In this show, you’ll hear how you can use patents and trademarks to protect your business. Discover what patents and trademarks are, how they work, how to get them, and how to use them wisely to protect your most valuable business assets.
About Our Guest Devin Miller:
Devin Miller loves startups! He established his own first startup while earning his Law & MBA degrees. Since then, he’s set up several more startups and enjoyed every minute of it. Devin has a real passion for a new business model.
Devin’s an entrepreneur who is also a patent and trademark attorney. He’s obtained several degrees including a Law degree (JD) and a Masters in Business Administration. He even have degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mandarin Chinese. While working for a large law firm helping Fortune 100 clients like Amazon.com, Intel, Redhat, and Ford with their intellectual property, he quickly realized that there weren’t many good intellectual property legal resources out there for start-ups and small businesses. As an entrepreneur himself, Devin wanted to help other small business owners learn about patents, trademarks, and copyrights so they can build value into their businesses and protect their assets.
In addition to founding and running his own patent and trademark law firm, Miller IP Law, Devin is the co-founder of several startups including a multi-million dollar startup for wearable glucose monitoring. He also runs a product development company that helps startups and small businesses with developing their ideas and products.
During this show, we discuss:
● The essential things an entrepreneur should focus on when branding their startup business
● The first step every startup must take to protect their brand and business
● The difference between a patent and trademark
● When to get a patent for your business
● How to enforce a patent as a small business or startup
● Deciding whether to invest in patent or not
● What you do to protect your business incase of an intellectual property rights violation
● 5 Intellectual property pitfalls startup can easily avoid
● What happens when the IP laws clash with antitrust laws
● 3 factors to consider when creating an IP strategy for your startup
● How to protect your IP globally
● 3 important things you need to know about trademarking your business
● 3 misconceptions about trademarking a business
● Things you need to do carefully when filing for copyright
● Three things you can do to build value and safeguard your asset
HelloWoofy is taking the world by storm with an affordable and easy way to manage multiple social platforms in one place. In this show we see how technology such as AI is helping business owners increase your organic social reach so you can deliver your message to the world easier and faster.
About Our Guest
Arjun Rai is a NYC based entrepreneur who is on a mission to support small businesses with the power of visualized data science and artificial intelligence for digital marketing at HelloWoofy.com. A firm believer that every SMB should have an unfair advantage to compete against unlimite marketing budgets. He has raised from professional investors and personally invested nearly $500,000 in pre-seed VC funding as well as obtained corporate partners (including Fortune 500 companies, such as Microsoft and Google) resulting in over $135,000 in strategic resources.
Since high school, Arjun has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology in 2011 with scholarships and grants. Following a few weeks into college, Arjun launched his second startup, fuelbrite.com, a social media agency focused on small businesses and startups, and a student-focused organization, TheBizDen. Arjun currently lives in New York City with his girlfriend, two cats and a dog. You can find him working from home, doing carpentry, pitching his startup at a meetup or driving around town on his e-scooter.
During this show we discuss:
• How to nearly fail 18 times to find true success
• How to find the right product-market fit
• How to raise money to grow your business
• Why mindset is the key to true business success
• How to use equity crowdfunding to raise money for your business
• How Republic can help you raise money from your network to fund your business
• How to overcome the issues with social media management platforms
• How to find the right emojis on your social channels
• How to use Artificial Intelligence to grow your business
• 3 things you must understand before creating a social presence for your business
• The best social medium for any startup to utilise before expanding to other platforms
• The important tech tools startups can use to expand their online presence
• What a startup can do to survive recession and avoid folding
• The alternative approaches you can use to get funds for your startup
• 5 biggest mistakes startups make when they start out with social media
• How to setup your business social profiles for maximum impact from the start
• 10 ways you can drive sales via social media
• 5 tips you can use to run a business with efficient social media presence
• 5 ways you can grow your social media presence and also build a trusting audience
• 6 marketing trends of 2020 I could use to scale my business
During this show, you’ll discover …
✅ How to get money from venture capital for your path to recovery
✅ How the coronavirus situation may be freeing up venture capital money for small startup businesses
✅ How the changes in the markets may be opening up venture capital funding…
✅ … and with some foreign investments becoming harder to make…
✅ … VCs may be looking for more local investment opportunities
✅ How the Federal Government is propping up large corporations like VC firms right now…
✅ … and how that could translate into funding later
✅ How VC firms are using their resources to fight COVID-19…
✅ … so they may be looking to invest in the right kinds of companies…
✅ … like delivery and distribution companies…
✅ … and mobile services
✅ And technology companies are always of interest to any venture capitalist or angel investor
✅ How to raise money with private investing
✅ How to take your entrepreneurship to the next level with venture capital investing
✅ Get money for recovery and leave the shutdown behind you
Cynthia Del’Aria is a startup ninja who helps startups achieve massive success. In this episode, we dive into how startups can succeed and how they can overcome the biggest obstacles that lead many startups to failure. Cynthia shares her action plan on how to focus on the critical factors of success that lead startup founders to grow real businesses that solve real problems. Hear how to solve problems in a way that your customers will become raving fans and you’ll grow a business that can earn you high revenue and profits for many years to come.
During this show, we discuss:
• 4 critical factors for startup success
• The number one reason startups fail in 2020
• How you can find the best concept to build your startup around
• How to effectively manage multiple startup businesses in order to ensure success from all of them
• How to near-guarantee startup success
• How to know if you are building a business that has potential to be viable and longlasting
• 4 risk management strategies startups must know
• Getting in front of the right people at the right time so they know you’re the one that has the right service for them
• About venture capital and 5 things you ought to know about it
• Why you need to understand the VC market and the financing dynamics before mapping out and reaching out to your potential investors
• How to launch a customer-funded startup
• The important issues you ought to address before you put your business up for sale
• How building users persona and narrowing your market focus affect your aim of selling your business
• The right time to sell your business
• What you need to do to get your business ready for sale
• 3 tips to find the right buyer for your business
David Flores Wilson, CFP, CFA, editor of Planning to Wealth, has a passion for serving as a resource to friends, colleagues and clients. After years of advising individuals on the side, David established Planning to Wealth in an effort to find new ways to better serve his clients and provide accessible, quality financial advice. Providing everything from financial planning tips and wealth management guidance to travel hacks for your next vacation. David aims to be the go to resource for all financial topics and life planning considerations. His financial guidance has appeared on Yahoo!Finance, Investopedia, CNBC, Investment news and others.
In addition to managing his blog, David is a Senior Wealth Manager and financial planner at Watts Capital in New York City where he has been working for over 9 years. There, David advices and coaches business owners and professionals on a broad spectrum of financial matters as they make progress towards their goals and dreams. Prior to joining Watts Capital, David was a VP in Fixed Income Division at Barclays Capital. He received a BS from the University of Berkeley and holds the Certified College Financial Consultant, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Planner designation. David the IMCA Alternative Investments Certificate and completed the Certified Investment Management Analyst certificate program from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
David enjoys traveling, reading Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, yoga and snowboarding.
During this show we discuss:
• The key financial skills people lack when starting up their business
• How to correctly navigate your financial plan when you’re about to launch your business
• 5 things a startup entrepreneur can do to thrive in today’s economic climate
• 5 tips entrepreneurs and startup can use to aid financial management
• Two proprietary investment strategies entrepreneurs can follow to yield financial growth
• Getting started with risk management as a small business owner
• How to correctly manage a sudden windfall in your finances
• How to become proactive with your finances
• All need to know about building an emergency fund for your business
• 3 financial strategies I can use to maximise savings
• Methods you can use to reduce your income taxes and save more
• The smartest financial move entrepreneurs can make in their business
During this show, you’ll discover …
✅ How getting gas cards for business without a personal guarantee is within reach
✅ How building a fantastic business credit score can happen NOW…
✅ … no matter what the economy is doing …
✅ … or the SBA is doing …
✅ … or the coronavirus is doing
✅ What business credit is…
✅ … and how it matters now more than ever
✅ How you can get excellent fleet gas cards for small business …
✅… no matter how the economy is faring
✅ Get the names of three terrific gas credit cards for your business
✅ All of these gas credit cards report to the big three business credit reporting agencies!
✅ How business credit building can set your business up for the future
✅ Because conditions won’t be like this forever
✅ And check out our Business Credit Builder…
✅ … for even more business credit cards …
✅ … which we KNOW report to the business credit reporting agencies
✅ Get the best cash back credit cards…
✅ … credit card rewards, and more!
✅ You can build business credit now and reap the benefits now AND later
✅ And get gas cards for your business without a personal guarantee
Stormi Scott is the Business Development Manager for Leverage, a software and education platform designed to help small business owners and property investors make more informed and empowered financing decisions. Stormi began her career at Wells Fargo in 2016 and through hard work and determination, she advanced herself within the banking system and became a Branch Manager at People's United Bank.
During her time in the banking industry, Stormi saw firsthand some of the struggles business owners face when seeking financing and her experiences inspired her to want to help create a system to empower better outcomes for all small businesses seeking financing going forward. With Leverage, Stormi hopes to provide small business owners, entrepreneurs, and property investors an advantage in the financing process - and empower them to start their funding conversation like never before.
During this show we discuss:
● Generating custom result and making better financing decision using tech
● How to use tech to gain leverage before applying for financing
● How to reduce chances of getting declined by not having your application seen as a fraud
● Using tech to get a loan for your small business when the bank has already told you no
● Some of the steps of the lending process you can and should automate in 2020
● How software empowers a commercial borrower
● How you can best prepare yourselves before speaking to a lender
● How to know if your transaction is likely eligible for a loan before you speak to a lender
● The common requirements you need to fulfill when applying for a business loan
● Using tech as a self-service and determine how and what type of funding to get for your business
● Using tech to get corrective actions to improve your transaction numbers and receive commercial funding for your small business
Steve Watson is a licensed CHRO and tenured CFO. He cracked the benefits nut and helped his company enjoy over $500,000 per year of benefits savings and out-of-pocket costs that are 20% lower for the employees than they were 9-yrs ago—with the same or better benefits.
During this show, we discuss:
• How much it costs to offer insurance to employees
• Why employees can get insurance way easier through their employer
• Using GoodRx to get the lowest price on prescriptions
• How do you find an insurance plan that pays you back when the insurance isn’t used
• How rebate plans work and why you should know about them
• How to break the rising trend of employee health insurance cost
• What you should do if you get a hike in your employee health insurance
• How to know if you are getting the best insurance benefit at the best cost for your employees
• How you can leverage your health plan to drive more value to your business
• 5 myths about the health insurance industry and how it drives up your costs
• How the system stacked against you
• Simple steps you can take to get the best insurance deal for your business and employees
• Why most brokers fail at effectively stopping the hiking prices of HI for small businesses
• 5 key things you can do to drastically lower the cost of any insurance policy
• How to uncover the best insurance strategies for your company based on its goals
• Other insurance that typically hikes its prices affecting the flow of funds for your business
• 5 things you must look out for when considering an insurance plan for your business
• How to effectively tackle insurance challenges in a way that can reap high for your business
Show resources:
During this show, you’ll discover...
✅ How you can use business credit building as the cornerstone of your post-Coronavirus business recovery plan
✅ Why your recession recovery plan should include business credit
✅ How building business credit will position your business perfectly…
✅ … for when conditions in the economy change again
✅ How business credit establishing can work in your post-COVID-19 business recovery strategy
✅ That even in rapidly changing times, and a pandemic and a recession…
✅ … you can STILL build business credit!
✅ It can be a big part of disaster recovery for your small business
✅ Why it’s a great idea to build business credit RIGHT NOW
✅ How to get started with business credit building
✅ How to build a fundable foundation to get started
✅ The details you need to pay attention to, to maximize your chances of approvals
✅ Why starter vendor credit helps, and how it’s more important now than ever
✅ How you can get low-cost business credit monitoring from us…
✅ … and you can monitor Experian and D&B
✅ When you do and do not need to use your SSN on an application
✅ A look ahead to retail, fleet, and more universal cash credit
✅ How and why responsible credit management will pay off…
✅ … both now and later
✅ Don’t let the economic recovery after recession leave your small business behind
Kirsty Verity is the CEO of Amazon Businesses and Co-Founder of REAL Coaching, Kirsty radically changed her life from corporate marketing director to entrepreneur. After a 20-year corporate career, she now runs her own successful multimillion-dollar Amazon business and co-founded REAL with Isaac Kuhlman.
REAL is dedicated to coaching Amazon sellers to develop their businesses with the right strategies to achieve their freedom goals. They specialize in taking sellers who are stuck or plateaued in their business and break through to reach the real success they desire. Kirsty is a serial traveller and adventurer and loves to fuel her life with her business.
During this show we discuss:
• How to determine which products to sell on Amazon
• Using Junglescout to find the right products to sell on Amazon
• How to use Alibaba to find the products you want to sell
• How much you may need to invest in products to know if you have a hit
• Why private label will give you better margins
• Why selling on Amazon is better than selling from your own site
• How to get a high ranking on Amazon
• Using Amazon Brand Analytics to rank higher
• Why you shouldn’t advertise your Amazon products on other platforms
• The best way to track your numbers to have better success
• How to get reviews for your Amazon products
• The best time is to use sponsored ads
Vikram Rajan is the co-founder of phoneBlogger.net, and its new service: Videosocials, the video blogging club for subject matter experts. Vik is a frequent presenter at the NYC Bar Association, and many other lawyer groups around NYC. Vikram was a panelist at the New York State Bar Association conference in January 2018, regarding social media best practices. Vikram’s marketing column was published by the AICPA’s largest newsletter, featured in its Journal of Accountancy. Vik has also been published by Forbes and other publications.
During this show we discuss:
∙ Why you should care about video content marketing on LinkedIn
∙ Tools to create a successful video content on LinkedIn
∙ How to choose the right length of your videos
∙ How to utilize LinkedIn and navigate to success using video
∙ How to grow your LinkedIn platform using video
∙ The significance of video on a professional platform and how to use it to reach your target audience
∙ 5 tips on how to use video to market your business and increase connectivity on LinkedIn
∙ 3 most powerful hurdles beginners and experts alike face when creating and utilizing the LinkedIn video platform
∙ 3 dos and donts for using videos on LinkedIn to engage prospects and increase referral growth
∙ The parallel relationship between YouTube, LinkedIn and content and how to leverage that to grow your business
During this show, you’ll discover …
✅ All about how the most successful crowdfunding campaigns did it
✅ Valuable resources to help assure campaign success
✅ What crowdfunding is…
✅ … and how it can be a viable funding strategy during COVID-19 and recessions
✅ How crowdfunding works
✅ How Kickstarter and Indiegogo differ…
✅ … and why that matters to your campaign
✅ Get valuable Kickstarter and Indiegogo resources to help your campaign succeed
✅ Learn where to get information to help you with every aspect of a crowdfunding campaign…
✅ … including promoting your project…
✅ … and getting influencers and press coverage…
✅ … and fulfillment for backers
✅ Get successful crowdfunding tips
✅ Just how to be successful in crowdfunding
✅ Plus stats and research to give you objective data on how well your campaign might do
✅ And for more types of business funding, check out our hybrid credit line – 👉 https://my.creditsuite.com/qualifier-...
Kevin Zhang is a 24-year-old serial eCommerce entrepreneur and the CEO of Kreator eCommerce, a global business that features over 60 team members with facilities in 3 countries. Despite starting with only $3,000 saved from a summer job, Kevin achieved acclaim in the world of digital strategy and eCommerce for generating $20 Million in sales in his first year as an entrepreneur. Kevin is sought after as both an investor and strategic advisor for organizations focused on eCommerce.
Aside from his own ventures, Kevin is also active in the world of entrepreneurship education.
During this show, we discuss:
Martyn has been marketing and selling online since the age of 14 when he learnt to build websites to impress a girl (it didn’t work!). Since then he’s sold everything from dog collars to houses leveraging the internet.
Martyn Co-Founded a Software company, Built multiple 7-Figure Ecommerce Brands, Co-Founded a High-Level Digital Entrepreneur Mastermind that hosts luxury meet-ups around the world, has spoken from stages around the world and still somehow found the time to self-publish two books.
His latest project, Noobru.com , a cognition drink, is on a mission to fortify 1 Billion meals by 2025, helping to tackle the 2 billion person, worldwide malnutrition problem.
Martyn absolutely loves connecting with interesting Entrepreneurs and he regular does that via his Smarter Destiny Podcast and Community.
During this show we discuss:
During this show, you’ll discover…
✅ Just how vital it is to keep consistent, congruent records everywhere online and offline
✅ Funding can be difficult during a recession
✅ Fortunately, fundability – the ability of your business to get money – doesn’t change if the economy changes
✅ Fundability helps you get loans and other capital
✅ You can build your business for fundability
✅ Find out where your industry and SIC and NAICS codes fit in
✅ Learn how record uniformity is key
✅ Find out how your business name, address, phone numbers, website, and email all factor into fundability
✅ Learn why your EIN, business entity, licensing, and business entity all make a difference
✅ Find out how your D-U-N-S and BIN numbers are important
✅ Learn how excellent personal credit quality can make you more fundable
✅ Keep your business fundable with monitoring
✅ Find out why you need a business bank account and how you manage your business financials affect fundability
✅ Get to know how vital your business credit history and payment performance are to funding your business
Paul is the founder of Automation Finance, the world's first asset based investment fund paying target return of 8%. Automation Finance has more than $200M assets under management and has saved 1000+ families from foreclosure. Paul's audience on social media is greater than 5,000 and he is happy to promote the episode to his fans!
Paul has 25 years experience building data-driven businesses in global markets. Prior to launching Automation Finance he repeatedly built multi-billion dollar businesses for PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble in the US, Europe and Asia.
Automation Finance buys non-performing residential mortgages at a discount to par and works with the homeowners to return the loan to performing status. We deliver superior returns and better borrower outcomes by providing homeowners with alternatives to foreclosure
During this show we discuss:
Dr. Travis Zigler is a recovering optometrist turned ecommerce entrepreneur. He is the founder of Eye Love, whose mission is to heal 1,000,000 dry eye sufferers naturally. Dr. Travis and his wife, Dr. Jenna Zigler, use the profits from Eye Love to fund free clinics in Jamaica and the US through their charity, the Eye Love Cares Foundation. Due to the success of Eye Love, others have asked if Dr. Travis would help them grow their business online, and more specifically with Amazon, which is one of his superpowers. Specializing in Amazon Pay Per Click (PPC), Dr. Travis and his team help businesses scale their Amazon sales and help increase brand clout.
During this show we discuss:
During this Livestream, you’ll discover …
✅ How building business credit can help any business at any stage
✅ How conventional banks and the SBA aren’t good places for startup funding…
✅ … but there are several options for new businesses
✅ Play to your and your business’s strengths…
✅ … there is funding to match
✅ How collateral-based loans can help
✅ Where securities-based and 401(k)-based financing come in
✅ How much you can get from unsecured financing
✅ The details on unsecured credit cards with good personal or business credit
✅ How crowdfunding could work for your startup
✅ How easy it is to build business credit…
✅ … including its advantages…
✅ … plus, a blueprint for how to get started with business credit
✅ How you can get federal, state, and local grants
Ryan Coon is a co-founder and the CEO of Avail, an all-in-one software solution designed for do-it yourself landlords. Prior to Avail, Coon was an investment banking associate at BMO Capital Markets.
Ryan has a hardworking spirit and together with his co-founder, Laurence Jankelow, they developed the idea for their company on a napkin that now solves the needs of thousands of landlords. His goal is to help the real estate market to become as transparent and as efficient as the stock market.
During this show we discuss:
During this show, you will discover …
✅ How this practice can be a front for identity theft and other forms of fraud
✅ What the difference between legit and illegitimate business tradelines is
✅ How piggybacking a tradeline works
✅ Just how expensive it is to buy business tradelines…
✅ … yet there are no guarantees that any of it works!
✅ How personal credit differs and piggybacking there is legal
✅ What the Federal Reserve and a former D&B employee say about the practice
✅ How the FBI and FICO weigh in…
✅ … and what happens when you’re caught
✅ What Equifax and Experian say about the practice
✅ How Nav feels about it
✅ Just how unethical this practice is
✅ What D&B will do once they find out…
✅ … and how a decision to commit this unethical practice…
✅ … could haunt your business for decades
Howard M. Shore, founder and CEO of Activate Group Inc., is a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur specializing in liberating C-Suite teams from the barriers holding them back personally and professionally. After owning and selling several of his own companies, working with numerous top Fortune 500 companies, and training with performance-enhancing organizations like Scaling Up and Gazelles, Howard has become a sought-after business mentor, executive coach, and keynote speaker. His clients work in family-owned, multi-national, public, and private companies ranging from $1 million to over $1 billion in annual revenue. With a 30-year track record of success, he guarantees any organization that his methods and systems can help them become more profitable, stable, and scalable.
During this show we discuss:
During this show, you will discover …
✅ How peer to peer lending works
✅ Just what peer to peer lending is…
✅ … and how it can work for your business
✅ Who the biggest players are in the P2P lending space
✅ All about Prosper…
✅ … and how their scoring works
✅ About Lending Club…
✅ … the world’s largest P2P lending platform
✅ What you need to know about Funding Circle…
✅ … including where they operate
✅ The basics on Upstart…
✅ … and just how accurate their modeling system is
✅ What StreetShares is all about…
✅ … and in particular how they offer advantages to veterans
Jerry Fetta helps people un-confuse their money, so that they don't lose their money, so that they can use their money to build wealth NOW! As the Founder and CEO of Wealth DynamX, a Wealth Creation Firm that helps clients across the U.S. build wealth, Jerry has a passion for providing financial education for families that causes them to build wealth and navigate their economic futures with certainty. Jerry is married to his wife and business partner, Lexy, and together they have taken Wealth DynamX from nothing to a mutli-million dollar company over the last four years.
During this show we discuss:
Come join us on our live training event to discover how to get minority loans to start a business – even in a recession.
During this livestream, you’ll discover …
✅ Where a wide variety of financing sources are for minority startup business owners…
✅ … and the details of their offerings
✅ How you can still start a new business…
✅ … even under current conditions…
✅ … and even with challenges
✅ How entrepreneurs who are also members of minorities have several options
✅ There are grants and loans out there…
✅ … for Latinx entrepreneurs…
✅ … Native Americans…
✅ … immigrants and more
✅ Why the SBA is a great source for financing
✅ How the COVID-19 CARES Act factors into minority startup business financing…
✅ … if your startup has employees on payroll already
WOW, that’s a lot of great info we’ll be covering in this one hour live event. ALL will be revealed on this livestream, register now… spots are limited!
People quit managers, not jobs. We are on a mission to make better managers, one meeting at a time.
Leaders today have found themselves in a whole new environment: Not only are they working virtually, but they are managing during a crisis. So, how can managers lead their teams today and maintain the productive rhythms they had pre-quarantine?
In this session, Brennan McEachran CEO and Co-Founder of Soapbox, an amazing meeting and management tool, shares how to managers can have more effective one-on-ones in todays climate.
If you are looking to learn more about how to run effective remote one-on-ones to keep your team motivated, engaged and productive, then this session is for you.
During this show we discuss: