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Start Up Venture Progress
What is working?
My blog posts are increasing my brand. I have been distributing high-quality informational content that has been getting a lot of attention of my company.
What is not working? What isn’t working is being repetitive. When you display the same old content and are pitching the same thing to a customer, it gets old and doesn't separate you from the competition.
How do you feel the project is coming? I feel like it's coming along. I’ve been getting a couple of more inquiries of my services and businesses owners asking for my contact information for when they are ready.
What are you learning about running a business?
I am learning that you have to stay consistent with your business and keeping up with it. I’ve been learning developing new business plans and different types of marketing strategies to help grow my business to assist my customers.
What are you learning about yourself?
I am learning that I am constantly working on my business ensuring that it is getting out there and recognized by the community.
Why is content marketing is crucial for your business? Who thinks content marketing is just advertising? If you agreed you are missing one major component. Content marketing is more than advertising because it demonstrates to your customers who you are. It gives them a more comfortable feel of who you and your business are rather than them just reading about it. We summarized 3 simple important points below. Loyal Customers: By developing free engaging information to your audience, this starts to create loyal customers that will follow/subscribe to your page as they are hooked in. Branding recognition: Providing fun and informational content develops your brand's recognition. It keeps your audience interested in what you do and who you are. This is essential as it starts to develop a relationship with your customers. Content improves driven sales: Now we all know this, great content = better SEO. Incase some of you that don’t know what SEO is, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Which means that by providing great content to your audience, not only your audience gets engaged but by search engines as well with a selective ranking. #success #blog #branding #brand #business #content #SEO #businesslife #trusttheprocess #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #quicktips #share #motivation #stayhungry #values #trust #grind #hardwork #goals
What is a brand? A brand is not just the logo or face of the company but it is the strategy and marketing. It not only helps your business develop loyal customers but it gives your customers something to believe in. Your brand should demonstrate how you can make their lives easier by coming to you. What can you provide to them? How will your services help solve their problems? In order to have a successful brand, you must understand what your customer's thoughts are and how you can provide a solution. Here are some basic questions that you may ask yourself. 1. Is the brand correlated to your customer? 2. Does the brand have a unique approach to what you're offering and why it is a necessary? 3. Is there a guarantee/promise that you are proposing to your customer? 4. Does the brand demonstrate the values of what you want to represent to the customer? All four of these questions are critical to ensuring that your brand is effective and promising. Stay tuned next week for another post on how to develop your business for your customer's needs. #success #blog #branding #brand #business #businesslife #trusttheprocess #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #quicktips #share #motivation #stayhungry #values #trust #grind #hardwork #goals
Start up progress venture
What is working?
I feel my personality and skill set has helped me gain the attention of a couple business owners. I present to them my services and hourly wage and they have no complaints!
What is not working? I feel that what isn’t working is going after the same clients. I need to go after new clients and even though I might feel a little shy, you never know how many yes’s I may get. I need to develop another business plan on how I can package my services and offer them to new business owners.
How do you feel the project is coming? SLOW. I’m not going to lie it is a process and I’ve been working hard on brainstorming and developing ideas for templates, blog posts and other things to keep my audience engaged. I feel that I may be spending too much time on developing these things and it keeps me wondering if it is even worth it. *thinking emoji*
What are you learning about running a business?
I am learning a lot about running a business. I am learning how to manage your time on researching vs time on chasing sales. I noticed that I may spend lots of hours on learning new things to create and I even keep wanting to change my own website as I find cooler things to do with it.
What are you learning about yourself?
I am learning that the first time in my life I am actually taking something very seriously and working hard on it. This business may be an answer for the future and if all goes well, I could probably make a career of it. I am also learning that being an entrepreneur can be scary but if you don’t take the risks, you may never get to the top. I feel that you have to be very organized and prepare a plan before executing it otherwise, you will end up right where you began.

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Start up venture
What is working?
I feel that at this point it is 50/50. I am spending lots of time learning and finding out new ways to develop strategic plans on how I can sell my self. By utilizing photography, video and graphic design, consumers will be happy to be able to work with some one that can kill 3 birds with one stone.
What is not working? Pricing! It all comes down to price. I have researched different kinds of pricing from competitors and they are all either way too high or way too low. I attempted to place myself in the middle but as a start up, I feel that I may be asking for too much.
How do you feel the project is coming? It’s coming along. Patience patience patience. I already have had three clients and been developing my website and social media pages. I feel that I need to do more to engage my target audience better. I am thinking about creating blogs or vlogs that will teach my audience about the basics of branding, design, quality, and trends.
What are you learning about running a business?
I am learning that you have to take baby steps to get to the top. You can’t just expect to get to the top without putting in the work. Honestly, it’s pretty tough but I am trying to stay positive and keep moving forward. It is tough receiving many “no’s” from people, but I cannot let those “no’s” get me down. I’ve learned that you need to learn how to persuade people with knowledge and the most important thing of how will I make their life better.
What are you learning about yourself?
I am learning that I am working harder than I ever have. I am developing content to display on my social media pages to get my customers engaged and get to know me better. Some people say that vlogs are old and are slowly dying but I beg to differ. I feel that vlogs get people engaged and they get to know you better on a personal level. As long as I am creating new content that is educational for better success for their business, I will slowly get a bigger audience.
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Start up venture progress 3
What is working?
I feel that my hard work has been getting lots of attention lately. Friends of friends are starting to recognize my work and now are willing to work with me.
What is not working? What’s not working for me is having the motivation to meet new people in person. These past few days I’ve been not working due to medical concerns. I’m behind of my progress due to these reasons.
How do you feel the project is coming? I feel it’s slowly coming as stated above. Due to medical concerns, I’ve been slowed down and can not leave the house until I get better. On a positive note, I have been developing email templates so I can generate a mailing list to advertise my services.
What are you learning about running a business?
I’m learning that it’s never an easy task and if you're not working then the business won’t be working. You have to find the time and dedicate all your effort into the business in order for it to succeed. I am also learning how to measure my costs and time with excel templates provided to me.
What are you learning about yourself?
I am learning that I finally found what I am passionate about and finally turning it into a career. I am very focused, motivated and dedicated when it comes to this field of work and never regret a day of it. Either if it's a day to research or a day to reach for sales, I am always happy to work.
Start up venture progress 2
What is working? I've been slowly getting recognized by some business associates and friends lately. I've already gained two clients by word of mouth and developing a website that displays my portfolio of recent projects! What is not working? I feel that just having a website and word of mouth isn't good enough. I have to go out and meet new people and basically sell my self as I am the product and I have to find ways that will make myself unique and spread me apart from everyone else in the market. How do you feel the project is coming? I feel it's slowly coming! I thought I could of gained more clients faster but this is a process. I have to be patient and play it out strategically. sell. What are you learning about running a business? I found a great excel file from the city of Guelph that helps me to find out what my hourly wage should be. I've created a schedule on what days I will be spending time researching and time to What are you learning about yourself? I am learning that I am becoming more aware of how to think as an entrepreneur. I am developing my skills in becoming more organized and think strategically. I am also learning that I have skills that I didn't know I had and interests in other areas of my field!

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Start up venture progress
What is working? Making connections. I haven't contacted that many people yet but I got a chance to discuss y pitch with 3-4 business owners. What helps is that I already have a working relationship with them which helps me get in the door providing my services. What is not working? At the moment I'm not too sure. So far I think I've been doing a decent job of making connections and pitching my services to business owners. I feel just pitching them my services will not work 100%. They will want to see a demo or a portfolio that demonstrates my capability of what I can do to help their business grow. How do you feel the project is coming? I feel it's coming slowly. This week I've been put on working a full week when I usually work 3-4 days 9:30-6. I feel that working full time and attempting to grow my business part time is slowing me down and not keeping me very motivated. When I come home from work I'm tired, and feeling unmotivated. Most of the clients I targeted work business hours and I do not have their contact information to contact them after work. Other than that, I feel that I'm ready and all I have to do is demonstrate how I can help their business. What are you learning about running a business? I've learned that this is hard work. The only way to be successful is to put in as much as hard work as possible. By not doing so, you will not meet your expectations. I've told my work that I will be working part time as I want to focus most of my time on growing my business. What are you learning about yourself? I learned that I can get easily motivated and unmotivated at the same time. I need to manage my time better and focus on the things that will help me grow my business. I feel I have the skills and personality to be successful but need to put in the work. I'm not going to lie, some days we feel lazy and tired but it's that one little piece of hard work that can change my life.
Cash flow post
Finding the right people to get cash flow is crucial when planning your expenses for you business. I believe there are many reputable sources of income that are available for young entrepreneurs. For my graphic design business, I can use the $50 of my own money to create a website and domain which would allow me to connect with my customers. As for future cash flow, I would probably target an investor that has the proper knowledge that would be able to guide me and fund me a realistic amount to cover my expenses to get my business up and running. such investor could include angel investors, local entrepreneurs. I would can ask some of my family members to borrow money without interest. This would help my business a lot because I won't have to worry about paying them back as quick as I would have to pay investors back.
Business Operations Plan
At this point with my business I am Ready to chase my first client within the next 1-2 weeks. I will be working on creating my website and generating a mailing list to pass on to future customers keeping them informed of future designs and jobs I’ve completed. For this business I will be after looking towards getting a business license and a trademark patent. The reason is that in the graphic design industry, many of our ideas can be taken/stolen which I will need to protect my self if I want to be successful. I narrowed down my competitors and will be working on making my company different and stand out. Our business plan is to get recognized and stand out by assuring our customers the best way we can by communicating, follow ups, and delivering powerful content.
Creativity Assignment
Creativity assignment
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By utilizing the Dirt Eraser, it removes the excess dirt and allows you to enjoy your phone and or phone case as like its brand new! Let the Dirt Eraser clean as it makes your phone sheen.
Customer Persona
Personal Information: Richard 28-38 Married $60,000-$80,000/year
Role: General Contractor for Hard work pays off Working 40-60 hours/week Always stressed - having trouble keeping up with quotes and contacting customers. Has no time to update the website and other graphic work.
Company information: Small business - 4-12 employees Very well known for exterior work and interior work
Goals and Challenges: Spending more time with family Would like to expand company Plan a vacation with the family and not worry about the business - leaving some one trustworthy in charge Redesign website and create business cards to hand out to customers. Would like to hire a professional photographer to display past jobs on the website
How we can help: Xtreme Designs offers graphic design and web design services as well as professional photography. We can take the load off by developing a strategic business plan which will help you stay organized. We can design or re-design your website and re-brand it to meet your satisfactions. We also have an on-call professional photographer who can meet you at your convenience. Let us worry while you relax!

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Competitors Analysis
The Letter M Marketing
1) Website Experience
a) The Letter M’s website is very easy to navigate through. They seem to keep everything plain and simple. They have a little box on the left corner to subscribe to their website to keep you informed with what they're up too. They have their contact information all at the bottom with a phone number and a box to send an email with any inquiries you may have.
2) Marketing positioning
a) They are a marketing agency that assists business owners to re-brand themselves and market them. They start with building a business strategy and even create your website. They also offer printing services for any brochures, business cards etc. that you may need.
3) Reviews
a) I found their reviews on Google as they are rated 4.6/5. It shows that eight people voted for them on Facebook. The Letter M Marketing is very well known in Guelph and they have a strong reputation with their customers.
4) Pricing
a) I couldn’t find any pricing from them on their website. I had to call their office but it was closed by the time I called.
5) Social Media
a) On Facebook, they have over 296 followers and 306 likes on their page. They are very frequent on their posts. They also have a Twitter account with over 996 followers and are very active on their account. On both social media platforms, they stay very engaged with the community.
TMS Graphics
1) Website Experience
a) The website is very similar to The Letter M’s. Their layout seems to be the exact same. Very easy to navigate through and they display tabs to see their work and different services they offer. They have their social media platforms attached so anyone can click and investigate. The one thing I would change is their colour preference. They have an off-white and bright orange which makes everything seem tight and a little hard to read. It also seems like they didn’t update their website since 2014 as at the bottom of the website it displays their copyright “2014”.
2) Marketing Positioning
a) TMS Graphics is a graphic design company that offers web design, graphic design, marketing, branding and etc. What makes them different is that they offer free quotes and always listens to the customer’s ideas. They assist business owners in achieving their goals by utilizing their skillsets.
3) Reviews
a) I couldn’t find any reviews from them as there is nothing on google review nor on their social media platforms.
4) Pricing
a) I couldn’t find any pricing as you would have to call in and get a quote from them. Even though they offer free quotes, they would show you their fee’s on whichever service you may want from them.
5) Social Media
a) They are very well active on their social media accounts. Just like The Letter M, they are connected with their customers and community via Facebook, Twitter, and RSS.
Kazolu (Marketing Agency)
1) Website experience
a) Their website has some pros and cons. They have easy access to view their tabs of services, visuals, and contact. As you scroll down, everything is too busy. There is too much wording and gets a little boring. They make themselves different by focusing on creating ideas and displaying visuals to the customer.
2) Marketing Positioning
a) They have a variety of services. They offer branding consulting and coaching, strategic planning, graphic design, website development, social media and much more. They focus themselves on getting the customers business recognized by their community and make their brand stand out.
3) Reviews/Social Media
a) There aren’t any reviews of them on Google but on Facebook, they have 80 followers. It seems that they aren’t that engaged with Facebook. Their last post was on June 5th and before that, it was April 7th. Twitter, on the other hand, they have over 3000 followers.
4) Pricing
a) No pricing was shown on the website as it seems you would have to call to get a price. Nothing is stated that Kazolu offers free quotes.
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