% each), this will lead to a deadlock in decision making. If you really need a rule of thumb (even though there is NO one solution fits all), then it would be this: whatever the founder's ask for in their pitch, add 20%-30% to the shares that the investor gets or deduct 20%-30% from the amount requested. But again: I don't like this solution and it may create a win-lose feeling (win for investor-lose for founder's) which will eventually cause tensions. So if you're going to invest, but as well trust the team, and give them close to what they're asking unless the financial numbers don't justify it (a lot of first time entrepreneurs don't know how to do the numbers properly). I teach negotiations, and do tens of them each week. Happy to help you with them, and happy to refer startups to you (if you tell me what stage you invests, amounts, fields etc). I've successfully helped over 350 entrepreneurs, startups and businesses, and I would be happy to help you. After scheduling a call, please send me some background information so that I can prepare in advance - thus giving you maximum value for your money. Take a look at the great reviews I’ve received: https://clarity.fm/assafben-david
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
Although this isn't my area of expertise, I've asked a colleague of mine who is one of the top lawyers in this field, and I'll get back to you once he does. Just private message you so that I can respond (these questions are posted anonymously). I've successfully helped over 300 entrepreneurs, startups and businesses, and I would be happy to help you. After scheduling a call, please send me some background information so that I can prepare in advance - thus giving you maximum value for your money. Take a look at the great reviews I’ve received: https://clarity.fm/assafben-david
Agile Transformation Coach | Program Manager
It depends on their business model. I have experienced some apps a) just add on user base so that they can monetize the app as an asset . So they do not charge anything for the app or within the app b) Some use advertisements within the app
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
1. Similar things exist - like Houzz. But that doesn't mean there isn't a need - see point 5. 2. Probably a progressive web app (this is an app that's actually a website but looks like an app). It really depends on the key functions that you need. 3 + 4: I would not buy products and then sell them. Too much of a logistics and liability issue - unless it's drop shipping. Revenue streams: affiliate programs (for selling products), eCommerce (sale of specific products that are easy to store and ship), advertising, selling leads...lots... 5. See my answer on how to do market validation here: https://clarity.fm/questions/6423/how-do-you-do-market-research I've successfully helped over 300 entrepreneurs, startups and businesses, and I would be happy to help you. After scheduling a call, please send me some background information so that I can prepare in advance - thus giving you maximum value for your money. Take a look at the great reviews I’ve received: https://clarity.fm/assafben-david
Business Strategy
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Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
I don't need 3. The first and only thing that you should do is a Proof of Concept (POC) / market validation. Only if it shows positive results, should you move on to the next stages (MVP, funding, founder's etc - depending what you already have/don't have). You can read how to do the validation in one of my previous answers here: https://clarity.fm/questions/6423/how-do-you-do-market-research You can also have I've successfully helped over 300 entrepreneurs, startups and businesses, and I would be happy to help you. After scheduling a call, please send me some background information so that I can prepare in advance - thus giving you maximum value for your money. Take a look at the great reviews I’ve received: https://clarity.fm/assafben-david
A semi jack of all trades in Business, Auto, Tech
Yes, Toontastic appears to be the best app to use and it was developed by Google.
Techstars-backed Founder & Engineer
I am not a lawyer and you should talk to a lawyer for professional legal advice. That being said, I would assume you won't run into any issues because you are creating original art instead of taking art someone else made and passing it off as your own. There is a chance the celebrities you paint will be delighted and actually share your work within their online communities! Let me know if you want to chat more about getting this up and running.
Techstars-backed Founder & Engineer
Any relevant certification can help your business in my opinion. This will help show your clients you know what you're doing. Providing a high quality product will always help your business more than any certification can, but a certification can help you get your foot in the door. I'm happy to go into more detail about your business if you want. Feel free to reach out!
Business Strategy
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I’ll take it as a given you are operating a “brick & mortar” construction (equipment rental) business and with this, allow me to propose a few “flexible” marketing moves, you may consider (online or offline): 1. PUBLICITY/PUBLIC RELATIONS - Online or social media write-ups; Offline publication write-ups 2. ADVERTISING - Online: paid search/display narrow-focused to your locality/chosen demographic; Offline: local media (e.g. cable) 3. TRADE SHOWS/EXHIBITS - Benefits of taking part in these industry events (other than generating brand presence) include expanding your targeted leads “networking”/partnership opportunities, competitor check, business feedback, etc. BONUS: Business Listing (e.g. Google) is an often overlooked marketing tool (by many businesses with physical addresses) that you should maximize to increase your (foot/web) traffic and boost “conversion”. (If you want “SERIOUS” customers to at least visit or call your store, help them find you.) In a nutshell, you can always do marketing your way, the “ad hoc” way and right away (I.e. soon after reading this); but it’s ideal to have a basic business strategy in place. That’s why I review the backgrounds of businesses before providing recommendations. In the absence of such though, you may give a briefing (or fill a quick questionnaire), so we could come up with a marketing strategy, most relevant to your customers. This “strategic” approach to marketing (no matter how small your business) not only keeps your marketing efforts on track, enables you as the business owner or manager to make more “informed” decisions (e.g. from deciding on the font style of your business name to the copy of your directional store signs to the keywords you choose for your SEO, etc.) but it also optimizes your resources, translating your marketing spend into investments rather than costs to grow your business. I hope you have gained useful inputs and let me know if you wish to explore this discussion further. Success!
Facebook Advertising
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Digital Marketing Consultant
Hi Roger, You can set the process for running Facebook campaigns for many clients. There are few tools available which can be helpful to auto schedule your campaigns.
Fractional CTO
If you can find what you're looking for by using a Google API service, then the answer is yes. If you must scrape Google search results, Google is smarter than you or any developer, so will eventually figure out you're scrapping their data + completely block your IP. https://commoncrawl.org - provides an alternative, as they provide a massive corpus of crawled content from millions of sites... so... if there's no Google API which can provide you the data you're after, consider using the Common Crawl datasets.
Life/Business Strategist & Keynote Speaker
I’m a Business and Life Strategist with over 20 years of military service, and we’ve submitted numerous bids to government and commercial entities. If you’d like to partner with drug and background screening companies, first you need to develop a white paper to present a new product or service that your company developed or invented. If it’s not a new product or service, create a Capability Statement. It is a promotional or marketing statement about your business and its capabilities and skills that advertises who you are and what you do. Second, you’d need to locate their R&D Department or their contracting department. R&D Department are always looking to find ways to improve their company’s product, service, or business practices. Contracting Departments are responsible for find companies that can fulfill their company’s needs. Third step is to get your Capability Statement to them by email, regular mail, or fax. If you need any additional questions or assistance putting together your Capability Statement, feel free to contact me.
Experienced manager and startup founder in GCC.
I've lived in Dubai and crisscrossed the middle east on business. You are right, Dubai is the obvious choice and that's where I was based most of the time. It would have helped if you had mentioned more details about the type of business you are into. Dubai is a little expensive but unparalleled in certain aspects. People love to live there. It's full of talent and opportunities but also very competitive. Bahrain too is comparable in some ways and there is a lot of local talent here and it's cheaper to operate a business here. But there real answers will depend on what is your product? Will you need many local hires? Will you need large offices? Will you need to fly in and out often? Will you be dependent on hiring expat employees? Book a call with me and I'll help you with basic information. Regards, Asif
Business Consultant and Systems Expert
If this isn't a spam question... There are basically 3 ways to get better at writing: 1. Read. 2. Practice writing. 3. Learn the technical side of good writing. For reading you can read anything and it's actually a good idea to mix both fiction and non-fiction. Obviously if you want to get good at writing one particular thing, read more of that. For practicing writing you just need to write - a lot. Some of it will be rubbish. Some of it will be OK. Some of it will be amazing. The more you write, the more people read, and the more feedback you get, the better you will be at writing. For the technical side you can hope on any learning platform like Udemy and go through a writing course. Pick one that matches the genre of what you want to write about and then go through it. You'll learn the dos and don'ts, how to structure your pieces, how to properly edit, research, proofread and everything else. I personally like Dr Clare Lynch's courses on Udemy.
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
It is unclear what type of business you provide ("corporate rental business"). If you better describe the business, I'd be happy to give you some tips on how to provide them. Good luck I've successfully helped over 300 entrepreneurs, startups and businesses, and I would be happy to help you. After scheduling a call, please send me some background information so that I can prepare in advance - thus giving you maximum value for your money. Take a look at the great reviews I’ve received: https://clarity.fm/assafben-david
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
Hi This is indeed not an easy situation and I can understand your frustration. I could mention the various ways you could have avoided this, but this wouldn't be helpful at this point, so I'll skip it. Just please note that next time you develop something, talk to me before so I can help you prevent this situation. What CAN be done: 1. Send him one last email with both a 'carrot' and a 'stick' - meaning that if he gives you all the updated code you'll pay him X (do not pay anything upfront) (this is the carrot), and if he does not offer the code that you plan have spoken with a large private detective firm in China who also does cyber crime and you intend to invest your last remaining amounts on finding him and bringing him to justice for breach of agreement (before sending the email, make sure that you have backed up all copies of the code/materials and changed all passwords). 2. If you tell me more about the service/app, and if I think it has value, I can connect you with another company which might be willing to complete it for you in exchange for shares in the company. You would only have to pay for the drafting of the legal agreement. 3. Find another tech-co-founder who can complete it for you. There are many platforms for finding co-founders. Try look online, or during a call I could provide you with the information. Good luck I've successfully helped over 300 entrepreneurs, startups and businesses, and I would be happy to help you. After scheduling a call, please send me some background information so that I can prepare in advance - thus giving you maximum value for your money. Take a look at the great reviews I’ve received: https://clarity.fm/assafben-david
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
Exciting. Good luck. Information that would help (most are known but work): 1. Testimonials - super important. If you can get past clients to agree to give a short video testimonial - even better. 2. Logo/names of happy clients. 3. Easy to understand description of your services. 4. quick and easy contact method. 5. Why you're different to all the other agencies. 6. A unique offer - something that the others aren't - for example: 100% money back guarantee (not for the clicks just for the service fee). This clearly shows that you're confident in the quality of your skills/services. 7. A bit about you/the team - if you don't mind - add real pictures. Not just the regular serious profile pics...something personal. Don't forget about your TOU and PP and GDPR compliance (a headache but better dealing with it rather than paying fines later on). Good luck! I've successfully helped over 300 entrepreneurs, startups and businesses, and I would be happy to help you. After scheduling a call, please send me some background information so that I can prepare in advance - thus giving you maximum value for your money. Take a look at the great reviews I’ve received: https://clarity.fm/assafben-david
Fractional CTO
Two years is a lot of lost time fighting over $1000. The $1000 is only worth fighting over if the lost time involved could potentially less than $1000. Most credit card terms of service only allow for a short window to file + resolve disputes... sometimes 6 months... usually 3 months... so it's unlikely you can get this handled through normal channels. Alternative: If the $1000 is really worth continued time spend, then draft a letter to Barclay's CEO + all board members stating the problem + the exact resolution you'd like, which in your case will likely be a $1000 card balance credit. Tip: In the future, use PayPal, where you can more easily dispute charges.
Business Consultant and Systems Expert
I've been working with information products and online masterclasses for close to a decade now. You basically have a few options: 1. Host it yourself. 2. Host it on YouTube. 3. Host it on a MOOC, Udemy or something similar. The big differences between the 3 are pricing, control and setup. Pricing: If you host somewhere that isn't your own platform then you have very little control over pricing and how much you can charge. This is why you see masterclass creators charging $200-300 for courses but Udemy creators have their content sold for $10. Control: With your own platform you'll be able to control how the customer experience and navigation flow looks and feels. You'd also be able to set up the credit/a la carte system for payment. On other platforms you'll be limited. Setup: To host on your own platform requires a certain amount of technical know-how and there are also a lot of moving pieces - you'd have to setup web hosting, video hosting, some kind of cart or product delivery system as well as payment processing.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Business Consultant and Systems Expert
Not my exact area of expertise but we went through something similar here in Asia where sellers rushed to clear stock before the government stepped in with price and export controls. If you have the logistics set up already then you could quickly sell them on: * Facebook marketplace. * eBay. * Amazon yes, but run the risk of them closing down your account. * Local classifieds and Craigslist. * Reddit though just be wary of each subreddit's advertising policies. As for how to package them, the most popular configurations I have seen here are 5-packs or 10-packs as they need to be changed on a regular basis.