To help entrepreneurs realize their full potential. This deck from Navarrow Wright about the top 10 essential technology solutions every entrepreneur needs to compete successfully.

1. February 25, 2015
Presented by Navarrow Wright
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2. Technology Has Taken Me Everywhere
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3. About Me
• Production credits on 5 of the first
6 BET Awards
• Co-founded Globalgrind.com w/
Russell Simmons
• Appeared on Run’s house
• Appeared on CNN Black in
America w/ Soledad O’Brien
• Have started several companies
from my home
• Current Businesses
– Maximum Leverage Solutions
– NxtScreen
– Close The Divide Project
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4. About Me
• Born & raised Trenton NJ
• Father was habitual gambler
• First to graduate college
• Wouldn’t have believed you
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5. Addicted To Opportunity
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6. Addicted To Opportunity
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7. Addicted To Opportunity
Opportunities
Opportunities
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8. Environmental Constraints
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9. Technology – David Beating Goliath
Technology allows you to
make major moves as a micro
business
• Get your message and product out
to a wider audience
• Run your business from anywhere
• Change your offering quickly to
respond to customer feedback
• Local presence, global impact
Technology is the tool that levels the playing field
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10. Technology Is Moving Faster
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11. Technology – The Power of The Napkin
Technology allows you to take
your ideas and make them real
• Low cost of entry
• Variety of tools available
• Removes location & size from being
barriers
• Allows you to start NOW!
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12. #1 Your Network
• Define your customers and communicate your brand
– Leverage your current networks to “Validate” your idea
– See if they will “buy” from you
• What social media do you use today?
– Don’t just “be there” have a plan
– Not talking about “selfies” either
• Are you LinkedIn?
– Business groups
– Link to articles to be seen as an authority.
– Become a Linkedin influencer
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13. Hardest Part of Building A Business is
Starting
What is a Startup?…
A human institution designed to create new
products and services under conditions of extreme
uncertainty
Eric Reis
Author: the lean
Startup
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14. #1 Your Network
• Build, Measure & learn using your network for
under $100
– Grab a domain name from Godaddy.com $12
– Create a simple page using Launchrock.co $0.00
– Send an email newsletter out to your network ( ex.
Mailchimp) $0.00
– Create twitter and Facebook Presence $0.00
– Test marketing messages on different pages using
Unbounce $0.00
– Create a Wordpress site using free themes $20
– Build a mobile ready ecommerce platform on Shopify
$24
– Measure the feedback
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15. #2 Be Found Online – Mobile
Drives Purchases
78% of U.S. Internet users go online to search for
information about products and services. Pew Research, 9/2010
32% have posted product reviews or comments
online. Pew Research, 9/2010
67% said a mobile-friendly site makes them more
likely to buy a product or use a service. Google, 2012
50% of mobile searches lead to purchase whether
online or in store. Google “The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Users,” 2011
11% of the total U.S. retail ecommerce sales were from
mobile devices, totaling nearly $25 billion in 2012. eMarketer, 1/2013
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16. #3 Hardware to Ensure Productivity
Tablet Computers
Ideal solution for many small businesses
and their mobile workforces.
•Mobile Point-of-Sales
•Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Printing
•Sales Force Automation
•Electronic Form Replacement
•Apps for Surveillance
•Presentation Tools
•Document Access via the Cloud
Verizon Jetpack 4G LTE Mobile
Hotspot MiFi
• Connect up to 10 Wi–Fi enabled
devices at one time in 4G and five
devices at one time in 3G.
• Global Ready™–Supports GSM
data roaming in over 200 countries
• Interactive OLED Display lets you
easily check connection status and
view SMS usage alerts
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17. #4 What’s the Cloud?
And How Does it Benefit Me?
Key Benefits of Cloud Solutions
• Backup Essential Data – Start with your phone
• Reduce overall IT costs because Cloud solutions providers manage all of the
infrastructure – no hardware or maintenance costs
• Enjoy solutions that grow with your business and enable you to provide
access to customers, consultants or employees as necessary
• Improve productivity with the ability to access key documents remotely – so
you can conduct business anytime, anywhere
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18. #4 What’s the Cloud?
Verizon Cloud
• Demo Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxSuaYrYZis
• Protect against a lost phone. Sync important info.
– Contacts
– Call logs
– Text messages
– Photos
• Stream Music & Video
– Store songs and movies on Verizon Cloud
– Stream them to your device – no download needed
• Free Storage – First 25GB Free for Verizon
Customers with More Everything Plans.
• Upgrade to 75 GB; 125 GB
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19. #4 What’s the Cloud?
iCloud and Google Drive
• Do you have an iPhone, iPod or Apple computer?
– iCloud allows you to access all of your favorite music, pictures, email and more
from the cloud.
• If you use an Android smartphone, tablet or a Windows laptop or PC –
consider Google Drive
– Save email attachments directly from Gmail to your Google Drive account
– Create folders, upload, store and categorize important documents
– Save and share documents in Google Drive by managing permissions
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20. #4 What’s the Cloud?
Cloud Solutions for your Mobile
• Google Apps
– Google Drive
– Google Docs
– Google Hangout
– Google Voice
• Evernote
– Text , photo and audio notes the
are sycnhed across all of your
devices
• DropBox
– File storage synched across all of
your devices
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21. #5 Mobile Credit Card Payments
Intuit GoPayment
Credit card reader for smartphones and tablets that provides an easy, inexpensive way for anyone who
wants to get paid with a credit card.
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Seamless integration with QuickBooks
Get paid anytime and anywhere
Get Started for free
Easy to sign up; Easy to use
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22. #6 Tools to Drive Finance Management
Quick books:
PageOnce Money & Bills
Send Invoices, track expenses.
Quickbooks allows to track all
aspects of your business, also
offer POS services
Pageonce simplifies your daily financial life
by providing a snapshot of your money, bills
and more. Keep tabs on account balances,
monitor investments and get real-time alerts
about upcoming bill due dates, suspicious
account activity, overdraft fees and more.
Shoeboxed
Simply send Shoeboxed your receipts,
business cards, bills and other documents
and everything will be carefully sorted and
scanned into a secure online account. All
of the organized data, including an IRSaccepted image of each document.
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23. #7 Improve Collaboration
• Collaborate with team and clients leveraging the
cloud
– Collaborate on documents using Google Apps
– Access calendars for product delivery and service
scheduling (ex. Basecamp)
– Connect in real time using Google chat and Google
hangouts
– Conduct presentations using the latest in collaborative
mobile software, ie. Fuze Meeting; Cisco WebEx
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24. #8 Great Customer Service Anywhere
• Automate sales force and Customer service functions
by the cloud
– Create agreements on the fly with Shake agreements
– Respond to customers in real time using Olark
– Review, edit and sign contracts stored in the Cloud w/
DocuSign
– Conduct presentations using the latest in collaborative
mobile software, ie. Fuze Meeting; Cisco WebEx
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25. #9 Stay Organized, Stay Productive
Hotel Tonight
Vlingo – Virtual Assistant
Uber
Vlingo is your very own Virtual Assistant.
Simply speak to Vlingo and it will help you get
more done, faster and easier than before.
.Uber is evolving the way the world moves. HotelTonight was founded in
By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers
December 2010 to provide easy mobile
through our apps, we make cities more
booking of same-day unsold hotel
accessible,
inventory.
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26. #10 Your Network - Everywhere
How To Stay Connected
• Always having access to the Internet for all your
devices is key
• Being portable but having a consistent number
for your business builds confidence
• Wi-Fi is not everywhere
• Inexpensive main phone number for your
business that is not tied to mobile phone for
when you grow
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27. #10 Your Network – Everywhere
Verizon 4G LTE Broadband Router with Voice
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Give you always avail access for your devices
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A dedicated phone line with voicemail
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You can set up the device anywhere
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Broadband solution with enhanced signal strength
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Ideal for setting up a temporary office
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Portable for use in multiple locations; plug and play
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Provides 4 Ethernet ports; connect up to 20 devices on Wi-Fi
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28. Questions?
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