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.

A referral from someone that you know is always better than online reviews but unfortunately this is not always possible. Before I start engaging with any unknown business I start with a few basic online research actions. 1) Who owns their web domain. Goto https://www.whois.com/whois/ and enter their domain name. Here you can get a good idea to who their domain belongs to and if it is a Nigerian or some other suspect person or company run.... 2) Online reviews can also help but look out for companies that they claim use them and do some research on these companies, maybe contact them to confirm that they actually use this services. 3) LinkedIn - check out their employees, address, and any details to match what they supplied to you. Maybe link to someone in the company and ask them a question that might catch them off guard. 4) Company directory - how long have they been in business and does the address match the one they provided to you. 5) Google maps - check their address on street view, do you see their name on the building or does it look like a legitimate place of business? None of these are fool proof but doing this will give you a good gut feeling.

Here's a good explanation of what AdWords is: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/adwords.html Beneficial? Yes, but only when the time is taken to understand how it works and the importance of using the right keywords and phrases in respect to the available budget. I've seen too many companies go through money very quickly by bidding high on very general terms.

I would not trade equity for design work. Unless this person will actually become a part of your team and create enough value to warrant equity. Otherwise it is short sighted to trade equity for something you need very early on just to launch. I'm sure your design/brand will evolve over time and this person will have put in a minor amount of work compared to what it will take to launch and continue a successful company. Additionally, you may be putting too much weight on your brand and not enough on what you're actually selling? However it is hard to give a more detailed answer without knowing what exactly you are doing and how detailed and ongoing the design work is. I would love to help answer your question, but need a little more detail on what exactly it is you do and what type of design/branding work you need.

You're entering a highly competitive market. Aside from creating info sheets, images and video that show why your products are better than others, you will likely need to drum up interest online in advance. Keep in mind that store shelves are most always full, so to carry a new product they have to decrease the space allotted to another company. By generating true interest first, you can highlight that the product already sells. Also, don't forget to provide samples to bloggers, writers and other appropriate publications so they can review the products. That's a big step in kicking off a true word-of-mouth campaign.

To increase chat engagement, have the chat bubble say the following when visitors first land on your site: "Thank's for your interest in [company's] [product], can I give you a tour of [whatever it is you want to engage with them on]." The general idea is to 1) thank them for giving you something (e.g. their interest in you and your product), and then to 2) offer to give them something (e.g. a tour of xyz). If you'd like an explanation for why this structure works, or suggestions for structures, designed around your specific product, let me know, best, Lee

I have 12 years experience in ERP solutions like SAP and various others and get this type of question a lot from SME's. I your case you want to provide implementation services and ultimately sign a retainer support contract for 36 months. There are a few good ones out there, start with https://www.odoo.com/ , they have a good system that can grow with a business.

There isn't one. You can find a list, but it's guaranteed to be overpriced and the contacts will be outdated. Email lists have a shelf life, but unlike milk or bread, their vendors never rotate the stock. This means regardless of their quoted acceptance rate, you'll overpay for an outdated list. Your best solution is to source your own list, particularly in this niche market, through strategic and targeted lead generation campaigns. Save yourself the wild goose chase of chasing something that doesn't exist. I've purchased lists in niche markets, was quoted high acceptance rates, but after testing the emails against an email validation service such as BriteVerify, found the deliverability rates to be less than half of what I was promised. After running into this same problem more than once, I've developed various lead generation tactics to quickly identify and qualify high quality leads and I'm happy to discuss these with you.

Confusion. Once a brand is established people associate it with the products it sells or services it offers. Also, even if it is legal to register it in your own country, you could very well have problems should you ever want to branch out in the future. It's always best to try to come up with something unique and identifiable.

If you can shell out few bucks, reach out to them directly via phone and emails. Creating this database is crucial and may involve expert assistance. LinkedIn is good to get traction but the process is slow. I have worked on similar lines, so if you need any help, reach to me. Best of luck.

Here are some options: ___Free Options___ 1) Make apps without needing to spend a lot of time learning to code. Look into "MIT App Inventor" (http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/). It's a very _easy_ way to make pretty complex apps using drag and drop coding. You can find youtube tutorials that will show you how to make your first app within 5 minutes. I've used MIT App Inventor to make prototype apps for many of my ideas, saving me tens of thousands of dollars if I paid a dev to do it instead. Learn to do "real" coding yourself. The main investment will be your time. There are plenty of free resources for learning coding on the web. I'd suggest learning "React Native", it's a relatively new way to code apps, which allows you to make one app that will run on both Android and iOS. 2) Find a software engineer cofounder. Go to Meetups, conferences, local hackerspaces / makerspaces. Hang out on relevant online forums (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ make sure to read their rules for posting before posting though). It won't be easy to find a tech cofounder, your idea will need to be amazing, and you yourself will need to be very passionate and capable in order to convince someone to partner up with you for sweat equity. ___Paid options___ 1) Use developers with less established reputations / portfolios (lower cost, higher risk) Be very wary of freelancers on sites like Upwork, Fiverr, etc. Here are some basic hiring rules: In your hiring script, make sure to ask for all applicants to give their account name for github/bitbucket and Trello. Don't hire agencies, only hire individuals. To get hired, ask them to do a simple task via Trello and submit the code via github/bitbucket. This task should only take them maybe 1 hour. Check the quality of what the applicants and if they deliver it in a timely manner. Keep the 1 or 2 people that do a good job. If you don't do this vetting these "low cost" developers may end up costing a lot in the longer run. 2) Use developers with more established reputations / portfolios (higher cost, lower risk) With this option your app will probably cost > $20k to develop, but it can be worth it if you have a single idea that you know you want to move forward with. I can introduce you to a very high quality developer in NY if you're at this stage. Let me know if you'd like any additional help more tailored to your specific app ideas, best, Lee

I have found networking events to be the most effective way to meet influential people who may be able to help you in your career. I have found job fairs to be a waste of time. My suggestion is to find out events that Facebook is hosting. Try to find out who from Facebook will be attending. Do some research on those attendees. If you get a chance to meet them at the event, do no talk about yourself. Talk about Facebook and the specific Facebook employee you're talking to. Let them know that you follow Facebook. Be genuine and personable. Wait until they ask you about yourself. Remember to bring a business card. (One with a photo would be a really nice touch so they can remember your name and face.) If they give you their business card, send a simple "it was nice to meet you at" email. Don't immediately ask to connect on LinkedIn. I personally hate that. If you made a positive impression, chances are they won't mind engaging with you. Cultivate the relationship. That's how they get to know you and keep you top of mind for opportunities.

What is your product? Who are you trying to reach? What is keeping you personally from filling this role until you can create a better system or bring on a PM?

Firstly be clear with what you are pitching exactly? If it service/ product , ask yourself why I need this service/ product? What is the pain area this service/prodcut can solved? Who are my competitors? How I am different from them? And last but not least how I can make money out of it? Answering these on a presentation will be your next pitch deck. About finding angel investors i would recommend www.angel.co where you can create your profile and search angels related to your industry. Also you can pitch directly to some investors by mails. I can teach how to get investors email id using various free tools. If you are looking for crowdfunding platforms make sure your product's prototype is ready, you do have some bootstrap money in your pocket by which you can create attractive video pitch and run a successful crowdfunding campaign using effective digital media marketing strategy. Kickstrter, indiegogo are best in crowdfunding.

Yeah it will be a great idea. I see many people like to listen instead of viewing video while traveling. This is why now a days audio books are getting popular among businessmen who don't have time to read or view long videos. Another reason might be that watching for so long with eyes is more stressful than listening with ears. So I think you should go with it. Good Luck.

I've been loving Calendly--It links to my Google calendar, which I live and die by!

Word of mouth is your best bet. You may need to offer a few low-cost sessions to start building that trust.

I gathered some of the information from the Internet in this answer for you. References in the end. First you need to get exact answers to following question which require some thorough research: 1. Why does your audience need your services? 2. What propels your audience to seek your services? 3. Where does your audience go to learn about the services you provide? 4. Who (or what) influences your audience’s buying decisions? 5. What competitors are there nearby your business? 6. What they are offering? 7. What different thing you can offer than them that they can't replicate easily? 8. What is the current state of the industry you have business in? Then you can follow some of these strategies including the strategies you mentioned: Go for a referral system. Give discounts to those customers who sends more customers to you. Ensure your contact information (on your website, business cards, and social media accounts) is current. Use Google Docs to create an easy-to-complete patient referral form for physicians and other providers to complete on your website. Then, include the URL on your business cards and marketing materials. Create a free Google Voice account to add a dedicated physician referral phone line. You can even use Voice to record a custom greeting and transcribe your voicemail into text, so your front office staff can pull referral information from an email and put it right into your physical therapy documentation software. Take one day every several months to visit a handful of the largest physician groups near your clinic. Stop in and introduce yourself—and bring along a friendly smile and perhaps some goodies. You never know; they may have a patient who needs therapy that day, and you want to be top of mind. Partner with local athletic trainer, yoga instructor, or massage therapist. Take them out to lunch and build a strong relationship that will lead to long term partnership. They will refer targeted customers to you. Always follow-up your customers. Call or mail them asking about their health or reminding them about their monthly checkup. I will prefer to mail if not an emergency condition. You can also go for webinars and workshops for medical students. This will position you as an expert in medical community. Self branding will help you get more customers than promoting your business. Ref: https://www.webpt.com/how-market-your-physical-therapy-clinic

Goal is not just about doing things in better way than before. First of all you must answer a question. Close your eyes and imagine that you are a 100 year old person lying in hospital bed and going to die in a 60 seconds. Now at that time what makes your mind think that "I can die in peace now"? I mean what you achieved that gave you that much peace? Is it being the richest person in the world? Is it that you established the largest company in the world? Or you just invented a time machine? Or you just removed all the poverty from the world? May be you are a president of your country now. So we become what we imagine most of the time in our life. Secondly, you need to decide what are you expert in doing? In which field you can make change? When you know answer to all these questions then you will know your goal. It doesn't matter what you do in your daily life. But if it is done to achieve that goal then it counts. Even if its just doing nothing just thinking for hours about strategies to achieve that goal in a quiet place. Meditation really helped me in stabilizing my mind about my goals. You should try it too. And remember, never lose hope. "Hopelessness" is the only greatest enemy of success.

As a business owner, I face similar issues myself. I'm sure you already know this but for something like this, you really should consult a lawyer and a tax professional. Having said that, the cleanest and safest way to do this would be to dissolve the current S-Corp and create a new one under a different name. This way there isn't any controversy over ownership. Hopefully you have a partnership agreement that covers the dissolution of your company. If not, you'll need one now. If you incorporate your own S corp in CA, you will have to register in IL as a foreign corporation. If you won't have a physical presence in IL, you will need a registered agent.

Passion may open the door to excitement but skills make it an actively revolving door where value in service or product is exchanged for valuable currency. Skills can trump passion unless you're very skilled at what your passionate about. Some questions may want to be considered when considering a passion inspired business/career: You may have passion but have you practiced this passion enough for it to be a valuable exchange (will someone pay you for it)? What additional skills will you need to strengthen to make this passion a lasting business idea? Is there marketability (is someone willing to pay for it?)? Hope this helps. Feel free to connect and explore more in a call. All the best, Virginia Jimenez VirginiaInspires.com

Yes, a small % of people will take advantage of it, but the increase in sales you'll have due to the money back guarantee will more than make up for those cheaters. Note: Don't make it 100% incredibly easy for people to get their money back. Require them to at least write to you about what they didn't like about the product. That will both serve to lower the 'cheater' %, and will also let you intelligently iterate your product design if you see consistent trends in what people say they didn't like. Also, keep track of the contact info of all the people that requested refunds. If you see that they consistently order products and ask for refunds stop selling to them.

I will suggest a mixture of following: 1. Crowdfireapp.com (Mobile app) 2. IFTTT.com (Completely Free and THE BEST ONE) 3. Buffer.com (Not much options but helps me post on Google Plus pages that other two does not do very well) I gained almost 1000 followers in 2 days using these three. If you want to know more about social media tools that are free, give me a call.

For B2B listings, my vote would be for Netprospex.

This depends on the type of functionality you need in your app. Web apps can't implement the full suite of functionality that would be available to a native app, although they are getting closer to that capability. If the functionality that you need can be achieved with a web app, and if you can find a "React Native" developer, then the path I recommend is to use React Native to develop a single cross platform, mobile-based web app (Android and iOS), that will also be more easily made into a website-based web app. If you'd like to discuss it in more detail with relation to the specific functionality you have in mind, let me know. I can also connect you to excellent, market-rate React Native developers in NY that I work closely with. best, Lee