Do These 6 Things First for Your New Business

Photo by Headway on Unsplash Giving your small business a leg up is hard, but essential for success. When you are just getting started in the business world, it can seem overwhelming to juggle everything that you need to keep your business afloat. It can seem like everyone around you knows what they are doing…

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How to Turn a Photography Hobby into a Business

Photography is now a profitable and demanding profession. Shooting events for private individuals, working with modeling agencies, collaborating with companies to create online catalogs and digital content, and much more – all these are the services of an entrepreneur photographer. Competition in this area shouldn’t scare you if you focus on quality and brand development.…

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This is How Startups Help the Covid Economy

If you are a business owner, then it goes without saying that this year has been a rollercoaster for you. The coronavirus pandemic represents an existential threat to businesses everywhere. Lack of footfall, falling consumer confidence and rising unemployment are devastating for any industry. The resulting economic shakeup has left many concerned about their future.…

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Learn From New Venture Trials & Tribulations

Entrepreneurs seem more quickly frustrated these days when their “million-dollar idea” doesn’t turn into a sustainable business overnight. They don’t realize that it takes many skills to build a business under the best of circumstances, and today’s world of instant gratification doesn’t leave room for the patience and practice to develop these skills. Successful sports…

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6 Startup Ideas Not Even COVID-19 Could Stop

By definition, a startup is a company in its initial phase. There’s no precise definition, though, but startups are often considered to be tech companies that deliver innovative technological solutions or solve current problems in a novel way. Edison General Electric Company, founded in 1878, can be regarded as one of the earliest startups. That…

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Personal Story: How to Bring a Startup to Market

We have been involved in many new ventures, either directly or through the banks and agencies where we’ve worked.  Now, at Flagship Marketing we see a lot of start-ups and scale-ups and we have a special interest in helping them grow. Following are some of our experiences of bringing a start-up to market. My earliest…

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Marketing a New Startup During a Pandemic: 4 Tips

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world as we know it, affecting businesses all across the globe. However, while some companies may have struggled, others have prospered, utilising the pandemic to not only restructure their working model but also completely start afresh with a new, pandemic-proof set of thinking. Many people have even decided to…

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15 Tips for Aspiring Entrepreneurs In 2020

Every person has ideas on how to start a business from time to time, but only a few of them are embodied in reality. Even fewer are becoming successful.  The question becomes natural:  What is the secret of success? Below we are going to talk about tips that will help you to open a stable…

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10 Steps To A New Venture That Can Change The World

As a startup advisor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site (200 on Wikipedia), or another dating site/app (over 1500 in the USA). Startups which display real innovation, such as alternative…

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So, do you have that entrepreneurial DNA?

My immediate family members were entrepreneurs from as far back as I can trace.  Dad was a jeweler, then a furniture store owner.  Mom wrote books and articles from her college days until she could no longer see the keyboard.  One grandfather owned and maintained his apartment houses.  The other was a grocer, then a…

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