Are you an entrepreneur in need of creating financials projections for your startup? Over the past year, I’ve been introducing my startup theory, currently called the Four Pillars of Startup, to my communities and have received ample excitement for the third pillar focused on Startup Financials. I wrote two columns...
Is your business at the point where you’re spending hours on repetitive and scheduled daily tasks to keep the company running? Build a Core Team Around your Founders If so, it’s time to start hiring a core team of support players around your founding team. The goal of the founding...
You know that feeling towards the end of the day when your head begins to hurt a bit and you’re mind feels like it’s turning to mush? If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you’ve most likely become accustomed to the feeling as you work through an endless checklist of tasks to...
Introduction As your startup team begins to grow from you and your cofounder to a founding team of intelligent individuals, it’s critical that you, as the CEO and owner, have the ability to lead. The leadership of the company stems directly from the precedence that the owners and CEO sets...
Introduction As I’ve been reading The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, I’ve become transfixed by the impact that the Internet has had on the world since its discovery. I’ve taken time to think about the many tech companies that have risen...
My Experience with Startup Mentors It’s now been almost 4 years since I moved to Orlando, Florida from the Northeast United States. When I first moved down to the area, I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed entrepreneur working on my first eCommerce business on the Amazon Marketplace. For the first year...
Are you an entrepreneur seeking to create your personal brand, for the betterment of your entrepreneurial reputation and your company’s future success? In this column, I will discuss the importance of a personal brand through examples from my life and iconic entrepreneurs. I’ll then dive into key strategies that one can...
Introduction to eCommerce in China This past weekend, I needed a new book to read so I turned to my bookshelf where I collect all of the books that I’ve read and that I want to read. I always have a backup of new books and one in particular caught...
Understanding Startup Theory Since August of 2015, I’ve been writing on ConnorGillivan.com about my experiences as an eCommerce entrepreneur. I started two new companies in the beginning of 2016, eCommetize and FreeeUp and have been on a mission to document the first year of growing both businesses for the benefit...
How to Use Outsourcing for your Startup As you begin to build your startup and reach a point where systems and processes are in place, you will run into a period where you begin to run out of time in the day. You’ve built up the tasks within your business to...
Introduction We’ve finally made it to the final column of the How to Start an eCommerce Business series. Over the 2 month series, we’ve done deep into the steps that you must take in order to set the foundation for a profitable eCommerce business. All of the advice that I’ve...
As I’ve transitioned into the world of online hiring platforms, I’ve had a number of companies to look up to as we’ve built the foundation for what has become FreeeUp. If you aren’t yet familiar with FreeeUp, it is an online hiring platform where we connect reliable, talented freelancers with...
If you’ve made it this far in the How to Start an eCommerce Business series, congratulations! Now it’s time to fully understand and set up your eCommerce operations. The process of properly creating your own eCommerce business is tedious and can take serious time before the actual launch. However, I...
Introduction One of the most important aspects of starting a business is ensuring that you have a strategy to communicate with your potential customers and people that may know your potential customers. In this column, I’ll outline how to create a strategic digital marketing strategy and why it’s so important...
Introduction In this column, I’d like to reflect on how entrepreneurs can stay motivated by your vision when the times get tough and you feel like you can’t or don’t want to go on. Throughout the first year of building your business, you will hit this roadblock many times as...
We’ve made it to Step 10 of How to Start an eCommerce Business: Facebook Ads and Sales Funnels. It’s been quite the journey to get to this step, but you now have your online store launched, debugged, and ready to bring in new customers and sales. If you haven’t already,...
Have you been following this entire eCommerce series? We’ve finally reached one of the final and most exciting steps as the owner of the business: launch online store. You’ve gone through all 8 steps to get your eCommerce store set up for launch so that it’s foundation is ready to...
It’s the first week of January in 2016, one year ago. I’m at an interesting place in my life where I am starting three new ventures in the year of 2016. I have two ideas for new businesses that I’m interested in starting and I have the desire to bring my...
This is the story of how my business partner, Nathan Hirsch, and I have gone from Amazon experts to building a remote hiring platform for the eCommerce industry, FreeeUp. Keeping it short and sweet, I’m telling the story in under 600 words. Nate and I met at Quinnipiac University in...
What does being an entrepreneur mean to you? Are you one as you read this column or are you aspiring to become one? If you are aspiring, why do you want to become one? What are you seeking that the life of an entrepreneur or business owner will provide you?...