I don't need 3. The first and only thing that you should do is a Proof of Concept (POC) / market validation. Only if it shows positive results, should you move on to the next stages (MVP, funding, founder's etc - depending what you already have/don't have). You can read how to do the validation in one of my previous answers here: https://clarity.fm/questions/6423/how-do-you-do-market-research You can also have I've successfully helped over 300 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

Yes, Toontastic appears to be the best app to use and it was developed by Google.

I am not a lawyer and you should talk to a lawyer for professional legal advice. That being said, I would assume you won't run into any issues because you are creating original art instead of taking art someone else made and passing it off as your own. There is a chance the celebrities you paint will be delighted and actually share your work within their online communities! Let me know if you want to chat more about getting this up and running.

Any relevant certification can help your business in my opinion. This will help show your clients you know what you're doing. Providing a high quality product will always help your business more than any certification can, but a certification can help you get your foot in the door. I'm happy to go into more detail about your business if you want. Feel free to reach out!

I’ll take it as a given you are operating a “brick & mortar” construction (equipment rental) business and with this, allow me to propose a few “flexible” marketing moves, you may consider (online or offline): 1. PUBLICITY/PUBLIC RELATIONS - Online or social media write-ups; Offline publication write-ups 2. ADVERTISING - Online: paid search/display narrow-focused to your locality/chosen demographic; Offline: local media (e.g. cable) 3. TRADE SHOWS/EXHIBITS - Benefits of taking part in these industry events (other than generating brand presence) include expanding your targeted leads “networking”/partnership opportunities, competitor check, business feedback, etc. BONUS: Business Listing (e.g. Google) is an often overlooked marketing tool (by many businesses with physical addresses) that you should maximize to increase your (foot/web) traffic and boost “conversion”. (If you want “SERIOUS” customers to at least visit or call your store, help them find you.) In a nutshell, you can always do marketing your way, the “ad hoc” way and right away (I.e. soon after reading this); but it’s ideal to have a basic business strategy in place. That’s why I review the backgrounds of businesses before providing recommendations. In the absence of such though, you may give a briefing (or fill a quick questionnaire), so we could come up with a marketing strategy, most relevant to your customers. This “strategic” approach to marketing (no matter how small your business) not only keeps your marketing efforts on track, enables you as the business owner or manager to make more “informed” decisions (e.g. from deciding on the font style of your business name to the copy of your directional store signs to the keywords you choose for your SEO, etc.) but it also optimizes your resources, translating your marketing spend into investments rather than costs to grow your business. I hope you have gained useful inputs and let me know if you wish to explore this discussion further. Success!

Hi Roger, You can set the process for running Facebook campaigns for many clients. There are few tools available which can be helpful to auto schedule your campaigns.

If you can find what you're looking for by using a Google API service, then the answer is yes. If you must scrape Google search results, Google is smarter than you or any developer, so will eventually figure out you're scrapping their data + completely block your IP. https://commoncrawl.org - provides an alternative, as they provide a massive corpus of crawled content from millions of sites... so... if there's no Google API which can provide you the data you're after, consider using the Common Crawl datasets.

I’m a Business and Life Strategist with over 20 years of military service, and we’ve submitted numerous bids to government and commercial entities. If you’d like to partner with drug and background screening companies, first you need to develop a white paper to present a new product or service that your company developed or invented. If it’s not a new product or service, create a Capability Statement. It is a promotional or marketing statement about your business and its capabilities and skills that advertises who you are and what you do. Second, you’d need to locate their R&D Department or their contracting department. R&D Department are always looking to find ways to improve their company’s product, service, or business practices. Contracting Departments are responsible for find companies that can fulfill their company’s needs. Third step is to get your Capability Statement to them by email, regular mail, or fax. If you need any additional questions or assistance putting together your Capability Statement, feel free to contact me.

I've lived in Dubai and crisscrossed the middle east on business. You are right, Dubai is the obvious choice and that's where I was based most of the time. It would have helped if you had mentioned more details about the type of business you are into. Dubai is a little expensive but unparalleled in certain aspects. People love to live there. It's full of talent and opportunities but also very competitive. Bahrain too is comparable in some ways and there is a lot of local talent here and it's cheaper to operate a business here. But there real answers will depend on what is your product? Will you need many local hires? Will you need large offices? Will you need to fly in and out often? Will you be dependent on hiring expat employees? Book a call with me and I'll help you with basic information. Regards, Asif

If this isn't a spam question... There are basically 3 ways to get better at writing: 1. Read. 2. Practice writing. 3. Learn the technical side of good writing. For reading you can read anything and it's actually a good idea to mix both fiction and non-fiction. Obviously if you want to get good at writing one particular thing, read more of that. For practicing writing you just need to write - a lot. Some of it will be rubbish. Some of it will be OK. Some of it will be amazing. The more you write, the more people read, and the more feedback you get, the better you will be at writing. For the technical side you can hope on any learning platform like Udemy and go through a writing course. Pick one that matches the genre of what you want to write about and then go through it. You'll learn the dos and don'ts, how to structure your pieces, how to properly edit, research, proofread and everything else. I personally like Dr Clare Lynch's courses on Udemy.

It is unclear what type of business you provide ("corporate rental business"). If you better describe the business, I'd be happy to give you some tips on how to provide them. Good luck I've successfully helped over 300 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

Hi This is indeed not an easy situation and I can understand your frustration. I could mention the various ways you could have avoided this, but this wouldn't be helpful at this point, so I'll skip it. Just please note that next time you develop something, talk to me before so I can help you prevent this situation. What CAN be done: 1. Send him one last email with both a 'carrot' and a 'stick' - meaning that if he gives you all the updated code you'll pay him X (do not pay anything upfront) (this is the carrot), and if he does not offer the code that you plan have spoken with a large private detective firm in China who also does cyber crime and you intend to invest your last remaining amounts on finding him and bringing him to justice for breach of agreement (before sending the email, make sure that you have backed up all copies of the code/materials and changed all passwords). 2. If you tell me more about the service/app, and if I think it has value, I can connect you with another company which might be willing to complete it for you in exchange for shares in the company. You would only have to pay for the drafting of the legal agreement. 3. Find another tech-co-founder who can complete it for you. There are many platforms for finding co-founders. Try look online, or during a call I could provide you with the information. Good luck I've successfully helped over 300 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

Exciting. Good luck. Information that would help (most are known but work): 1. Testimonials - super important. If you can get past clients to agree to give a short video testimonial - even better. 2. Logo/names of happy clients. 3. Easy to understand description of your services. 4. quick and easy contact method. 5. Why you're different to all the other agencies. 6. A unique offer - something that the others aren't - for example: 100% money back guarantee (not for the clicks just for the service fee). This clearly shows that you're confident in the quality of your skills/services. 7. A bit about you/the team - if you don't mind - add real pictures. Not just the regular serious profile pics...something personal. Don't forget about your TOU and PP and GDPR compliance (a headache but better dealing with it rather than paying fines later on). Good luck! I've successfully helped over 300 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

Two years is a lot of lost time fighting over $1000. The $1000 is only worth fighting over if the lost time involved could potentially less than $1000. Most credit card terms of service only allow for a short window to file + resolve disputes... sometimes 6 months... usually 3 months... so it's unlikely you can get this handled through normal channels. Alternative: If the $1000 is really worth continued time spend, then draft a letter to Barclay's CEO + all board members stating the problem + the exact resolution you'd like, which in your case will likely be a $1000 card balance credit. Tip: In the future, use PayPal, where you can more easily dispute charges.

I've been working with information products and online masterclasses for close to a decade now. You basically have a few options: 1. Host it yourself. 2. Host it on YouTube. 3. Host it on a MOOC, Udemy or something similar. The big differences between the 3 are pricing, control and setup. Pricing: If you host somewhere that isn't your own platform then you have very little control over pricing and how much you can charge. This is why you see masterclass creators charging $200-300 for courses but Udemy creators have their content sold for $10. Control: With your own platform you'll be able to control how the customer experience and navigation flow looks and feels. You'd also be able to set up the credit/a la carte system for payment. On other platforms you'll be limited. Setup: To host on your own platform requires a certain amount of technical know-how and there are also a lot of moving pieces - you'd have to setup web hosting, video hosting, some kind of cart or product delivery system as well as payment processing.

Not my exact area of expertise but we went through something similar here in Asia where sellers rushed to clear stock before the government stepped in with price and export controls. If you have the logistics set up already then you could quickly sell them on: * Facebook marketplace. * eBay. * Amazon yes, but run the risk of them closing down your account. * Local classifieds and Craigslist. * Reddit though just be wary of each subreddit's advertising policies. As for how to package them, the most popular configurations I have seen here are 5-packs or 10-packs as they need to be changed on a regular basis.

Your question is clear and understandable, but you either need to pay for the services, or give away equity - talented and trustworthy people won't work for free - nor should they. The only question that remains is how can you develop the platform while paying less or giving away less equity. Answers: 1. found a co-founder whose only role is the development of the platform for a relatively low amount of equity and no voting/management rights. 2. Pay beginner programmers who are looking to gain experience (cheaper costs). 3. I know a development company that might be willing to create the platform for you in exchange for a relatively low amount of equity. Additionally, you can draft the agreement so that the equity is given in stages - based on the work that you do. the only costs that you would have is for drafting the legal contract because they insist on having their lawyer do the legal work and he charges payment (half upfront and half after the work is complete). The programming company also offers a "buy-back" option - this means that if within x amount of months you want to buy back your shares, you can do so, but at double the value of the programming costs. Let me know if this is relevant. Good luck I've successfully helped over 300 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

U can look at Angel.co or u can read this https://medium.com/@chris_boucher/top-10-best-online-platforms-to-find-an-investor-for-your-startup-b7c1ac38a5b7

Several years ago, I manufactured product and stumbled upon a website called RangeMe. I assume there are others like it. With this platform, I could post my products and their wholesale cost and margins. Then, retailers and distributors could see my products and choose whether or not to engage with my brand. I'm sure the process has changed a little since I last used it in 2017, but it was very helpful for my in finding new wholesale accounts.

Best to explain why you're asking + provide a URL explaining your purpose/business. Many times successful prefer to remain anonymous. You're asking for highly private information to be posted in a public forum.

Hi, Legitimate question. Business wise, it would not make sense to train someone who you know - in advance - is going to be a competitor. That said, there are so many competitors in the industry that you are talking about, so this makes what your partner is doing a little less strange. The ideal solution would be to condition the little brother's training and involvement on the following: 1. a minimum time investment in your company - meaning he has to devote x amount of work hours (with no payment or minimum wage). 2. You get a percentage in any future profits he generates through his future business (assuming it is indeed in the same industry/field). So basically, you will be training someone to setup a company in which you also get percentages from the profits, which makes his training an investment, and not a competitor. on a personal note: you could have written your question in 1/4 of the length/space - this is something that you should work on if you're going to be dealing with customers and people (please don't be offended, we learn from feedback, not praise). I've successfully helped over 300 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 Good luck

This is a question better suited for stackoverflow. If you message me the schema for the two tables I could give you the exact query that you want.

Here’s what you could do using Linkedin: 1. Find and create a list of target prospects: There are 550 million LinkedIn users. With LinkedIn Sales Navigator, you can create a list of target people who *fit the right criteria* of prospects that might buy your bathroom product. 

 You can filter by GEOGRAPHY (e.g. country, state, etc), INDUSTRY (e.g. Hospital & Healthcare, Health, Wellness & Fitness), JOB TITLE (e.g. Director of Facilities, Head of Janitorial Services, Chief Procurement Officer, etc). In seconds, you could have an immediate overview of all the people you could possibly sell your bathroom product to.
 2. Contact and message them: Now that you have you list you can start doing ‘prospecting’ or ‘outreach’. You can use LinkedIn to directly message these people and tell them about your bathroom product.
 3. LinkedIn advertising: If you prefer not to spend time contacting people directly, you could instead create LinkedIn adverts that advertise your products that are only shown to the people that you found in Step 1.

This will save you the effort of having to manually message hundreds - or thousands - of people (as in Step 2). Instead, you can pay to display adverts instead. This will save you time, however it will cost you more money upfront as you have to ‘pay per click’ or ‘pay per impression’ for your ads. Am happy to talk further about all the ways you could use Linkedin to do some target marketing. Book a call if you’d like more advice! :)

The answer to your first question is pretty simple. Basically you are talking about doing an exclusive deal on a (hopefully pattented) item, or just slapping another companies logo on an item which would be a custom label or private label. White label usually refers to SaaS. Cases are all around you. This just happened to me at Walmart. The Ragu brand and GreatValue brand were right next to each other and were in the same jars. Ragu more than likely did a private label spaghetti sauce for Walmart's GreatValue brand. You can also Google - "top private label brands" or other variations of this search phrase.

audio. Good Luck I've successfully helped over 300 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