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How can I best advertise my book on pain relief?

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Humberto Valle

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I think the problem is not in pain relief but in using the words healing if you don't have data. Relief is measureable yes, but its also very subjective to the person. Take in consideration Chiropractors (citychiropractor.com) or Magnetic Physiotherapists (magneticphysiotherapy.com) - these services provide relief and maybe some healing but theres always debate on the validity of it all. If youre trying to sell a book, your problem wouldn't be FCC, it would be marketing it. My name is Humberto, I'm the founder of www.unthink.me and evangelist of a 100 Software Engineer team called BetaBulls. I have brought products to Shark Tank, and helped some quirky products get to market as well as helped countless startups. I hope my answer provided at least minimum clarity to you. Happy trails and best of luck!

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David Favor

Fractional CTO

Describe your goal for categories, as a starting point. Also answer where you'll define these categories. You mention YouTube + you might mean content categories on a WordPress site. If you're referring to a Website, also be sure to state whether you're primarily targeting natural search engine traffic or you're primarily using paid traffic. Provide more context + likely someone can assist.

Emma Green

Evidence-based fitness coach

I would not recommend using academic writing services. If you get caught you could forfeight your whole degree. It's not worth the risk. Instead, get some personalised one-to-one coaching to improve your writing. I offer these services if you are interested.

Humberto Valle

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I love this question! First off, congrats on the achievements thus far. My name is Humberto Valle, I'm the founder of www.Unthink.me, a small hybrid agency that brings big business solutions to small growing companies. I've helped bring some products to Shark Tank, helped political figures strategize exposure, and helped countless startups. I have a varied portfolio of investments and companies and I'm an evangelist for a 100 Software Engineer team called BetaBulls. Note that I am not a sports agent, your question, however, is more about the creativity of getting started. The very first thing you need is to assume you are an agent if you want to be. With that, the very first thing I would do is ask yourself who your most engaged followers follow - what sport? what athlete? Do you have any athletes as followers? Do they happen to be in the most engaged sport in your feed? Do you have any franchises following you? Even if they are minor, such as MLB and minor league baseball - for example in this sport the players can commonly bounce back and forth from major to minor - it might be easier to start with minor league for example. But what you need to do is not track athletes, if they are known to you - you have to assume they are known to existing and well-connected agents. What you need to do is build exposure and a good relationship with one or 2 franchises and get their direction on who they want, and you try to make it happen for them by finding that athlete, starting the conversation, etc. For the average agent, social media provides little value as far as signing athletes. What you need is the support of the franchises who back you up when you come up to an athlete with a proposal to get them a good deal. For now, it would be a good effort to change your profile info to state that you are an agent (even if you arent) same thing on your website and all other assets.

David Favor

Fractional CTO

You might consider a Kickstarter project.

David C

I help you buy, sell, plan, value a business

Yes, you need to sell something that earns you money beyond the YouTube advertising. I've had a channel for years and sell books, courses, Clarity calls and consulting. YouTube is a great platform for selling yourself and your expertise but as more people come on board, the revenues from advertising falls. Arrange a call if you'd like to brainstorm some ideas. Cheers. David C Barnett

Honey Jhunjhunwala

Business strategy advisor (MBA,BTech)

Play golf, join different sports like horse riding etc

Evan Weber

Digital Marketing Expert

I would seriously consider launching a blog and posting content of the same type to the blog, in abundance. Then add a popup box to the blog to collect email addresses. Post daily blog posts about topics related to your blog and your newsletter. If you do this consistently, over time, you will build up traffic to your blog and also get people entering their email into your popup. This is the free way to do it...

JC Garrett

Helping you plan/execute tech & sales strategies

There are a few resource spots you can consider, but I would strong recommend just sticking with what they offer directly on their site: https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing?v=7 https://www.twilio.com/voice/pricing (VIP or offbook pricing is a little harder to nail down since they are going to make a specific offer to you depending on volume and just how VIP you are haha. I've seen certain companies get as much as a 25-50% discount on top of the book prices for at least a short period of usage or after they meet certain volume requirements) As for the integration side, your search is going to depend on what type of connection you're trying to make. Integration with mobile? Integration with various 3rd party platforms (Salesforce etc)? Regardless, Twilio does have extensive API documentation available which helps developers understand if/how to best connect your platform and theirs. Doing a feasibility analysis for your idea could be as easily resolved as reviewing the Twilio message boards/documentation, or I've seen it require (in certain cases) an actual prototyping phase for both validation of the connection being made and to better scope out an accurate cost of the functional scope. I've helped 50+ new ventures over the years develop planning around their software needs including feasibility planning, platform diligence, functional specification documentation, project charters, cost analysis, business plans and fundraising pitch decks. If you'd like to connect to discuss/answer product-specific questions for Twilio integration or other product dev best practices feel free to reach out and suggest some times!

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Graphics design

Email marketing

Christopher (Chris)

I help entrepreneurs build businesses in tech

The Pomodoro method really is great, but it isn't the end all be all when it comes to time management. One of the important aspects of the Pomodoro method is that there is a clear start and stop time of your task. Another way that I like to use this methodology is with an app called brain.fm. It allows you to play brain wave music to help stimulate your productivity. That alone is good enough, but it also gives you a timer. Just focus on your task until the timer ends and the music stops. 30 minutes or an hour goes by in a flash when you're hyper-focused on a task. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Dr. Sean

Startup Canada's Mentor of the Year (2014)

What are some things that first time entrepreneurs should consider? In general or before quitting their day job? I wrote a book on this topic with legendary investor Brad Feld. We based it on hearing more than 20,000 opportunity pitches. On Dragons Den on Shark Tank and first hand in our decades in the seed stage startup industry. We found entrepreneurs should not quit their day jobs until they have: - found something you are obsessed with - enough money to live for 6 months - found an unmet market need that they have unique insight on - tested it with early adopters - confirmed that your solution could add exponential value to those early adopters We also found that access to early adopters was a key Barrier. One often mitigated when the founder is also a customer (ie member for the customer segment). For more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y16VJ4L/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_OmMxzb6AF69QA Hope that helps. Onward and Upward Dr. Sean Wise, BA LLB MBA PHD Partner, Ryerson Futures A seed stage fund and accelerator

Elizabeth Wellington

Marketer, Brand Strategist, Writer,

As a consultant and writer, I need to juggle a lot of different deadlines and demands. I've found that the best app for me is Asana. It's customizable, so I can adapt it to every project while maintaining a cohesive calendar with all of my deadlines. That said, I also pair Asana with an old-fashioned notebook and pen. Instead of writing to-do lists, I write have-done lists. At the end of the day, I benefit from a clear picture of what I've accomplished that day — it allows me to step away from my work with a clear mind, knowing that I've tackled a fair number of projects. If you need help managing your projects, feel free to reach out for my input. I've written about productivity for Fast Company, Inc. and Entrepreneur — I would love to share more thoughts with you.

Humberto Valle

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This is a loaded question! Depending on what you do of course the answer will vary. Im the founder and CEO of a Robinhood marketing agency, dubbed www.Unthink.me - We bring big business marketing tools and strategies with small, growing companies. My schedule is very different than that of a CEO in my position. For example, I am very hands on the projects we have, just the way I started my business, as it grew my name got very attached to the brand and thus a lot of our clients hire because they want me to help on a campaign or project, so I wake up around 4am, check my email and my SLACK - which is how me and my team communicates and keeps our conversations seperated from client's convos and per project. I respond to emails and check our Hubspot platform, hangout with my kids then around 9am head to the office where I have a 1 hour coffee & convo with entreprenurs all over the world through a seperate #SLACK channel. Then I check TRELLO - for project management work and follow up on issues I see through Slack as well. I use my Text Messenger App a lot actually to send myself notes through text - i don't open them up until I am ready to take care of them, since I text other people, this is a clever way for me to easily get reminded of a task w/o getting annoyed with the reminders (this would be an awesome app btw! If you're looking for ideas, lets get this one going!) Aside from those that dictate how I work, I use Dashlane a lot to save me time entering passwords, etc - especially for other clients. That's about it, maybe Google Calendars, but don't use it unless is for something way ahead in time.

Edmund John

Emerging Markets Entrepreneur & Investor

Laws regarding import/export in targeted country Where you will incorporate (is a new entity needed or can the business continue to run under the current entity). Taxation issues (if any, for instance VAT). There is not enough detail provided to answer further, this is just a starting point and not legal advise.

Pat

CEO, social entrepreneur and author

The first thing you should do is isolate your target market. Asia, India, SA are extremely wide if you're at that beginning stage of just looking at prospects. Once you've narrowed down a couple of regions, then you can do a more in-depth research on the key distributors in these markets. If you need more help in preparing this, you can book a call with me here on Clarity.

Tom Leung

Product Management Leader at Google

I would be shocked if a company of that size didn't patent a ton of things that involve their Kindle business -- paperwhite is a big selling point to them so if they didn't patent it originally, I'd expect that to have bought it or licensed it from whoever did.

Malcolm Turner

Advice on commercial loans, financing, & credit

There are no lenders that offer a fixed rate SBA business loan because SBA's fixed rate loan program is only for real estate backed loan. The SBA 7A program which is for non-real estate business acquisitions are variable rate loans. They are available as 10 year fully amortizing loans but they do not have a pre-payment penalty so you can pay them off early or refinance to a non-SBA loan at a later date. Book a call with me if you need more SBA info or want to discuss other lending options.

David C

I help you buy, sell, plan, value a business

Making a new company will cost some money up front with no certainty of commercial success. A simple workaround, if you both know and trust each other, is to make a shareholder's agreement for the company to be incorporated and a contract saying how the shares will be divided. Since you're the developer, writing code before you incorporate puts the risk on your partner since the work will be your property until you put it into a corporation in which he is a shareholder. The critical thing is to determine how many shares you will get for the work you've done and what exactly he has to do to acquire his shares. You'll also want to know what your responsibilities will be after the business is up and running and what compensation you'll get for 'working in the business' at that point. I've helped a lot of people unravel their partnerships because these things were not thought through properly at the beginning and would be happy to discuss your specific situation in a Clarity call. Thanks and good luck. David C Barnett

Humberto Valle

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Hello! This is a very good question, my name is Humberto Valle, and I'm the founder of www.Unthink.me a small globally known inbound marketing agency. We have helped many tech-related companies such as Software Developers who work on equity as well as traditional payments. For our marketing agency, we have also taken equity in combination of 'cash' payment. So yes, there are many opportunities for startups to hire or partner with an individual or agency on equity. The trick, I would assume is where in your lifecycle do you approach someone to work with you/for you for equity promise? At the end of the day, marketing agencies are not a hail mary approach to growing or making a company sustainable - its all about management and strategic market fits - if your plan is to hire an agency to have them do what you want, you may not find anyone who would be interested, possibly not even for payment. It is very understandable that you want to save your burn rate but you have to be respectful of someone's skillset - for example you mentioned doing 75% equity and the rest based on results - so commission? A good established marketing agency is not in the business of a startup, so unless they have a CEO who gets distracted, any good leader will not take on 'external opportunities' from what they are doing right now - aka a marketing agency won't work on hopes and dreams - which is what this is right now. As a business owner, startup entrepreneur and leder of your team you have to make critical decisions and hiring and spending on marketing is one of them. For example, I would consider myself to be globally recognized ( not a lot but decently enough) on topics that revolve around marketing strategies - my suggestion to you would be to look into marketing agencies and hire them directly while you are also focusing your expertise (is it manufacturing? logistics? sales? what is it? focus on that and outsource/partner the rest such as for example you could look for an existing expert in cosmetic distribution or connections at some of the larger retailers, give them that structure (% equity + commission %) butkeep that that equity to a minimum (don't offer, ask for them to value their own worth and negotiate from there)

David C

I help you buy, sell, plan, value a business

If you're willing to simply get by while you work on your dream, look for an opportunity to get paid to work on that dream. Look around. There are jobs that are incredibly boring and even afford the chance to read while you're on the job. That would be a great time for research, catching up on emails, etc Night watchmen, late night store clerk, overnight hotel front desk person. You see these roles all the time and hardly notice. Good luck David C Barnett

Tyrika Williams

Branding&marketing advisor to non fiction authors

Yes; if you do a presale, those buyers will get the book immediately upon release. Include a message in either the front or back matter that encourages them to leave a review once they finish the book. You should also encounter them to join your mailing list, that way you can continue to build a relationship with them.

Dr. Shishir

Angel Investment, Venture Capital, Idea Validation

I will never recommend you to stop ever. Stopping is not the solution, pivot also may not be the solution. All you need is to 'Focus' and little motivation. You thought it right, you need a mentor, a consultant or a guide who can identify your strengths and let you focus upon it. A daily dose of motivation will take you towards your aim. You may talk to me if you need any further advise, I am expert into it. Many thanks Shishir

Humberto Valle

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Impressions typically refer to the number of views or visits your profile or page received during a certain time period. For example, I received a few hundred impressions on my Clarity profile this past month, but as you may also see I don't get calls, that's because people email me or google me instead and reach out to me or my marketing agency www.unthink.me that way. If you are trying to grow calls, don't take that approach, instead consider SEO value, and see it as inbound generation. I get a lot of great results from Clarity, but I have been here since it launched. I have also been on Quora for a while now, just last month I received 4k+ views on my responses and profiles, but as far I know we haven't received leads from any of the answers I have published there, I know they are helping people because of the up likes and the follows and the number of views. Impressions are only basic data that make a larger picture - regardless of what you are expecting out your effort. :)

Pierre Brogan

Clarity Expert

As an agent for 20 years, I have represented several life coaches. much of the 'niche' you create is based on your own personal life experience. for example, i worked with someone who started off teaching young men to have confidence. later he realized that what he had learned from all those coaching sessions is that he really understood how men worked. so he transitioned his coaching towards women and how they could improve their dating skills, because he had so much insight on the male human psyche. hope that helps, happy to discuss further. good luck.

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