The internet and boiler-room stock promoters are constantly selling unsophisticated investors the dream of Penny Stock Elixirs and Alchemical shortcuts to Wealth. They ask you to make a few sacrifices here and there and in the end your dreams of massive liquidity, a butler pockets loaded with cash will come true.

The science of charlatanism and gaining a cult-like following has been a business in and of its self since the beginning of time. Followers of a cult and it’s figure head are blindly loyal and will recruit other members with unbridled enthusiasm and the group leader just sits there as the recipient of the profits initially promised to the followers.  Read more...

If you are in need of investor relations solutions and have been surfing the web for an IR firm approach with absolute caution as pump and dump vampires lurk around every corner and crevice of cyberspace. They’ll suck the life out of your new or struggling public company so fast your head will spin.

The first sign of a pump and dump artist is their forceful sales approach. They will act like your best friend offering all kinds of advice. You’ll start to feel that this rapport is genuine and you’ll ask them for their opinion on a competing IR firm. They’ll act like their doing you a favor when they take out their phone and make a call to their contacts guy to do some quick research to help you out.  Read more...

Corporations of all sizes and genres are finding themselves in the difficult position of expanding as a mandatory necessity as opposed to solely building value as a part of growth strategies. If you find yourself in a position which makes globalization a requirement for survival here are a few things to make the process easier.

When taking your company from strictly a regional or domestic entity and trasnfering your energies into an international formula there are 4 basic elements that you should take into consideration before doing anything: corporate infrastructure, brand, distribution and capitalization.  Read more...

If you’re reading this you are most likely contemplating the possibility of going public or taking your public company global for distribution expansion. While your intentions may be in the right place your company may not be in a position for these types of growth.

Let’s look at going public. I get calls daily from companies and startups with products ranging from a new shoelace that is going to revolutionize the sneaker industry to underwater gimp costume sowing instructional videos and sometimes, I mean very rarely will I get a cold call from a client that will actually succeed in going public and sustaining a public entity post IPO. Unless you have profits, limited liability and real distribution and scalability, you have nothing at all. Ideas come and go and very few concepts are so revolutionary that they can Google-ize and industry.  Read more...

For those of you who have reached the point in your company’s evolution where it’s time to take your company public there is often a lot of confusion centering around the services that a corporation needs in order to go public at a solid price, hold it’s position and grow steadily.

The solution is to bring on a consulting firm steeped in a solid history of creating solid corporate foundations so that building on that foundation is simple and streamlined. Below is what you can expect to pay and the services you’ll need for a solid public offering on an exchange like the OTCBB that will help your company eventually qualify for the NASDAQ.  Read more...