Advisory Opportunities, Lucrative Referrals, Hot New Buyers/Funders, Skype Texting Auto-Translator

Also posted at Group.ProsperSystems.biz

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ADVISORY OPPORTUNITIES

Reminder: startups, expansions and even mature organizations welcome Advisors with your high qualifications.  Network to find those opportunities, and engage in that conversation at every opportunity.  Ask for a SMALL EQUITY POSITION versus a stipend to greatly exceed $30-$60K per year over the life of the company. 

LUCRATIVE REFERRAL OPPORTUNITIES in the CAROLINAS

We are off to the Carolinas for my lady's and my Annual Birthday Celebration Trip:  

  • Raleigh, late Sep 19th through the 21st

  • Charlotte - meet Alan Adler in the afternoon, McLain Hall in the evening, 22nd

  • Myrtle Beach, 23rd

  • Wilmington or Havelock, 24th

  • Cape Hatteras, 25-26th

  • Raleigh and home, 27th

Route Map: Google.com/maps/dir/Raleigh+NC/Charlotte+NC/Myrtle+Beach+SC/Wilmington+NC/Havelock+NC/Engelhard+NC/Cape+Hatteras+National+Seashore+1401+National+Park+Drive+AVON+NC+27915/Raleigh+NC  

Selling, Buying (HOT BUYERS) and Funders

We are now focused heavily on Selling and Buying - see SalesInterests.ProsperSystems.biz.  So ... WHO DO YOU KNOW to meet at or between cities, who you'd refer for our ResourceSearches.pskhj.com, especially:

  • US$100M+++ owners of property (see SalesInterests.prospersystems.biz) and precious assets (art, cars, gems, gold, silver)

  • US$200M+++ owners of debt-free, bank-appraisable assets (see Buyer200Mup.prospersystems.biz)

  • US$500M+++ Oil field owners (we have voracious, fast, cash buyers in the US and world-wide)

OBVIOUSLY, we are interested in ANY OTHER LOCATIONS to connect before or after the trip - so KEEP those REFERRALS coming - FILL YOUR PIPELINE.

Also, we have funder organizations that will pay us for referring well-vetted start-ups and expansions as a consultant, based on a FLAT 20-30% of the their EXPECTED funding fee.

FORWARD sales opportunities, buyers, start-ups or expansions to me, and earn 5% of my income - more work and you can move up to 20%.  Details at ReferralIncome.ProsperSystems.biz.  A straight-forward introduction format is at ReferralFormat.prospersystems.biz​

SKYPE LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR 

We have ClownFish TEXT translator working now on Skype, so we can do automatic translations from many languages into many other languages, even if the recipient has not implemented the ClownFish translator.  

If you chose to implement it, START at clownfish-translator.com/help.html, 

THEN see our menu setting SUGGESTIONS:  DropBox.com/s/hojcxmro8kzh8x2/ClownFish_Settings-Suggested_KHJ.txt

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS?  

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RESPOND via blog comments, REPLY to me by the notification email or call.

Thank you very much, Kenton Johnson (LinkedIn) • BRIEF on Prosper Systems (.biz) - note TEAM & Aggregate Resume

USA 302KentonJ - GoogleVoice: 302-536-8665; transcribed voice messages and text; forwards to mobile and GoogleTalk (12-9 ET / 9-6 PT)​​

FOUNDERs are LEADERS, but are they CEOs?

Also published on LinkedIn and our Group

Pick Your Best Role to Lead the World

We work with Founders at many stages of start-up and expansion, and though the chief Founders are excellent Leaders, their best role may not be as the coveted CEO to ensure the success of their endeavors. 

First, let's define a Leader with an acronym (go ahead, substitute your own definitions for each letter):

  • Light up the vision, the benefits and the way.

  • Educate the team on vision, expectations, structure and policy, listening and learning from each of them.

  • Appreciate all those who excel and help from without.

  • Delegate to the best available, qualified people.

  • Enthuse your team with energy and resources.

  • Release control over the process for delegates, looking only for well-researched questions and suggestions, progress reports and final results.  See the just-published article on delegation by Mary Jane Nirdlinger. 

Other LinkedIn articles expand our definitions, but we see Delegate and Release as major keys in profitable Leadership and successful launches or expansions.   

Founders need to decide where they can best Lead, fit and excel, now or over the life of their companies:

  • CEO - executes what the Chairman and the Board have defined, generally with the CEO’s participation and input, and the Board may be only Founders at the start.  Though this is the most esteemed title in a company, it may not be Founders most effective roles. 

  • Chairman of the Board, public or private - visionary, policymaker, organizer, cheerleader, connector and often a key representative.

  • President - reporting to the CEO, or if none, the Board - deals with daily issues and tasks, sometimes a more comfortable role for those newly transitioning from being employed for many years.

  • CTO - often the best role for an engineer, scientist or inventor; an IT professional usually prefers the title CIO.

  • COO - the best methods to maximize production can make or break a company, so this may the best role.

  • CFO - setting up and maintaining tight financial systems is another key to the success of a company, and perhaps the Founder's best role.

  • CMO/CSO - many if not most Founders are excellent Sales people, so this may be the most comfortable role, though many prefer to delegate the Marketing.

  • CLO - the legal and securities challenges of especially a public company may be the best role for a lawyer/Founder.

  • CCO - Chief Capital Officer - prepares for presentation to, then processes funders, serving as a bit of the CEO, CFO, CTO, COO, CLO, CMO and CSO until fully funded.  

A team of Founder, CCO and one other CxO is an excellent way to start a company on the fast track.

  • Advisor – as companies progress, and after launching multiple companies, Founders may find that equity-based Advisory Team participation or management may be the most comfortable and time-beneficial, reducing both fiduciary and day-to-day responsibilities, yet maintaining lucrative yields from earlier start-up duties.  

Appreciate your Following and Comments – will respond and much more to come.  

The Dow is Crashing in terms of Gold, Oil and many other "Commodities"

I've been reading Michael Maloney's "no baloney" book, Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver. Excellent historical and current perspectives on the realities of our financial system. Doing more research on his chapter "What's the Value," one finds an expanded version of The Dow is Crashing, which is VERY enlightening.

All this decade, pundits have been watching the Dow in terms of dollars as if it were a guide to the health of the economy. However, in terms of most other commodities we use, often daily, it diving quickly. In Gold, it is about a fifth of what is was entering 2000. In Silver or Oil, it is worse.

He goes further about our manipulated Cost of Living index, which is more like 12% than the 3% used by the Feds (or the 0% the last two years according to Social Security).

Reading it, you'll be hard-pressed not to agree that Gold and Silver are the great hedges against inflation; in fact, it is our only real money.

Our start-up, GoldPanAm.com, we are factoring in a much higher inflation rate in our costs. For my consulting work, I'm asking for payment in Gold or Silver, since it is the most negotiable, rapidly-growing commodity. (I'm finding a few brokers offering only a 3% spread between buy and sell prices.)

In addition, chart analysis of Silver this century shows a great positive trend change that could easily be sustained given run-away Federal spending.

Once you've read the article, and perhaps the book, please post your comments here.

Also, note the previous post: YOUR articles would be valuable here in our Prosper Systems blog and other publishings. Don't have an article? Focused posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other sites will create an article in short time. Expanding that, a few articles make a booklet to sell, post on your site, give as a list builder on the 'Net, as well as make a chapter for your next book.

Keep writing and accumulating, then let's collaborate: I'll edit and publish it.

More on Precious Metals and Collaboration is subsequent posts. Have a great week, Kenton

Let's Publish Your Articles

Publishing Articles is one of the best forms of Marketing for Consulting Services, Books or Oneself.

I PUBLISH Blog.ProsperSystems.biz, Blog.CompWellness.biz and CompWellness.net/eJournal, as well as

POST to Groups.google.com/group/ProsperSystems, Health.Groups.yahoo.com/group/21cWellness, Health.Groups.yahoo.com/group/21cWell-Discussion then

ANNOUNCE the updates on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

So, always LOOKING FOR TOP-NOTCH ARTICLES - about 500 words on Business and Health (or both).

Forward yours for review, complete with about a 50-word bio, picture or link to a picture (any size or shape, JPG, GIF or BMP), and a weblink for more information on you (website, LinkedIn profile or a resume/PPT on something like TopVitas.com).

I may do some editing, if you wish, especially if it is from Spanish or another latin language to English, using my Editing.KentonHJohnson.com translation polishing service (no charge for article contributors).

NEW State-of-the-Art Marketing Paradigms

Dear Entrepreneur / Executive-

You'll need to break/change/add a few paradigms to fully move into the 21st Century:

• Shopping:  More and more people are shopping on the "Web"/Internet - for convenience, necessity, selection or price.  In fact, retailers without a Web presence will be struggling soon.
• Marketing:  the latest, smartest and least expensive marketing is generally based on GOgitMMM™ - (make a) Great Offer - Get (prospect) Information Today (adding to a database) - Market, Market, Market - continuous marketing via one or more channels:  (1) Electronic (email, text mail, video, webinar, recorded message, auto-dialer, fax broadcast, private website) or (2) Conventional (direct mail, printed newsletter, seminar).  This can increase online sales 10-20 fold!
• Work:  Once set up - FREE or otherwise - Electronic Marketing, especially web-based, can work nearly on its own, bringing in sales 24/7 with no daily work on your part.  It's like owning a company with a great management team - you just keep an eye on the team, encouraging them once in a while and account for the income.
• Affiliate Marketing:  Compensating for referrals has been part of business forever.  But on the Web, it is (1) straight-forward to set up an "affiliate/referral program link" to the seller's website with the affiliate's ID number, (2) easy to use on email, websites, newsletters and other marketing, and (3) can be verrrry lucrative, IF the selling website uses GOgitMMM.  (If it doesn't, customer information probably won't be captured as they slip away, and if they do come back if will probably be directly, leaving out the affiliate.)
• Social Media Revolution:  Social Media Networking platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo, Ryze and others are growing very rapidly, showing the power and popularity of communicating and collaborating quickly and easily among groups of friends and associates without the need of often misused email broadcasts.  The group communications are with very short messages, which is good because most people don't have or take the time to read beyond a few sentences in emails. Instant messaging between individuals and form-email messages to individuals and opt-in groups are available for more detailed conversations.
• Integration:  Web users want posting to multiple social media networks, cross-communication, database syncing, databases in "the cloud" (online), instant local/world information, learning, entertainment, two-way input via cell phone, etc.  A single-page Web Portal can do much of that in one fell swoop! 

I'd like to share something with you that will help you understand the power of 21st-Century Marketing Paradigms as well as derive Free, Fun Income for you, your circle of friends, family and associates, plus help some worth-while causes if they choose (and you help them see the light).

There you have it - one very creative and power implementation of 21st-Century Paradigms.  Comments appreciated.

Kent
 
P.S. "Most People look into a gold mine and can only see the dirt" --Wise Sage

Be one of the Few People who SEE and GET the GOLD --Kent

PREVIOUS POST - early Sept 2009 (lost in the shuffle)

Properties and Online Sales Page both under 70% ARV

Hello Investors and Referrers -  Remember- referrals are worth serious $$$$

Please email us your great properties with price + rehab est under 70% ARV, anywhere in Colorado.

(If already rented, 80% ARV can be good; if can take over the loan, 90% can work; and if both, 95% may work)

I know several private money lenders, but always looking for more - please email their contact info to us.

What additional services do you need?

Finally, many have websites, but few have an all-important Online sales letter [implements GOgitMMM Marketing described above]- see WebsiteYesterday.com and think:

Single-purpose, initial-sale web page + contact page.  Can be done for well-under 70% ARV!

Best Wishes, Kent