All businesses should have a foundation in sales and revenue strategy for their go-to-market approach. Understanding the ideal customer profile (ICP), building simple sales processes, establishing forecasting, and developing generic customer engagement strategies are the pillars for getting your business on the right path. If you have it, bring: 1) Who are you selling to? (ICP) 2) Bring your laptop so we can look at your CRM and set up a simple sales process. 3) Computer and/or paper to write out a scalable activity model for business development. 4) Ideas around how you are, or will, support customers; scale is driven by retention of customers, not simply adding new customers.

Bring me your website and ecommerce questions! I can help talk through website issues, website best practices, and the technical side of ecommerce and integrations. I can also help with questions around domains, hosting, website platforms, and connecting your website with other business tools. Bring your questions and your website if you have one! Screenshots or examples are always helpful too, but you don’t need to have everything figured out before you come to the table.

Bring your laptop and set up a Grok Bot as a personal assistant for you to keep up with everything.

Help with bookkeeping, tax, and accounting questions. Bring your numbers if you have them, and let's talk!

Founders can get practical guidance on the insurance needs of their business, including what coverage they may need now, what they may not need yet, and how those needs can change as their business grows. We can talk through general liability, property, workers’ compensation, professional liability, cyber, commercial auto, and other coverage depending on their operations. I can also review current insurance concerns, contract or landlord insurance requirements, and help identify potential gaps or exposures.

Actionable feedback from someone who's seen 100s of decks. Bring 2 printed copies of a single slide from their deck to review.

Bring the technology question that's been bothering you. Whether you're choosing systems, adding employees, thinking about security, AI, dealing with vendors, or simply wondering if what you currently have will scale. I'll help think through the problem, identify what else may be connected to it, and help you leave with a clearer next step. Bring a notepad. We'll figure it out together!

Founders who are running full throttle, but still have their revenue stuck in neutral can expect to review their specific situations and come away with ideas or areas to explore to help get unstuck. This might mean reviewing their current go-to-market efforts, this might mean reviewing where they're focusing time and energy, or this might mean reviewing their priorities and strategy. Founders should bring: - a clear explanation of what they offer, whom they serve, and the benefits/transformations their offer provides - specific area where they're stuck, including what they've been trying and how that's been working - their current marketing resource (time, contractors, money, etc.) distribution and results

We help founders spend less time worrying about HR and back-office challenges and more time growing their business. If you're dealing with hiring, payroll, benefits, compliance, employee issues, handbook questions, multi-state employees, or just trying to understand what support you should have in place as you grow, I'd love to chat. Sometimes it's about solving a problem today, and sometimes it's simply helping you understand what's coming next. Bring your questions, frustrations, and maybe a little honesty. What's the HR, payroll, benefits, or compliance problem keeping you up at night? That's usually the best place to start.

Clear, honest objective advice and guidance for websites and connected tools, marketing, and brand identity. I bring more than 15 years of experience supporting small businesses getting up and running online.

Learn about the benefits of networking and building your professional connections. Just bring yourselves and your curiosity about building your professional network.

ConnectUP! Institute is in the business of growing small businesses through our Money, Operations, and Market Strategy Framework (tm). Most of what stalls a business happens there. -Money — a straight read on what kind of capital actually fits where you are, and what a lender or funder will want to see before they say yes. -Operations — the back-office basics that quietly decide whether you're fundable: bookkeeping, entity structure, tax readiness, the systems you'll wish you'd set up sooner. -Market Strategy — who you're really selling to, and whether your pricing and pitch match that. -The right door. If your question needs a specialist — a lender, a bookkeeper, a technical assistance partner — we'll name them and make the introduction.

An opportunity to share feedback on the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship in Minnesota with a national advocacy movement to support entrepreneurs. https://www.righttostart.org/american-entrepreneurship-survey Bring your story of growth and any obstacles along the way. The survey has four questions - you'll be done in ten minutes at most.

Founders will learn about the extensive resources Score provides to entrepreneurs from informative workshops on a myriad of business topics, array of templates for use in your business, one-on-one free business mentoring. Score has business training and coaching for businesses in any stage from business planning and start-up guidance to growth strategies and succession planning. Be prepared to describe your business and discuss your current focus for the business.