1. DuctTapeMarketing.com – Founded by John Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing delivers an extensive weekly marketing newsletter choc-full of small business marketing tips, strategies, and resources.
2. WebsiteGrader.com – “A free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website.” This is a pretty straight-forward tool: You type in your website, your competitors’ websites, and your [...]
For the next few weeks, every gym in town will be packed with people who have set a resolution to shed a few pounds in 2010. New Year’s is a time for setting and accomplishing goals both personally and professionally. Not surprisingly, January is one of the most popular months for starting a new business. [...]
How to get funding for your business plan.
Okay, you’ve written most of your business plan, but now you’re stuck on the financials. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. This is one of the most daunting areas you’ll encounter when writing a business plan. Frankly, most CFOs even try to avoid them. Lucky for you, we’ve provided some nice templates that you can use. [...]
You’ll be happy to see that we’ve launched a complete redesign of the Dashboard today. This new look will help you quickly access all aspects of your business plan, manage multiple plans, view the sample plan library, broadcast your business plan to investors on GoBigNetwork.com, collaborate with team members, and share your plan with [...]
If you have access to our Plan Library, then you’ll get the chance to import or view all of our sample business plans. The business plan library is currently available to users who have a ‘Professional’ or ‘+Funding’ account.
Each time you create a new plan, you’ll be given the option to import one of our [...]
So, you’ve shared your plan with ten of your friends and now you want to share it with two really important investors. But, you’re worried that one of your friends might post a ’stupid’ comment on your plan and one of those really important investors will see it. Listen, we all have those [...]
We launched some really nice improvements to the Share tab and also added a Team tab in the main navigation.
Here’s how the new stuff works:
‘Team’ Tab: If you want to invite people to join your team and help you write your plan, this is the place to do it. Once you’ve invited a [...]
A few of you told us that you were having trouble with some of your invites. In a handful of cases, your invitees were receiving a ‘you are not authorized to view this page’ error when they tried viewing your plan.
This was related to some issues with the way the system was recognizing the [...]