ENTREPRENEURS WANTED

I need a Fractional COO who can start this Thursday, July 22nd!

Hi, I’m Bruce, Founder of App Builder U, College Discount App, and College Discount Cards.

My companies are blowing up right now and I’m getting a huge spike in orders from colleges. It’s challenging to fill back-orders let alone onboard new colleges whose custom mobile apps need to be built from start to finish.

My problems I need YOU to solve:

• Take everything off my plate (like project management and overseeing design, sales, marketing, and admin) so that my main focus can be signing up more colleges who pay for my services.

• Help me build a more efficient and replicable ‘virtual assembly line’ and workflow process so that I can successfully execute on-time the promises I have made to my clients

• Strategic Growth: long-term planning including a new silo for a monthly subscription based model for participating businesses who advertise in the app

My clients are Student Government Associations at colleges and universities. Our suite of services solves many problems such as communication with their student body while providing students with amazing, money saving discounts locally, nationwide, and online.

I need you to

First 30 Days/Problems that need to be solved:

• Now what? Ok great, I got a $10k contract to build a mobile app for ABC Student Government. I want to move on to the next sales, but wait - I gotta do all the work and customer service? I can’t scale this way…

• Assembly Line: Once a campuses is onboarded, there are 2 main elements. Graphic Design, Sales, and App Development (no code, drag and drop so it’s not an IT position). I’ve got a few resources I use for creative design, and they’re amazing. But the content needs to be filled in using proper images, giving different looks, and a whole lot of features like these that I don’t have time to manage.

• Biggest Bottleneck: Lacking CRM Process, need to hire an Inside Sales professional, Marketing Coordinator, and Account Manager (all can be part-time, 20-30 hours/week). The most important of these is the Account Executive who cold calls local businesses around college campuses to negotiate deals with the local businesses so that students can enjoy discounts! This is no easy task, and usually takes 8 touches to close a deal because it’s hard to get a hold of the GM or owner of a coffee shop or restaurant owner. To compliment the phone and e-mail efforts, I’m looking to pilot hiring student ‘brand ambassadors’ who can go in to the businesses in-person, and upsell them on a monthly subscription based premium service.

Tying our software programs and plugging them into one workflow! We use a few software programs like HubSpot, BombBomb, Mailchimp, Segment, Zapier. Sadly, I’m still trying to figure out how to segment leads who come into my websites into Hubspot, have them go into a MailChimp nurture email campaign, and automatically assigning and performing tasks to stay in front of those warm leads. I’m missing so many business opportunities because I sent an initial e-mail but didn’t have a proper follow-up cadence. Otherwise, I’d be having a lot more colleges with pop up tents that look like this:

Here’s a quick explainer video of how App Builder U works - it’s fun and engaging!

Hopefully this is you right now: “Bruce - this all sounds very exciting and fascinating! I would love the opportunity to help you scale your business by taking everything off your plate besides sales,. I want to make sure the focus is the customer and delivering an excellent service and executing on what you say you’re going to do in your sales presentations. I’ll help create a process for the assembly line and sales. I’ll help with hiring and managing an inside sales guy to call the local businesses, as well as oversee a customer success specialist who will be a dedicated account manager and provided exceptional customer support and service. Don’t worry Bruce - I got this. I can take this off your shoulders so you can go sign up 10 more campuses by August 30th!

If so, please fill out this form and let’s connect. I need someone to start this week because most academic calendars begin in one month, and they all want to launch their apps and student discounts programs during welcome week!