Mentor Schools – Product Launch Plan

Archive for May, 2009

A successful business owner talks about the book Mentor: The Kid & The CEO and the significance of mentoring.

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Craigslist, yes…but what else is there!?!?!?!? We have business cards but don't find many occasions to distribute them. With a VERY limited budget, we simply do not know what other options are available to us (other than SEO) to generate more business per month. We are desperate to grow our business, providing website design and copy services…but being one amongst the dimes a dozen proves itself very difficult. We've even limited our client niche in the hope that we would narrow the scope.
Suggestions? Maybe it's our site…www.firstface.net. Brutal criticism and sarcasm is not welcome. Genuine and authentic assistance is encouraged. THANK YOU.

Just visited your site, nice.

If I had to guess I would lay odds that your "niche" is Christian based businesses.

So, if I were in your shoes, I would start with a colorful flyer and take it to all your local churches and ask if you can hand them out to the parisheners and/or post on bulletin boards in the churches. Lots of Christians own their own businesses and this may be the best way to start.

Good luck

I have a dream/idea for a small business venture. I just need some mentoring on how/what to do & the best way to make it work for me. I am esp interested in knowing if ebay is the best place to start or if I should have my own website as well.

With all due respect, SCORE consists of retired business executives, which is a pretty shallow pool when it comes to marketing advice for an online business. They do very well in advising how to set up a “bricks & mortar” business but I don’t know how much help they would give you on an online business.

The biggest issues you face are:
(1) Developing a web site, the graphics, copy and layout, etc. Do you have any knowledge in web design, and/or access to Front Page or some other development software? If not, start on Ebay and Amazon.
(2) If you do your own site, you will need a shopping cart, or at least be able to use Google checkout or ebay, both of which require a checking account and/or credit card. That’s another reason to start out using ebay.

Eventually you’ll want your own website but for now I would start by learning ebay and maybe Amazon. Those are also inexpensive ways to test your product idea to make sure it’s a good idea before you start spending a lot of money on your own web site. Good luck!