The New Year is almost here! With 2015 coming to a close and 2016 right around the corner, it's important to understand the areas that may help drive sales and ways that you, as a business owner, can help customers more easily find your products and services online.
PayPal is excited to be hosting a Twitter Chat with industry thought leaders who will participate in a real-time discussion around key steps to share their opinions and personal insights about things that you as a business owner can do to help improve your online and mobile presence in the coming year.
This event will feature the below industry thought leaders who will provide their own insights and tips throughout the chat. All insights and opinions will be those of the influencers and not PayPal.
Join the December 16th Twitter chat - “Trends to Watch in 2016”- during the hours of 12:00-1:00pm PST by following
#BizTipsChat.
PARTICIPATING EXPERTS
Barry Moltz, Small BusinessSpeaker and Author
Barry Moltz gets business owners growing again by unlocking their long forgotten potential. With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures as well as consulting countless other entrepreneurs, Barry has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward. Barry applies simple, strategic steps to facilitate change.
Evan Carmichael, Entrepreneurial Expert
Evan Carmichael #Believe(s) in entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a VC helping raise $500k to $15mil. He now runs EvanCarmichael.com, a popular website for entrepreneurs. He breathes and bleeds entrepreneurship. He's obsessed. Aiming to help 1 billion entrepreneurs. Change the world. He has set 2 world records, uses a stand-up desk, rides a Vespa, raises funds for Kiva, wears 5-toe shoes and created Entrepreneur trading cards. He speaks globally but Toronto (#EntCity) is home. He loves being married, his son, salsa dancing, DJing, League of Legends, and the Toronto Blue Jays.
Sandy Abrams, Entrepreneur and Small Business Author
Sandy Abrams had an “Ah-ha” moment for a beauty product and turned the idea into a multi-million dollar business. A self-taught entrepreneur without any business background, Sandy inspires others that they too are qualified to join the ranks of every other entrepreneur who started with only a dream. After years of sweat equity building her business, she turned her naiveté into success, experience and savvy. She guides and inspires others with her book titled Your Idea, Inc. and is a featured blogger for HuffPost SmBiz vertical, where she writes about entrepreneurial life and profiles #SmBiz success stories. Sandy volunteers as a mentor with @NFTE GreaterLA. (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship).
Troy Cox, Senior Director of Product, Bigcommerce
Troy Cox is the senior director of product for Bigcommerce where he helps direct product strategy and management. Dedicated to the pursuit of the ultimate customer experience, he spends his days bringing together engineers, designers and insights from merchants and shoppers to build new and industry-leading features on the Bigcommerce platform. Troy was instrumental in establishing product management processes at the company and brings more than 15 years of experience in product strategy, engineering, sales and operations from a variety of emerging technology companies.