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You've learned a lot over the past year, and you're ready for your business to absorb the new angles you're going to try. You've studied your SEO to at least know what it is, you've been pitching the press and have gotten some nibbles, you've recognized weaknesses in your business structure and you're ready to plug the holes.
Our Tin Shingle business members very well may specialize what you're looking for, and they are on your same page. They know where you're coming from, because they've been there before. We've broken down some key areas of improvement you may want to consider for your business in 2012, and slipped in who from Tin Shingle can deliver you those results:
BUILDING REVENUE MODELS
Key to not only growing your business, but sustaining it, is what type of revenue models you have in place, and what you're doing day to day to secure those models and have a flowing business. These three businesses can identify your trouble points, and help you think big. They are offering special workshops or packages that can help.
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How Not to Be a $2 Hooker in Business (Workshop) We all want – and deserve – to be rewarded for our hard work. Sophie Gold can show you how. How Not To Be A 2-Dollar Hooker In Business is an in-depth online 6 week course that you can take part in from anywhere in the world. Details >
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Akel Ventures Akel Ventures offers sales and marketing solutions to emerging and existing companies with consumer lifestyle products & services. Their job is to build market share by getting products into the hands of customers. Fast. (50% off Power Hour discounted for Tin Shingle members) Details >
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Secrets of a Billion Dollar Brand (Workshop) The Matchstick Group has taken the business coaching they do for their Madison Avenue clients, and packaged it to work for your business. A worthy investment. Details > |
FACEBOOK + TWITTER PRESENCE
One "simple" business goal for 2012 is to start your Facebook page, or at least start using it if you have one. Despite the reservations and mental blocks you may have about Facebook, chances are your target audience is there, and they want to hear from you. Yes they do. It's time to get serious about your Facebook page. Twitter too if you can handle it. Here are great companies you can work with to get your social media campaign started on a strong foot.
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Custom Designed Facebook Business Page Social Bees is one of the leading agencies specializing in Facebook for Business. Based on client demand for custom branded, yet affordable Facebook business pages, they created a template campaign. You choose from one of several Facebook business pages, and insert your own logo, pictures and links. We're giving our readers a 5% discount on this service. (20% off discount available to Tin Shingle members). Details (5% off for non-preneur members) >
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Tweetworking Studio Pixelated gives private lessons to business owners on how to network on Twitter for business. Learn how to not waste your time, and find your target audience. Details > |
ENTRY LEVEL WEBSITES
If you don't have a website yet, but have been tinkering with the idea of having one, and had heard that WordPress was a good place to build it in, you're in luck.
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Think Work Media Think Work Media is offering an affordable package for those who need a basic website - $750 for a 5-page WordPress website. Pretty good deal! (additional 10% discount available to Tin Shingle members) Details > |
SHARED WORK SPACE & COMMUNITY
If you're a solo-preneur or work virtually with your partners, you know the value of stimulation from an office outside of the solitude of your home. A shared work space can be exactly what you need to help you think outside the box, and meet other entrepreneurs who can connect with you, give you referrals, become new a client, and so on.
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In Good Company In Good Company is a community for women entrepreneurs. Membership provides women business owners with professional peers, events, learning opportunities, and a variety of office space solutions. Through our programming and content we are committed to helping teach women entrepreneurs the business of running a business. (15% discount for Tin Shingle members) Details > |
BUSINESS CONSULTING IN COMMUNICATION & REDEFINING
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InStep Consulting InStep Consulting helps women leaders leverage their power, passion and relationships to achieve sustainable results -- personally and professionally. In addition to seminars held from time to time, you can get InStep anytime via their book: Focus on your Vision: Achieve Your Biggest Dreams. Details >
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Reinventing & Redefining You Retreat (in Costa Rica!) This business trip will: Provide a platform for change; Open your eyes to different perspectives; Redefine what you want in life; Reinvent who you are, on your own terms; Transform your money story. And it's in Costa Rica with revenue model expert, Sophie Gold. Details > |
STYLING FOR THE MEDIA
You worked it in 2011 to lure the press to want to cover you, and now they are booking time to interview you. Is your wardrobe ready? Is your makeup? No, seriously, is it?
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Virtual Closet Therapy from Bella Dawn This is a styling session that can happen via web cam and your computer. Details > |
QUICKBOOKS DISCOUNT
We're fanatics about bookkeeping. Not so much that we are super stars at it, but so much that we do keep track of it, and advocate that you do as well. It has saved us money (forgot to bill anyone? someone forgot to pay you and you forgot they owed you?), and made things go smoothly at tax time if recorded properly. If you haven't started keeping your books outside of a hand-written ledger, or at the very least in an Excel document, we're begging you. One of our members, Stacie Bach, is a certified QuickBooks instructor. She's extended Tin Shingle members discounts she gets on QuickBook products. If you're a member, visit your Member to Member Discounts page for details on how to redeem.
GROWING YOUR BUSINESS WITH A COMMUNITY
And last but not least, we recommend ourselves to help you grow your business! Tin Shingle provides the tools to grow small business, and the community to grow it in. With a membership at Tin Shingle, at any time, you can start a mini-social media campaign. You can boost or start your PR campaign with PR Leads and media contacts. You can get trusted referrals, and just be in the company of others when you may otherwise be surrounded by good-natured people who don't understand your entrepreneurial drive. We do, and we design tools to grow your business every day. You can learn more about membership here.
