Planning Questions

My company is in a niche with over 11 million potential customers, yet we have a little less than 100k customers currently. Given that we currently spend $0.00 in marketing (we focused on...

Marketing Planning Advertising Promotion

asked May 19 '11 at 10:34

John
23 points

If I am planning on starting an internet based LLC, which package should I purchase? Economy, Basic, or the Complete...

LLC Planning

asked Apr 30 '11 at 02:12

Andy
81 points

I'm looking for good-value, top-class applications and tools to support a new software startup. What recommendations do you have in the following categories? Domain name / hosting / website /...

Software Planning Tools CRM Hosting

asked May 1 '11 at 06:03

Paperjam
21 points

i'm with a startup looking to intensify online marketing. we want to sell a physical product over the web and are trying to figure out how to invest our time and money in online marketing. we've...

Marketing Ecommerce Planning

asked May 2 '11 at 01:50

B20000
126 points

We're bootstrapping our latest business idea. Everything I've done has been boostrapped. This will be a complete stop and change direction (so could be a total distraction for a month while we...

Planning Venture Capital Market Opportunity Market Research

asked Apr 18 '11 at 23:26

Matt
2,552 points

Having just been recently laid off, I would like to give some attention to an idea that's been incubating in my mind for a while for an information-based product. This is similar to the model of...

Ideas Planning Recommendations Market Research

asked Apr 22 '11 at 13:40

Ashes999
128 points

I am a developer, and I've launched and failed once before some time back. I am still analyzing all the reasons our start up didn't take off (we were 4 developers). I wanted to learn from the...

Getting Started Planning Personality Business Plan

asked Mar 26 '11 at 10:26

Sanjeevakumar Hiremath
108 points

does anyone know any good services that can help to plan and manage conferences and other type of events? Especially twitter/facebook oriented. I had to organize a small con recently, and couldn't...

Planning Conferences Events

asked Mar 18 '11 at 23:35

Riz
8 points

Our company has been asked to produce a financial forecast. Normally you would use data from similar businesses in the same industry. But, how can we do this when our business model is different...

Finance Planning Business Plan

asked Mar 10 '11 at 10:00

001
167 points

Is there a rule of thumb that can be used for staff planning in terms of how large % of an online marketing budget that should be allocated towards managing the online marketing activities?

Marketing Planning Budget

asked Feb 24 '11 at 03:27

Karl Alfredsson
18 points

Many of us here on the site are owners of small businesses or getting a startup up and running. I'm curious to know what goals people are setting for the new year, and whether or not you spend time...

Strategy Planning Growth

asked Dec 15 '10 at 03:39

Elie
4,692 points

I've repeatedly heard the advice (from successful business owners) to not give up direct control over the company finances. It seems that enough founders out there have been burned by seemingly...

Bootstrapped Management Finance Planning

asked Oct 24 '10 at 08:19

Chris Hagner
881 points

So you want to do marketing for your company. You've created a marketing plan and want to implement it. How do you determine which applications/vendors to use? For example, for email marketing and...

Marketing Strategy Planning Inbound Marketing

asked Sep 26 '10 at 04:11

Chris
4,214 points

So bootstrapping is a minimalist approach to financing a business and requires a larger amount of sweat equity compared to the money put in. So when do you find that the sweat part has gone too far...

Bootstrapped Planning Budget

asked Jun 17 '10 at 00:54

John Bogrand
2,210 points

Interesting post from Mark Cuban titled "why you should NEVER listen to your customer " references an long standing Alan Kay quote "the best way to predict the future is to invent it" Cuban then...

Strategy Planning

asked Apr 7 '10 at 02:02

Jim Galley
9,952 points

I'm a huge fan of OmniPlan for my development planning. It lets me set up my tasks, gantt chart them, measure resources, get a rough idea of how long things are going to take, and it's very...

Planning Project Management Project Planning

asked Feb 6 '10 at 11:51

Sbwoodside
186 points

I've recently the post on the question: Subscription Pricing Starting Strategy: start high and lower, or start low and raise?, and I also read the articles and comments for: QuickSprout: Customer...

Planning Subscriptions Web Web Services

asked Dec 22 '09 at 09:28

Matt
460 points

With the new year approaching, I am working on my 2010 goals and priorities. In the past I used Franklin Planners and Outlook. I also have a Blackberry. I continuously look for ways to help me stay...

Software Focus Planning Entrepreneurs

asked Dec 8 '09 at 05:03

Starr Ed
948 points

Would you go into business with someone who has asked you to come on board and help to get things launched, but has not yet decided how to compensate you, or whether to give you part ownership of...

Co-Founder Planning Business Plan Partnerships

asked Dec 11 '09 at 17:07

Jz199
59 points

So we're doing really well. Very exciting. Now we can start looking a little further out on our business planning and look for new markets, etc. What's your process for taking an existing product...

Planning Business Plan Business

asked Dec 1 '09 at 12:00

Chris
4,214 points