Allan here and an online worker. You need to build first a portfolio which you can show to potential clients. I can help you out in building one so please feel free to contact me. Thanks!

I would find talent on UpWork. If you post one job and include your Skype or Email the response will be overwhelming. I am not sure you are going to want some high quality candidates -- I'd create a Google Form with a series of questions to properly vet the candidates coming through. You can then put your top five candidates on a one week trial period measuring the quality and speed of their work to determine if you would like to continue working with them.

Hello! My name is Humberto Valle, I'm the founder of Unthink Digital Marketing (www.Unthink.me) I have been helping new businesses and startups for the better part of 10 years. I have sold 2 companies as well as failed a few others and currently ran my agency for 7 years. To start I want to congratulate you for following a niche in a market that is poorly served. This will facilitate your go-to-market strategy. With that said, I do have to agree with the previous answer. You need to focus on only one channel, not necessarily a group but a distribution channel and method. For example, your lowest cost will always be direct to consumer through online sales. This means you need to have a website properly designed to funnel visitors, curious browsers and those with an actual search through the process of getting them exposed to the solution, interested in the product and brand, and wanting to try them. By leveraging digital media you can then attain other channels as they approach you versus you diluting your efforts trying to get to them. What I suggest you do is have a really good website flow designed (a funnel from visitor to subscriber or purchase) so that you have good SEO, good Calls To Action, good images, good offers and good content demonstrating what your product solves. Get into Amazon. Position yourself in the right social media channels and with the right sort of updates and shares. Get on Linkedin and build relationships with the Presidents, CEOs, Managers, Franchisees, etc. in charge of making purchase orders. Use social media, including Linkedin to promote your value proposition (not the product or its price). If you were to reach out to companies directly, is all about having a strategy. Send a few samples to a few strategic clients ( headquarters of franchises or companies with subsidiaries and retailers) Don't waste your time trying to get in with small companies which can be just as hard as any other company. If you would like some help creating a good marketing campaign and strategy for your product, please do consider us at www.Unthink.me - we have helped small businesses through the world, some universities and city level governments.

Interesting question, I'm not sure what is the purpose of this question but I'll answer it as best as possible :) I have been contributing to Clarity since it started pretty much, at some point even helped with some feedback on some possible iterations and updates a few years ago. I love what Clarity offers which the way I see it is not about the calls or the question and answer but the opportunity for experts and those with questions to bridge the journey between that problem awareness to getting their problem solved - either by calling someone, getting an in-depth response written to them, or hiring them or their companies directly based on the knowledge provided through this platform. As a marketer, I see the journey as Awareness, Consideration, Decision - Clarity helps someone with a problem bridge that realization right onto the decision of fixing something. Quora, on the other hand, does offer some cool features such as requesting certain people to answer but their positioning is not targeting to build a community of 'experts' so the answers you get might not be worth the wait. Quora doesn't encourage you to schedule calls instead it monetizes off ads and partners. Clarity is meant specifically for businesses and startups - not random 'everything questions.' Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. vs. Make faster & better decisions to grow your business. Clarity is your lifeline that instantly connects you with battle-tested advice from entrepreneurs. One of the biggest of why I just love Clarity is because its part of a bigger community of entrepreneurs and business owners and experts who reach out to each other and are 'there' for each other whereas with clarity - is too generic and there is no community in place.

From how I understand your product, it sounds like it would allow people that buy a lot of items from company A to then use points from those purchases to get free items from company B. If that's true, I don't think many companies would want to sign up for the service, since there's the potential that they might end up being "company B", which would mean that they'd be essentially paying "company A" and giving away items for free, and not getting anything in return.

It would be a generalist support role that is 100% reactive focused on putting out fires. Such companies have huge support teams that are under strict workforce planning with well though trough (to the minute) scheduling and multiple support channels (email, chat & phone) that requires reps to be always logged to their scheduled channel on time. Metrics like average handle time & idle time become very important as big support organisations are under strict financial investment plannings and have to monitor costs. It also involves managing remote & scaling overseas teams if company is chasing the sun (24-7 support). One of the bigger challenges then becomes front line workers tenure, turnover, employee attrition and retention.

It is sad to hear that you have General Anxiety Disorder (GAD). As your first step, choose a pen name when you want to learn how to blog anonymously and make money. If your blog is successful, you may end up using the same pen name for years to come, so do not rush the process. As an example, if you are going to blog about business topics, choose an authoritative name. For instance, if your real name is more youthful such as Zoey or Milo, you may want to use a pen name with a more classic sounding first name such as Charles or Allison. If your blog is about comic books or pop culture, then select a trendy name. Type in your top choices of pen names online to confirm that other successful bloggers are not already using the name. One type is the Random Name Generator, a free online tool to use. You will need to file a fictitious business name statement. Once you have selected a name to blog anonymously, you can launch your site. Starting a blog can take only a couple of hours, but you most likely should spend time researching your market before creating a new blog. Niche blogs tend to do better than generalized ones. For instance, you can find countless blogs about popular topics such as selling on eBay or writing an eBook. When considering how to start an anonymous blog, you should not include your personal name in the URL. If you are planning to monetize your blog eventually, self-hosting is preferred. When you host your blog, you can run ads and advertise any products and services on the site. You need to pay a minimal monthly fee to get your website online. Most bloggers work extremely hard to connect with audiences and earn extra money in the process. If you want to monetize your blog, you will have to work at it. For instance, you may decide on posting two blogs a week. If your blog is not active, you are less likely to build traffic. As your audience grows, you will be more likely to earn money from the blog. You can read more here: https://financialwolves.com/blog-anonymously/ Besides if you do have any questions give me a call: https://clarity.fm/joy-brotonath

There are large, well-established competitors in this space but still room for you to succeed. Does your software specifically meet the needs of your industry or own customer base? You can carve out a niche if it does. Can you integrate it with other industry software? If so, that is another route to go. A long-time former client built a sustainable business on software they purchased and then perfected for their industry, and others have enjoyed similar success, so it is not impossible to do.

LinkedIn is very good for finding people for all kinds of business relationships, but you encounter most new connections in a very roundabout and indirect way: through your own network. It can be slow going. But I recently found out about Purple Squirrel, which is specifically for job seekers looking to break into a company, especially sought-after companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. It's a platform where you the job seeker can ask about opportunities and what it's like to work at a place like one of the above and actual people who work there will respond so you can build the rapport you need to get an insider to vouch for you. They're definitely going to be more prepared to talk with you about their company than on LinkedIn where you hope they'll deign to click Accept on your connect invite. You can also schedule paid calls to talk with them and deepen the connection so you're even more top-of-mind. I'm not affiliated with the company but I'm connected via LinkedIn with one of the founders and I think the platform is a good one on principle. http://purplesquirrel.io Hope that helps.

You can do this organically + reaching target customers will be slow. You can do this by speaking to local college Marketing groups. Many engineering students attend these talks. Contact Marketing Deans at colleges to work out details. A better way is to either use Facebook Ads or Traffic Oxygen (which allows creating audiences across many networks, including Facebook + many others). Facebook Ads are very cheap. If your budget can't support this, likely your project as many bigger problems. You can also start a Kickstarter project. You'll find out very quickly if people are interested, via Kickstarter comments + funding... or lack of funding...

Depends on your personality a good bit. 1) Work. You can just work hard. Speak at Meetup Groups, WordCamp (or similar), Trade Shows, Niche Conferences. Speak to many people who are interested in your topic + plug your YouTube channel during your talks. Or better plug your Website with an optin device + publish content on YouTube + many other venues. 2) Create controversy. This is niche independent. This works whether you're a militant Vegan, Trump supporter, Liberal troublemaker. 3) Run paid traffic directly to video. This depends on traffic source + their content guidelines, which seem to change daily. Likely you'll have to embed your video on your site, wrapped in content + run traffic to your site page. Likely many people will click to play your video on YouTube. 4) Most importantly, give people a good reason to subscribe + tell them to subscribe + what benefit they'll receive by subscribing.

ScreenFlow on OSX (Mac) works fantastic + will only set you back $100. The real perk with ScreenFlow is rendering, as ScreenFlow is a true multithreaded codebase, so will use available cores on your machine to speed up render/export time. Also ScreenFlow far surpasses FCP + Camtasia for audio quality.

Congratulations on the new company. You can outsource work by using an independent contractor agreement. However, you should be careful to ensure that the agreement protects the ownership of your intellectual property and protects the confidential information of your client. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss how to accomplish this.

The fastest and cheapest way for you to do this while you're "testing the waters" is to do it manually. As long as you know that the idea can be somewhat easily scaled by software in the future (it can), it's fine and encouraged to do initial tests of the product's viability with a manual implementation, in which you're doing the grunt work of finding photos yourself. Doing it that way will not only let you get started faster and be cheaper, it will also let you start developing a very fine grained feeling and understanding of why it works when it does (e.g. why person A decides to pay for their edited photo, but person B doesn't). Once you've gotten evidence that people will pay for the service, and you have gained a better understanding of the subtleties behind how to best implement it (e.g. how to target more people like 'person A'), then you can go about spending more time / money on developing an automated bot to carry out the service at a more scalable level. if you'd like more suggestions based on the specifics of your product idea, let me know, best, Lee

That sort of idea was most successfully implemented by a company called Quirky.com (https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/24/8488531/quirky-invention-powered-by-quirky). Quirky got a ton of investment and grew very quickly. I had meetings at their office several times, and it was a really fun environment, with prototypes everywhere. They even had a partnership with GE, to help bring some of their IP into reality. However, they ended up making some bad decisions and they went bankrupt in 2015. Other companies have tried the same thing and also failed: http://assemblymade.com/ http://applits.com/ http://amysampleward.org/2009/11/13/ideablob-says-goodbye/ However, Quirky.com has just re-started without much fanfare a couple months ago (see: http://aquirkyblog.squarespace.com/home/2017/3/getting-primed-for-relaunch), so you can check it out and start using the platform again if you like.

Your question is stated in an extremely confusing manner, but what I think I understand is that 1) you're developing a hardware product, and 2) you need to pay someone to write code for it, but 3) you're nervous about outsourcing the code development outside the US because you don't want someone else to copy you? Let me know if that's accurate, and if not, please state your question more clearly so I, or someone else can answer it correctly. best, Lee

Hello! My name is Humberto Valle. I'm the founder and CEO of Unthink Digital Marketing. We do inbound marketing services for companies and we actually have some clients who have hired to do just that. The short question to you is: You need to build relationships and leverage your expertise. Online that translates to creating good content as an excuse to introduce yourself, company, and solutions and pitch to companies. Or reverse, have them find you on their own by coming across useful information that is not sales but just helpful.

Some tips: 1) Fix the name and screenshots: The game dynamics are geared towards people that dislike Trump, or at least his wall idea, and yet A) Your game title is "Trump's Great Wall" B) The icon is a picture of Trump's face C) The first two screenshots show Trump happily building his wall. Nobody that dislikes Trump is going to click on your game to see more details, and if they do, the first two screenshots they see would make them leave anyway. Change the name to something along the lines of, "Break Trump's Wall", and move your 3rd screenshot to be the first screenshot (i.e. the one showing a pissed off Trump). I would also add a screenshot of the rocket being used (especially if there's an explosion) to make it more clear. 2) Once you've fixed the points above, post about the game in places that have a strong dislike for Trump. There are many online communities and forums that would probably love the idea of game and would spread the link to friends. If you'd like more specific advice on relevant places to post your game, and additional advice on how to market it, let me know, best, Lee

If you're a US citizen living outside the country more than 330 days/year, then you meet the Foreign Income Exclusion test. Talk with your tax preparer about this. If you meet this test, you're first $100K (roughly) is income tax free, if + only if you take the money yourself. If you run the money through a US Entity (any type of organizational structure) you're required to pay tax on 100% of all your income. Best talk with a Tax Preparer you can run through your situation with. I suggest checking with H&R Block Executive Tax Services. They're very cheap + receive up to date education about tax system changes. Likely they'll provide more consistently correct information than expensive CPAs.

You can use affiliate marketing for this. ClickBank.com has lots of spirituality related products that will be great for advertising on this kind of niche. Generate link for those products from ClickBank, add banners or in-text links for these product and bring a lot of traffic. You can earn about 75% of the sale of these products from your affiliate links. Second option is infolinks.com. They pay very less but their presentation of ads is very great as compared to Google Adwords. If you want a comolete tutorial on how to earn passive income from your site then call me. Free call link: clarity.fm/aishwaryashiva/early638

Likely this is the wrong question, so my response is just a guess... from doing software development since 1982... Best to tool your infrastructure, so no load balancers are required. If you design your code where your most accessed data remains memory resident + moving data from persistent storage (disk) into memory is fast, you'll have no requirement for load balancing. You give no information about the size of payload (in bytes) which will be requested, so no way to guess sizing of your net connection. Also you say 1 million status calls + give no time frame over which these calls must be processed. Based on your question, likely your best starting point will be to hire a seasoned developer to design your system to maximize memory resident data. Also, using webhooks may be a poor choice, as this makes code extremely complex, so only a few developers will be able to maintain + extend your code, so you'll pay more for development + have difficulty finding developers. Stick with a LAMP stack allowing Apache to manage threads, rather than Webhooks + your life will be easier + your budget lower.

You could use a payment processor and also a call system such as twilio. If you want to work with the phone companies (i.e. 1900 number in the US) this is also an option but the API's are not friendly (or non-existent) and they will take a larger fee.

In my experience great advice can move across industries in several categories; cash flow management, human resources, process improvement, systems and measurement. Ask him questions relating to how he measures, rewards and retains his best staff. Ask about how he ensures proper cash flow management, how he extends payables for instance. Ask about how he tracks the efforts of employees to know who is contributing to the bottom line and who is not. Ask him how he knows when it's time to make changes in how things are done. Ask him how he responded to the last new competitive threat. Ask him how he plays a role in different aspects of his business; sales, purchasing, marketing, etc. Good luck. Simply taking the time to put some thought into what you should be asking will help make this meeting into a great opportunity. Don't get too scripted though and ask him what he thinks you should learn about what he's been through. Cheers David C Barnett

I don't have any tools or articles off the top of my head, but I can share some tips on evaluating decisions like this. I think there are two key questions to answer when evaluating investment decisions like this. First, what is my outcome I hope to get? Secondly, are there any objective metrics I can use to evaluate whether I've achieved that outcome? The first question is to help bring clarity on why you are making the investment. For example, if you decided to invest $30,000 in marketing for your company, you could do that a lot different ways. In order to deploy those funds most effectively, you need to be clear on the outcome you are trying to get. Is that outcome more awareness of your brand? Or is it to generate new business in the near term? The first objective would lead to one type of marketing, perhaps targeting advertising. The second objective might lead you instead to a lead generation program, perhaps by hiring a third party lead gen firm. Once you've answered the first question, you can move on the second one regarding metrics. This question is important because it leads you to how you are going to measure and hold your organization accountable for the success of the investment. So if you are investing in a lead gen program, you need to quantify how many incremental qualified leads the program should generate which then lead to X number of new customers which leads to X amount of new business. Then you can decide if it's a good investment before you spend the money, and you have an objective measure of whether it's successful as it progresses. Keep in mind that not everything will have objective measures of success. For example, if you are investing in a branding awareness program, it's going to be much harder to measure that success objectively. However, you should still try to have some measure or idea of what success looks like at the end of that investment. In this example, perhaps the firm handling the campaign has some measures they can track based on their experience of whether the campaign was successful. I think answering these two questions before you spend any money within your organization is important, not just major investments. It's a little mental math you should go through in your head each time something new comes up. Why am I doing this (what outcome do I hope to achieve, what needle will this move) and how will I know if it's successful? Sometimes it just 30 seconds in your head, sometimes you get the management team together and talk it out. Hope this is helpful.

Google has placed importance on responsive design because it improves user experience and therefore more users visit the site and stay on the site longer. In turn this raises the sites ranking in Google. Your site content still needs to be good for you to rank in Google. Making a poorly ranking site responsive will not see much benefit. Google has stated that it will be more favorable to responsive and user friendly sites than those that are not. Article: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/ Site Test: https://search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly Feel free to message me if you have more questions.