Your Big Idea: Forge Pitch Night!
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Forge for our first ever pitch night! We love hearing about the exciting businesses that are growing out of the Magic City! Your Big Idea was a huge success and we are excited to start planning the next one. If you weren't able...
Social Media: A Plan Before the Posts
Social Media posting... We all know we need to be doing it. And so we post. But is your posting effective? Is anyone seeing your posts? Is the audience you are reaching the audience that can actually be converted to customers? There is so much more to posting on...
Protecting Your Trademark (Even If You Haven’t Registered Them)
Josh Andrew with Gatehouse Law returned to Forge with a topic that is near and dear to all Entrepreneurs and Small Business owners - or at least it should be! What do you need to know about your business's trademark? You have legally registered your business, isn't...
Managing a global business from Birmingham? Thanks to Forge, it’s easy!
We wanted to highlight this article written by James Ozment for Bham Now! Learn more about Race Quest and why their co-founder decided to base this global business out of Forge. RaceQuest orients itself around one idea: “train and race with the pros.” I...
The Journey of Urban Cookhouse and Farm Bowl + Juice Co.
For our fourth Business Breakthrough Session, we had the pleasure of learning from Andrea Snyder, Founder of Urban Cookhouse and Farm Bowl + Juice Co. Urban Cookhouse is known for their fresh, locally sourced food and amazing customer service. Farm Bowl + Juice Co. is...
Spring Is Here: 3 Tips to Prepare for Brand Growth
Jacqueline Jones is a well-loved Forge member and today we're reposting this valuable post from her personal blog! Jacqui started her company One Degree MMM which focuses on marketing and branding for small businesses and organizations. We loved this timely post as we...
10 Essential Mobile Apps For Your Business
If you’re an entrepreneur, freelancer, or small business owner, you know the struggle of keeping everything organized. With so many tasks to balance, business-owners are constantly searching for ways to save time and make their life easier. There are thousands of...
How to Make Your Contracts Enforceable
Josh Andrews of Gatehouse Law returned to Forge to teach his third Lunch & Learn focusing on the relationship between small business and legal. This time he focused on contracts and how we can enforce them- even if they aren't signed! Let's start...
Feeding Your Sales Funnel
We all know what a sales funnel is but we don't always know how to best implement it. Will Yarbrough of Fleetio came to Forge to teach us more about structuring your specific sales funnel and the model that Fleetio has found success with. We will hit the high points...
Effective Sales Funnels
Corbitt Chandler of Apex Current taught our first session of March Sales Funnel Madness at Forge! Apex Current focuses on performance-driven Facebook ads so Corbitt is certainly knowledgeable about how to establish an effective sales funnel for different types of...
LinkedIn for Entrepreneurs
Do you ever feel confused by LinkedIn? Do you wonder if you're utilizing LinkedIn in the best way possible? Donna Gilliland, Founder of MOSTraining Inc. recently taught us the basics of how to best use LinkedIn. LinkedIn has over 500 million users! It...
Coming Soon: March Sales Funnel Madness!
In March Forge is focusing on the importance of sales funnels! Sales funnels illustrate the journey that your prospective customers go through on their way to buying your service or product. You have to take people through the funnel journey in order to get a new...