Will the Rich Fund Your Small Business?

Many people believe given tax cuts to the wealthiest people will some how benefit the poorest people in society because wealthy people will use the savings to create new businesses and jobs to employ poor people. This so called trickle down economics has been the foundation of many different forms of public policy. However, any honest look at these policies clearly show who benefit the most and it’s not poor people! So should you rely on these same people to fund your small business goals?

Without credit or assets, some people think there’s no alternative to funding a small business project then finding somebody with money willing to take a risk on you. However, if your business project is something typically not attractive to wealthy donors, you may never find funding. So this is really a twofold problem, finding a donor and praying your project is attractive. Under normal circumstances, it’s nearly impossible to find someone willing to fund small projects.

I don’t want you to think I have something against rich people because I don’t. It’s just hard for them and others to fund and manage risk on small businesses. So if there’s a way to balance risk and investments amongst more people, I believe more wealthy people (or micro investors) would be willing to support small business projects. For this reason, we at Cap Ventures have been developing virtual tools that help wealthy people and ordinary people find local small business projects from many different industries. If you have project that’s ready for investors, why not publish for the world to see!

Where Do You Take A Business Idea?

If you an idea for a potential business, where can you go to get feedback from others in your community? We may not realize it now but the answer to this question could possibly help create new small businesses everywhere. How can I draw this conclusion?

Most of our economic problems relate to the lack of new businesses being developed or fewer jobs for displaced workers. For our economic to remain healthy we’ll need a constant flow of business ideas, new projects to work on, better networking tools, and practical funding methods for creating small businesses to replace old businesses. So the collection of business ideas needs to be viewed in the same way as mining for resources like gold, coal, or diamonds.

If we treat the collection of business ideas with the same respect given to other mining industries, we could potentially tap into a nearly limitless resource – human ingenuity! So if you have a business idea, where would you take it? There is a new social networking community designed just for sharing business ideas with others in your community. It also helps you find partners and micro investors! If you just want to promote yourself or your business this community allows you to do that too!

Raising Money for New Small Businesses

I have found a fool-proof solution to perhaps the biggest problem preventing small businesses from growing into successful larger businesses. In fact the solution is so simple that it escapes me why people have not solved this problem along time ago. However, before we get to the solution, what is the problem?

 

Finding funding for businesses is the largest problem facing most new entrepreneurs. Problems like the Credit Crunch and deflating assets (like homes) are causing entrepreneurs to have even less access to funding than before. Without access to funds even the best written business plans go nowhere. Even if a person had all the funds needed for a business project would it be wise to fund the whole project by yourself? No! Ok so what’s the solution?

 

“Work Together With Others and Pool Your Resources!!!!”

 

If you can send millions of dollars to assist people during natural disasters, can’t you work with locals to fund a new business? If you can send millions of dollars to fund a political campaign, why can’t you fund a new local business that will create income directly for your family? If you really think about it, it doesn’t cost as much to fund a small business when compared to a political campaign or disaster relief.

 

If you got together with 25 of your neighbors and each put up a $1000 – how many different kinds of small businesses could you start with $25,000 dollar in start up money? You not only can start a business but you also balanced risk between partners. What would you say if I told you there’s a way to work with people all over your city who want to fund business project? Well, there is! It’s called Micro Investing.

 

We designed a social networking community for new entrepreneurs to display their small business projects for their neighbors to see. This community also allows people who want to be small investors to find businesses that peeks their interest. You can also meet other people in your neighborhood who want to invest in similar small business projects. It could be people in your local area or statewide. Think of the financial power you and your neighbors will have. Any business, anywhere, can be completely funded by Micro Investors working together.

Everyone Can Offer Something

We all have talents, access, or assets that can be used to support small business development. Most people believe they don’t have any qualities that would be attractive to others but in reality your skills are probably exactly what someone is looking for!

 

Have you ever seen that television show about antique appraisers who travel the country trying to find unknown treasures? Some of the most unassuming objects turn out to be very valuable. Just like those unassuming antique turn out to be lost treasures, you personally can become a valuable asset to someone trying to structure a business with smart people.

 

Now you realize you’re a valuable asset, how will others find you? The first step you need to do is publish information about yourself, your goals, your projects, and how you could assist entrepreneurs. Upload your headshots, link your website, link your videos, and submit your contact information. Cap Ventures’ community will do the rest!

The Power of One Business

Do you want to make a difference in your community? Want to do something that will help people? Why not start a business! Yeah that’s right, a new business has lots of power and it can change people’s lives! Let’s talk about just how much power a local small business can really have.

If you start a business, you develop a revenue resource that will grow every time you gain a new customer. With that extra income, you can support programs and causes that are important to you like building homeless shelters or a new Church. As your business grows, you can provide jobs, healthcare, and retirement saving for people who otherwise might be unemployed.

All the taxes collected from your business sales helps buy supplies for local schools and allows the city to afford the best trained emergency service workers. So your business helps the whole community become better educated and a safer place to live. Other businesses are attracted to communities where living conditions are good. So the success of your business will help to attract more entrepreneurs to your community thus strengthening the whole local economy.

Your business also helps give the community a better reputation to others who may want to relocate or buy homes in neighborhoods with good schools, plenty of jobs, and security. This helps them to handle mild inflation and it serves as a stabilizer to home prices. So even if other communities are struggling, your community remains healthy. All this just because you started a small business! With social networking platforms like Cap Ventures designed to bring entrepreneurs together for this primary purpose, starting a business has never been easier. So make a real difference and start a business today!

The Communities in Your Community

Large metropolitan city like Atlanta, Ga. have people from many different cultures and nationalities. If you’re a small business owner, you obviously want these people as your customers. So a good question would be how can your small business attract these potential customers?

First, you need to build a relationship with someone who is familiar with their culture’s underlying needs. If you don’t personally know anybody from that culture, use your business social networking community to find someone who understands that culture. After educating yourself, you may need to make adjustments to your business to benefit.

Second, create marketing content specifically for that community. Thanks to modern social marketing platforms, you’ll be able to publish marketing content directly to the demographic of people you are trying to reach. Most people don’t realize they could double their business just by advertising in multiple languages.

Finally you can use the social marketing platforms tools to get feedback from your customers. They will tell exactly what you need to know to grow your business in their community. This is much easier than always trying to advertise for new customers to use your services for the first time. So focus on your backyard! Why is this so important for small businesses to remember?

Sadly, most people running small businesses don’t maximize their marketing efforts in their local community yet they keep spending money trying to find new customers. How much sense does that make? If you are currently run a business, how much time and money have you spent trying to attract people who speak different languages in your local community? If you haven’t yet, here’s a good reason to start! Since the cost of marketing and distributing content had been reduced, there’s no reason not to reach out to other communities in your community!

It’s the “Local Economy” Stupid

Algae is the most basic food source for living creatures in the ocean. Without it, the entire ecosystem could not survive. Like algae, small businesses are the most important component in a local economy. Just like any natural ecosystem, our local economy will survive or die based on the support given to small business development and job creation.

 

Everything about a local economy is interdependent. You can’t support commerce without money or access to credit. You can’t give credit to people without jobs. There won’t be any new jobs if small businesses aren’t created. Small businesses can’t be created if entrepreneurs aren’t given assistance with development, promoting, networking, and funding.

 

If entrepreneurs aren’t giving assistances, we should expect people to be more dependent on the government welfare programs. If more people in a local community are reliant on government welfare programs, where will additional taxable revenues for police, public schools, and other tax payer services come from? Everything always comes full circle and it always point back to the local economic ecosystem.

 

In the past most local communities were supported by a few major employers. Unfortunately, when these employers would go out of business or move, the community was not left with a strategy to continue economic strength and stability. In some places the whole community deteriorated so much that it became unlivable. This phenomenon is happening all over the country nowadays. Local economies are being weakened and nobody seems to know what can help prosperity return.

 

We can’t blame globalization or immigration because it should be expected in a free market capitalistic society. Some industries that supported our parent’s generation will never return. Emerging businesses will always employ workers that will allow them to maximize profits. However, we should blame the deterioration of the local economy on the lack of programs or platforms designed to replace old businesses and old industries with new businesses developed from new industries.

 

This is why the industry of facilitating small business development is needed now more than ever before. Each person must recognize that we all need our local economy to remain strong whether we’re entrepreneurs or just consumers. We also must recognize we are responsible for our own financial security. If you’re living in a community that is struggling economically, you should not be waiting on the government or some local employer to bail you out! It’s your responsible to be creative and come up with new ways of generating revenues for yourself. Your efforts may spearhead economic growth in the local economy.

A Business Genius Living On Your Street

Where will the next great invention come from? Maybe it could be the creation of a new style of music, a new fuel source, or an amazing new business method. We know that people everywhere are working on new projects that could change the world we live in. However, have you given any thought to the fact that this genius could live next door to you? Wouldn’t you love to see what their working on and be of some assistance to them if needed?

Thanks to modern communication platforms like social networks we can learn about some of the amazing projects our neighbors are working on. You can search by specific industries or topics of interest. Most of the best inventions come from people trying to solve everyday problems. A light bulb goes off, and innovation begins. However, most creative minds need assistances managing other factors of business. Here’s where you can offer you support.

You may have heard financially successful people say “it’s all about being at the right place, at the right time”! Well that’s true! Finding success is more about having the farsightedness to understand what’s needed and what’s coming. So as you search your social networks database of business projects, watch out for the person in your neighborhood who could be the genius living next door. Partnering up with them they could make you rich!

Making Your Networking Meet Ups More Productive

You decide to attend a business networking event in your local area. You have a pocket full of business cards and your best elevator pitch. You walk up to the first person in front of you and say “hi my name is …., I’m a ……, what’s your name and what do you for a living?” Both of you trade pitches, cards, pleasantries, and then it’s off to the next person to repeat the cycle. Is this method of communicating and dispensing information effective? For most people the answer is no. Why is communicating like this difficult?

 

One of the biggest reasons this method of communicating is ineffective is because most people’s retention of new information is very low. How many times have you told somebody you name and they couldn’t even repeat it back to you? It’s not personal, that’s just the way most people are. We need reminder like documents, audio, and visual aids. Also giving people knowledge in advance of your content will help build interest for your services and products. So making your business information available is important.

 

Another problem with this method of communication is the fact that it’s a sales pitch. When you first meet someone in a business networking setting, the first thing out your mouth should not be a pitch. You have to build a foundation with potential partners before selling them something.

 

So instead of wasting your valuable meet up time trying to pitch your business to a room full of people you just met, use the social networking community you met them on to build interest about your business. Since business social networks allow their users to create content using every modern method of communication, you should have no problems generating interest for your business!

What About the Content Divide?

Ok, so you got a great computer to surf the Internet at broadband speeds. Now what do you do with it? This is the most important question people who are trying to solve the Digital Divide for economic reasons need to still answer. Even if everyone who is considered disadvantage had computers with internet access, they would still need to bridge the Content Divide to improve their economic outlook. Fortunately, due to a specific technical advance in communication methods it is possible to bridge the Content Divide. What is this advance? It’s the modern phenomenon of user generated content.

The ability to create and publish your own content also most instantaneously is one of the most empowering communication methods ever created. Even if you can’t read or write, people can still create videos and photos to communicate with others all over the world. User generated content can educate anyone, anywhere, at anytime. It’s only limit is the platform and purpose used to structure it. If you design a platform with a specific purpose, (like small business development) then allow users to submit content that matches your community’s identity – you’ve solved the Content Divide for those end users. Why can this method of content creation be considered a solution to the Content Divide?

The Content Divide is really a gulf between content relevancy and the person who seeks it. To have content relevancy your platform must address local, language, literacy, and cultural relevancy. So if I get online to look for information on how to start a bakery in New York’s Jewish community but can’t find it, there’s a content divide. If I find all the information and resources needed to start a bakery, the divide has been bridged. User generated content is the only way to collect enough relevant content for each user’s personal needs.

Since people also use visuals within their content, this method overcomes a major barrier for uneducated people in parts of the world where access to education is limited. Of course uneducated users will need assistance to navigate the platform but once the desired content is found its benefits can be attained. By closing the Content Divide as it relates to small business development, people everywhere will be able to find the resources need to improve their economic outlook.