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Start the New Year right in preparing yourself for your 2019 fundraising plans. As a way to jumpstart that effort, Ben Franklin Venture Investment Forum is hosting its next Capital Call webinar meetup on February 13, 2019. Our guest speaker this time around is Jayson Tischler, Principal at Rittenhouse Ventures. Rittenhouse Ventures is a Philadelphia-based, emerging-growth venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs to deliver right-sized investments, deep expertise, regional relationships, and successful financial outcomes.

Opportunity is Knocking: National Program Provides Tax Incentives for Patient, Private Capital in Low-Income Communities!

Federal Opportunity Zones are a new community development program established by Congress in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to encourage long-term investments in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide.

Ben Franklin Venture Investment Forum has scheduled its next quarterly, web-enabled meetup that connects entrepreneurs to active early stage investors in the region.

Keywords are a critical part of Digital Marketing. Keywords make your product, service and content findable, improve visibility and drive traffic. Keywords are also an important component in digital advertising and finding the right audience.  

Your sales productivity improves dramatically when marketing can deliver a steady supply of qualified leads to their sales counterparts. Like many areas of direct marketing, lead generation and management is more of a science than an art.  If you follow the processes and best practices of B2B lead generation today, you can dramatically improve sales results. 

Need to determine the health of your business at a moment’s notice? That’s the end result when you use QuickBooks Online. With QuickBooks Online, you will have the ability to generate accurate financial reports to help you evaluate your business.

What you need to know to succeed in the upcoming new purchasing cycle

Our business lives are full of noise and distractions.  Whether you are trying to capture the attention of a funding source for your company or a potential customer, you have to do so quickly and in a compelling way.  A brief, cogent elevator pitch is a vitally important tool in your brand’s toolkit.  

As the labor market tightens and more Baby Boomers retire, an internship program can be one of the best solutions for bringing on new talent—especially in small-to-medium-sized organizations.  Like every new venture, it’s crucial to have a plan; otherwise implementing an internship program can seem quite daunting.

Learn how the Innovation Partnership (IPart) assists small business clients in developing competitive grant proposals.  Among its services are a pre-proposal concept and technical reviews as well as opportunities for funding to assist in paying some of the costs of a Preferred SBIR/STTR Grant-writing assistance professional.  These experts can help you make your funding proposal be as compelling as possible.