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Crowdfunding Master Salvador Briggman at 2019 Entrepreneur Empowerment Lunch in NJ

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Salvador Briggman is a blogger and entrepreneur, working to help people raise money and expand their businesses through crowdfunding avenues.

Through his various platforms such as his successful blog, CrowdCrux, his YouTube channel, podcast, books, and educational websites, Salvador has been able to teach creators and fellow entrepreneurs how to launch effective crowdfunding campaigns and attain success with their business ventures.

Salvador Briggman, Crowdfunding Master, published author, and influencer, will be presenting an exclusive workshop at 2019 Entrepreneur Empowerment Lunch in Jersey City on June 13

Register now to save your seat! https://www.2019-eel.com/

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Salvador Briggman, Crowdfunding Master, published author, and influencer

 

Taking a big leap

Salvador began his own entrepreneurial journey in 2012 while working on a logistic regression as part of a mini-eco thesis for his undergraduate degree. This project studied the different categories on the popular crowdfunding site, Kickstarter. His findings discovered that there was a remarkable difference in the launch strategies behind a creative project–such as film, theater, or dance–versus a physical product–such as games or technology. Salvador began sharing his findings from this project on his blog, CrowdCrux, and soon they caught on and his audience began to grow.

In 2014, Salvador was able to go full-time with his blog while also growing several other assets such as his sites KickstarterForum.org and CrowdfundingForum.com.

Passionate about crowdfunding, online businesses, and entrepreneurship, Salvador moved to New York City to continue his dream of expanding his business. In a YouTube video he shares the story of his first apartment in NYC and what life was like during that first year. While walking the same street he used to live on, Salvador reflects back on how he first came to NYC with only enough money to pay one month’s rent for a sublet in Harlem.

“I remember how my girlfriend at the time bought me a cake for my birthday. I was careful and make that cake last the entire week, because I couldn’t afford much food,” says Salvador. “I was living on the edge, but I was working hard and passionate about my dream.”

Now, a few years later, he is living in a great section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and has recently moderated a crowdfunding panel in Harlem on the very same block he used to live.

“It just goes to show that with time, persistence, and hard work you can change your circumstances.”

Helping others achieve their crowdfunding goals
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Salvador Briggman will give an exclusive workshop on Crowdfunding at 2019 Entrepreneur Empowerment Lunch

Salvador has always been eager to achieve success because he wants to help improve the lives of others around the world. By pursuing his passion in online businesses and crowdfunding, Salvador has been able to build various tools for other entrepreneurs to utilize in to grow their own ventures.

“I want to help them achieve their goals as well,” says Salvador. “If I help enough people achieve their goals, then I will achieve mine.”

When asked about his biggest struggle he has faced so far, he did not mention his hard times in NYC or other obstacles with achieving success. Instead his biggest struggle was there were so many hopeful entrepreneurs failing with their crowdfunding campaigns and he did not know how to best help them at the time. This need to help others achieve their own dreams is what leads Salvador to further pursue his study of crowdfunding campaigns and online businesses.

Through his study he realized that often times failure was due to lack of good preparation and a thorough pre-launch before the crowdfunding campaign. Many crowdfunding creators are not marketing experts and so they often do not have the necessary tools or skill sets create successful campaigns. Salvador however has worked hard to provide those tools and guidance. Through high quality educational material and helping creators one-on-one, Salvador has been able to help improve success rates for entrepreneurs in their crowdfunding campaigns.

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How to achieve success according to Salvador Briggman
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Learn from the best and work with Salvador Briggman to achieve your funding goals!

Sharing some insights he has learned throughout the years, Salvador gives his own definition of success. “First you have to educate yourself. You have to learn from success stories and also failures. Become the sponge and seek out as much information as you can.”

Living by this advice, Salvador is always learning new skill sets such as video editing, podcasting, social media marketing, and more. This willingness to always continue learning and evolving oneself is crucial to success as adaptability is an important skill in the ever-evolving world of business.

Additionally, Salvador advises that to make the most out of your venture you must have a product or service that has demand and meets a need in the market. Once this is achieved then the real work toward marketing and selling that product or service can begin.

Salvador Briggman, Crowdfunding Master, published author, and influencer, will be presenting an exclusive workshop at 2019 Entrepreneur Empowerment Lunch in Jersey City on June 13

Register now to save your seat! https://www.2019-eel.com/

Lastly, Salvador says, “You have to be willing to be a creator or business owner and not a consumer.”

It’s hard to pull out of the consumer mindset. We’re all consumers and it’s much easier to be a consumer than a producer. To be a producer you have to think like one. “Be willing to invest in your business, cultivate talent, and always be focused on the experience you can deliver to your customers,” Salvador says.

In such a competitive world, leveraging ones skills and optimizing ones ability to finance their ventures is invaluable. Crowdfunding offers creators and entrepreneurs a great way to raise money for their projects, and by learning how to build successful campaigns one can guarantee their efforts will not go to waste.

Salvador’s extensive knowledge and research into crowdfunding and business building has been able to help hundreds of thousands of people across the globe and he hopes to continue achieving success by helping others achieve their own success.

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Crowdfunding using social media to fund your startup

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Before crowdfunding became the ubiquitous start-up funding mechanism that it is today, most entrepreneurs were limited to reaching out to their friends and family when it came to raising money for a new venture or to grow an existing business. Thanks to the Internet, social media and the power and influence of the crowd, funding is more accessible to more people than at any time in the history of civilization. Welcome to the age of hyper-democratization of business creation.

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The truth about crowdfunding to access capital for small biz

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Many small business owners “in the fringe” are looking at crowdfunding as a way to access capital for their small businesses but not everything is as simple as making your plea online.

Posted by Dustin McManus on November 19, 2014 on the Small Business Majority Blog.

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Q: How do small business owners feel about access to capital?

A: Access to capital has been a persistent problem for entrepreneurs, particularly since the recession. While some parts of the business community have found it easier to secure capital, there are significant gaps in critical areas, such as minority and rural communities, as well as for groups of entrepreneurs like women and veterans. Our opinion polling found that an overwhelming 90% of small business owners nationwide agree that access to credit for a small business is a problem, with 61% agreeing it’s harder to get a loan now than it was before the 2008 recession.

Q: How does crowdfunding relate to access to capital?

A: Crowdfunding is a method of funding by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, typically online. Small businesses have seen the rapid growth of alternative sources of capital like crowdfunding, which leaves entrepreneurs at risk due to the lack of fair and clear regulations on this new venture. Policymakers must address the risk that comes with alternative sources of capital that balances very real opportunities without stifling this same innovation that has the potential to create more options and points of access to capital for small businesses.

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Q: How can lawmakers ensure fair regulation of crowdfunding to protect small businesses?

A: The JOBS Act of 2012 required the SEC to issue guidance on crowdfunding. Lawmakers should issue these final rules as quickly as possible, with no further delay, and strike the appropriate balance between oversight and opportunity.

Q: What else can be done to help small businesses access capital more easily?

A: One solution is to change outdated regulations that limit credit unions from meeting small business needs. Currently, there are federal regulations in place that bar credit unions from lending more than 12.25% of their assets to businesses, resulting in businesses belonging to these credit unions having $13 billion less in capital available to them. Bipartisan legislation in Congress would change this and allow credit unions to lend up to 27.5% of their assets, increasing options for small businesses and creating thousands of new jobs with no additional risk for taxpayers.

Q: What about efforts for entrepreneurs that are historically underserved in accessing capital like minorities and women?

A: Continuing to support and expand efforts by the SBA, USDA and other agencies to close gaps through loan guarantee programs will help serve minority, women, veteran and rural entrepreneurs in their attempts to access capital. With innovative new ways of streamlining and simplifying loan-making for small businesses and opening new avenues of capital for them being used, the existing needs of minority entrepreneurs will can be met in order for them to continue serving their function as job creators. Particularly for women, who account for only 16% of conventional small business loans, legislation such as the Women’s Small Business Ownership Act would address this gender gap in lending by expanding or improving SBA programs to reach more women seeking business loans.