So many times corporations look outside of their company to grow by way of mergers, acquisitions, licensing etc. Most companies lack the discipline to look inward and examine the elements inside the existing company to synergize and expand. Here is what I mean. Let’s say that you’re large landscaping company and you offer three services under this landscaping umbrella consisting of: hard-scape, lawn mowing and landscape architecture.

Now, most likely your promotions will place the general corporate image which would be ‘landscape services’ at the top of your promotional material as your efforts are to use direct mailers and yard signs to promote this service and as people call they will be introduced to your other solutions but try this.  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...

If you are trying to grow your company, expand, raise capital or globalize your concept I’m going to give you some insider advice. Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad news and I hate to rain on your parade but chances are, if you’re trying to achieve the above and you are doing it yourself you have about a 1% chance of succeeding. You need to hire a full service strategies consultant in order to do this properly as a qualified and full service consultant will evaluate your company and streamline the process with as few bumps in the road as possible.  Read more...

Global finance is a convergence of polar opposites. It’s a hybrid element that is the result of merging bankruptcy and profitability and the infusion of the ethically inclined and the ethically obscene.

The obtuse minded institutional banking system and the endless motivational depth of the prototypical entrepreneur clash and a give and take, debt and debtor mentality evolves. This evolution results in the crisis of indentured servitude where the banks will give but will take much more.

The entrepreneur is often stranded without the means for economic defense in difficult times and the FDIC backed lender moves in to take assets whose value are derived by number crunchers in a backroom and the bank’s corporate headquarters.  Read more...