CEO/CTO, SaaS Marketing, Business and R&D
As the business or product is not described, I will answer it for a general SaaS product. Think from the reseller's point of view. Why will you try to sell it to your community (users/clients/followers). Don't think only about revenue opportunities, but opportunities at all. 1. Commissions, first line of support (any professional task, they can do themselves) - yes, when talking about revenue, if you are thinking of other opportunities, going further should be quite business specific. You already have the general stuff. 2. Value to community - they want to be seen as giving value. So you will need to provide an intensive like a further discount (for the 1st year). Or make a split discount/commission offer, and the reseller can decide on the amounts. 3. Freebies - related to above, you can provide some free stuff, just for their community (e.g. eBooks, free pro advice, tailored to the business). 4. Tailored offers - you can provide offers, tailored to the community of the reseller. Have a landing page, just for them. Tailoring needs to be cost effective, until the channel proves traction! The reseller will be happy to present content, tailored to his community.
Clarity Expert
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Entrepreneurship
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A business growth and digital marketing expert
Hi There, Your question is related to a very popular topic which is email list building. This is an area where maximum marketers strugle at the start. It is because building a big and responsive email list is not straight forward. Customers are getting skeptic every day. They take maximum 5 seconds to judge a landing page or to connect with it. It could be even 2 seconds. So thats all you have to convince the visitor to opt-in. Now I could have helped you better if I could see your landing page. But here are some times which you may help you- 1: Asses the visual appearance of your landing page. Is it connecting or appealing to your audience? Or its just a random landing page having few contents and a subscription box. 2: The headline, sub headline and subscription box copies. Are they creating hype, expectations, interest to the visitor? Without hype or interest, visitors wont opt-in 3: Are you delivering what you promised on the landing page? if so how long you are taking? are you emailing them with bribe contents or giving a discount or it is for newsletters? 4: Are you driving traffic to your landing page only from social media? If so does the landing page matches to the click channel like post on social media or whatever you are using? Not having a domain restricts you to drive traffic from various places. But having a landing page should generate you some good amount of leads too. But if it is not optimized in terms of appearance, visuals, contents and forms it wont help. Share your landing page URL. I think I will be able to help you further.
Investment Advisory
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Digital Marketer, Ad Creator and Top Writer
1. I would recommend having your own website for for writing these blogs. Also, try to have a booking or appointment option on your website so that people can see a clear "call to action" when they are on your website. 2. At the same time, make sure you publish these blogs as articles on LinkedIn. 3. Answer some related questions on the subject matter on Quora, Reddit, and Twitter and be very unselfish about it. 4. Scheduling free calls on Clarity is also a very good idea. Start consulting for free and before you know it, you will get paid customers through these channels. 5. If you have the budget, make vlogs on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube about your investment success stories or winning formulas. I hope these help! Thank you!
CEO/CTO, SaaS Marketing, Business and R&D
Short answer is that you do not, unless you have presence, defined as nexus in the US. You can read yourself in the many cases you are considered to have nexus from this source: https://www.webretailer.com/lean-commerce/us-sales-tax-ecommerce/ The definition is quite wide and varies between jurisdictions. If your main business will be in the US, my advice is once you get high US traction, to get a local company in a low tax jurisdiction. Check Stripe Atlas for Delaware companies registration for a start: https://stripe.com/atlas First you will have local presence and more trust, second you will avoid risking a drastic decision affecting international sales, which we all see can happen really fast these days.
Patent Strategy
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Entertainment Licensing & Toy Design
Email, with a request for a phone call.
Confidence Coach, Certified Hypnotist
VP of Logistics? Executive Officer Of Planning and Projects? And if you are concerned that one person can do it all there is the possibility to hire one as the senior exec with a secondary as junior exec.
Confidence Coach, Certified Hypnotist
After looking over your site I think the answer might be staring you in the face. You have a ton of people and businesses on your site that can be monetized 100 different ways beyond selling ad space. Just to name a few off the top of my head. 1. Run a webinar selling a high ticket program for all the freebie, individual and job seekers - net $20k + 2. Contact business accounts and offer added incentives if they purchase a lifetime account - net $50k + Get a massive cash fuel influx within a week. I can help you set all this up from strategies, logistics to fruition. I'm very excited to help you. Call me so we can get working on this together and make a reality by next week.
7 years experienced Technical Expert for computers
Please refer this link to know about the Amazon policy's https://sellercentral.amazon.in/gp/help/external/G1791?language=en_IN
Intellectual Property
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CEO/CTO, SaaS Marketing, Business and R&D
The questions seem quite open. Usually funds and serious institutions place description of the required fields, or at least underlined examples of what they expect. You have answered the questions above, although I suggest structuring it and revising it. Have someone within the details of the business look at. E.g. your platform is currently operating. Not even sure what operating is. It can be operating on your computer at home. It can be deployed on a cloud infrastructure and used by thousands/millions. Built out is not really a term I would use. What is 'the technology", what part it is from the platform. Write it in a way, so the person on the other side doesn't ask those questions, and understands where you are. Further: in the ownership of IP you mention patents. If you really have it, you should also list in in IP protection part. Number 4 is again a little bit open, but what they mean is an obligation of any kind. Starting from loans, any type of obligating contracts with 3rd parties, employees or others. E.g. a contract that states: I will help you raise this fund, and when you do, you will give me 50%. Number 5 most likely refers to how do you plan to expand your IP (not only the protected one). Build more features to your software, add more products. Hope this helps.
Coaching you along your entrepreneurial journey
What tactics have you already tried? Is there a way to co-create some new expectations going forward? For example, are each of your roles and responsibilities outlined in writing? Would your partner be open to creating a new partnership agreement around agreed upon roles and responsibilities? Perhaps a facilitation of this conversation between the two of you would help. A business coach could serve as a neutral third party and help you find a mutually beneficial solution.
International Tax Attorney and U.S. CPA
A new C corporation formed within the U.S. must file a federal income tax return (Form 1120) on an annual basis. The corporation may have to file a state corporate income tax return depending upon the state of incorporation and from which state the corporation operates. Income tax filings are generally required even if the corporation has no revenue, expenses or net income. If your corporation has no revenue for the first year, but it has operating expenses, the corporation is likely in a net operating loss position. You will want to file a tax return in order to preserve these losses and carry forward the losses to future tax years in order to offset future taxable income.
Strategic Partnerships
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M&A, Raising Capital, Strategic Advisory
Hi - so happy to hear your company is growing so well in a very advanced field. From my experience please consider the following. (I can email you additional things but here are key concepts) 1. Intellectual Property Is your "old" IP properly protected as you enter the JV? Now what happens to the new IP, is it shared? 2. Brand Do you maintain control of your brand in the JV? What is the branding of the new JV? 3. Scope of Work You must always have a proper scope of work defined in a JV, otherwise it opens up possible issues for you and the other party when one party deviates 4. Dissolution of JV How do you get out of a JV if you want to? Is it automatic triggers, is there an exit clause? Hope this helps!
Fractional CTO
I build API systems daily for myself + clients. Also other on-demand non-API systems. To provide you an answer requires a starting point + gathering a good bit of context. Best if you book calls with me + other people who build this type of software daily. Tip: Here's how I approach this for myself + clients. Whatever code I develop, evolves through stages, which self fund the project. In other words, every month of development must produce income the next month greater than last month's dev cost. So if month one's estimate is $10K of dev work, this work only starts when there's a clear path to the $10K of work generating $20K of income next month. My suggestion. If you can't come up with a clear plan to have income grow fast enough to immediately cover all development cost, get a new idea. Hint: Most projects I do for myself + clients at this point use a pre sale model. So, someone (client, myself, many people) market the product at a discount for a small number of users to be in the alpha + beta stages of release. Sometimes this can generate... well... substantial income... This also gives a massive window of debugging, where development + debugging costs are covered. Think of this as a Kickstarter project where money comes in, sometimes for many months or a year at a discount. So if your service will run $100/month, pre sell a $1200 package for 2-3 years, rather than the normal year of coverage. To do this you must be clear with participants... 1) There will be problems to wring out of code. 2) You must be clear you can code some sort of product in a few weeks, to provide some sort of deliverable. 3) Don't spend all the money, so you can do instant refunds for participants who loose patience with alpha/beta code quality. This approach works super well.
Sales Strategist
The starting point is always getting clear about the problem. What does you new word press product actually do and what problem does it solve for people? I am an online sales strategist so can help set up your email marketing, build the strategy and help you source the best people to get it done. Happy to have a chat and better understand if I can help you.
Sales Strategist
There are two things can highly impact more clients signing up. 1. Marketing - One of the reason why people don't buy what you are selling is because they dont know you exist. You can do cross selling and upselling - So for example if you are in helping one country back offices, can you do offer to your clients the service internationally. Also are there key events where REO Agents hang out, what do they read. 2. Sales - When you meet a client (phone/person) are you able to close the client, or are you having a low conversion rate. If this is the case, then ways to improve, is improving your offer, improving how to enhance your social proof. Happy to jump on a call and to help you assess where you are at.
Real Estate Development and Preservation Activist
The funding of a non-profit can be a bit more complicated than banging on the doors of a bank. First, you will need to set up the corporation, next file for non-profit status with the IRS (1023), and lastly receive tax-exempt status from your state of incorporation. At the point of submission to IRS, you have a window of roughly 2 years to fundraise while you receive your approvals. However, many foundations will not fund you during that time. That leaves you to grass roots funding. Your success will be based on a solid business plan, and a board that is experienced in oversight. Focus on the income and expenses when you write your business plan. Good luck in your endeavor, you may find the reward in helping people gets overshadowed by the daunting task of running the company. Keep your mission statement handy!
Angel Investment, Venture Capital, Idea Validation
The site seems to be good. Let's discuss more over a call.
Strategic thinker and communicator, author
Hi: The US Patent and Trademark Office has some great resources, including solid search functionality which lives at: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/search-trademark-database Kerby
Tech startups and entrepreneurship
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I'm IT professional with 17+ years in business.
Hi, in my opinion no, you should test first the device in your local saloon. After you improve the product, and after you are satisfied with the product is working, the next step would be branding and marketing. Before you come to market then you should fill for the patent. Kind regards Kruno.
Product Development
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Expert on Leading New Ventures in Sports Marketing
Fanatics has the umbrella apparel license with both NFL and NBA. For non-apparel, the NBA entertains new concepts all the time (I used to run business operations for the licensing group in the 90s). However, you will need to show distribution and required to pay a minimum if you were to pursue a non-apparel license for your own company. There are dozens of long time "hard goods" licensees and they may be interested in working with you. Licenses are granted for specific products (known as "rights management") I can point you in the right direction but need to know more.
I'm IT professional with 17+ years in business.
Hi, my name is Kruno, I was senior software Architect on a couple of projects all around the world. For what I got from your video it is obvious that it will be some kind of client-server architecture. My suggestion for the client side is Spring Boot + MongoDB + AngularJS (for building admin panel). If you wish to include a mobile app, a suggestion is Ionic 3 (https://ionicframework.com/docs/). I hope that I helped, let's talk for more...
I'm IT professional with 17+ years in business.
Hi, my name is Kruno. I have one SaaS application from which you can sell your services. I have investigated a couple of years ago some pricing models and my conclusion was that the only thing that can get us more money is to scale our business (get more customers which will do microtransactions over our platform). kind regards, Kruno
Creative/analytical/strategic. CEO coach
Was this covered in the letter of intent? If this is the first draft, it should be able to be negotiated, but realize that the valuation should change, based on a reduction of assets included in the sale. Be prepared to extend the negotiation period by possibly quite a bit of time, or a rejection. This is why it is so important to review all aspects in detail early in the discussions. Good luck. Do you have a good business lawyer on your team? The accountant is good for financial review, but a lawyer is needed to protect your interests.
Confidence Coach, Certified Hypnotist
You have to create a different message for different markets. Let's think about Sears marketing for a moment.... For the ladies - See the softer side of Sears For the men - lifetime warranty for Craftsmen Tools. Many companies can market to multiple areas. The one main difference is they are creating selling points, slogans and strategies for each market. There isn't a "One Size Fits All" option when marketing to different target audiences. I'd love to help you. Give me a call and to set up different messages and marketing strategies for your two target audiences.