Quick Tips for Entrepreneurs: Marketing Tools to Automate Your Small Business
Are you spending more time on marketing your business than actually working on it?
Streamlining and automating your marketing process can help you get back to what matters most. In this video, we’ll walk you through powerful tools that can help you amplify your reach, automate your social media, improve your project management, and strengthen customer connections.
Whether you’re interested in creating engaging content, scheduling posts, managing your team, or automating your communications, we’ll introduce you to essential tools like Canva, Adobe Express, Buffer, Hootsuite, Slack, and MailChimp that can make your marketing more efficient and impactful. You’ll even get insights into leveraging AI solutions tailored to your needs with Quebec-based experts.
Ready to elevate your marketing strategy? A YES Business Coach can help you navigate these tools to simplify your efforts and focus on growth.
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Quick Video Tips for Entrepreneurs: Validation Guide: Will Your Business Idea Work?
Are you thinking about starting a business but not sure if your business idea is strong enough to be profitable? Idea validation, the process of testing business ideas to understand their viability can help guide you and is a crucial step to take before diving into your venture. But how do you validate a business idea? First, you must determine what you want to validate. Do you want to ensure you’re focusing on the right CUSTOMER SEGMENT? The right PROBLEM? or a SOLUTION that your target audience will want to pay for? Or perhaps you want to validate your pricing structure or revenue stream or key resources or any of the other nine building blocks in the Business Model Canvas. Watch this video as we guide you through the next steps of validating your business idea.
Are you ready to start testing your business ideas? A YES Business Coach can help guide you through all the steps which can help you to reduce the risk of failure.
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Quick Video Tips for Entrepreneurs: Turning a Problem Into a Business
In a general sense, all entrepreneurs are in one business: the business of solving problems. Unlike in Hollywood movies, a successful entrepreneur’s journey rarely starts with an idea or a eureka moment, it begins with a problem. But how do you identify a problem that consumers have that’s worth solving? To do this, we follow Design Thinking Principles (https://www.designkit.org/methods).
Design thinking is an iterative process in which one seeks to understand would-be clients, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions which you can prototype and test before investing time, money and resources into something you don’t know is going to work. The overall goal is to identify alternative strategies and solutions that are not immediately apparent. But where do you start? Watch this video to go over the steps you need to take in order to be successful. Are you ready to develop your design thinking skills? A YES Business Coach can help you every step of the way as you launch and grow your business. You got this!
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Quick Tips for Entrepreneurs: Launching an SEM / Paid Campaign
There are paid and non-paid ways to improve visibility for your website, and while SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a non-paid way to organically drive more visitors to your site, SEM (or Search Engine Marketing) uses paid advertising to improve a website’s search visibility. Each adds value to your marketing strategy in its own way.
But where should you start? Watch this video highlighting the steps you need to take to plan, structure, and optimize your campaigns properly.
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Quick Video Tips for Entrepreneurs: Best Practices for Getting Higher Ranking SEO
With the massive number of websites today, understanding search engine optimization (or SEO) is essential for any business owner. SEO is the virtual world equivalent of the old adage “location, location, location.” The aim of SEO is to improve your search ranking making it easier for potential clients to find you.
So, what are the best SEO practices to follow today to rank higher? Watch this video highlighting SEO best practices that you implement in your digital marketing strategy.
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Quick VTips for Entrepreneurs: Closing Sales Faster through a Structured Sales Process
Sales can be a challenging and daunting process, especially for aspiring or budding entrepreneurs. However, by approaching sales in a structured manner, you can quickly become more comfortable and confident when articulating your business’ value to potential clients.
Watch this video for tips on how to find leads and prospects and close sales faster. Click here for a Quick Video Tip Tutorial with more information including resources and weblinks.
Quick Video Tips for Entrepreneurs: Establishing a Business in Quebec
As an entrepreneur, you will need to obtain multiple permits, licenses, or certificates to ensure that your business is fully compliant with municipal, provincial, and federal regulations. But where should you start?
Watch this video highlighting some of the most common permits and licenses, so you can get a head-start on the process and avoid penalties. Click here for a Quick Video Tips Tutorial with more information including resources and weblinks.
Quick Video Tips for Entrepreneurs: Accounting
Watch these videos featuring Gavin Correa, CPA, CA, CFP™, Managing Partner at LCA, who explores the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating your business and the factors you need to consider along with helpful tips and best practices, so you can get a head-start on your tax filing this season!
Check out our Quick Video Tips Tutorials featuring the benefits to incorporating your business, business expenses and government filing requirements. Click on the images below to watch our Quick Video Tips!
Quick Video Tips for Entrepreneurs: Marketing
Successful entrepreneurs know how to turn a good business idea into a profitable business opportunity – and it all begins with solid market research.
These free quick tip tutorials will guide you through some of the key marketing aspects of starting and running a business, including market research, setting up a website, and social media management.
Quick Video Tips for Entrepreneurs: Business Coaching
As an entrepreneur you’ll be faced with making hundreds of small and big decisions every day that could have an impact on the success of your business. But don’t get stressed- you don’t have to do it alone! Click on the banner below to find out what the benefits of business coaching are, and then get in touch with us to make your first appointment.
Quick Video Tips for Entrepreneurs: Human Resources
So, you’ve launched your business successfully and are ready to expand. But how do you go about hiring your first employee?
Check out our free Quick Video Tips Tutorials that will give you the groundwork for best hiring practices, what to consider when preparing an employee contract and setting up an employee file.
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