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Dr. Thanh Mai’s career in optometry started with a familiar story: growing up with poor vision and frequent visits to the optometrist. But what set his path apart was the environment he experienced while shadowing in private practice. The staff were energized, the patients were happy, and the work was meaningful. That was the spark: Read More...

After our first challenge, we are beyond excited to announce a winner! We had some wonderful and creative submissions. Choosing someone was not easy. We’re just so glad we were able to help a few more entrepreneurs and businesses enter the world. Our challenge winner is LaQuinda “Que” Grimes and her business is Somewhere Dancing. Read More...

ABOUT THE CHALLENGE Welcome to a special series on the show! With everything that’s gone on in 2020, we wanted to be a source of hope, inspiration, and motivation to get out there and help you get an idea off the ground and launch a business. In fact, our goal is to help you launch Read More...

You’re so close to having your business up and running! You’ve laid all of the groundwork, and now you get to purchase your business license and start tracking your finances. This is real, people! Separate Your Business & Your Personal Your future self will thank you later. Having separate accounts makes it easier for you Read More...

Product + Business personality + Design + Logo = WEBSITE!! Leads, exposure, brand awareness. If you think you don’t need a website, that you can accomplish everything through Instagram, read that first sentence again. By having a website, you add another point of contact for potential customers, you create more awareness, and you establish legitimacy. Read More...

Facebook Instagram Linkedin Twitter TikTok Snap Chat YouTube Pinterest There’s a lot. What’s even harder is that you just got done building a website, but are you really online if you don’t have social?…. You need to be wherever your target buyer is. Refresh your memory from when you were creating your business plan. Knowing Read More...

Crafting a Go-to-Market Strategy In your first step, you set some goals. Keep those handy, because you want to stay extremely focused and targeted as you move forward with your go-to-market strategy. Particularly, for both the short term (6 months) and the long term (1-3 years), you need to hone in on specifics for your Read More...

Defining Your Brand I bet you can’t guess what we’ll have you reference as we start to explore your brand. You guessed it– your business goals. Maybe we should take a minute and pause so you can frame them and put them right above your work station. Given your business goals, your industry, and… well, Read More...

Establishing a Business Plan Though this is the first step in Launching A Business In 3 Days, it is most likely not the first time you’ve sat down to consider this business idea. You very well may have gone through some extensive research, fielding, experimenting, prototyping, etc. Now that it’s come time to get this Read More...

Marcus Wing’s Bio Marcus Wing was 23 when he really launched into entrepreneurship. He and a friend worked to develop a company. As with most instances when an individual launches into entrepreneurship, Marcus was motivated to create something that would succeed because he was very soon to be married. Throughout his youth, there were several Read More...

Debbie Boone’s Bio Debbie Boone graduated from NC State with a degree in animal science. Though she loved the field, she decided to be done with school. In that time, she began working for one of her family’s many businesses. As young as 15, Debbie was managing profit and loss statements. Years after working with Read More...

Gretchen Figge’s Bio In 2001, Gretchen started working with her husband at a company he’d recently joined. Soon after, that company was being acquired and Gretchen didn’t want to live through a buy-out. She decided to just start working for herself, you know, to try it out. Take the leap. Over the next two years Read More...