Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

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, but actually growing that idea into a viable company —such as you need. No matter what kind of business , and experienced business owners can be a valuable tool.When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he for his father’s pond construction, repair and cleaning business in Maryland.“I moved to San Francisco to work at Indeed and was doing digital marketing on the side for my dad,” Shinholser says. “When my father’s friends saw how much the marketing campaign was doing for his business, they asked me to do digital marketing for their businesses.”Like many entrepreneurs, Shinholser didn’t expect to be a business owner, especially a few years out of college.

Eventually, he quit his job with Indeed and became a full-time digital marketer.“I saved up six months’ of expenses and built up before ,” Shinholser says. “Now I have 15 employees and have worked with more than 400 clients on marketing strategies, website design, videos and content marketing.”While Shinholser didn’t need investors or to borrow money to fund his business, his savings were an important element of his success.“Every business has different startup costs, but they all have one thing in common: having a financial cushion,” says Bob Marshall, the business growth and strategy executive for the at Wells Fargo Bank. “First, you need to understand what service or product you want to sell and figure out who your customers are.