What you'll learn:
- #1 Udemy course to raise money and get closer to funding your business and your dreams
- Calculate exactly how much money you need to raise
- Use multiple fundraising sources to reach your financial needs
- Waste less time trying to raise money from ineffective fundraising sources
- Fundraising from investors, business loans, personal loans, grants, donations, crowdfunding, and more
- Understand how to get business loans for your small business or a startup
- Understand where to find business grants and which to apply to
- Learn about crowdfunding for business to get donations
- Get personalized fundraising advice from the instructor by asking private questions
- Join OFFICE HOURS where the instructor does a Zoom call with students
- Learn about different kinds of small business loans including SBA loans, microloans for business, or a business line of credit
Use the sum of 10 fundraising strategies to raise more money and sooner!
WHYHAVING 10 FUNDRAISING STRATEGIESISSO EFFECTIVE
When you focus on just one fundraising strategy, it might not work, take too long, or raise less money than you need.
Instead of putting all your eggs in one basket with one fundraising strategy, combine funds from 10 different fundraising strategies like getting some money from a business loan, maybe a personal loan, grants, crowdfunding, other donations, and then transitioning to many of the creative ways to raise money that I'll show you in this course.
When you raise a little bit of money from multiple sources, it's much easier to get to your ultimate fundraising goal.
Includes my 200-page business plan book, which is used by a number of universities.
UNDERSTANDTHEA-Z OF THEFUNDRAISINGPROCESS
If you are in the process of raising money for your business or wondering how to begin the fundraising process, this course will give you insights and the pros and cons for different fundraising strategies. That will help you maximize your chances of success in each!
WE'LL STARTBYEXPLORINGTHEOPTIONOFA BUSINESSLOAN TOFUNASMALLBUSINESS
Many people opt for business loans as their first option to raise money for their small business or a start-up. Loans feel like they might be a relatively easy option because banks and investors are more willing to offer loans than direct investments.
Small business loans turn out to be difficult to get because most bank have a requirement similar to this:
Your business must be operational for at least six months.
You must generate at least a few thousand dollars in revenue.
If you don't qualify for these common small business loan requirements, you still have a few options. You can go to local banks which sometimes have more lenient policies or you can explore the option of a personal loan to fund your small business.
RISKASSOCIATEDWITHSMALLBUSINESSLOANS OR PERSONALLOANS
The challenge with getting a small business loan is that you have to pay it back. If your business does not succeed, you'll have an enormous amount of debt, which is a big thing to consider.
DIFFERENT KINDSOFLOANDSFROMSBA SMALLBUSINESSLOANSTOINTERNATIONALMICROLOANS
You'll also learn about many different options for getting a small business loan to fund your company. I'll explain what SBA loans are. These are Small Business Assistance loans backed by the US government to help small businesses.
You will also learn how to use online lending companies like Lendio or Kiva to either get a small business loan or a business line or credit.
GETTINGDONATIONSTOFUNDYOURBUSINESSVIACROWDFUNDING
Crowdfunding can be a great option if you have an idea that gets people excited, inspired, and motivated. If so, you can use crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe or Kickstarter to raise money for your business. But keep in mind that those are marketplaces. That means that you can go viral and promoted on those websites, and have many people find your project to give you donations. But if your project doesn't get discovered on those websites, you'll have to do most of your own promotion, which can be difficult.
RAISINGMONEYFROMGRANTS
There are many small business grants that are available, and I'll show you how to find them. The challenge with business grants is that it's time consuming to do grant writing and fill out the entire grant application. Plus, it can take a long time to get a reply after you submit your grant application.
CREATIVEFUNDRAISINGSTRATEGIES
If getting a small business loan, a personal loan, grant, or crowdfunding isn't an option for you, I'll also show you a number of creative and lesser-known techniques to raise money.
CALCULATEHOWMUCHMONEYYOUNEEDTORAISE
Before starting any process of raising money, you must understand how much money you need to raise. Usually the amount of money you aim to raise should get you closer to your next business milestone.
That milestone can be profitability, customer growth to reach a certain number of clients, or a number of other things.
This course will show you how to do the math to understand your fundraising needs so you can be more sophisticated when you try to raise money.
FORWHOMTHISCOURSEISIDEAL
This course is ideal for people who have a business idea or an early-stage business, and need funding to get started or move forward.
HOWTHIS FUNDRAISINGCOURSEWILLWORK
1)Learn how to calculate how much money you need.
2)Use a combination of over 10 ways to raise that money.
3)Learn to pitch investors.
WILLTHESESTRATEGIESWORKFORYOU?
Not all the fundraising strategies in this course will work for everyone. But since this course gives you a wide range of strategies to raise money, some of them will definitely work.
Plus, by combining multiple fundraising strategies, you should be able to reach the sum your situation requires.
LATEST COURSE UPDATE:
Fundraising websites that help you raise funds for your business
Extra resources for finding potential grants
More unusual ways to raise fundsfor your business
Most lectures updated to have improved audio and video quality
WHYITISIMPORTANTTOTAKETHISCOURSE
Don't focus on just one fundraising strategy like investors, loans or crowdfunding. Give yourself greater potential with a broad view of all the possible ways to raise money.
When you understand all your fundraising options, you will be more likely to choose the most effective strategies and implement them better and with more confidence.
INSTRUCTOR BACKGROUND
I've been an entrepreneur for 20+ years, coached 1,000+ entrepreneurs in person, taught 850,000+ students, impacted millions of entrepreneurs worldwide, some of whom created 6 and 7-figure businesses, and Iwould love to help you.
I understand how difficult, confusing and stressful it might be for you to go through a fundraising process and start a business with no money and no support.
SHORTENYOURSTRUGGLE
A long time ago, Iwent through the same challenges of starting a business and raising money. Iunderstand how stressful and challenging things are for you.
I made this course to help you to get through this challenging process in the easiest possible way, and to shorten the struggle.
STARTUPANDNONPROFIT FUNDRAISING USINGONLINEANDOFFLINESTRATEGIES
Since this course has a variety of unique fundraising strategies, any type of organization can use at least some of the strategies. Whether you are working on a technology startup or a nonprofit, you can use the fundraising strategies in this course to help you.
BONUSESINCLUDED
Lots of extra freebies, downloadable worksheets, and exercises to make the course more interactive and valuable
Personal invitation to my Facebook community after you complete the course
My list of 50 business-success skills after you complete the course
Be automatically entered to get chosen for my student of the month status and have your business featured
RESPONSIVEANDCARINGINSTRUCTOR: WORLD-CLASSSTUDENTSUPPORT
If you have questions, know that Iam here to help!Ianswer 99% of student questions within 24 hours. Many students tell me that other instructors don't respond. Well, I do because
1) I care about my students.
2) I feel a responsibility to make sure that students get their money's worth from the course.
OFFICEHOURS: GETONE-ON-ONE HELPFORFREE OVERACONVERSATION
Ioffer monthly office hours with students of this fundraising course, which is a group call over Zoom. On the call, you will be able to ask me questions about anything you are working on, and have an actual conversation about it.
The office hours are free. Idon't sell anything on these calls. This is just something I do to go the extra mile to help students. So enroll in the course, start learning, and I hope to meet you in my office hours one day.
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
The fundraising course comes with an unconditional, Udemy-backed, 30-day money-back guarantee. This is not just a guarantee, it's my personal promise to you that I will go out of my way to help you succeed just like I'vedone for thousands of my other students.
Invest in your future! Enroll in this fundraising course now.
