Our New Subscriptions For Creators, Innovative Businesses & Startups
Moving forward isn’t always easy, but our team can help!
Here at Buoy Ventures, we help individuals and companies tackle everything from web & app development, to social media & content creation, to process mapping and fundraising. All of our clients are unique and require their own mix of services so because of this, we’ve split our services into three monthly subscription plans — a creator subscription, and innovative business subscription, and a startup subscription.
Why Subscriptions?
Our subscription model is the best way to work with us. We get started quickly to develop an in-depth working plan and establish a regular meeting cadence. We don’t like to waste time and enjoy making sure we structure things to work well together. By considering the ideal team structure, defining the scope of work, deliverable formats and timeline, we will help your team achieve your goals. In fact, you will see success within the first few weeks — the first round of deliverables is usually scheduled (and delivered!) the third week after kickoff.
Our subscription model also helps us stay flexible and adaptable to your team’s needs. Maybe you need more help with another aspect of your business or only need our help for a couple months — our subscription model works for every scenario!
How We Help Creators
Have you ever wondered where to start? How do you make your passion your career?
If you’re a creator, whether you’re a visual artist, youtuber, musician, photographer, filmmaker, or writer — you’re a creative individual that’s great at what you do! But the one thing you might need help with is running a business and turning your passion into a source of income.
Start by improving your online presence
For most creators this starts with a website — a central hub for communication between your work and your audience. Establishing a strong web presence that’s reflective of your personality and work is the first step to growing awareness and building your business.
To do this, we build simple & inexpensive websites using platforms like CloudCannon. Cloudcannon allows us to build eye-catching websites that are easy for you to edit on your own. We also build landing pages, squarespace or wix websites, and other engaging sites that are set up specifically for your needs. This way you can improve your website as inspiration strikes, which will keep your website up-to-date & reflective of your newest work.
Next, automate your social media marketing
The next step is getting eyes on your cool new website. With millions of websites though, this is a tricky task. We help by training you on how to better manage your social media channels. It’s important to post regularly and analyze which posts yield the most engagement — we use web apps like Buffer, Hootsuite, and other tools to do this.
Automation and analytic tools like this provide a new and smarter way to share what you want to share on social media. These scheduling tools act as your social media assistant — organizing, scheduling and tracking your posts.
Taking advantage of of tools like this helps creators reach their audience when they’re most active online. It also allows creators to get a better understanding of who’s engaging with their posts so they can better communicate with their followers.
Grow your business and improve your work
Once your web presence is established, it’s time to start making money!
As an artist you have a service and a product. You can be commissioned to make things and you have products you can sell. For example if you’re a photographer, you can be commissioned to travel to Denali to take photos for National Geographic (service). But you also have Lightroom Preset Packs available for sale (product). There are several ways to market both your services and products using emerging online marketplaces and here at Buoy Ventures, we help you do that!
Our team can help streamline your workflow, automate accounting, generate new revenue streams, and get you to the next level!
There are hundreds of new apps and technologies being developed every day and we take pride in our ability to find the perfect mix to promote your work and grow your audience.
Find out how to take advantage of sponsorships to generate recurring monthly revenue.
Our goal is always to save you money and provide new opportunities and revenue streams to make your passion your career. So far we’ve helped photographers, musicians, visual artists, authors, bloggers & vloggers utilize online marketplaces & advertising to support themselves on their rise to stardom. So if you’re the next Casey Neistat, Lilly Singh, Vsauce, Peter McKinnon, Binging with Babish, or woodworking legend Nick Offerman, send us a message and we will help!
How we help Innovative Businesses
Have you ever wondered how to scale your business? How can you hire and train new employees? Need help staying within budget? We can help.
Our innovative business clients range from educational companies, restaurants, recruiting firms,real estate companies, general contractors…and the list goes on. Though they’re all vastly different and in different verticals, they all have one thing in common → innovation.
All of our innovative businesses are disruptive in their industries. They all have a desire to be different and change the status quo of their vertical. And though being different is great, it’s also really hard!! If it’s never been done before there aren’t any resources to help figure it out. ‘How-to’ google searches or researching industry standards get you nowhere if it’s a new and truly innovative idea. Because of this, they need creative solutions to help them accomplish their tasks — and that’s where we come in!
Sometimes you need a nudge in the right direction — here’s how we help! 🐢
We implement creative solutions that work with all budgets, resources & timelines. If you’re an innovative business that needs creative solutions, we evaluate your business goals and identify emerging technologies that are flexible, require low overhead, and solve your most-pressing business problems as soon as possible.
We implement creative solutions using emerging technologies that are flexible, require low overhead, and solve your most-pressing business problems as soon as possible!
Our solutions are based around your needs. Whether that’s streamlining your operations, onboarding new employees, or evaluating new software for your team, we will help your team to pull it off!
Over the past month we’ve helped our clients build out low-cost solutions using GSuite Apps, integrated new services like Fundbox to help overcome occasional short-term cash flow gaps, set up Asana, Trello, Toggl, and other project management tools to help teams better communicate and accomplish work. We’ve also built custom websites, developed new marketing strategies, and designed new brands. For accounting and invoicing, we’ve helped companies integrate Quickbooks, Wave, Stripe & more!
By identifying the best technologies to use we’re able to streamline operations & reduce overhead expenditures.
There are hundreds of new apps and technologies being developed every day and we take pride in our ability to find the perfect mix for your team. Our goal is always to save you money and provide flexible solutions that can be adapted to scale with your growing business.
How We Help Startups
It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. — Scott Belsky
Here at Buoy Ventures, we’re obsessed with making ideas happen! There’s nothing better than working with a group of motivated entrepreneurs, excited about what the future holds. And when a team is in the early stages of growth, there are a lot of crucial steps that need to be taken to ensure a profitable future — and this is where we come in!
We help in a variety of ways at all stages of a startup’s lifecycle. Planning and consulting, funding and financing, software and app development, to ongoing operations and marketing automation when you’re ready to scale and grow — we do it all!
Our team is currently working with a variety of startups in different spaces and with varying team sizes and budgets. So regardless of where you’re at, if you have an idea and want to work with a team that will help you make it happen, reach out to us today and say hi! 👋
Interested in a subscription? What’s next?
So you might be wondering, what’s next after reaching out? Well the following steps will walk you through how we work with our customers. Typically we work in three stages to identify what you need help with, execute on those objectives, and then continue to support your team until you’re ready for us to hand things off. If you’re interested in our services, send us a message and we will schedule a kickoff call. Hope to hear from you soon! 🎉
Phase 1: Discovery
During the discovery phase, we will learn about your startup and meet with your team so we understand everyone's role. Then, we will develop a plan to get you to where you want to be including a specific timeline, deliverables, and documentation to make sure everything is transparent and everyone is on the same page before work begins.
Phase 2: Execution
During the execution phase, we will utilize best practices to design, develop, and implement modern technologies and SaaS tools to improve operations and help your team get to where you want to be, within your budget and timeline.
Phase 3: Sustaining
During the sustaining phase, we will work with you on a weekly or biweekly basis to ensure that your team is on track and continually improving by providing reporting, training, and coaching.
Interested in our Creator, Innovative Business or Startup subscription? Visit our website and get in touch with us today!
