Trade Credit is one of the most popular forms of credit used by business in the United States. Not only can you use trade credit to ease cash flow and grow your business, but you can also use it to establish your business credit reports and scores.
During this show you will discover:
What business credit is how it works, and how it can help you get large amounts of capital for your business
How to use business credit to more than DOUBLE your access to credit… and how to get credit with limits 10-100 times higher than consumer credit
How to get business credit without a personal credit check, with no personal credit reporting, and without a personal guarantee
How to get $40,000 limit business credit cards for your business using your EIN and not your SSN for approval
How your business credit effects the amount of funding you may get and the terms you will pay
What trade credit is, how it works, and how you can use it to build your corporate credit profile and score… without a personal credit check
How to ease cash flow by getting Net 30 and Net 60 credit with no personal credit check or guarantee
The 5 BEST vendors to get credit with who report your credit to the business credit reporting agencies… and how to get approved for each vendor without a personal credit check
The one thing you MUST do with your vendor credit to ensure you have a HIGH business credit score
What steps to take to get approved for vendor credit… and how to continue building your business credit to get revolving store, fleet, and cash credit and auto vehicle financing
And much more…
During this show, you will learn how Net 30 accounts work, what trade credit really is, and how to use it to fund your business while building your business credit.
Molly Montgomery is the founder of Ascension, a startup advisory firm that helps high performing entrepreneurs and visionary leaders grow or scale their company with confidence. Molly is a Certified Public Accountant in Arizona and Virginia. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Radford University and a Masters Degree in Taxation from Arizona State University. Prior to starting Ascension, she acquired more than 13 years of career capital in public accounting, providing audit, tax and corporate advisory services to companies of all sizes and in various stages of growth. She is currently the Chair-Elect of the Arizona Society of CPAs, and is actively involved within the startup ecosystem in Arizona and Southern California.
During This Show We Discuss…
What entrepreneurs should be doing from the very beginning of starting their business if your trying to accomplish massive growth
The important essentials to growing and scaling your business
Some unique needs of a growing company that are often not discovered early enough, causing a major impact on your companys future
What you should know about proper strategic planning
The most important things to know when starting and growing a business
The type of accounting support a startup should have
The types of systems a business should have to be successful
The type of financials business owners should be familiar with
The most essential KPIs to keep up with
Compliance procedures you should have
And much more...
During this show you will discover how to get setup with Dun & Bradstreet, get your D-U-N-S number at no cost, and how to establish a high Paydex score quickly and without a lot of effort.
You will learn about 3 easy and effective ways to establish your initial business credit!
You will uncover:
Who Dun & Bradstreet really is, their history, and what you need to know about building business credit with them for your EIN that is not linked to your SSN
2 things you must to BEFORE you get setup with D&B to ensure the process goes smoothly
How to search your business with D&B at no cost to see if they know about you and your business now… and see how you can be issues a very low credit score if they do know you exist but have no credit
How to get your D-U-N-S number with D&B at no cost… and a hack to get it quickly
A walk through the process of getting your D-U-N-S… so you will know exactly what to expect along the way
What you should know about D&Bs Credit Builder program… how it benefits you, and what small print you should know about
Which accounts and reporting agencies you can add new credit with through the D&B Credit Builder… and which ones you cannot
How to get $150000 in unsecured credit even as a startup… and how this funding program helps you build your business credit by giving you 5 reported trade lines
How to establish your initial credit profile and Paydex score with D&B using vendor accounts… and 5 vendors you can get approved with NOW to get started
10 things you must do before applying for credit or loans to have the best chance of getting approved
How D&Bs Paydex business credit score works… and the 3 things you need to do to have an excellent score
How to get an excellent Paydex score within 60 days or less… and 2 things to know to EASILY maintain a good score through the life of your business
And much more...
During this show we will dive in and decode everything you need to know to get your D-U-N-S number with Dun & Bradstreet for free, and 3 ways to build your initial business credit so you can get high-limit revolving store, cash, and fleet accounts without a personal guarantee or credit check.
Jim Palmer is a marketing expert and in demand small business coach. He is the founder of the Dream Business Academy and Dream Business Mastermind and Coaching Program. Jim is the host of Dream Business Coach TV and the Dream Business Radio Podcast. Jim is a serial entrepreneur and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, No Hassle Social Media, Concierge Print and Mail on Demand, Success Advantage Publishing, Custom Article Generator - just to name a few!
Jim is also the acclaimed author of Just Say Yes – Create Your Dream Business and Live Your Dream Lifestyle; DECIDE – The Ultimate Success Trigger, Stop Waiting For it to Get Easier, The Fastest Way to Higher Profits, Stick Like Glue, It is Okay to be Scared, But Never Give Up and The Magic of Newsletter Marketing.
During This Show We Discuss…
How Jim made the big leap to sell his home and live on a yacht
How a business owner learns to just say yes even when they are not ready
How just saying yes can propel someone to achieve more
The “What ifs” holding most entrepreneurs back from achieving higher levels of success
The steps to take to step outside your comfort zone
How getting rid of this “what if” attitude helps someone grow their business faster?
The keys that are most important to create a dream business
How to go about living life on your own terms, living your dream lifestyle
Keys to condition your midst for success
Insider secrets to help you make difficult decisions
The secret to becoming immune to criticism
The Two F Words and what you can learn from them both
How acting like a child can help you grow your business
How an entrepreneur knows whether or not they are already going big, bold and fast enough now
What you should know about Dream Business Academy
And much more...
Joe Valley is an equity partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, and has been with the firm since 2012. Joining after selling his own eCommerce business through Quiet Light Brokerage, Joe has personally closed over $35,000,000 in total transactions and is now the Director of Brokerage Services. Joe understands the importance of valuation and exit planning.
Joe has expertise advising and brokering in all web based niches, including SaaS, eCommerce, Amazon FBA, Affiliate, and many others. Joe recently wrote 10 Steps to Selling Your Amazon Business, and walks all web based business owners through the process of a business valuation, calculating potential taxes, listing the business for sale, all the way through to closing, training and transition. Recently featured on The Amazing Seller Podcast, Joe can lend his expertise, and advise other entrepreneurs who have built or bought a web based business and are considering an exit.
During This Show We Discuss…
What a website business broker does
Why someone would consider selling their website business
When should someone should consider selling their website business
What are the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make when they decide to sell their business
Things business owners can do, from inception, to have the best chance of getting the highest value when selling their business
How to figure out what your business is worth
How to get an affordable valuation done
Who the typical buyers of web based businesses are
What types of online businesses generally sell for higher multiples than others
How buyers usually obtain financing to buy a business
What factors lenders look at to lend money for a business purchase
Best tips for business buyers and sellers to get the best deal
And much more...
In this show, we will decode how you can get credit lines and cards for your business with the lowest rates, even lower than SBA. And, you will discover funding options that are available for startups, with bad personal credit, and other reasons where banks say “no”.
You will discover:
What true lines of credit are, how they work, and how they can give you the flexibility you want and need to grow your business
6 types of credit lines you can get at conventional banks… and the specific purposes for each so you’ll know which ones work best for you
How to get a credit line that is designed for seasonable businesses
2 types of credit lines for people in the contracting and construction business that can help you grow
A special type of credit line you can get when you have delays in your customers paying you
The fastest way to get a credit line up to $350,000 for your business with super-low interest rates
The exact underwriting criteria for conventional bank loans so you will know if you can get approved
How to get credit lines from private investors and funding sources when banks say “no”
How to get a $20,000 credit line with below-average credit… and get a loan at the same time
How to get a credit line with no personal credit qualifications with a rate or 2% or less
The best type of unsecured financing you can get… and how to secure revolving credit for 5 X what your highest credit limit is now and 5X what your bank might give you
How to get 3-5X times your highest credit limit in unsecured financing even with average credit
3 types of unsecured revolving credit that ANY business can get… regardless of collateral, cash flow, or personal credit qualify
During this show, we will map out 12 types of unsecured credit lines and cards you can get for your business. And, learn how to get this type of credit even when banks say “no way”.
Robert “Bobby” Klinck is an intellectual property attorney, who helps entrepreneurs, startups, and innovators harness the power of their intellectual property rights and reduce exposure to lawsuits or brand challenges in the marketplace.
Bobby prides himself on making the complex issues related to intellectual property understandable for non-lawyers. He has published two books about intellectual property law: The Entrepreneur’s IP Planning Playbook and Patent Litigation Primer. He is currently working on a more ambitious project – a book to provide entrepreneurs with an overview of how to craft an intellectual property strategy from start to finish. Bobby has his law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School.
During This Show We Discuss…
What intellectual property (IP) truly is
Understanding the 4 key pillars of IP
The types of risks entrepreneurs face with someone stealing their IP
Why entrepreneurs need an intellectual property plan
Some of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make regarding their intellectual property
Some of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make regarding their intellectual property issues that arise
Debunking myths about intellectual property that entrepreneurs believe
Why it’s important to get agreements in writing
Some of the written agreements that entrepreneurs should have
The steps a business owner should take to protect their IP
Some of the ongoing things business owners should do to manage their IP
The steps business owners should take to ensure their employees don’t take their clients and IP
What to do if someone steals your IP
How important having content copyrighted is
How important it is for a company to have trademarks
Some mistakes business owners make on social media that leave them legally exposed
The steps business owners should take to protect themselves when posting on social media
And much more...
Tristan White is Founder & CEO of The Physio Co, a unique healthcare business, that in 2014 ranked No. 1 on BRW’s list of Australia’s 50 Best Places to Work. Tristan is a qualified Physiotherapist from The University of Melbourne who started his career with a dream to become a Sports Physiotherapist and work with the mighty Richmond Tigers in the AFL. Over the following 12 months he created himself a job helping oldies in a few nursing homes across Melbourne. He loved it and very quickly had more aged care clients than he was able to treat himself. That’s when, in 2004, his new job became a business and The Physio Co was born. As the Physio Co (TPC) has grown, Tristan has obsessed over creating the best business he possibly can, he figured out a way to create a strong culture that not only worked at TPC but can be systemized and tailored to other businesses. His experiences have lead him to believe culture is everything.
During This Show We Discuss…
Why company culture is everything
What a good company culture really is
Some big companies that have awesome cultures now that you can model
Whether a good company culture is intentional, or if it just organically develops over time
How important making the right hiring decision is to to creating the right culture
Things to consider asking so you’re hiring the right people who fit into your desired culture
How a company creates a thriving company culture
The keys that have helped you keep Physico Co ranked as one of Australia’s 50 best place to work for 8
consecutive years
How important culture is to building a successful company
How to know what your employees really want
The best ways you’ve to motivate employees
The factors that are important for an employee to really love their job
How culture helps a company go from 20-100 employees
The 4 secrets to a world class culture
And much more...
Lucas Rockwood is a yoga teacher trainer, nutritional coach, writer, and serial entrepreneur. With a formal yoga training background in Hot Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Gravity Yoga, and the Yoga Trapeze, Lucas has studied with some of the most well-respected teachers on the planet. Lucas founded Absolute Yoga Academy in 2006, one of the top 10 yoga teacher training schools in the world with 2,000 certified teachers. He also founded YOGABODY, an internationally-renowned nutrition, education, and publishing organization serving 81 countries. Lucas is a highly-acclaimed writer, radio show host, TV personality, business consultant, weight loss expert, and health coach.
During This Show We Discuss…
The kinds of physical effects yoga have on the body
How breathing impacts blood PH in as little as 5-10 minutes
How breathing stimulates a sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system response very quickly
Why most people focus on oxygen when breathing practices are mostly about the manipulation of carbon dioxide
Breathing techniques to do before you start a session
A 5-minute walkthrough of breathing practices you can use throughout your day
The best time in a day to do yoga
How long a yoga session should last to be the most effective
The most-effective exercises to perform
The best pre-bed breathing techniques
How to find the right workout routine for you
How to do a "nostril check" to instantly determine if now is a good time for busy work, creative work, exercise, eating or sleep
The types of effects to yoga have on your ability to concentrate and perform at work
The best benefits for doing yoga
And much more...
During this show, you will discover the easiest way to build business credit that is linked to your EIN and not your SSN, and requires no personal guarantee or credit check for approval.
During this show you will discover:
3 essentials to check to ensure your business name alone won’t get you denied for financing and credit
The first 3 items to setup initially before you start applying for credit… and how to set each of them up the right way where you’ll get approved
A peak inside credit issuer and lender’s unpublished approval standards… learn their approval criteria so you’ll know you can get approved before you apply
The #1 reason that credit and loan applications get denied… and how easily make sure you qualify in 30 seconds
7 things you probably don’t know about virtual addresses… and how they can help increase credit approvals 30% or more
5 requirements the phone number you put on your application must meet to get approved for credit and financing
How to easily check your business credit reports before you apply, and how to fix bad business credit with little effort
How to access your free DUNS number with D&B… and how to check and see if you have credit with Experian for free
3 ways to build initial business credit… and how to get approved for new credit even if you have none now, and without a personal creditcheck
5 starter vendors you must know about… and how to get credit with them even with no cash flow, collateral, and regardless of personalcredit
How to get $150,000 in unsecured, 0% business financing, even as a startup… and how to use it to expedite your business creditbuilding
3 essentials you’ll need to get HIGH-LIMIT store credit cards without a personal credit check or guarantee
How to secure over $100,000 in business credit within 6 months or less regardless of personal credit
How to get CASH and FLEET credit as well as auto financing… all based on your business credit quality
A review of real business credit approvals and reports so you can see what type of results you can start getting after the webinar
Eliot Wagonheim is a speaker, strategist, author, educator and business lawyer with thirty-years experience helping clients embrace, rather than inhibit, innovation. Through his Outlawyer platform, Eliot serves as a confidante, mentor, strategist and sounding board for guiding entrepreneurs and organizational leaders of every size company across diverse industries. OutLawyer Eliot Wagonheim brings humor, real world experience and an entrepreneurial spirit to every interview.
During This Show We Discuss…
The most common management mistakes small to mid-sized businesses seem to make
How business owners can make better decisions
The keys that separate the success stories from the crash-and-burns
Some of the most common legal mistakes business owners make and how to avoid them
What a company should know if they are thinking of merging or being acquired by another company
Tips that can make a company more valuable for future sale
What you should know about executive and employment contracts
Things employers should do to protect themselves when hiring new team members
Things employers should do to protect themselves when firing team members
How non-competes work, and who should get them and who shouldn’t
Mapping out the process for getting a copyright on content
Things someone should look for when presented with a contract
Frank Cottle is CEO and founder of Alliance Business Centers Network, a digital-age workplace solution for businesses, particularly startups, in need of a virtual office. Prior to his 25 years of experience within the Office Business Center industry, Frank was EVP with the investment banking firm of L.E. Peterson and company, where he managed US syndicated real estate operations. Frank can speak about how to start a business from anywhere, the inception and growth of his own company, and much more!
During This Show We Discuss…
What a virtual office is, the benefits it provides, and what they can do for your business.
What’s behind the growing revolution of flexible and group work spaces
The types of services virtual office companies provide and how they work
The importance perception of credibility is to a business
What types of virtual officer solutions are available and the range of investment options
How virtual offices can help startups and home-based businesses
How you can use virtual solutions to access meeting rooms, reception services, and office space
How to use virtual offices to get mail and improve credibility on loan applications
The benefits of a virtual address compared to a UPS box
And much more...
Kevin Bupp is a Florida-based Real Estate Investor, top iTunes podcast host and serial entrepreneur with over $40 million of real estate transactions. His extensive investment experience spans the gamut of apartment buildings, single-family homes, office buildings, raw land, condos, and his favorite and by far the most profitable, Mobile Home Parks. With over 16 years of experience, Kevin now educates investors to locate, acquire, and create “higher than average” returns from this widely-misunderstood niche of Mobile Home Park Investing. He shares his expertise through the Mobile Home Academy and as the host of The Investing for Cashflow Podcast which has become one of the hottest podcasts on iTunes, often in the top 100!
During This Show We Discuss…
Why you should consider investing in mobile home parks versus residential homes or commercial properties?
What is involved with owning a mobile home park
What you are responsible for when owning a mobile home park
The unique benefits that exist with parks that doesn’t exist with the other commercial asset classes
How a novice can get started with investing in mobile home parks
The best size park to start with
Whether you should consider a park with private or public utilities
What other considerations a new investor should be aware of
How to find parks that are for sale and know you’re getting a good deal
How to get financing for mobile home parks
And much more!
Kate Stalter is a licensed investment advisor representative, and the founder of Better Money Decisions, a fee-only investment advisory firm with offices in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Scottsdale. She is an investment columnist for Forbes, US News & World Report, TheStreet.com and Seeking Alpha, and host of the America Talks Money financial podcast. She previously hosted the “Small-Cap Roundup” radio show, the “Daily Guru” feature on MoneyShow.com and served as an investing coach for Investor’s Business Daily.
During This Show We Discuss…
What financial planners really do
When someone should consider using a financial planner
What many people misunderstand about financial planning
Why so many Americans seeing inferior returns on their investments and how to fix it
How fees and expenses hurt investors
The kind of returns someone gets who manages their own portfolio versus working with a pro
What you should know about diversifying investments globally
How to put together a well-balanced portfolio
The biggest challenges you have seen for those trying to save for retirement
How to figure out what you may need for retirement
The smartest investments people should make and why
What you should know about investing in real estate versus investing in the markets
Spencer Shaw is the host of the Business Growth Podcast and founder of a podcast network.
Spencer has started and sold several businesses in real estate, retail, software and publishing
industries. He has had more failures than you can imagine and shares the fun stories and hard
lessons learned on his podcast. He enjoys extreme sports and is married with three kids.
Recently their family lived on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico.
During This Show We Discuss…
What can be learned by interviews with hundreds of leading entrepreneurs
Patterns or commonalities that the most successful people share
The worst advice business experts share that you should ignore
The best advice business experts share that you should follow
Advice from leading entrepreneurs you should take action on immediately
The secrets to operating a remote company living in the Caribbean
The keys of building and scaling a company quickly
Things a business owner must accomplish to be able to sell their business
How to find the right buyer for your business
The most important thing business owners should focus on if you even think of selling your business
Things investors or buyers find important in your business that you may not think are important
Things business owners do not focus on that you should be
And much more...
John Livesay is a top sales expert and funding strategist with over 20 years of experience. He hosts The Successful Pitch podcast with investors from around the world and is the Pitch Mentor at Startfast.net, the number one accelerator in Upstate New York. John gives startups the pitching secret to become irresistible to investors. When John works with startups, they become master storytellers so that they can inspire investors to join their team. John has been featured by both Entrepreneur and Inc., and is the author of The Successful Pitch: Conversations on Going from Invisible to Investable.
During This Show We Discuss…
Whether investors are typically interested more in the business owner, the idea, or the company itself
The best way to find and meet investors
How to find the right investor for your business
What you should look for when deciding which investors to take on as partners
Whether most investors actively involved in the running of the business after they invest
The best way to make initial contact with those investors
How someone should prepare for investor meetings
The secrets to a great investor pitch
How to craft the perfect pitch
The types of materials someone should have for a pitch
The most important aspects investors look at before investing
When to start looking for capital for your business
The amount of capital that’s typically available through seed capital
The percentage of a company that may provide to an investor in exchange for funding
How quickly you can get money from making first contact with an investor to obtaining capital
The 3 secrets to increasing your confidence
Why storytelling is important to making sales
How storytelling helps increase sales
Maryrose Lyons has been doing digital marketing since 1999! Yes folks that is pre-Google! Which means she has been around since the very early days of Social Media. She set up her business, Brightspark Consulting (http://brightspark-consulting.com/) in 2003 and has been delivering successful results for clients large and small since then. She hopped on board social media in 2006 and has recently launched an online course which distills all her knowledge on social into 4 hours of high quality video material.
During This Show We Discuss…
How marketing has changed over the last 18 years
The biggest recent innovations in the marketing world that you should know about
What the next big shifts in marketing will be
The social media channels that everyone should be on now
How to find the best social media channels that work best for YOU
Some things that are providing the best value in social media today
How LIVE social marketing will change the way we market
What types of paid platforms are the best for marketing
How Snapchat will be the social channel of the future
What you should know about Facebook opening up Messager marketing
Awesome tips for using Facebook and Twitter
The best tips for LinkedIn advertising
Powerful strategies for Pinterest and Instagram marketing
The most efficient ways to create content for social media channels
Whether you should schedule your social media posts or post them live
The best way to monitor what others are saying about you online
The key to getting engagement on social media
And much more...
One-Click Lindsey is a web strategy expert working with small business owners to help them utilize the web to produce more website traffic and leads. Lindsey is the founder and CEO TrafficAndLeads.com that specializes in driving traffic, getting leads and the art of nurturing leads to become lifelong clients. One-Click Lindsey is an expert in landing pages, email sequences, search engine ranking, newsletters, analytics, social media, pay-per-click ads, websites, blogging … the list goes on. She knows how to utilize the myriad of online marketing options to generate more traffic and leads which produces more paying clients.
During This Show We Discuss…
Awesome tips on how to generate affordable leads
The best tactics to generate high quality web traffic
What are truly the most important aspects of any website
How to avoid the most common website pitfalls
What you should know about pop up forms and opt in forms
The one purpose a website truly has, and how to maximize that purpose
Some of the cheapest ways to generate website traffic
The most effective social media channels for generating traffic
How to discover the right message to appeal to what your customers really want
How to effectively manage Google PPC
How to master Facebook’s advertising platform
Things you can do to organically grow your social media following
And much more...
Aaron Hendon is a Seattle Realtor, real estate investor, educator, speaker, and author, of Dont be Fooled Again and working on his next book Real Estate Blind Spots. He is managing partner of Christine and Company, a Seattle Magazine awarded, Five Star Real Estate Agent, winning team for the past 5 years and individual Rising Star in Seattle Real Estate winner this year. Aaron was born, raised, and went to school in New York graduating with a BFA. He has owned multiple successful businesses and currently resides on an island off the coast of Seattle.
During This Show We Discuss…
Why you should hire a buying agent versus doing it on your own
Why you should use a listing agent versus list your own home
What truly separates good agents versus average agents
What the real cost is of working with the wrong Realtor
What steps you someone take to ensure you hire the best agent
The consequences of price shopping real estate agents
Why don’t people interview real estate agents the way they’d interview most other employees
How to best interview an agent before working with them
When selecting a real estate agent, what numbers do people normally focus on and what numbers SHOULD they focus on instead
What you should know about the real estate game
What you should do first when looking to buy a home
How you can find the right financial solutions to buy a home
Tips that can increase your home value and make your home sell faster
And much more...
During this show you will discover:
How massive the growth curve is for internet users… and what you can do to capture many of them to sell your products and services
How you can benefit and profit from the 40,000 searches that take place on Google every second
The difference between using paid, local, and organic searches on Google… and strategies to master all three
How the typical Google search and inquiry process works… and how you can profit from each step of the process
The difference between SEO and SEM… and how to use both to 10X your website traffic and conversions
The difference in website traffic, leads, and sales from being on page 4 of Google to being on page 1
How to easily find the volume of searches for keywords relevant to your business… and a breakdown of how many of those you can expect to click and convert if you are on the first page for those keywords
The secret to getting to the top 3 searches on Google for the hardest keywords to rank… and how to leap above all your competitors quickly
How to go from not ranking for any keywords to ranking for hundreds in a short period of time
How much revenue you can really earn from ranking in the top 3 results on Google with just one keyword… and how to 100X this to rank in the top 3 with a hundred or more keywords
The type of ROI you can expect to see when you rank high on Google searches
During this show we will be joined by very special guest Chris Rowe from Jet Digital Marketing. Chris is the one responsible for EXPLOSIVE growth at our company taking us to the top in Google for extremely competitive keywordssuch as “business credit”.
During this show he will map out the step-by-step process he uses to get amazing results with ranking companies high in Google, so you can get stellar website traffic and sales from Google search.
Clark Nichols has spent a lifetime helping companies build their businesses, both as an employee in his early years, as an owner in his ambitious years, and as a consultant in his productive years. He is a natural born entrepreneur infused with a missionary zeal to help the next generation of entrepreneurs learn that business is a clean and honorable profession bound by rules of propriety as well as law.
Clark consults with companies in their infancy and has never had a failure. By the time companies reach adolescence, which by Clark’s definition begin s after the second year, the true test of management begins and Clark’s work is done. In his heyday, Clark helped more than forty companies go public, many through reverse mergers.
During This Show We Discuss…
Essential steps someone should take when starting a new business BEFORE they actually start it
The key elements to research to judge the possible success of your business
Things that you see successful business owners do right
The most important thing an individual needs to start or expand your business
Some of the foundational essentials that every business should have
Some core components that successful businesses share
The most important personality aspects successful business owners share
The role public relations have in a new business
Some of the most effective forms of marketing businesses use
How to get the startup money without giving up control of the business
When a business should consider going public versus looking for a buyer
The cost going public has
The time frame it takes for a company to go public
The revenue a business should make before going public
What a business should have before it goes public
Why a company should spend the money to go public when raising money for the business is more important
Commonalities businesses that go public have
And much more
Charlie oDonnell is the sole Partner and Founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. His fund makes seed and pre-seed investments and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn--where he was born and raised. Brooklyn Bridge invested in the first rounds of Canary, Orchard Platform, Tinybop, Hungryroot, Clubhouse, Ringly, and goTenna among others. He previously had investment roles at Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital.
Charlie has a reputation for being early to identifying important companies. Nick Bilton identifies him as an influence on early Twitter investors in his book, Hatching Twitter. Dennis Crowley credits him as having helped kick off the first funding of Foursquare before other VCs had said yes. At First Round Capital, he sourced the firm's investments in Singleplatform (sold to Constant Contact) and GroupMe (sold to Skype). Charlie discovered GroupMe at the hackathon where the service had been built. He also sourced investments in Backupify (which was an idea he had tweeted to the founder, a friend of his), chloe + isabel, and Refinery29.
Charlie bikes to work, has done four triathlons, the NYC marathon, and runs the kayaking program in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The longest he has consecutively been outside of the five boroughs of New York City is three weeks.
During This Show We Discuss…
What stage of growth a company should consider raising Venture Capital (VC)
The common attributes of companies that VCs look for to fund a deal
The importance of a business plan when it comes to getting an investment
How important the experience of the owner is to obtaining successful funding
The amounts of money VCs commonly lend
Which industries best attract venture capital
How your industry impacts your evaluation
What tools and services VCs use to evaluate the value of a company
The common mistakes made when founders start their companies
The common mistakes business owners make when trying to raise VC
Things that are an absolute turn off to lending money
The factors that make a company the most attractive to want to lend money
The types of systems or processes that should be in place before a company seeks venture capital
The percentage of ownership are VCs typically looking for
The level of involvement in the company VCs typically want to have
How long the process typically takes for a VC investment to take place
The metrics and analytics VCs track after investing
The changes that take place when a business brings in outside investors
David Pitts is the co-founder of Off Day Trainer, a text message automation, lead generation, and client management platform built specifically for fitness professionals. As a former gym owner, a Fitness Sales Manager, and personal trainer, David knows fitness. More importantly, he knows how to make fit pros successful using technology to make their sales cycle faster and client retention last longer.
During This Show We Discuss…
Why customer engagement is so important for business owners and how to master it
The best ways to effectively engage customers and clients for best results
How to personalize marketing with minimal time investment
The best ways to automate client engagement and retention
Things that you can do to deepen relationships with prospects and clients
Things you should be doing if you want to keep a client for life
How you can use text to automate both client maintenance and prospecting
Regulations you should be aware of when using text marketing
How to use text marketing to rapidly expand your business
And much more!
Peter Hug is the Director of Global Trade for Kitco Metals Inc. Peter has been involved in the precious metals industry since 1974. He speaks to thousands of viewers each week on Kitco News, drawing on years of frontline experience to provide a traders perspective on the market. Mr Hug contributes daily commentary and market insights for the millions of readers visiting Kitco.com each month.
A frequent speaker at precious metals conferences and in the financial media, Peter is one of a handful of experts who have succeeded through multiple bull and bear cycles using skills honed during the dramatic fluctuations of the 1980s. Prior to joining Kitco, Mr Hug served as Senior Vice President at Guardian Trust Company, now a part of Laurentian Bank, which became one of the largest international trading houses for precious metals.
During This Show We Discuss…
Where the price of gold and silver will go in the short, medium, and longer term
Why someone should consider buying gold
The kind of performance gold has had in the past
The difference between buying gold and buying silver
What is the right amount of gold or silver you should have in your portfolio
The difference between bars, coins, rounds, numismatics
How to best buy gold and silver
How to know you are getting a fair price
How much someone should expect to pay for an ounce of gold and silver
How to know you’re getting the best quality of gold and silver
Where you should store your gold and silver
And much more...
Mark Walker has been an active real estate investor since 2004, so he brought a wealth of knowledge with him when he founded Luxmana Investments in 2011. He started out as a part-time investor––holding a full-time job in high tech––and his passion for real estate enabled him to escape the rat race of Corporate America.
Prior to Luxmana, Mark succeeded in multiple development projects in the trendy Highlands and Berkley areas of Denver, Colorado. Since then, he has acquired dozens of residential and multifamily income properties through Luxmana Investments LLC, which he founded in 2011, and Peak Margin Partners LLC, which he co-founded in 2013.
Mark holds a degree in Marketing from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has successfully overseen the operations of his own assets, and that of other investors, in Colorado, Texas, Florida and Illinois.
During This Show We Discuss…
The main advantages of investing in multifamily properties is over single-family homes
Some of the main things to look for when investing in multifamily properties
Some surprising expenses that new owners of multifamily properties deal with
Types of returns you can expect to see when investing in multifamily properties
Whether you should manage your properties or use a a property management company
What a portfolio lender is and why an investor would want to seek one out
The lending criteria that commercial mortgage lenders have
How to find the right lender
The best ways to get money to invest into real estate
The best markets in the country for real estate investing right now
The keys to investing in an out-of- state real estate market
How to partner with sponsors on multifamily deals
And much more...