It has been a long time since we’ve done a teleseminar.  But this topic so hot for entrepreneurs these days we decided last-minute to set it up:

Smart Funding– Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Wall Street!

I know a bit about this topic, having owned 7 companies over the past 30 years, raised millions and over the past few years been helping others do the same.

On this call, Robert Middleton* will interview me on:

• Why Wall Street and banks are not equipped to fund small businesses
• What are the five crucial components that go into a smart capital raise
• How entrepreneurs can take matters into their own hands for getting funded
• What are the key stumbling blocks to raising capital and how to avoid them
• What goes into an action plan for raising smart capital
• Tips to keep focused and held accountable to raising capital while running your business

Smart Funding– Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Wall Street! Teleseminar:  Thursday, November 3rd, at 12noon PST, 3PM EST.

Interested in learning more and signing onto the call, click here

Looking forward to being on the call next week with you.

Until then always Be UnReasonable!

Stefan
Founder, CEO
BEST Coaches, Inc.

*– Robert Middleton from Action Plan is one of the top small business trainers in the US.

Here in the United States, it seems to be so important for us to be #1.

Most of our politicians constantly want us to fix this or that so we can “be #1 again.”

But exactly what is it we want to be the best at?  More importantly, is what we think we want to be #1 at is really best for us?

For example, here in the US our current measurements for success are essentially the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and stock prices.

These measurements for success are flawed at best, and downright dangerous at worst.

GDP basically measures our economic success based on how much product we sell.  If we sell more “stuff” from the previous period, our economy is “growing”.  If we sell less, our economy is “in trouble”.

Hardly a sustainable business model!

Monitoring the stock market to see if stocks are going up in price or down is the other tool.  This has little, if anything to do with how the companies listed on the stock exchanges are actually doing as a company.

Many of the stock prices fluctuate based on things completely out of the businesses’ control.  Like investors’ mood swings on the economy, or a natural disaster in another part of the world.

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Occupy Wall Street has gone viral.  As of today, “occupations” in solidarity are now in dozens of US cities, from Austin, Boston, Chicago, Colorado, Denver, Illinois, Knoxville, Portland (Maine), Tennessee, Texas, as well as more than 20 other locations in California and Florida. Demonstrations are also taking place in Australia, Canada, Japan, and Mexico.  And most recently, major labor unions are now on board, bringing millions more.

Statement of Occupy Wall Street:

Occupy Wall St. rally -- Oct. 5th, 2011

“We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we’re working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent.”

Last night, Occupy Wall Street had their biggest protest to date.  Approximately 10,000+ were there, including dozens of other organizations focusing on anything from labor to environmental issues.

So what’s going on?

Simple:  people are tired of waiting and trusting others have their best interest at hand.  Tired of trusting those who promise to take care of them and then do the opposite.  Mainly government and big business.

Occupy Wall Street’s strategy is an excellent one for those also wanting work.  Instead “looking” for a job, consider taking on the mindset of an entrepreneur or intrapreneur (corporate entrepreneur).

And create it.

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