In over seven years of SaaS enterprise marketing, I have found Linkedin to be the best source of information for business research in my my industry - particularly competitive research. With Linkedin, I can: - Identify hiring trends – What are your competitors and contemporaries doing as far as personnel? Are they in the middle of a big hiring spree, or are they stagnant? This can offer clues as to how their business is doing, good or bad. A sudden trend in new hires might mean they are expanding. What could this mean? A new outlet, a new product line, a new service, or perhaps just a large increase in demand. Compare this to your own situation to see how you stack up to the competition. - Identify firing trends – On the flip side of personnel analysis, assess competitors’ downsizing trends. If a sudden reduction in employees occurs, this might be a good time for you to leverage your dominance. If your competitor is struggling, it’s time to increase competitive intelligence. All’s fair in love and business. - Identify hiring anomalies - Is your competitor taking on employees with new skills or with skills that seem out of place? This could indicate an expansion, a new service or something else that’s about to happen. With proper competitive intelligence research, perhaps you can figure out what’s going on and determine if it’s something you need to consider for your own business. - Scan competitors’ new connections – Is a competitor beginning to connect with people in a new business sector? If so, this could be an indication of a new project or a new trend. Study the connections to see what they have to offer and try to see where it could fit into your business. Perhaps you too will want to connect to them. - Locate competitors’ previous employees – A few minutes chatting with a competitor’s former employee can gain you tons of valuable information. Are they disgruntled? Perhaps they’ll be willing to let you in on some operational details. In the best situation, perhaps you can pick them up for your team. - Make connections with industry peers – Find LinkedIn professional groups that relate to your business. This allows you to make new business connections. If you run a salon or a spa in Maine, connect with other salon owners in Arizona to share advice. They’re not your competitors so there is nothing to lose by sharing secrets. I hope this helps! :)

Sure, send me your website and i can give you a Feedback. You can also use Google PageSpeed Insights and Google Lighthouse, when you send me the website, make sure to explain what's the goal of the website, Awareness, Leads, Sign In, Sign into a newsletter, etc

Hi, The first step to getting the right feedback for your pitch is to find the people who you think are qualified to comment in the field. In terms of expertise, you should look for these: -Previous experience / involvement in startups -Experience or involvement in VC's or Seed Funds -A startup mentor -Someone who acts as a judge in demo days -Knowledge of the principles that goes into creating a good pitch deck. (I would recommend the book by Jason Calacanis and the part about pitch decks) -Domain expertise (specific to your domain is ideal but not the most important thing) You can find these people in clarity.fm (I am one!) as on other platforms such as Upwork & Shapr as well.

Hello, The valuation of your business depends on your ability to make a profit and your rate of growth. At one extreme end, a business with a very high rate of growth (%20) a month, can get away with no profits as in the world of startups. On the other end, a business that is making a profit, with %0 year of year growth is not investable so is valued very low. The other thing, I don't think it is fair to look at Uber as an "agency model". This way of thinking would be to miss the point on where & how they create value and thus are valued commercially.

In this business environment, a “corporate buyer” will be looking at your net income and value you based on a multiple of such. For example if the company generated $500,000 but only earned $75,000, you may be looking at a value of $200-$300,000 from a corporate buyer. It also depends on whether or not that revenue is stable and is reliant on you and your partner, in which case you might get an even lower pay out.

Different countries have different rules regarding arbitration. In most places, the parties to the agreement decide in advance what will be the arbitration's rules such as: how will the the arbitrator be appointed, how long will the arbitration take, what procedural rules will apply, who will pay the costs of it (can be both parties in equal parts, according to the arbitrator's ruling or any other way), etc. A good lawyer can draft this as part of the agreement and you can also find some examples on line. Good luck

Are you asking about software that translates the files for you? If so I wouldn't recommend using software translating anything. It's never really accurate. My recommendation for translation would be to find someone on fiver or another freelance website do that kind of work. Make sure they are familiar with the VTT file format, they are proficient in the language or languages you want them to translate to. Also make sure they are proficient in the English language as well. If you want further advice for where to find people like this, please, feel free to reach out. Best of luck!

Having direct experience in this area I would suggest using a combination of D&B data, trade association lists, email opt-in tactics and straight up cold calling. The key is to reaching the right people within the solar firm based upon your target message.

First of all I want to give you a lot of credit for what you are doing. One of the great things about being a business owner is that the successes are truly your own, but the downside is that the failures are too. Going through the tough times can be emotionally and physically exhausting. To get started with, well, getting started, you need to first deal with the past crud and work to rebuild the business' reputation and trust. Too often businesses attempt to start fresh under a new identity without addressing the baggage and ultimately they are not successful because the air has not been cleared. Think about any major company that has had a PR nightmare whether it be tainted food, tampered packaging or a mechanical error. What do they do? They publicly admit they messed up and expressed their plan to ensure it doesn't happen again. Now for you, I am not saying to alert the media. Simply start with your stakeholders. Reach out to those you feel you have wronged. Invite them to coffee or lunch, talk through the problems and get their input as to what and how you can improve during this next phase. As you build up trust, your network expands organically, and as you clear that air, those former foes now feel that they are playing a part in your new endeavor. Once you start to rebuild that reputation the re-branding and re-launching is easy. Everyone makes mistakes. It is how they are dealt with that makes the lasting impression, and frankly, people in business want to help others with their business.

No first-hand experience, no. But I hope my answer can still be helpful. Go after the problem. Write articles and resources about the issues that your add-on solves. Publish YouTube videos and in-depth written pieces detailing every tiny feature of the add-on, and how it benefits G Docs users. It's true that almost no one will read every word of your in-depth piece, or watch all 9 minutes of your video, but that's ok. Google will. And whatever small percentage of those resources applies most directly to searchers will be valuable to them. Then you've gotta promote these resources. Places like Quora and Reddit are a great start. Don't be overly spammy, just hawking your add-on shamelessly. Be genuinely helpful, and provide links to your articles/videos (because THEY are helpful). Trust that some of the Quora/Reddit users will visit your resources, and some of those visitors will view your add-on. Not all, but some. If you try to go for 'all', you'll drive people away, especially on Reddit. Answers like this one on Clarity are another great spot. Facebook and LinkedIn groups. Other forums or online communities. Find niches and verticals that may frequently encounter your problem. Then find groups of people in those niches/verticals. Again, don't spam. But when those people see that you can understand and relate to their problem—and help them solve it—they will gladly risk a click. Let your videos/articles do the rest of the work moving them down the funnel toward the add-on. Hope that helps! By the way, what does the add-on do?? Super curious now.

Hi, The general model these days is a standard annual subscription, with 10% discount if they pay 3 years upfront (all negotiable of course). Feel free to contact me if you need more information. Good luck Steven (based in Europe)

While job boards can be a beneficial resource, if you are looking for individuals with experience and a high rate of success your best bet to fill positions will be via networking. High level sales reps are in constant demand across all industries which means they are being fished rather than doing the fishing. Most high level reps are recruited by other companies while employed and do not frequent the job boards as often as entry-level or associate reps. To get started with this approach, think about who you do business with? Who is your banker, who is your insurance rep, who sold you your car, etc. All of these individuals have careers that are dependent upon successful networking and if they sold you, they are a good person to chat with because they will know other qualified individuals. Also, they are likely to know who may not be overly happy in their current job.

Love this! You've already got active students which is a great starting place. Just a couple of clarifying questions: - Do you have a separate email list for your students outside of the list gained from giving out the eBook? This could be where your promoter marketing can begin. - Is 'active promoter' the endgame where you make a profit? If so, what does that look like? - As far as bringing in more people; Draws/Competitions are usually more successful in a social media environment for several reasons. What does your social media audience look like? Another way to maximize your traffic to bring in more people would be to set up a re-marketing campaign for the people who have viewed your course, but decided not to sign up. This group might be more likely to just download the free eBook in exchange for their email. The only issue is that you would need paid traffic via Google Ads or Facebook Ads to do this well. If you don't have Google Analytics set up yet, I would do that right away so that it can start tracking those traffic flows.

Hello! You have to ask yourself: Why I need a business partner? What value this partner can bring to my business? How much this value costs? Does he/she shares the same values and has same vision like I do? According to answers you can prepare a nice offer and a small presentation. But do not forget to connect with your lawyer and prepare all the documents in a proper way, defending your part in the Company. (always do this) Remember, that conflicts between partners are the fastest way to the destruction of the company. Have questions? Call me. I am MBA, PhD, professional in business transformation and business development.

If you're not an American or Canadian citizen + you have no physical location, you only pay your Estonian taxes.

Hello! What you are asking after, is an age old business challenge; One that can be addressed, utilizing the modern tools of social media, to help stake your product and service position. The competition are doing what they are supposed to do; They are selling the ‘sizzle’ not the steak; by offering lower prices with less value added services than you do. There will always be customers who initially react to a lower perceived price offering. However; there are a number of ways to compete against price; but I’d first need to know more about what exactly you are selling; your current market position; your competitive price points; margins etc. The competition are the new guys in town, as you rightly noted. They need to attack you as the veteran in the industry; the incumbent “gold standard’ as it were; by offering price related discounted values. Your counter is to remind the customers and prospects of what exactly you offer and how your product stand out from the competition. Let’s talk!

Canada is very big market for medical devices due to its extensive health care programs.You only need to make clear Usage/Substance of Concern Guides/leaflets so that authorities can clearly understand about the product.

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Hello, my name is Daniella. I am the founder of iliketodabble.com. I would suggest link building as soon as possible as it can take up to 10 weeks on average to see 1 rank jump. If you have followup questions, I am glad to help you on a call. Thank you, Daniella

I'd say that market knowledge is incredibly important. You can buy a business at any revenue point, but if you don't know much about the market it's in or the industry, you could very well tank it. Do your due diligence and understand your exact plan and intentions of what you'd do with the newly bought asset to make sure that it has the resources needed to continue doing it's best and growing.

I would monitor the traffic on what app store your app is being downloaded to pinpoint frequency of downloads from individual markets, turnover rates from users, and ratings and comments which would contain valuable information from your users. Determining what previously provoked users to your product, what works what doesn't which such a large user base you should be able to derive a bunch of user data to be able to derive a methodology to further study habits of users and pinpoint at least some of the commonalities of good vs bad for your app. To start you of look into Google Analytics, Fireball, Flurry, they are pretty sold for analytics of small to medium size traffic. All in all whatever method you use please take to account the current privacy issues now in your collection of data to avoid any future complications.

1) CloudFlare is flakey. If you're attempting to manage SEO, avoid using CloudFlare or any tech which lives between your Website + your visitors. 2) Squarespace allows very little SEO control. Switch to WordPress, if you're running a business you'll be working on for years.

People talk to people they like but people do business with people they trust. You don't actually sell them on anything you provide insight and help them on what's best for them even though it may not create an immediate sale you are building a relationship which will develop over time.

A good Selling technique is do not go in right away to the benefit or technical stuff. First state your intention. Ex. Hi john, I'm calling you today because i believe our service can help you increase your sells. then ask How is your sales team doing are they motivated enough to make sales? are they making enough calls? poke and prod and talk about your service.

Hello, If I am assuming that you have all these chats per day stored(If not storing these chats on a data warehouse for reporting purposes is an option). There is software such as Nvivo which is great for qualitative analysis which you can use for these tasks. There are also packages for R, Python and even Excel for analyzing data.