Take Any Company Public: Software Companies Can Raise Capital Fast!
Feb 8th
Are you trying to raise capital for your start-up or corporation in expansion? Have you exhausted your traditional institutional sources and hedge fund contacts? Don’t lose hope just yet! First of all, take all those pamphlets and brochures from banks and other traditional lenders that are lying all over your desk and toss them in the trash…they are absolutely useless.
Banks don’t have your company’s best interest in mind as they are hardly even staying afloat in this economy. Today’s institutional financier isn’t qualified to run a bath let alone a bank. Don’t put your future in the untested hands of a 20 something knucklehead. After you’ve tossed all that useless info in the trash, clear your head and then look at your company and ask yourself a few tough questions: Is your company invest-able? Do you and your executive staff have a pedigree that investors deem as seasoned enough to take their money and make affective use of it and not lose it? What proprietary concepts/technology/patents do you have that give you a larger market share with the proper cash infusion? What is your current capital/debt situation?
If, after pondering these questions you’ve come to the conclusion you honestly, truly have something worth pursuing then the next step is to look at the reality that your company is worthy of a public offering. Stay away from Pink Sheets and be weary of reverse mergers and in reality your company won’t qualify for the NASDAQ so the quickest way to raise public capital is the OTCBB (over the counter bulletin boards).
OTCBB is an SEC regulated platform that has a solid investor following and market makers that can effectively promote your stock to rapidly raise capital. Don’t let these difficult economic times steal your dreams of corporate prosperity and personal growth.
If you have a solid business concept, there is a way to fund it. Look into the OTCBB, it’s your best bet for an inexpensive public offering with a direct path to long term funding.
Take Your Company Public, call Princeton Corporate Solutions at 267-233-0183Take Your Company Public the easy way!
Lanyards As A Marketing Tool
Feb 8th
Companies often end up allocating a lot of money on their promotion strategy. At various events, they use their merchandise to develop an atmosphere of belongingness for all the people present. There are many kinds of marketing materials but they all have the same objective of drawing people towards them and reinforcing the company’s brand. Using lanyards is one of the ways of achieving this.
T-shirts have always been a preferred option at business events as they are known to be very effective in popularising the company. But lanyards are not far behind and they are catching up fast. They attract a lot of attention from people, which gives exposure to the company’s logo and tagline, and that is why their use is increasing.
The use of lanyards increases manifold at corporate events like conferences, symposiums, and business exhibitions. The event can be made livelier be handing out lanyards to the participants. The lanyard may also carry the name of the event along with the business name, and thus act as a memorabilia for the recipients.
Lanyards can be an effective gift, and they are very affordable. You can buy them by dozens to give away for advertisement gifts. You can also have them imprinted with your name, a company or product name, logo, or a message. They can be used as give-away at company events.
Lanyards hardly cost anything to the organization and they are much cheaper than having t-shirts printed for the event. They are able to form a good image of the organization in front of customers and very often remind them about the company.
Apart from being very effective and cost-effective, lanyards also have other advantages as marketing tools. You can use bright colours on them without irking people’s eyes, which allows them a high exposure and attracts attention. As they can be made use of for many purposes like showing your ID cards, they have a high reusability value. In addition, people always figure out some personal use for a lanyard, and since it remains close to them, it is able to constantly remind them about your company.
Learn more about polo tees and uncover some of the most effective corporate gifts you can use for your business.
Take Your Business Public: Find A Consultant That Will Streamline The Process
Feb 8th
Going public, the ultimate in the evolution of companies who are seeking access to powerful global finance options for rapid expansion, deepening corporate roots and gaining industry prominence as a true powerhouse and player. The process of going public is technical yet pretty straight forward: business plan, Private Placement Memorandum, Direct Public Offering, Financial Audit, S-1 filing, SEC comments phase, SEC approval, FINRA approval, symbol and then you’re public.
Never price shop for consultants that take companies public and be weary of consultants that will start off a conversation by answering questions geared toward price and giving you quotes without understanding your business first; without the proper information a realistic quote can’t be given anyway.
When you’ve found a consultant that you’re comfortable with you’ll need to get a solid understanding of their full range of services. Of course you’ll want a consulting firm that will handle all of the above for your company but you’ll also need to consider the post IPO services. What happens after you’re public? The reality is, selling off stock in a rapid fashion to raise capital is the last thing you want to do, instead you need to approach your consultant and market maker on how to cross collateralize your securities to raise equity loan capital.
This can be done easily and quickly if you’ve brought on the right group of advisers to expand your company to the global public. When considering the idea of taking your company public it’s important to note that there are many ways to raise capital after you are public without selling off chunks of your company (consult your financial advisers for more information).
Next, when deciding on a consultant they should also have solid investor relationships to assist your company in raising the capital necessary to go public. A true turn-key consultant will have a database of investors seasoned in the process of pre-IPO finance and will often times jump at the chance of investing in the PPM and DPO phase at a discount for companies that are in the process of going public as this almost guarantees that the investor will double or triple their initial investment when the company achieves public status.
Out of the hundreds of consulting firms that offer the ‘take your company public’ service, there are only a dozen or so that actually offer the complete full range of services needed to successfully accomplish public status in a way that maintains investor confidence and corporate longevity. Do your research and find a firm that is well seasoned in the turbulent waters of this industry.
Foreign, Indian and Chinese Companies, Take Your Company Public, call Princeton Corporate Solutions at 267-233-0183Take Your Company Public the easy way!
Fundamentals OF B2B Latin America
Feb 8th
The definition of B2B Latin America is any business between two companies. This is an amazing opportunity to promote your offer to new markets as international companies are starting to take notice and heavily pursue this emergent market will very lucrative opportunities.
B2B is short for Business to Business transactions between a manufacturer and a wholesaler or a wholesaler and a retailer. Please note that this applies to products and services. B2B Latin America firms can be companies that want to export outside of the region or businesses that want to import into the region.
Brokerage services are a typical B2B Latin America companies. They are the links between potential buyers and sellers. The reason why they are so successful is that potential clients get lost in the endless global offers and are unable to successfully buy what they are looking for. Brokerage agents come into the picture as they have expertise in this field and can assist buyers in their quest to find what they are looking at the price they are willing to pay. Examples of brokerage services include transportation, real estate, logistics etc.
Agent services are widely used B2B Latin America services. Companies use “agents” to represent their company in regions of the world where they do not have offices. This is a cost effective way to increase their distribution channels with minimal risks.
B2B online marketplaces and portals are another B2B Latin America service that is used to find products and services. With the increase of global trade, it has never been easier to buy outside of your country. The advantages of this are that you may find what you are looking for at a much more competitive price. These websites connect buyers and sellers by allowing users to post trade leads. Premium memberships allow businesses to have their own virtual showroom on the marketplace so they can promote and sell their products and services. The premium memberships vary between a few hundred dollars and a few thousand dollars depending on the portal. This is a minimal cost to test new markets for any small to big company.
As you can clearly see, it is quite simple to do B2B Latin America. It is a low risk option to promote your products and services. The cost associated are also very low. This is definitely an ideal way to pursue new markets.
Joshua Adekane specializes in helping businesses trade with Latin America. To get instant access to business opportunities in this dynamic region, B2B Latin America.
Can Free Classifieds Really Help Your Business?
Feb 7th
Classified ads are a unique and innovative way to advertise, as opposed to conventional advertising, and are an essential medium for those who cannot afford the astronomical costs of more traditional forms of advertising. You can see classified advertising in newspapers, online and other periodicals, where often, pages are devoted just for the purpose of these ads. The greatest advantage of classified ads is that anyone is allowed to advertise via this medium, as opposed to the other types of advertising, where only companies or business can advertise. That means that anyone wanting to sell even a household item like a used car, beanbag or electronics can do so at minimum expense.
To combat the unaffordable costs of traditional advertising, newspapers developed a cheaper and easier way to put out the word. Classifieds are often small ads containing a few lines of text and contact details for more information about the product on sale. No space is wasted on illustrations, and abbreviations are commonly used to save space.
These ads are labeled as classifieds, because they appear in newspapers or online classified under different categories. This makes finding what you are looking for much easier, as you don’t have to sift through pages of tiny, cramped writing. It is also possible to advertise for free, by taking advantage of free classifieds. Papers like the Penny Saver are excellent ways to advertise at no cost.
Obviously, with the advent of the internet, classifieds have also found their way onto cyberspace. You can find millions of classified ads on the internet at the click of a button, and with the added convenience of a search engine, no product is unsearchable. Another great advantage of internet classifieds is that they are usually free, with the costs of running such websites offset by sponsors and paid advertising. Because they are free, and newspaper inches are not at a premium online, free online classifieds are longer and more informative than their printed counterparts. With this new phenomenon, websites like Craigslist and Kijiji have quickly expanded and list millions of classifieds from all over the world. Such websites get over 10 million hits daily. For more specified local classified ads, there are a multitude of smaller websites that advertise based on certain geographical areas.
Advertising online with free classifieds gives much greater exposure to the advertiser, and also makes life much easier for the consumers. Online free classifieds are quickly outrunning their print media counterparts, capturing a large chunk of the market share. As early as 2003, with online advertising in its infancy, newspaper classifieds had a market of around $15 billion, while online classifieds logged around $14.1 billion as per the findings of Classified Intelligence, a market researcher.
If any proof was required to the importance free classifieds play in our lives, the revenue from this industry should put all doubts to rest. From generic items to niche markets and even social and matrimonial classifieds, the $100 billion plus industry is only set to grow with each passing year.
Alex Wu operates a free classifieds website that lets people advertise, build groups, and connect. He hopes to create an active environment for businesses to place their jobs.
Attention Investors: Pre – IPO Investments Will Transform Your Life!
Feb 7th
Everyone has heard about a friend of a friend who knew a guy that had a sister who got involved with a company just before they went public, made a small seed investment and when the company went public she made millions.
Real Pre – Public investments in companies that are built to last with solid executive management and board of directors all wrapped in a industry that can still flourish in a recession are extremely difficult to find and impossible to be part of unless you are ‘in the know’, meaning you are the auditing or contract attorney for the company filing with the SEC, the accounting firm doing the third party audit, the consulting firm who is putting together the corporate strategies for the company or the investor relations industry that is gearing up for the publicity and promotions campaign to run in a post offering environment.
Typically the invitation to invest in a pre-public company comes in the form of a Direct Public Offering after the company is divided into shares with a private placement memorandum and before the third party audit and before and during the comments stage of the S1 filing. If you are fortunate enough to invest in a company with the above description you will most likely being offered deeply discounted stock (cheaper than what will be offered in the public market) which means you will (if the offering goes as planned) increase your initial investment amount by 200+ percent.
This is not at all a rare instance. Getting invited to invest in the pre-public, seed capital stage is actually quite simple if you know who to talk to. The best companies to become aligned with are ‘go public’ facilitation consultants and corporate turnaround consultants. These groups take companies public for a living and can usually plug you right in when the company is qualifying with the SEC and needs to have 40 investors on the book to qualify to go public (on the OTCBB). Simply contact the company and they will typically give you a quick information form to fill out to collect your name, phone, investment history and investment threshold.
It’s a fact, once you started investing in solid pre-IPO stock investments, you will dump your broker and never buy stock the traditional way again. Now get out there and experience the power of seed capital investment!
For Corporate Consulting or Invest Seed Capital In Pre-IPO Companies, call Princeton Corporate Solutions at 267-233-0183Take Your Company Public the easy way!
How to Save On Company Electric Bills
Feb 7th
Everyone these days is taking a second glance at their utility bills and starting to consider alternative options to lower them. Companies are trying to find ways to cut costs without cutting their staff, benefits, or pay packages. Energy bills have been rapidly increasing and causing even large companies to start thinking of ways to reduce them. If you are trying to save on your company electric bill, here are a few ideas to consider:
A typical building will use most of its energy for heating and cooling purposes. This usually accounts for about 45% of your bill. Since this is the biggest controlling factor, it is a good place to start.
If you can not afford a large scale building management system, try programmable thermostats. Programmable thermostats have been noted to save users up to 30% on their heating and cooling costs. These little devices allow you to program its setting to automatically adjust the temperature at certain times during the day and also when the outside temperature changes. To get the most bang for your buck, look for the Energy Star label on thermostats.
During the summer, you can make use of fans to keep the air flowing. This will make the room feel cooler and allow you to keep the thermostat at a slightly higher setting. Every degree you can keep the temperature setting higher in the summer and lower in the winter will add up to significant savings.
Lighting is another huge chunk of your energy bills, particularly in large business that use a lot of lights or offer 24 hour service. While CFL or LED bulbs are initially much higher in cost than traditional bulbs, they will last up to ten times longer and use 75% less energy! In the end, you will be more than getting your money back out of these light bulbs.
If you are serious about reducing your energy costs, you will need to reach for higher hanging fruit and you should hire a professional energy auditor or engineering firm. Your utility company may even provide a high level energy audit for no initial cost. An auditor or engineer will do a thorough inspection of your entire business and find ways to shrink your utility bills by eliminating unnecessary energy usage and waste. This could prove to be one of the most valuable steps you ever take to reducing your energy costs.
The energy cost center is the easiest to positively impact on any company’s P&L. So get started today!
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Take Your Business Public and Raise the Capital Your Need
Feb 7th
In these monetarily depressing times businesses are looking outside the box for a localized injection of economic stimulus. Banks are hording their bags of government bailout money while the small business owner is forced to fend for themselves. Nothing but doom and gloom seem to infest all aspects of present and near future financial forecasts.
There is, however, a fiscal niche being carved out as we speak by wealthy, aggressive and eager angel investors. Angel investors, private investors, micro ticket investment partnerships and other alternative financing groups are spearheading a global rally to buy into promising mid-size companies from all industry genres. The elements of a viable company prime for investment are solid and realistic growth potential, talented ‘who’s who’ executive staff with the right educational and professional pedigrees, minimal debt, a solid business plan laying out every minute intricacy that could affect growth, financial return and the exit strategy.
Another important element that is often overlooked but is a mandatory prerequisite for the SEC regulated exchange of cash for equity is a Private Placement Memorandum. A Private Placement Memorandum takes advantage of three powerful Regulation D Rule exemptions (Rule 504, Rule 505 and Rule 506) these are technical documents that spill the beans to the potential investor. In a PPM all the financial and industry risks are put on the table as well as stock prices, a breakdown of fund raising benchmarks and what the money will be used for etc.
A Private Placement Memorandum can be costly if you hire a law firm to custom author the package for you but there are consulting firms that will do this for as little as $4500.
If you are serious about raising capital for your company you need to add a Private Placement Memorandum to your list of necessary documents to hand off to the investors in order to get the cash you need in an expedient manner.
Want to find out more about Private Placement Memorandums, then visit Princeton Corporate Solutions site on how to choose the best Offering Memorandum for your needs.
Who Can Learn To Be A Speed Reader?
Feb 6th
The world is dominated by life-long learners: people who take the time to learn everything they can about their chosen field and everything they can about corresponding subjects. The 400 most successful businesspeople “the Forbes 400″ attribute most of their success to reading at least one non-fiction book a month. But when you have a family and work wants to dominate your time, carving out the time to read all those books can be really difficult. New books on every subject are being published every day. How is one supposed to keep up at work or school, spend time with family and find time to read ten to fifteen extra books a year?
You can’t add hours to your day, but you can reduce the time it takes to read those books. Learning to speed read is your answer. Cutting your reading time in half or even more would give you the ability to simply devour the books you always wanted to read, the books you know you should read, and the ones you need to read to get ahead.
You may have looked into 1-day or multiple day speed reading seminars or home courses before, only to be turned off by the price. A single one-day live speed reading seminar can set you back anywhere from $200 to $700 “per person” and the results are far from guaranteed. SpeedRead America offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee for everyone with a third grade or higher reading level.
With Speedread Americas course for the family, you can double your reading speed starting with our best-selling Speed Read in Only One Hour, which offers techniques to help you break bad habits learned when you were first learning to read. With our supplements for business professionals “Business Speed Reading Success, which focuses on Business and MBA professionals, and How To Get Things Accomplished In Less Time, which teaches smart time management” you will learn not only how to fly over the pages of corporate reports, you will also learn new techniques for note taking, concentration, recall and, with our Think Right course, you will also learn positive thinking exercises and stress relief to increase your reading speed even more.
The corporate edition of our Speed Read Complete course also includes add-ons useful for generating sales, and includes one of our first-ever courses written on the Law of Attraction. Our proven audio courses teach the busy professional how to sit back and relax.
Aimed for adults, corporate and business employees and MBA professionals, Speed Read Complete Corporate Edition offers not only the ability to speed read. Included in the Corporate Edition also is a time management course and a course to help you achieve your life goals by using the material from our Online Download Library of speed reading and self power improving publications.
The best part is that not only will you be able to double your reading speed after the first one-hour lesson, but we have also had mid-level managers that receive promotions as little as three weeks after starting our course!
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Fedor Emelianenko To Face Brett Rogers In Strikeforce Debut
Feb 6th
Fedor Emelianenko will make his debut for the Strikeforce MMA promotion this fall, facing undefeated prospect Brett Grim Rogers. Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker made the announcement at a Showtime promoted Fedor open workout in New York City. The promotion has yet to announce a date or a venue, though the event is expected to take place in November with San Jose or Fresno being likely locations given their strong support of previous Strikeforce events.
Fedor is considered by most experts to be the best heavyweight MMA fighter in the world, if not the best of all time. He snubbed the UFC following Afflictions exit from the MMA promotion business, choosing to sign with the up-and-coming Strikeforce promotion. Strikeforce agreed to co-promote with M1 Global, a Russian based promotion company owned by Fedor’s manager Vadim Finkelchtein and to allow the fighter a non-exclusive deal that would enable him to compete in Japan and Eastern Europe.
After signing with Strikeforce, Fedor gave his usual low key comment:
I am looking forward to going back to work and fighting at the highest level. STRIKEFORCE is a top fight promotion that houses some of the greatest fighters in the world. I am prepared to fight any of them.
Emelianenkos manager, Vadim Finkelchtein gave his thoughts:
I am very happy and excited about the upcoming collaboration with Strikeforce. We are very pleased that we found a reliable partner and I feel that Strikeforce and M-1 can support each other on many things. This will create big opportunities for both parties to test their fighters against worthy opponents.
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker added his thoughts:
We are extremely excited to have the opportunity to work with M-1 Global and Fedor. Fedor has been the reigning king of MMAs heavyweight division for quite some time now so being able to work with M-1 and Fedor will substantially increase the level of competition amongst the athletes in this weight class.
Fedor will put his 26 fight winning streak on the line against Brett Grim Rogers, who himself will enter the fray with an unblemished 10-0 record. The Minnesota native was originally being groomed by Elite XC as an opponent for street fighting phenom Kimbo Slice. After the demise of that promotion, Kimbo ended up on the UFC reality show The Ultimate Fighter while Rogers went to Strikeforce.
Fedor vs. Rogers Strikeforce betting lines have not been posted as of yet, but the Russian fighting god will clearly by a huge favorite. Considering that Emelianenko was a -500 choice at many books in the ill fated Affliction matchup against Josh Barnett(ranked the #2 heavyweight in the world at the time), he could be a -750 chalk or higher against the tough but inexperienced Rogers.
Ross Everett is a consulting handicapper for Sports-1 Sportsbook as well as a freelance writer specializing in fight sports, investing strategy and how to bet on NFL football. He is a well known authority on Internet sports betting, fine dining and fencing. He lives in Las Vegas with three Jack Russell Terriers and a pet wallaby.