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Travis Brodeen Equity Crowdfunding Advisor, Business Strategist

Austin, TX
Top Equity Crowdfunding Expert. Angel Funding Guidance. Entrepreneur. Startup Coach. Inc 500 21st Place Recipient. CTO with extensive Marketing, Sales and Growth Experience. Brought over 400,000 Investors to Equity Crowdfunding. Hold record for highest valuation pre-revenue company to raise $5M via crowdfunding. If crowdfunding is harder than you were expecting, let's chat. As an award-winning startup executive, Travis Brodeen is “The Entrepreneur's Coach.” He helps founders accelerate their growth and maximize their profit and impact through direct coaching and business consulting. Travis has helped hundreds of people scale including many to seven and eight figures using his proven methodology and helped hundreds of startups successfully…

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Good call with Travis. He steered me away from a wrong direction on funding for my company.

Source: Clarity Balaji Srinivasan Dec 23, 2019

Very thoughtful, creative and an absolute pleasure to talk with! Highly recommended!

Source: Clarity Matthew Hoskins Sep 17, 2015

Travis clearly has a lot of experience and was able to give me some very helpful advice in only 15 minutes.

Source: Clarity Brian Samson Sep 11, 2015

Travis is a great guy and a knowledgeable expert. His technical, growth and networking tips are invaluable, I would definitely recommend his services and consulting know-how.

Source: Clarity Mario Peshev Sep 9, 2015

Travis is knowledgeable and well informed about the subject matter and his help was appreciated.

Source: Clarity Adam Varcoe Sep 7, 2015

Great info, very helpful and has a lot of value to offer. Would recommend.

Source: Clarity Wolfgang Amadeus Sep 7, 2015

Spent ~45 minutes with Travis going over an upcoming proposal I've got to overhaul a client's tech systems/processes. I threw a lot at him -- questions about SSO, SEO, marketing automation, CRM, CMS, LMS... and he gave me solid, thoughtful information on all of them. I was left feeling more confident about my current abilities, while at the same time given a pile of great new directions to look in. He knows his stuff.

Source: Clarity Andrew Leonard Sep 6, 2015

Travis know what he's talking about and has really cool ideas about how to grow and improve your business - every minute of it was absolutely worth it.

Source: Clarity Ka kei Ho Sep 6, 2015

Travis was very helpful, enthusiastic, and personable. He listened to our startup's product description and gave thoughtful advice, confirming some of our beliefs and adding quantitative insights to metrics we plan to observe. I would definitely recommend speaking to Travis for technical consulting regarding your business.

Source: Clarity Rory Bokser Sep 5, 2015
Travis Brodeen, Equity Crowdfunding Advisor, Business Strategist answered:

Tell your COO they are causing problems with the older employees by not respecting their space AND not sticking to the agreed upon process for handling the situation. Remind her that if someone were to not follow an agreed upon process under her direction, she'd likely be extremely upset.

Tell her it's her problem to solve and you expect it sorted out immediately.

Done

Travis Brodeen, Equity Crowdfunding Advisor, Business Strategist answered:

We've recently raised $500k pre revenue on a startup.

There is not a 'right time' because every investment avenue, fund or 'investor' is very different. You need to understand what type of investors you're pursuing first and then determine what their requirements are. Only then will you know what the right time is.

If it helps, I like to describe it as a black box of confusion, with very little transparency and tons of time wasted going after the wrong people. The more you can understand what's out there, you can better tailor your pitch and timing around your options.

Travis Brodeen, Equity Crowdfunding Advisor, Business Strategist answered:

Switching from HubSpot to InfusionSoft is backtracking.

I wrote an article on some of the specific limitations we ran into with InfusionSoft (we ran about 40 million dollars through InfusionSoft over 4 years) that may help provide some guidance in your decision.

Top 10 InfusionSoft Problems
http://envoken.com/marketing/top-10-infusionsoft-problems-infusionsoft-wont-tell-you-about/

Travis Brodeen, Equity Crowdfunding Advisor, Business Strategist answered:

Facebook has a feature for local search, it's AMAZING.

You need to ensure your facebook page is configured as a local business. Make sure to enter your address.

Once you have the address plugged in, you can create a local campaign to drive traffic to your website.

With a simple ad, I pay roughly 15 cents per click from my facebook ads that are directly related to my business.

It couldn't be easier.

From all the options out there, start here -- it has the biggest impact and simultaneously the lowest price right now.

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