Small Business Options For Growth and Expansion
Hi I’m Matt from Kurb!
Kurb offers marketing and promotions services from Auckland to New Zealand and online services to clients internationally - check out the www.kurb.co.nz website for bargain deals on cd and dvd duplication, auckland printing, poster services, internet marketing specializing in music and small business marketing, talent management, seo, ppc, online video production and promotion, graphic and web design -. . .
you can contact me directly by email - kurbpromo@gmail.com or call me, Matt
I’m trying to balance lifestyle with growing my business, but growing business is such an enticing challenge.
Growth means having further to fall but it also means flying higher.
What are the steps to making the big picture happen?
It’s back to that argument assistant vs. shop. Space vs. Staff. With a shop, there’s more to gain, but the assistant is less risky.
If I had an assistant I could get much more marketing work running through, but they would have to cover web design, adwords set up, contacting odesk people in regards to twitter, youtube, facebook,myspace, doing the aweber email stuff, and most importantly, get stuff done when I couldn’t be bothered moving on it.
writing, photoshop, video skills also would be a bonus. But really, that stuff is all needed. Someone who could do all that would be worth $20 p/hour though.
How do you find this person?
“It’s minimum wage but you definitely actually get to learn stuff about real life online marketing and stuff”
It really underlines the value of finding top staff, and developing people to the point where they can allow you to grow your operation. And that finding good staff is as much an opportunity of finding a great space to grow your business activity.
In fact if I had a space it would be more appropriate for developing people who could come in and work, and those are the people who in 3 years time could be graduating to running my bar or my restaurant.
In a space it’s easy to say, well come here, into this working environment, and lets see how you work, and how you learn and pick things up. If they’re able to start dealing with outsourcers, and writing about artists and clients, and logging into social media and using it effectively, completing design jobs, doing website and email admin stuff.
Hey I could even get them managing my appearances gosh i didn’t think of that.
It really doesn’t matter who, or where or when as long as they can start doing jobs and getting paid.
What are the real choices? What if I don’t? Staying small means staying vulnerable if and when the cd dvd duplication runs dry, I need to make some money!
$1500 from production
$1000 from my agencies
$500 for performance
$1000 from retail and hospitality and cratch
