Today we are joined by Albany Farms CEO Bill Saller. Bill joins us to talk about how to start a new business successfully. He walks through areas where you can cut costs and create savings and how to push through and be tenacious when times are tough at the beginning. Bill gives some excellent tips about bootstrapping your business from the start, how to manage marketing spending, and when to expand your team. If you are an individual starting a business, this episode is full of golden tips! 

IN THIS EPISODE:

• [8:20] What are the three most successful things about starting a business?
• [10:40] How do you build a bit of a mouse trap?
• [14:07] How can you be tenacious and push through the difficulties of starting a business?
• [19:04] Tips for bootstrapping your business at the start.
• [23:26] How does Bill feel about bootstrapping when it comes to marketing? 
• [26:00] At what point do you look to expand your team, and what does that look like? 
• [28:23] What tips would Bill share with founders starting to sell their products? 
• [34:15] What’s the story behind Legal Stepz? Why is it the best?

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• There is always a way to get creative and figure out ways to cut corners when starting the beginning of a business. Who can you bring on to help with the business that wants to invest or simply be a part of the company? Legal Stepz is an excellent entrepreneur step to success when setting up the company. 
• Start small with your business, knowing that you will grow. Give yourself time, sustainably launch your company, and find your customer base organically. 
• Reviews are KEY when launching a business. Reviews are more important today than good reviews. 

BIO:

Everything we do is about you. From chefs who create exciting new flavors to our noodle engineers that bring the BEST to ramen lovers everywhere. The days of ramen just being for college students are over. We embrace everyone in the ramen universe! We give you the fuel from the plants and the sun. Our noodle-obsessed engineers and chefs turn it into an easy on-the-go meal at an affordable price.

Providing Safe Quality Food to the ramen universe. Albany Farms maintains a food safety culture and continually improves our management system.  We are 100% committed to complying with FDA and customer requirements.

We would love to take you on this journey with us.  Albany Farms is committed to bringing America’s favorite meal, ramen noodles, to your dinner table.  We proudly label our ramen noodles as MADE IN THE USA!! This means the WHEAT grown by our very own hard-working farmers, is transformed into steamy bowls of delicious noodles to satisfy ramen lovers far and wide.

What’s next in the Albany Farms journey?  In addition to the BEST ramen noodles, we will be making our own flour. If you like our ramen noodles, just wait; our Albany Farms flour will come to you from local wheat farmers and will be seen on shelves soon.

LINKS MENTIONED:

Legal Stepz Website

Albany Farms Website

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