Author: mikelebus

If you need some help launching your startup, check out this awesome infographic for a step-by-step roadmap on how to go from idea to successful business.

This infographic explains each component of an elevator pitch to ensure you hit the highs and provide all the necessary information.

What’s your top tip for entrepreneurs pitching to investors?

Setting up a blog, creating a substantial amount of content, and being recognized as a credible and reliable resource for your audience is, without question, more time-consuming than traditional advertising. However, this infographic shows why the benefits of content marketing are well worth the time and effort.

How effective have you found content marketing?

This infographic shows some of the marketing tools that you may want to take into consideration when you start thinking about your company’s marketing strategy for 2015.

What’s your main marketing strategy for the new year?

This infographic shows the power of social media and what social media marketing can do for your business.

What’s been your business’ most successful social media strategy?

Come on be honest – what’s your biggest timewaster at work?

Last year VC firms invested $11 billion in the software sector, according to a report from advisory firm PwC.  Check out this chart to see the other top sectors where venture capitalists were putting their cash.

Your website’s landing page is one of the most important aspects of online marketing.  A landing page is the first page a visitor sees, and affects the decision of users, whether to go ahead with the purchase or not.  To have a high converting landing page, you should keep testing your page until you find the content, layout and design that give the best results.

This infographic was compiled from research by SCORE to determine if online advertising in the form of banner advertisements, paid social media promotions and pay-per-click (PPC) ads have offered significant value to small businesses and if they will continue to do so. It gives stats on how many small businesses currently use this marketing technique, how much they spend on online advertising, average click-through rates and the typical return on investment for ads placed on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. read more

CB Insights, in conjunction with Silicon Valley Bank and the Angel Resource Institute, recently released the 2013 year-end Halo Report. The full 27-page angel investing report includes breakdowns by industry and geography as well as valuation trends. In addition, the report includes a ranked list of the top 10 most active angel groups in 2013.

To download the entire 27-page 2013 year-end Halo Report, login here. The underlying angel investment data is also available and proprietary to CB Insights. (note: the report is available to anyone with a free CB Insights login) read more

This infographic charts the evolution of 18 big-company logos, beginning with Coca-Cola in 1886 and Pepsi a decade later, and continuing through the Yahoos and Googles of the late 20th century.

With well over 1.2 billion Facebook users, to make sure your marketing efforts are effective and efficient.  Here are a few key tips to master the basics of Facebook marketing…

This infographic breaks down the way an entrepreneur goes from idea generation through to initial public offering.