Essential Small Business Resources for Your Business

Here's a list of everything you could possibly need to start, fund, or grow your business all in one place. Keep track of this post for future reference.

Starting Your Business

Are you pre-revenue, just an idea, or early stage?

• Chat with Skip Cofounder to help validate your idea. Ask tough questions about your idea, whether its a product or service, and get candid feedback to validate your starting point.
• Get your online presence going to build momentum. This includes creating an instant website and creating a business listing on Skip and other third party sites, like Google.
• Think about your business structure. LLCs are the most common for small businesses, but corporations sometimes are essential for startups. Here's a business entity diagram to help you decide, and if you want an LLC, you can create an LLC here in a few minutes.
• Set up some important stuff like business registration, an EIN so you can pay business taxes, and a business bank account.
• Create a business plan so you have a north star direction and a baseline plan you can measure progress against. This will change, but it's critical to do this exercise.
• Apply to grants and learn about funding options. You might be too early for financing and lines of credit, but certainly grants are an important path — free money you don't have to repay.
• Formulate your products or services and think about how you'll package them — and list them on your website or business page on Skip — you can list your business products and services here.
• Read and learn. Read this post on starting your business, review tips for product businesses, services businesses, or online businesses.

Growing Your Business

Making revenue and ready to continue your growth, add products or services, or apply for more funding options.

• First, check your online presence and traffic and your data. Then dump in the background into Skip Cofounder and tell it your business growth goals.
• Make sure your business page on Skip is optimized and scored highly so it stands out and serves as another online presence for your business.
• If your website needs a refresh, or you want another online presence for marketing or a new product or service, take advance of AI website tools and create instantaneous websites.
• Increase your public exposure by increasing marketing both organic and paid — ask Cofounder to help you decide on this.
• For paid marketing consider boosting your business on Skip, especially if you'd like to stand out among a targeted audience of entrepreneurs and small business owners — as well as millions from the general population.
• For organic marketing, use Skip's AI teammates to quickly post on social media to grow your trust, brand, and following.
• Optimize how you respond to customers with a Skip 24/7 AI agent that lives on your business website and business page.
• Ensure that you can accept online payments for your products or services
• Read posts on growing your business and again, use Cofounder as a thought partner for growth and strategy.

Keep track of this post as an ultimate small business resource for items you need to start, grow, and scale this business. This post will be added to over time.