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Meet Success: Business Profile of Sylvia Acevedo, Communicard Owner
Sylvia Acevedo needed a break from her technology job so she bought an old Victorian house to remodel into a bed and breakfast. "Being an engineer working in technology, I really felt I didn't do a lot of tangible work. But with the bed and breakfast, at the end of the day, I felt like I had actually done something."And, of course, she had—because as she renovated the house, she transformed it into a beautiful B&B. She had no problem communicating with the construction crew, who were mostly Hispanic, because she grew up speaking both Spanish and English. "My mother was from Mexico and all of my grandparents lived there," she says."People would see me talking to a crew of workers and I literally would have contractors stop and hand me the phone, asking me to translate for them," she says. That's how she realized communication between Hispanic construction workers and non-Spanish-speaking supervisors was really a problem.

the company’s shares while the IR is dumping their share.

An IR firm must be carefully and thoroughly check out by asking for names of previous and present client, just pull up chart of their clients stock and see if you detect a sudden rise in the share price and a quick drop once they began dumping their shares.

There isn’t such a thing as a perfect time to go public and if you start preparing early you will be ahead of the curve, start by having your financials audited. This is something that will have to be done and so if you do as you go along you wont have the big expense all at once.

Have a business plan prepared and that is a mirror of your vision and strategy, you will not stick to a business plan that does not reflect your ideal and your vision of what is going to work.

Make sure the business plan is sound and also flexible, it must allowed for a change in direction when one is warranted. A business plan is like a road map, it has a starting point an a destination, you mapped out the way you wan

Digital Signage Strengths Resemble Those of Growing Digital Billboard Networks
Out-of-home advertising -the nice-sounding term for all types of advertising consumed away from home, including digital signage- is likely to become an even more important component of the advertising landscape with this week's announcement that Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings will roll out digital billboards in four more cities: Akron, OH, Columbus, OH, Memphis, TN, and Wichita, KS.Making up the digital billboard network in each city are:Memphis: five 14-foot-by-48-foot digital displays;Akron: six 14-foot-by-48-foot digital displays;Wichita: six 12-foot-by-24-foot digital displays;Columbus: six 12-foot-by-24-foot digital displays.While the size of Clear Channel Outdoor's displays and its ongoing commitment to building digital billboards networks are impressive, what's more impressive is the flexibility the new medium brings to the advertising community. The company plans to r

CEO’s often call and ask me what the revenues and net profit should be before going public, they seem to think that there is a magic number that qualifies a private company into becoming a public company.

There is no set amount of revenues or net profit that is required to take your company public, then when is the absolute best time to go public?

The short answer would be when you don’t need to, or your company is not desperately looking for financing in order to survive.

Instead you are looking for capital in order to finance growth and expansion, or you would like to use the public shares as currency to make acquisitions.

But life isn’t always perfect, so we will take a look at a few questions asked by CEO’s that have called me looking to go public.

What should revenues and net profit be before going public? A company could conceivably have 5 consecutive year of profitability and be a bad candidate for going public.

I recently had a CEO called me from such a company, the revenues and net profit were identical for the previous five years but robust compare to many of the companies you see going public in the NASDAQ BB and Pink Sheets today.

But I didn’t see any growth in either revenues or net profit nor any indication that there was going to be some in the future, the CEO did not know where future growth would come from.

I told him that if he was just going public so that he could tell friends that he was the CEO of public company then he shouldn’t go public.

But if he could develop a strategy for growth and put together a business plan outlining how he was going to grow revenues and net income, he could become an outstanding candidate for going public.

The opposite of that would be a company that has been losing money for 5 years but is exhibiting growth in revenues every year and the losses are smaller.

This company has a business plan and targets for business expansion and every year is meeting those targets, and going public is part of the business strategy. So you tell me which company has the greater potential of being a successful public company?

Investors are always looking for growth candidates to put their money in to. So they will go with the company that has the potential to make them the most money in the future.

Another situation that I often come across is CEO’s who want to go public and don’t have any money for the audit or the legal fees. There are certain expenses associated with going public that need to be paid.

These CEO’s often want to do a reverse merger because it’s the fastest way to go public, but Public Shells are expensive and could be the costliest avenue use to go public.

When a private company purchases a Public Shell, the purchaser must perform a thorough due diligence of the Public Shell to make sure that it is clean and not bringing any past legal problem to the private company.

The due diligence process often get neglected because the private company is not familiar with the ins and outs of the public arena. So they often take the advised given by the shell owner and submit to his demands.

When companies rush to go public they often live to regret it, short cuts can be very expensive. I always give CEO’s who call me the alternative to reverse merger, such as Direct public offering, Regulation D or IPO but if their minds are already made up or they may have already purchased the Shell without doing proper due diligence.

I will do all I can to try and make it work but the CEO must be warn of the perils ahead and how to prepare for them. For example if he does have a lot of shareholders and a lot of shares outstanding he must reverse split the shares to reduce the number of shares available for sale including those own by the Shell owner.

The Shell owner will often require the private company to sign an agreement not to reverse the share prior to the sale, if they agree to this demand they will be making a big mistake.

Also if the company hires an investors relation firm to do PR work and pays them in stock they will see a temporary interest in the company’s shares while the IR is dumping their share.

Have a business plan prepared and that is a mirror of your vision and strategy, you will not stick to a business plan that does not reflect your ideal and your vision of what is going to work.

Accounts Receivable Factoring - An Exciting Alternative to Business Loans
Do your clients take 30, 60 or even 90 days to pay their invoices? Extending payment terms, as it is commonly known, is very common in the business world. Customers demand that they be given credit, in the meantime you still have to pay for your company’s ongoing expenses.This can be a problem for companies of all sizes – from large established concerns to small startups. Unless you have enough cash to pay for business expenses – rent, salaries and suppliers – while you wait to get paid - your company is bound to run into problems. You may have to avoid taking large orders to conserve cash. Or worse, you may have to delay payments to employees or key suppliers.Is the solution to get a business loan from the bank? Hardly. Banks only lend to companies that can provide detailed financials and show profitable operations for many years. If you get a loan, it will be for a fixed amount. If you need additional funds, you’ll need to g

rofit were identical for the previous five years but robust compare to many of the companies you see going public in the NASDAQ BB and Pink Sheets today.