I am seeking advertising funds. How is the best way to find angel investors?
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You may want to go and pitch your ideas where investors gather. Here are some places where angel investors come and those looking for funding can come and pitch their business plans. Be sure to have a strong business plan and describe what makes your business idea stand apart:\n\nAngel Capital Association (has a lot of links to angel investor organizations as well as information about angel investors) http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org\nAngel's Forum http://www.angelsforum.com \nBand of Angels http://www.bandangels.com \nCommon Angels http://www.commonangels.com \nKeiretsu Forum http://www.k4forum.com \nLaunchpad Venture Group http://www.launchpadventuregroup.com\nNew World Angels http://www.newworldangels.com \nNew York Angels http://www.newyorkangels.com \nPrairie Angels http://www.prairieangels.org (charges $125 to submit idea)\nRobin Hood Ventures http://www.robinhoodventures.com (charges $250)
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You may want to go and pitch your ideas where investors gather. Here are some places where angel investors come and those looking for funding can come and pitch their business plans. Be sure to have a strong business plan and describe what makes your business idea stand apart:\n\nAngel Capital Association http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org\nAngel's Forum http://www.angelsforum.com \nBand of Angels http://www.bandangels.com \nCommon Angels http://www.commonangels.com \nKeiretsu Forum http://www.k4forum.com \nLaunchpad Venture Group http://www.launchpadventuregroup.com\nNew World Angels http://www.newworldangels.com \nNew York Angels http://www.newyorkangels.com \nPrairie Angels http://www.prairieangels.org (charges $125 to submit idea)\nRobin Hood Ventures http://www.robinhoodventures.com (charges $250)\n\nAnd don't reveal too much of your business idea to others. They may just run away with it :o)
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One option you may want to consider is a new product concept test survey.   New product concept tests are often used to measure your target market's interest in a new product or service.  Before you invest in advertising, you can find out what people like and dislike about your product and therefore what features to stress or downplay in your ads. \n \nYou could also do some ad testing, which means surveying people to find which advertising concept they like most.   This way you can be sure you're saying the right things, the right way, to the right audience, before you even launch your advertising campaign.\n \nThere is no way to guarantee your advertising expenses will be covered by your product sales, but these techniques will improve your odds.\n\nAs well, another way to make sure that you will have the greatest chance at launching a successful product, and making sure that the expenses of your advertising will be covered, is to hire a market research company.  Listed below are a couple of companies that are very respected in the market research field, and should help you in deciding how to best solve this issue.\nhttp://www.infosurv.com/consumer_market_research.htm\nhttp://www.acnielson.com/
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If you find someone willing to do that I'm interested - I have land as collateral and can't find investors. :-) \nThe thing that raises my ? though is NO company can GUARANTEE you 50 prequalfied customers a day. This sounds like a scam. They contacted you. The radio and tv ads - how many and how often and for how long? And internet - not a lot of cost there. Billboards aren't that expensive. They will answer the calls and screen them...ok but to guarantee 50 a day that are qualified for your business...without even knowing what that is that sounds awful high. Out of internet, radio ads I was lucky to get...well...NO calls and it was for food. Everyone eats. I would really seriously look over that with a fine toothed comb...something does not sound right. Guaranteeing you will make X number of $ but it takes $35k to get started now sounds like a scam to me. Be careful
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Find someone who you really believe in who needs the money for a startup.   Good luck.
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This depends on where you live, really.\n\nContact your local city council and find out who the big businesses and philanthropists are in your community. \n\nAfter all, it is VERY unlikely that you get funds from someone far away from you. The other person who said "try asking London" is not being realistic at all (unless you live in or near London); there is not much chance someone who lives that far away will give you money!\n\nStart local and find out how you can give someone a good reason to give to your non-profit. This is definitely a question of effective salesmanship.
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You may want to go and pitch your ideas where investors gather. Here are some places where angel investors come and those looking for funding can come and pitch their business plans. Be sure to have a strong business plan and describe what makes your business idea stand apart:\n\nAngel Capital Association (has lots of great links to angel associations) http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org\nAngel's Forum http://www.angelsforum.com \nBand of Angels http://www.bandangels.com \nCommon Angels http://www.commonangels.com \nKeiretsu Forum http://www.k4forum.com \nLaunchpad Venture Group http://www.launchpadventuregroup.com\nNew World Angels http://www.newworldangels.com \nNew York Angels http://www.newyorkangels.com \nPrairie Angels http://www.prairieangels.org (charges $125 to submit idea)\nRobin Hood Ventures http://www.robinhoodventures.com (charges $250)\n\nIf your business idea is original, it is also important that you take steps to protect your idea such as going through the process of patenting them.\n\nBusiness plan competitions also help. Jenny Lefcourt, founder of WeddingChannel.com attracted venture capitalists' attention when she presented with her partner her idea for what would become WeddingChannel.com in a business plan competition at Stanford. http://www.womenhomebusiness.com/success/lefcourt.htm A venture capitalist happened to be listening to the presentations and was impressed by the business idea.
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First off, what type of promotional business do you operate?\nhow much of your money is currently invested and how much more are you prepared to risk? What percent of your company are you willing to surrender for the investment you need?\nWhat is your cash flow and ROI?\n\nIf you are looking for investors or a gift angel, do a search on the net and understand first what you will be required give up in return for the money you seek.
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Advertise.  Legitimately.  You could try Google Ads for a start, they seem to be everywhere, and you don't pay unless someone clicks on them.
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An angel investor is a person who invests in a business venture, providing capital for start-up or expansion. These individuals are looking for a higher rate of return than would be given by more traditional investments (typically 25 percent or more).\n\nAngel investors are perceived of as "filling the gap" between the financing provided by family and friends and venture capitalists. Individual angel investors typically invest up to $150,000, but it's becoming increasingly common for angels to operate as part of an angel syndicate (a group of angel investors), which raises their potential investment level accordingly. My article, How to Find an Angel Investor, gives some examples of active Canadian angel groups.\n\nUsually, an angel investor is looking for a personal opportunity as well as an investment. Often angel investors have business experience as well as money, and will want to play some sort of active role in managing the company.\n\nBecause he or she is interested in adding value to the company, it's important for any business person thinking of accepting investment from an angel investor to be very clear about what the angel investor is bringing to the deal besides money, and to develop an understanding of what the angel investor would be like to work with.
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Just perform a websearch (yahoo, google, etc) for "angel investor" and you'll come across a few sites.\n\nHere, in Canada, I'd look at: http://www.angelinvestmentnetwork.ca/home
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It's hard to answer your question in specifics since we don't know what type of business you're involved in, so I thought I would just list some links that'll help you get started on your way. There's links related to starting, financing & advertising.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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There is no list available out there of websites willing to advertise. But if you want to earn from an advertising, you can do any or all of these things:\n\n1. Apply to a banner ad network. Banner ad networks allow  you to get paying advertisers. They do all the work for you soliciting advertisers. So you can do what you do best - write content - while they do the saleswork and all you have to do is to choose which advertisers/campaigns you want shown on your website. They can show various types of banners for you - typical 468x60 banner, the bigger leaderboards, boxes, even popups and other formats. You can get paid by CPM (per thousand impressions) or CPC (cost per click). Some campaigns can pay as high as $10 CPM or as low as $0.10 CPM. \n\nThe caveat is they get a percentage of your revenues, which can be anywhere from 60-40 (60% for them, 40% for you) or 50-50. Some of the banner ad networks are BurstMedia.com, Fastclick.com, Tribal Fusion, Advertising.com, among others.\n\n2. Do Contextual Advertising. These are text ads (as opposed to banners) that are highly targeted to the actual webpage - and the better the targeting, the better the performance and more money for you. For example, if you are writing about web design, then the text ads that will be shown are about web design because that is the topic that interests your readerswhat. \n\nApply to Google Adsense program, Yahoo Publisher Network (still in beta), Kontera, Intellxt, Adsonar, among others. Note that while you can display banners with your contextual advertising, most contextual advertising programs such as Yahoo and Google Adsense prohibit running a competing contextual advertising on one page.\n\n3. Cost per Action (CPA). These are typically affiliate programs where you get paid only after the visitor does a predefined action (e.g. sale, leads). It may be $5 for every person that signs up for the program, a 50% commission from the sale generated, or something similar. The key is that there is a certain action that needs to be done, so even if the banner was seen by 100,000 people, you will not be paid by the fact that it was seen by so many people but by the number of people who actually bought the product. Go to Commission Junction, Clickbank, Linkshare, and other cost per performance providers.\n\n4. Sell ads on your own. This is the most difficult as you become your own salesman. You can get a lot of advertisers only if: (a) you have desirable traffic that advertisers covet; and (b) you have traffic. But you get everything, without giving anyone a percentage or share of the earnings.\n\nYou may want to read the article "How to Generate Advertising Revenues for Your Website" at http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol28/adrevenues.htm\n\nHope this helps\nIsabel Isidro\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com
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An advertising agency would be a good bet
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There are places where you can go and pitch your ideas where investors gather. You might find some investors interested in UK businesses. \n\nHere are some places where angel investors come and those looking for funding can come and pitch their business plans. Be sure to have a strong business plan and describe what makes your business idea stand apart:\n\nAngel Capital Association http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org\nAngel's Forum http://www.angelsforum.com \nBand of Angels http://www.bandangels.com \nCommon Angels http://www.commonangels.com \nKeiretsu Forum http://www.k4forum.com \nLaunchpad Venture Group http://www.launchpadventuregroup.com\nNew World Angels http://www.newworldangels.com \nNew York Angels http://www.newyorkangels.com \nPrairie Angels http://www.prairieangels.org (charges $125 to submit idea)\nRobin Hood Ventures http://www.robinhoodventures.com (charges $250)
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Your success in approaching them directly would depend on your qualification. There is a lot of competition for creative jobs, and finding one online is just about impossible. Try and hunt down some contacts you might have in an ad agency - that seems to be the best way in. \n\nOf course, you'll need to do your homework. There are many sites specific to the advertising industry. Do your research, and floor them on your first meeting.
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I would start with finding out what the going rates are for advertising on similar web-sites. Get the rates on everything from large banner ads to smaller ads. You may also want to look into how they set the rates. I would guess that the advertisers would by a set amount of impressions. I would then figure out all of my costs. Everything from Toll Free #'s, to office space, to building and maintaining your website. This should give you a rough idea of whay your can expect. The real problem comes when you need to find the advertisers. How will you convince them to spend $ with you. How do you plan to get visitors to your site. If an institution is going to spend $ to advertise on your site you need to assure them that they are getting relevant impressions. Best of Luck.