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Webinar - Why Chaos is Killing Small Business and What You Can Do About It
When
June 24, 2010 1:00 PM Eastern
Topic
Why Chaos is Killing Small Business and What You Can Do About It
We are in an Entrepreneurial Revolution. New businesses are being launched in record numbers. The internet has lowered the barriers to entry and leveled the playing field. The lifelong “company man” is a relic of the past. Entrepreneurs are setting out to find their freedom in record numbers. But… most small businesses fail. It’s chaos running a small business. It’s much harder than people realize. Chaos turns the dream of small business ownership Into a nightmare. And it consumes the entrepreneur’s life and too often, destroys everything. Where’s the freedom?
600,000 new small businesses will be created in the next 12 months. By the end of the year, half of them will have shut their doors forever.
That is not okay.
There’s a better way to run a small business. You can grow a successful small business and still have a life, if:
- You get your mindset right
- You get your systems right.
When you do, you’ll find your freedom—the money, time, control and purpose—that drove you to start a business in the first place. Entrepreneurship is the answer. You just need to know how to apply it. Conquer the Chaos shows you how to do that.
- What are the symptoms of Chaos
- The key causes of chaos
- 3 critical steps to overcoming chaos
- Conquer the Chaos shows you how to break free of the chaos and conquer it with six key strategies.
Rich Sloan, Moderator
Rich Sloan is chief startupologist and co-founder of StartupNation and host of the StartupNation radio show and podcasts. He is also co-author of the acclaimed how-to book, StartupNation: America's Leading Entrepreneurial Experts Reveal the Secrets to Building a Blockbuster Business.
Clate Mask, Panelist
Clate Mask is the co-founder and CEO of Infusionsoft, the leading provider of Email Marketing 2.0 software for small businesses. Clate has the hands-on experience and the formal training to turn any entrepreneurial fire into a successful, revolutionary company that creates value for everyone associated with it. In the early stages of Clate's career, he began working for a dot com start-up called North Sky. He wrote the business plan and helped to build and sell the company to About.com for $42 million. After the acquisition, he took control of several Internet properties, converted those properties from 'free' to 'fee', and created additional revenue streams. It was then time for Clate to get in on the equity game, so he joined Infusionsoft as CEO and Co-Founder and set out to build the company. Today, Infusionsoft is quickly becoming the leader in marketing and sales software for entrepreneurs. Over the last three years, Infusionsoft, has grown by more than 1,200%, appearing on the Inc. 500 list for three consecutive years. Infusionsoft has also won numerous accolades for both their software and business model.
Clate is frequently recognized in national and local publications, including USA Today, Startup Nation Blog, Smallbiz America, Inc.com, Smartmoney.com, Forbes.com, Entrepreneur Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and MSNBC.
Scott Martineau, Panelist
Scott Martineau is the cofounder and VP of Customer Experience at Infusionsoft. Scott is a serial entrepreneur who can't imagine ever working a “regular job.” He is a technologist at heart, driven by his vision: to create an easier way for entrepreneurs to run their small businesses. He started Infusionsoft with a dream to help small business marketers be more effective and successful, what he ended up starting was a revolution that touches thousands of entrepreneurs today.
What began as two brothers' software startup dream in an Arizona strip mall has evolved into a leading marketing automation solution for entrepreneurs and growth-oriented small businesses. Infusionsoft offers small business and entrepreneurs a new way to grow that doesn't involve working more hours, hiring more sales reps or shaving costs, instead it focuses on smarter marketing.
It's called Email Marketing 2.0, and it automatically responds and adapts to customer behavior, increasing sales and customer satisfaction. Infusionsoft is the first to create a web-based solution for small businesses that combines advanced email marketing capabilities with a full-featured customer database (CRM), powerful marketing automation and e-commerce all in one web-based app.