recommend be available for a start-up i.t. recruiting firm. money is the tool by which you re going to fuel your business six months out. that s my recognition of the value of being a strategy-driven i.t. recruiting firm. pay a team, a staff, whatever it is that s required. you need to have the cash flow to sustain the company after six months of support. depending upon how much you re growing, maybe the opportunities are clear and definitive. you re going to have more money available because you want to keep moving forward as a company. particularly in a space like i.t. where there seems to be no limit of the kinds of people particularly in the software arena that need to be hired. and it is
at your bank account balance saying it looks like i can pay people friday. right? with consolidated systems, jody can analyze her numbers and get a deep understanding about where all the money is going and when. with that information, she can start to make educated decisions about how to run her company. the key for this is she s not looking at her numbers to see how much she s spending on. how much of that inventory is dead inventory. looking at that and saying let s get rid of it and sell what s selling. dawn and ann start to consolidate all those reports. but before they even look at the details, dawn has another simple question. we need to know the terms of your vendors. when are you having to pay those vendors? is money coming in and when is it coming in? and when is the last day you have to pay it? we pay for everything up front. okay. so we have a pay up front due on
they built relationships with companies from stouffers to samsung. thank you for being here. i m happy to talk to you about this. you started this company out of nothing and now you have brands coming to you saying we want to partner with you. we want to be part of this. which is really congratulations to both of you. thank you. so let s talk about it. you ve walked into meetings and come out with yeses. we don t take no. i can see that. let s go through the advice you have. the first point you talk about is making the pitch about them, not you. that s right. so a lot of times i think brands like our brand you want to tell them everything about what you re doing and you want to give them that massive elevator pitch. but the most important thing is to understand who you re pitching. you ve got to do your homework. you have to understand who they re marketing to, what their current goals are, what their
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