What people I need for a small business?
I am a graduate of IT and I want to start a small internet business. My question is, what people I need to start? What knowledge I need to know first. I can do the technical but I don’t know how to market internet business.
Any idea? Tips where I’m going to start? Forums? Links? Books? Thanks.
I own 2 companies now. My first one folded. It can be rough but I have learned a little bit about it now. First get incorporated or file the assumed name form at the court so your business name will exist and you can start opening a bank account and getting marketing materials together. One of the best things to do early on is join your local chamber of commerce. It costs about 200 dollars but you get free advertising, free referrals, and they put you into their directory of member companies so that other chamber members can do business with people in the organization. That will help you get a start. Email me if you want. I’ll send you some more details.
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I own 2 companies now. My first one folded. It can be rough but I have learned a little bit about it now. First get incorporated or file the assumed name form at the court so your business name will exist and you can start opening a bank account and getting marketing materials together. One of the best things to do early on is join your local chamber of commerce. It costs about 200 dollars but you get free advertising, free referrals, and they put you into their directory of member companies so that other chamber members can do business with people in the organization. That will help you get a start. Email me if you want. I’ll send you some more details.
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You will need a PR person, you will need a couple of developers, you will need a marketing guy who will popularize your business through Social Media (digg, delicious, social networks (Orkut, Facebook, Pownce, Twitter, YouTube), you should also look to hire a person to handle your commercials (fee collection, balance sheets, P & L accounts etc). At a later date you may need a HR Head.
You can read the book ‘Mavericks at Work’ – it has inspired a lot with respect to the efficiency i work with and the interactions that i undertake with people in my team.
Just another tip – as your business grows, you WILL manage your tasks, set milestones for other employees, assign responsibilities to employees. If you are starting a business then i think a project collaboration tool is a MUST.
roject collaboration tools also help in the systemization of processes. Thats important for consistency in business.
I would suggest a free trial of a project collaboration tool 1st to see if it works for you. You can have a look at a free trial for a project collaboration tool here – http://www.deskaway.com
You can buy it once your team starts growing – currently you can collaborate with 3 people on the free version.
References :
http://www.deskaway.com
http://www.deskaway.com/blog