{"id":530,"date":"2022-01-12T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highstakesconsultants.com\/?page_id=530"},"modified":"2022-02-27T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T15:35:33","slug":"startups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/highstakesconsultants.com\/index.php\/startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Statistics from the Small Business Association shockingly reveal that 90% of small businesses (defined as those with less than 500 employees) fail<\/em>. And your most vulnerable time is your first and second year.

Rather than stressing and struggling every step of the way, an expert who has been down the path many times before will take an extraordinary load off your shoulders. What may appear an impossible challenge to you, likely for me is just a hop, skip and a jump.

Here are some of the things I, or those on my team, can unburden from you:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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SIMPLE PLANS:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

We’ll help you stay focused with a simple business plan.\u00a0Simple is better for most startups not seeking investors. You can waste a lot of precious time and money trying to come up with unnecessary projections, or so called SWAG<\/em>s (Scientific Wild Ass Guesses<\/em>). Rather than wasting money and weeks of your precious time, all you really need is a 1 or 2 page plan to solidify your vision and to get you forging ahead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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PLANS FOR OBTAINING INVESTORS:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

If you are<\/i><\/b> seeking investors, we’ll help you come up with a concrete plan that provides a roadmap for investors to clearly see your company has a viable means to eventually provide them a highly attractive ROI.<\/p>\n

One of the greatest things you’ll discover working with me, however, is how even the most well-thought-out business plan can be your biggest roadblock in obtaining investors . . . unless you know <\/span>how<\/b><\/i> and <\/span>when<\/b><\/i> to provide the business plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Get that wrong<\/strong><\/em> and you’ll lose 90% of the investors who otherwise would indeed invest with you.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It all comes down to what you do <\/span>before<\/b><\/i> you ever give an investor a business plan. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Get that <\/span>right<\/i><\/b> and rather than having to speak with 25 to 100 investors before getting funding, you’ll bag as much as 1 out of every 3 or 4 investors, as I did.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Besides your business name, for quick success in obtaining customers, clients or investors, we’ll assist you in making your business stand miles above the crowd with a simple but unforgettable elevator pitch.<\/p>\n

The time spent coming up with a great elevator pitch is one of the single biggest factors that will either empower your business to leap ahead, or for you to be another of the high percentage of business casualties that never make it beyond year one or two.<\/p>\n

Among the successful business I’ve been involved with, I’ve had a bestselling book series, an online following of 129,000 newsletter subscribers, and sold 10,000 copies in little more than a week’s time in a single Christmas promotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I know how to catch people’s attention and to hold it, and we’ll use my talents to get your business off and running miles ahead of where you’d otherwise be without a killer elevator pitch.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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This is only necessary if you’re seeking investors. Your pitch deck, with the right messaging and graphics, can be the difference in spinning your wheels and not obtaining any funding. versus having such an irresistible presentation, investors begin seeking you out rather than you seeking them out.<\/p>\n

While pitch decks can be highly critical in getting investors, there’s a simple technique to making them effective. And that’s not to complicate them.<\/p>\n

The irony is, it’s easier to write something complicated than it is to write something that is simple and unforgettable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Einstein famously said:\u00a0If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
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Your potential investors intuitively know that. And having a simple but powerful pitch deck is key in them seeing you know it too.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Even more important than the pitch deck, is what you say to narrate the deck . . . and what you say to potential investors even when you don’t have<\/b><\/i> the pitch deck available. We’ll refine your presentation language with you to maximize your effectiveness in obtaining investors.<\/p>\n

As Einstein also said,\u00a0\u201cEverything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

What he meant by this was that you have to put enough meat on the bones <\/i>in order for your simple claims to be made viable.\u00a0 Too much meat, though, and investors will correctly assume you don’t know how to sell. Too little, and they’ll think your business isn’t fleshed out enough.<\/p>\n

Getting that balance right is tricky. But not when you have someone to help you who has done it a thousand times before.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Having irresistible copy for everything including your Linkedin Page, Social Media and Promotions is one of the critical factors that will make you thousands, and eventually millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

While many would consider me an expert at this, someone on my team does this full-time. He has been the behind-the-scenes genius writer for some of the greatest marketing gurus of our time.<\/p>\n

I will have this person work with us as needed to provide you marketing copy that makes your target audience laser-focused on you and your message, and primed for taking whatever actions you are seeking for them to take (purchase, invest, sign up for your newsletter, etc.)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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To maximize your personal efficiency and to empower you to easily and effortlessly delegate everything eventually to freelancers, subcontractors and employees, we’ll help you document all your key processes with\u00a0<\/span>S<\/span>tandard\u00a0<\/span>O<\/span>perating\u00a0<\/span>P<\/span>rocedures (SOPs).<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a critical step that most startups are under too much pressure and\u00a0<\/span>in too much of a hurry<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to take the time to thoroughly create. But having well-thought out SOPS is money in the bank\u00a0<\/span>\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Without them, life will get more and more stressful given you will never be able to properly delegate tasks to others.<\/p>\n

With them, you can hire freelancers and employees to free up your time. This free time is crucial for you to stay balanced and passionate (rather than stressed, overwhelmed and burned out) to focus on the most important things to launch your business continually forward to greater and greater growth, profits and efficiency.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Saving you hours of time each day and thousands of dollars a month by automating everything you don’t need to be doing yourself will save you crucial hours every day.<\/p>\n

This an absolute necessity, even before making your first hire.<\/p>\n

Setting up these simple automations by analyzing your work flow on and off the computer, while taking a little time, saves you hundreds of hours of time each year and thousands of dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It also saves you from having to pay someone to do the very things you can have a computer or a simplified process automatically do for you.<\/p>\n

One of my two technology companies specializes in this type of automation. I helped multiple enterprises, from a carwash to 12 divisions of Tony Robbins’ coaching company to free up hours of both the owner’s time and their team’s time by figuring out simple workflows that were unknowingly bloated and weighed down by unnecessary steps.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to fool yourself into believing that shaving off a few minutes here and there isn’t critical. But those minutes quickly add up to hours per days, and days each week, and months each year.<\/p>\n

Most entrepreneurs never even realize how much of this time they can be saving and thus how much stress and overwhelm they can be eliminating. This streamlining is key for launching your business to the heights you only in this manner can achieve.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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When you’re starting out, answering the questions Who <\/i>and\u00a0When<\/b><\/i> you make your first hire(s), can spell the difference between rapid success or a painful failure.\u00a0
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You are likely on the borderline where most startups find themselves of not being able to handle everything yourself, yet having questionable cash flow to sustain a hire. It is absolutely crucial to get the timing right when to begin hiring. The solution to this When<\/em> question is contained in the answer below ofWho <\/em>to hire \u2014
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The Who<\/b><\/i> questions are:<\/p>\n