Starting Your Own Machine Business: 4 Tips To Drive Sales

Taking the reins of your own business can be a fulfilling and rewarding process, although there is definitely a learning curve to accommodate. You will also need to tweak your strategies to boost sales as you get underway, fixing imperfections to win new customers. If you are looking for advice on what it takes to…

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Can You Build a Company, Not Just a Product?

Some businesses are built around a single idea.    And sometimes that idea is just too small a slice of the big picture to be interesting to investors.  There was a recent investor event where I was keynote speaker, on stage only after several panels of experts had wowed the audience with their predictions and…

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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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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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5 Questions to Qualify Advisors for Your New Venture

Every startup needs a couple of advisors with deep experience and connections in your business domain or financial skills to complement your technical focus. Advisors need to be mentors, looking ahead and directing you on key actions to take or avoid. Unfortunately, many prefer the role of critic, looking backward to highlight your mistakes. These…

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4 Basic Ways to Get Your Startup Funded

Thanks to the age of the internet, more people than ever before are beginning to discover new opportunities for bringing their entrepreneurial dreams to life. These days, you don’t necessarily need a huge amount of cash or a lot of investors to begin running your own company. With a little intuition and the right business…

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How to Get Ahead as a Startup Business

The ever-shifting landscape of business can be equal parts satisfying and unpredictable. For most businesses out there, success almost entirely depends upon experience in the field, but most startup owners do not have years of experience under their belt. It is the reason why so many businesses end up failing to achieve their goals, as…

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4 Steps You May Have Missed in Your Startup

Nowadays, it’s easier than ever to build a business. The internet is not only a resource for countless articles and how-to lists that can teach you all about running a new enterprise, but it can also function as a way to spread the word about your business or even do business. You can become a…

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