Founder, Trove Management Soultions
I have served in the nonprofit field for over 10 years. Have you considered working for a nonprofit human service agency that serves at-risk children? Nonprofit employees may receive full, competitive paychecks! Because you are a trained teacher, you would fit the criteria for a care manager role and/or a direct care role. There are other options/roles as well within the field. These jobs have continued to be available through COVID-19 emergency regulations, and some employees work from home as a result OR they are working from home and they are doing a few days in the office as well. Would you like to schedule a call for more detailed guidance?
Business Strategy
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Scale cloud platform and application growth
GO with local marketing like posters and other ads. If you are ready to invest in digital marketing - go with Facebook, Instagram ads for inquiry.
Founder, Trove Management Soultions
Hi there! Here's an awesome article with a wealth of information on the topic (HAPPY READING!!!): https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2019/09/30/quit-your-job-travel-the-world-easy-ways-to-make-money-online/#1f8ba1154360 If you want to discuss this topic in more depth and provide more info about yourself to build a strategic plan to help you take steps forward, then I look forward to speaking with you soon! Strategic Planning and Research are my strong suits! Let's talk :-)
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
Hi First of all, well done for the initiative. Sounds great. When to incorporate is one of the most common questions I get when working with startups. The answer is not too early, in order to save the fees (mainly yearly reports and accountants), but before you have clients (who can potentially sue you) and before you have created anything of value (because then, when you transfer the intellectual property - IP) to the company, you will incur a tax event. In this case, and based on the information you provided, you should definitely incorporate because: 1. You have paying clients (which means legal liability) and if they sue (I hope not, but IF), you want them suing the company, and not you personally. 2. You have "staff" - which again, comes with legal liabilities (by the way, best to 'employ' them as freelancers and not employees. Paying freelancers is much less of a headache. 3. You've created intellectual property which should be transferred to the company, and if you do it now, you may still be able to avoid a tax event (the website is worth money, and you're giving to the company - and whenever someone, or a legal entity, gets something of value, the tax authorities ask for a % - like when you get paid your monthly salary). In this case, there is now reporting to the tax authorities, but if you ever sell your business (have an 'exit' event) then the issue might come up. Bottom line: you should incorporate. p.s.: don't forget to add a terms of service/terms of use + a privacy policy (and no, copying it from another website - even if you made changes, won't work - this is still copyright infringement). Also, if you're targeting kids under 13 in the US, don't forget to include the sections regarding COPPA (children's privacy act). Good luck! 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
Diversity & Inclusion
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Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
Hi If you don't want to go to each website individually, the only other method I can think of would be to find other reports already made which cover gender inequality in corporations and collect the information from there. But if you want something that keeps being updates and is accurate, the bets would be to write a script (code) that would check the relevant page of each company every few months. Yes, it would be a lot of work finding all the pages in the beginning, but afterwards at least the updates would be automatic. I know a guy who writes great scripts if you need. Good luck 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
Founder. Producer. Presenter & Speaker.
It depends on the stage of your business. If you are at the beginning, spending money on brand advertising is a sure NO. Which doesn't mean you shouldn't aim to build a brand... Building a brand is always good, it increases the value of your business allowing you also to sell it if you decide you want to exit and start something else. Spend money on direct marketing, test and refine what works and test new, even cheaper avenues. And build your brand without investing money in advertising, start with defining the mission & main story of your business, its key values them creating a memorable identity- logo, main colors, main fonts, templates for all marketing materials, activities, channels, tagline that captures your brand essence, and finally making sure you are consistent using the above tools. Branding also takes a lot of time but as long as you are consistent and you do a good job with the elements above, you will be on your way and you won't need to spend money advertising it. Obviously the more unique the business story & brand elements, the higher your chances to achieve brand awareness and recognition faster.
Podcast Expert to Million & Billion Companies
Baby goods and services are growing quite rapidly with owlets raising $24 million for their series B and with Momni the caresharing platform taking off both in Utah.
Founder, Trove Management Soultions
Hello. First, please allow me to ask you-- where did you learn about Invexlab?
Founder, Trove Management Soultions
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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Textile wet processing & water treatment
There is a better alternative than Turkey and very close to it, it is Georgia, where there are many advantages for a project like "Textile digital printed and apparel manufacturing factory" such as: - Government supports investment and you can have a "Free zone" facility. - Very low costs for: Electricity, Gas, Land and labor force - Well connected to Europe and USA with free trade agreements. Also, a source for Caucasus area. Project is a stand alone and needs between 500 sq. m. to 1000 sq. m. max and can be easily upgraded Only 1 Designer and 2 - 4 workers needed for 1 unit 1 shift. 1 Unit printing production capacity is 60 - 120 linear meters per hour for fabric weight 120 gm per square meter.
Founding @Startups.com, Clarity, Fundable and more
Hey - as both one of the people behind Clarity, and a very active Clarity expert, I can give you a really simple step that will help a ton. There are other great suggestions in this thread - but this one will help get things moving the fastest. Go to: https://clarity.fm/settings/expert/vip-link - and setup your VIP link to allow free calls - and promote this to a few people you know will benefit from your advice (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) and let them know you are willing to help for free. Do 3-5 calls like this so you get some reviews. This will boost your visibility on Clarity AND give people who see your profile confidence in booking a call with you. Like with most things - nobody wants to try something that's a total unknown - but with a few solid reviews you'll be well on your way. Then, promote yourself (using your regular link) where your audience is to supplement getting "found" on Clarity - and have a great time doing calls. Feel free to message me if you have any questions about this - more than happy to help.
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I have a couple of ideas let your friends on other social media sites know about it.Such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. In this case Facebook is probably the best. Let them know about what your goal and idea is on instagram. I have a friend who did something on instagram and two things I remember that helped him big time is first he had a nice following of people. And he had also had a great goal and idea for his thing on instagram. Another thing is to join a few networking groups and groups that focus on social media.
Chief Executive Officer at billionaire.life
As a professional coach the market is smaller but it is geared towards key skills I would love to talk to you about the current market and business plans.
A specialist growth focused eCommerce all-rounder
There are a few online B2B marketplaces in the US to consider and which one you go with will depend on your requirements. Amazon Business: This is a very legitimate option now as Amazon looks to expand its offering away from just a B2C model, with a greater focus on B2B. You can offer unique discounts for businesses and a host of other features to drive your B2B business. ThomasNet: This is more for a traditional supplier/purchaser business relationship but may be a worthwhile avenue if you sell high volume or recurring use items Alibaba and eWorldTrade: Both Chinese based business so I am unsure of any implications on trading here from the US however there are a huge number of US businesses looking to buy on here and so they are atill some of the largest B2B platforms.
Global Corporate Trainer & Strategist
User experience (UX) design can be a complicated and overwhelming field for newcomers, as it encompasses a wide range of topics (from accessibility to wireframing). Some of these topics overlap, while some of them complement one another. Therefore, it’s important to come to a common and basic understanding of what the term “user experience” means in a design context. User experience design, as its name suggests, is about designing the ideal experience of using a service or product. As such, it can involve all types of products and services—think, for instance, about the design involved in a museum exhibition. However, in the main, the term user experience design is used in relation to websites, web applications and other software applications. Since the second half of this century’s first decade, technologies have become increasingly complex, and the functionality of applications and websites has become far broader and far more intricate. Early websites were simple static pages that served up information to feed curious searchers; however, a few decades later, what we can find a wealth of online are sites that are interactive and offer a much richer feel for users. In general, user experience is simply how people feel when they use a product or service. In most cases, that product will be a website or an application of some form. Every instance of human-object interaction has an associated user experience, but, in general, UX practitioners are interested in the relationship between human users and computers and computer-based products, such as websites, applications and systems. A UX designer is someone who investigates and analyses how users feel about the products he or she offers them. UX designers then apply this knowledge to product development in order to ensure that the user has the best possible experience with a product. UX designers conduct research, analyse their findings, inform other members of the development team of their findings, monitor development projects to ensure those findings are implemented, and do much more. In times gone by, product design was simple; designers-built stuff they thought was cool and that they hoped their clients would like. Unfortunately, there are two problems with that approach. The first is that, back then, there was far less competition for people’s attention online. The second is that there’s no consideration for the user of the product at all in that approach—the success or failure of a development project was down to luck as much as it was down to the judgement of the design team. Focusing on UX enables design to focus on the user. It increases the chances of a project’s success when it finally comes to market, not least because it does not gamble on the faith of users in taking to a product just because it is a brand name. UX Design can be found in a variety of project environments today, including: i. Complex projects — the more complicated the project, the more essential UX design is. Too many features handled the wrong way can deter users like nothing else. ii. Start-ups — you may not find dedicated UX teams in a start-up, but UX is always part of the objective. High-tech start-ups developing innovative projects need to understand how their users feel even more than established companies do. iii. Projects with decent budgets — UX tends to get skipped in low-value projects, but any development project team with a decent budget will tend to allocate some of their financial resource to UX so as to ensure that the budget brings a return on investment. iv. Long projects — the longer the project, the more resources it consumes; thus, UX becomes ever more important to delivering a return on the investment. The main methodology used to guarantee the user experience in most projects is user-centred design. Simply put, user-centred design is all about designing with the users’ needs and expected behaviours in mind. It is important for us as UX designers to remember that user-centred design is a means of achieving good UX—and not the only methodology or tool that one can use to ensure optimal UX in a project. UX design is all about guiding product development to ensure how users feel when using our products. It is not a perfect method; sometimes, even with all the UX design know-how in the world behind it, a product will still fail. However, the appropriate use of UX design does offer a much higher chance that a product will be successful for our clients than products developed without the application of UX design principles. These are the following ways in which you can start as an UX/UI designer: 1. Understand all the design directions: First, the most important thing for you now is understanding of what exactly you want to do. You must choose for yourself what do you want. No one will do it better than you. 1. Do you like working on the visual part of design? — If the answer is yes, then you should become a visual designer (UI). 2. Do you like thinking through the concept of how the product works with the user, make the interface convenient, analyse, test? — then you should become a user experience designer (UX). 3. Do you like both the first one and the second, plus you like to deeply understand the product, be in charge of the product, know and improve it? — then you should become a product designer. 4. Like magazines, posters, flyers, and other POS-materials, like working with company’s identity — then you should be a graphic designer. 5. and so on … Some people know a little bit about every design field. Start by finding out which specialization interests you the most. 2. Study the tools for work: I think that further explanation is not necessary. How can you succeed if you have not mastered the program you need yet? You are lucky if you are a beginner, then you will not have to switch from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, you can go directly to Sketch or Figma. Read about their differences and think about what you need to learn. A tip from me, if you have already chosen the design direction you want to follow, do not be lazy check out Headhunter, Linkedin or any other work finding platform and see what employers are looking for, what programs you should know and go from there. Below you can find a list of the latest programs that can be useful to know: • Sketch for interface design • Figma for interface design with collaboration capability • Balsamiq for creating layouts • Adobe XD for interface design, prototyping • Invision App for prototyping and collaboration • RedPen for collaboration 3. Start paying attention to design: If you decide to become an interface designer, start paying attention to everything and ask yourself the following questions: why did they put the logo here, and not there? And why a certain button is at the end, and not in the beginning? Learn what the site usually consists of? (I’m talking about simple things such as header, body and footer). Asking yourself questions and answering them, scrolling through the options in your head, you will start not only using the website, but evaluating it from a professional point of view. 4. Surround yourself with design: My advice to you is to dive completely into design, start looking at other people’s work every day. There are millions of resources, below are the ones I use: 1. Behance portfolio platform 2. Dribbble portfolio platform 3. Awwwards platform-awarded the title of the best in web design This practice of viewing other people’s works and portfolios will help you enter the design track, see what others are doing (also in good projects there are job descriptions and decision making descriptions), you will become aware of fashion trends, and will get some inspiration. 5. Watch and Copy Others: Start stupidly repeating and copying other people’s work, the sites that you liked. Just sit down, choose a site, and copy the entire website. I do not advise you to use someone else’s work in your portfolio. Look at it as a lesson. 6. Find mentors and become mentors: The professionals have extraordinarily little free time, especially for beginners. Therefore, I do not advise you to find yourself a victim and bother that person to teach you design. Subscribe to the top designers you like, watch what they read, what conferences they go to, what new programs they study, so without much effort you will be aware of all the popular design events and novelties. If you are a beginner, you can still become a mentor yourself. For example, you can start writing your own blog about your first steps in the design industry. Or you can talk to your friend about interesting things you learned or found. Repeating and talking to someone about your newly acquired knowledge will help you to deeper understand the subject and remember the material better. 7. Take course: Many people ask the question if the courses are really necessary. Everyone is different, some people are more interested in and more comfortable with digging into the new profession at home, watching YouTube videos, reading books and articles. Others need a design environment and atmosphere. If you are the second type, plus you have some financial freedom and time to pass the courses, then I will say yes! Take the course! — they will help. Just make sure you make the right choice, view the comments and reviews, and see how popular the school is. 8. Read: I am just going to give you an example of a couple of books that inspired me and hopefully they will help you to speed up the process: 1. “Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time” — Brian Tracy 2. “Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don’t teach you in design school, but should” — Michael Janda 3. “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative” — Austin Kleon 4. “Show Your Work! 10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered” — Austin Kleon A huge list of resources for UX designers you can find here: 1. InVision The world’s leading prototyping, collaboration & workflow platform. 2. @muzli the best design inspiration — expertly curated, exactly to your taste. 3. prototypr.io Daily design news and inspiration from all over the web. Everything you need to supercharge your design skills. 4. uxdesign.cc Curated stories on user experience, usability, and product design. 5. Planet UX UX Planet is a one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. 6. Google Design Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google to support and further design and technology. 7. Facebook Design Stories from designers at Facebook offices across the world. 8. Sidebar subscription. This is a resource that will send you a daily email with 5 the most useful popular design articles (these articles are selected by the team inside the project) and this will serve as some kind of ping not to stop. 9. Muzli browser extension. After installing the Muzli browser extension, your newly opened browser window will always have a list of all sorts of things from the design articles and news, to just the design inspirations. 9. Create your portfolio and a resume: The last and the MOST IMPORTANT step when you are looking for a job. Of course, they look and of course you NEED the portfolio. Some vacancies even have the note that candidates without a portfolio will not be considered. Portfolio is your business card; by looking at it the employer will decide whether to start the interview process with you or to choose another candidate. The good news is that there is no need to have your own website (of course, if you have the time and opportunity to create your own site, but if you cannot do it these will help you: a. Behance portfolio platform b. Dribbble portfolio platform Besides if you do have any questions give me a call: https://clarity.fm/joy-brotonath
Marketing Strategy
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Verified Computer/IT Expert
You need to research for it in your own country ask from the people around you and you will get the solution for it.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Strategy | Operations | Entrepreneurship
For starter, you can apply the framework that you used to sell a product in your eCommerce business, to selling a brand/website/company to potential buyer/investor. Since you have experience in eCommerce, this must be familiar with you. For example: 1. Understand the market. Is there a market for your brand? I.e. is there a potential buyer who would be interested in buying your brand? What marketplaces have you looked into to buy and sell these brands/websites/companies? 2. Pricing/valuation. How do you value your business? What valuation methodology do you use? is it a multiply of revenue, profit, or something else? Going backward, what kind of financials do you have to achieve to be able to sell your brand at the valuation you are expecting? 3. Fulfillment/transfer of ownership. How do you manage this? Is your business transfer-ready (i.e. having a system in place that can easily transferable to a new owner?) Happy to jump on a call to chat more!
Clarity Expert
Absolutely, what specific questions do you have that I can best assist you with?
Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
you have a similar feature if you sign up and use the mentoring services on Startups.com. I am also a mentor there and I have regular clients that pay a monthly fee for a bank of consulting hours. Good luck 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
Founder, Trove Management Soultions
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Mentor, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Public Speaker
Hi, the service exists. See this great pitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apqki21fWss Good luck 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
Founder, Trove Management Soultions
Hi, I would love to answer this question-- please make it a bit more clear so that I can be sure of exactly what you would like to know :-)
Fulfillment Services
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Branding, digital marketing, & communications
You're already saving by using a fulfillment house in each region. You could save a little more on costs by sending the product to the 3PL already picked and packed. If your product is repacked in a mail-ready package that will save some. You could take that one further and send the picked, packed and labelled product to regional mailing houses. The post office can also sometimes help with bulk mailing projects of this nature and that would eliminate your 3PL costs entirely and also ensure you're getting the lowest shipping rates. Also, your 3PL should be providing you with information that would allow you to track this data. Why are you not getting that information? Also, why is your current operation not scaleable, have you reached the limits of your providers? Not sure I understand that part.
Product Development
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Data Products || Product development
You can try manufacturing aggregators like. 3Dhubs https://www.3dhubs.com/ They will help you find the right partner for metal fabrication, 3D printing and CNC machining.
Clarity Expert
Communicate with a range of different people and get them to try it out for free and leave reviews. That would get you off to a good start and they can also tell you some negative things that you may be able to fix.