Synergy Worldwide: Volume 1, Startup !

By Francis E McIntire

American Express report also notes, however, that a woman-owned business employs, on average, just one person in addition to the owner; the typical privately held business (where the gender of its owner or owners isn't broken out and the company's shares are neither traded on public exchanges nor issued through an initial public offering) employs two people apart from the owner. And, the study said, women-owned businesses have average annual revenues of just under $155,000, far less than the $400,000 figure of the typical privately held business. This means that the average per-employee revenue for women-owned business is only $75,000, significantly less than the $133,000 per-employee average revenue for all private businesses. We are here to change that.Our SolutionThe Accelerated Wealth volumes and the others that follow are tailored for The Rosie Network member companies, military family member-owned businesses, and veteran-owned businesses.As a Rosie Network member company you have certain advantages: a common culture, a support structure that delivers great value (free membership, free online search capability, free advisory services), and membership in an organization of women and men - just like you.When asked what they see as their biggest challenge to running their business in 2013, nearly two in five (39 percent) of woman business owners said that it was gaining new customers. To gain customers, nearly three quarters (73 percent) of women plan to invest more in marketing in 2013. Specifically, they will invest in social media marketing (36 percent) and search engine optimization (SEO) (36 percent). This is not surprising, as nearly half (44 percent) predict that social media and SEO are the future of small business marketing. Conversely, owners anticipated that traditional outreach approaches, including print and direct mail (1.6 percent), online advertising (4.4 percent) and email marketing (6.2 percent), will have less impact on small business marketing in the future.When considering what marketing tactics currently have the greatest impact on a business' bottom line, more than half (52 percent) of respondents indicated that website design and maintenance was very important, followed by social media marketing and SEO (38 percent) and email marketing (25 percent). And women business owners indicated that LinkedIn (27 percent) is the most valuable social media platform to them, followed by Facebook (26 percent), YouTube (18 percent) and Twitter (17 percent).National Association of Woman Business Owners (NAWBO; http://nawbo.org/content_17104.cfm)As a Rosie Network member company, you have access to a single-minded community of innovators and entrepreneurs that have an aversion to debt, a range of business and technology partners, and more. Your NetworkThe Rosie Network member companies are led by innovators and entrepreneurs like you. The key to success is active networking to promote your business and to refer new businesses to The Rosie Network and to the member companies that can help them build and grow their business.Know that people in the community like to do business with people that they know and trust. Be an active and involved member of The Rosie Network and referrals will come to your business naturally.Major categories of member companies include:* Advisory services (consulting, coaching)* Affiliated businesses (real estate, insurance)* Business services (catering, photography)* Education & training (classroom, client-site)* Financial services (insurance, investments)* Government contracting (Fed, state & local)* Healthcare (medical, dental, therapy)* Home-based business (start-up, MLM)* Personal services (salon, massage, trainer)* Retail sales (storefront, online marketing)* Teaming to win (government, commercial)* Technology (consumer, micro, enterprise IT)* Volunteer (not-for-profit, ministry)* Writing (proposals and technical editing)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517518164
• ISBN13: 9781517518165
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"