Starting a business can be a daunting process at best. From business planning, through the right business plan to help you secure funding, through your information technology needs, web presence and marketing campaign - indeed, right up to deciding what to stock on the proverbial shelves - the procedures are often long and complicated. You may have neither the time nor the expertise to manage all of it (which, strictly speaking, is not part of running your busines) when all you want is to get your business going.

That's where Neural Tornado can help.

All you have to do is come to us with your idea and we will help you create the business plan, secure funding, establish your IT needs, build your website, and market your company and its product. All of it. All of it for a fraction of the amount you'd spend if you had to engage the services of several companies.

SCENARIO

Consider this scenario: Two guys (or gals) want to start a company that retrofits older homes with LEEDS certified technology. One of them is an engineer, the other does custom renovations. Great. Great idea, and the principals are even qualified to start this kind of company because they have the right training and experience. There's an exellent chance their company will be profitable - if they can get it off the ground. But they've run into three stumbling blocks: 1. How to organize their ideas into a business plan, with mission statement and objectives, that they can present to the bank or investors. 2. How to set up their office technology to manage customers, products, accounting, employees. 3. How to establish an effective Internet presence and market themselves, both online and offline. They have already approached a business planning firm and gotten a price quote for developing a business plan: $6,500. They have approached an IT systems company and gotten a price quote: $7,200. They have approached a web design company that also handles SEO, SMO and other marketing practices and gotten a quote: $5,800, then $900/month for search engine positioning and social media optimization, with a minimum six-month commitment. At this point they would have coughed up $19,500 before making even a single sale. Moreover, the entire process, from business planning through marketing, would have remained mysterious.

Then they approached Neural Tornado. Total cost: $13,000, including the hardware for their IT needs. Why one third less expensive than everyone else? First, because we deliberately keep our prices low, both because we understand a new business's budget constraints, and because in this new economy, we are realists: you can afford what you can afford and it's as plain as that. Second, since the complete business development was handled by a single company (Neural Tornado), we were able to communicate between the business planners, the website designers, and the marketers. This meant a huge savings in time and effort because the assigned members of our team were all working on a single concept and project. There was no need for the web developer, for example, to read through the business plan for key phrases and ideas as they built the website, or the marketers as they prepared the marketing angle - they were already in at the beginning of the development process. But third and not least, this also cut down radically on the time elapsed before the company could open its doors for business, because business plan, IT needs, website, and marketing, all happened simultaneously (not one after the other).

SHORT LIST OF SERVICES

1. Corporate Structure: From Conception to Operation

• Making Your Business Idea Operational: Idea-to-Business Plan
• Business Plan Creation
• Market Research & Marketing Strategies
• Internal Corporate Architecture—the functional modules of the business
• Incorporation & Taxation

2. Capital: Loans, Grants, Investment

• Research Grant Opportunities
• Preparing & Managing Grant Applications
• Research Loan Opportunities
• Preparing & Managing Loan Applications
• Pitching to Investors & Loan Agencies on the Business Owner’s Behalf

3. Information Technology Needs

• Intranet Hardware
• Associated Software
• Remote Desktop and Terminal Access
• Surveillance Systems

 4. Website & Online Presence

• Website Design
• SEO, SMO
• E-Commerce, Blogging, Showcase
• Content Management Systems

5. Marketing

• Online Marketing
• Offline Marketing
• Complete Media Package

6. Graphics and Marketability

• Logo and Business Identity
• Photography
• Graphics Products

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