in this timeless selfie portrait. now we d like to see your selfie. send it to @yourbusiness@msnbc.com. don t forget to use the the #yourbizselfie. it s time now to answer some of your business questions. let s get our board of directors in here to help us out. scott bellski is at adobe, also the co-founder of an online platform to showcase and discover creative work. and executive creative director of wayfair, largest online retailer of home furnishings and decor. good to see both of you guys. it s fun to have you both here because you both started your companies, grew them and then sold them to public companies, so you have similar experiences. let s get to the first question. it s about taxes. sorry, taxes. it s coming up.
working as hard as they do. i want to thank them for showing up when they don t feel like showing up, putting a smile on their face when they don t feel like it, and i think that showing that appreciation to your guests as well as your staff is something that makes me happy and i hope it makes them happy. it is time now to answer some of your business questions. let s get to this week s board of directors. scott bellski was the founder of behance, a platform to show your creative work which he sold to adobe. now vice president of community there. chris relic, a partner at first round capital. we were just together earlier this week when i hosted a panel for him at the new york venture capital association s annual ingenuity conference. good to see you twice in one week. so good to see you, scott. it s been much too long. it has. good to be here. congratulations on all the changes in your company. thanks. okay. let s get right to the first question. this is from a entrepreneur
that your customers would use to find the service or product like yours. don t be a sea gull. squawking and dropping your video on a site and flying away. instead interact with the people watching your video. respond to their comments and ask them questions. what s your favorite candy? it is less about broadcasting and more about conversation. via facebook, twitter, e-mail, blogs and other forums. send your video to the folks who have already accumulated large audiences of people you might want to reach. if you re nice and the videos are valuable, they might pick them up as content. for more information, see openforum.com/yourbusiness or check out my blog at willvideoforfood.com. now, let s get this video viral! it s time now to answer some of your business questions. jennifer and scott are with us once again. the first question is about running out of room for your business. my business, thankfully, has
be held, what people have to do, if there s restrictions around people who can enter. definitely inquire with a lawyer, though, because you want to make sure you re complying. and actually, some states require you to register the contest or promotion you re running. great idea. scott, jen, thank you for all that advice. you guys are great. if any of you out there have a question for our experts, all you have to do is go to our website. the address is openforum.com/yourbusiness. there, just hit the ask the show link to submit a question for our panel. again, the website is openforum.com/yourbusiness. or you can e-mail us your questions and comments. the address is yourbusiness@msnbc.com. jen and scott had some really helpful advice about how to improve your business. now let s get some great ideas from entrepreneurs just like you. my business is very heavily reliant on printed marketing material, brochures, manuals, support material. so, i calculated in the first year i saved abou
chair of the new york city advisory board for a group dedicated to working with female entrepreneurs. scott bellski is the founder and founder after company that helps products, develop products and services for creative businesses. great to see all of you. what strikes me the most about this is that it is so common. i have a good friend who this happened to. p people we did a store i don t last week, dog sledding company, this happened to. it happens all the time. so what are entrepreneurs, small business owners, missing? why is this happening so much. first of all, the u.s. chamber of commerce estimates that about 75% of employees steal in one way, shape or form. that s most of us that includes me stealing a pen, right? i must admit, sorry, nbc. yeah, i don t know how they define it but there s all kinds of theft to what we see here in this particular case grand scale embezzlement to time theft, loafing, taking office supplies