BOI strategy 2013

 

2013 BOI Progress Strategy - DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT!

 

• Killer website
• Business Owner Philosophy
• Video interviews (duh!)
• Delicious links page
• Blog from Exec Dir, Indy.gov, Chamber, TechPoint, etc. etc. 
• Board package wiki with training
• Board member on-boarding & committee appointments 
• Board committees
• Services: Curriculum, Counseling, Community 
• Coordination with other agencies,
• Programs, Certifications 
• Mission 
• Chamber Liaison 
• Program  
• HR
• Job profiles, Reviews
• Coordination with Chamber 
• Fund raising
• Exec & SBA Liaison 
• Best practices and metrics 
• Budget and Finance 
• Grant Admin/Oversite  
• Marketing
• Website  
• Initiatives / How to measure progress?
• Best practices of other SBA funded orgs
• Market penetration: how many new businesses touched vs total new businesses 
• Marshaling More Mentors - Goal: 100 Trainers/Leaders by EOY 2013
• Marketing initiatives (I already did some stuff here.)
• Web Site overhaul 
• IBJ, Indy Star, Recorder, Chamber newsletter regular event announcements - annual contract for ad placement
• Indy Industry Councils where peer-group mentoring can be promoted
• Restaurants
• Tech
• Retail
• Services
• Art
• Manufacturing 
• International 
• Franchise 
• EMBARC-Indy Initiative
• EMBARC award 
• Entrepreneur Center 
• Churches, YMCA, Community Center signage, articles, 
• Billboards
• Co-Working Facility sponsorship: Region Tower (work through/with Developer Town, Michael Cloran)
• FastTrack Juggernaut
• CEU certification for current business leaders
• Media liaisons: TV, Radio, Social
• Chamber message integration
• University message integration 
• Junior Achievement integration
• Scouting Entrepreneurship badge
• NSBA, NFIB, National Chamber, NAWBO integration 
• IPS & Township & Charter & Private Schools; speakers bureau for Career days that include Entrepreneurship
• Sponsor Science Fairs, robotics competition, Maker Fairs (with Conner Prairie, etc.)
• PR, Printing, Adv, Media org integration
• BOI Receptions, Annual Entrepreneurship Conference, etc.
• Naional Speakers like this guy 
• Government communication leverage
• City Offices
• Township offices 
• Indy.gov website: EMBARC INDY - quick steps to starting a business in Indianapolis
• Real Estate Developers buy-in to quick leases on remnant spaces
• License branches
• Schools newsletters to reach students and parents
• BOI agenda for Chamber lobbying efforts 
• Revised Curriculum
• Working backward from the Balance Sheet
• Recruit many more presenters
• Increased value for courses (Scott's ideas)
• Six Degrees of Greg Ballard theme 
• Target current businesses for training
• Operations
• Try - Measure - Change methodology
• Mistakes seminar 
• Hanging Party 
• OMG THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO  !!!