The President of BizUnite, Barth Getto, will be speaking this year at the Franchise Operational Performance Summit. The Franchise Operational Performance Summit is "The only franchise executive conference dedicated to performance operations execellence--will be held on July 18 and 19 in Denver, Colorado. Franchise OPS focuses exclusively on how C-level franchise executives can improve their respective franchise operations."
To read more: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9524537.htm
Castle Wealth Advisors. Gary Pittsford is an expert on business valuation and succession planning. He has produced a video series that is detailed below.
Introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_2zGB39KjA
1. “Two Year Window”
This video is intended to give you a few ideas to think about pertaining to selling your business in the next one or two years while we are sure what the tax rates will be. In this short video we will briefly touch upon long term capital gains, ordinary income, tax ideas that would be good for the seller, and tax ideas that would be good for the buyer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1QEOdsOMs
2. “Transferring within the Family”
This video discusses a few ideas about possibly selling your company to children or perhaps key employees. If you are an owner who is thinking about retiring and selling your business in the next three to five years then perhaps you may find the ideas in this video helpful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSj1QoU_6DA
3. “Valuing Your Business”
This video briefly reviews a couple of different valuation techniques for closely held family businesses. Valuations are very important if you are planning on selling the business to family members, key employees, or another coop member. This video may be helpful if you are planning on retiring and selling the business in the next three to five years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71OhORQkPCo
4. “Protecting Stock and Stockholders”
This short video will cover briefly ideas that are very important to business owners when children, in-laws, or key employees become stockholders. In this video we will cover the idea of proper Wills and Revocable Living Trust for business owners, and also buy-sell agreements which are very important. These documents help protect the company and keep the stock within the family. The provisions within these documents are very important to maintain control of a privately held family business.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EV1kfU1Q4
5. “Retirement Income Ideas”
When current business owners think about selling the company their future retirement income becomes very important. There are many ways that owners can design the sale of a company in order to retain future income. This video will touch upon selling stock, selling goodwill, deferred compensation, consulting fees, board of director’s fees, and several other ideas for you to consider.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3zS6fwlPg
6. “Reducing Taxes”
When it comes time to sell your company saving income taxes becomes very important. There are many different ways to sell a company, but the best plan must combine good ideas for the seller and the buyer. There is only so much useable cash flow that the owner of a business has to work with and the plan that you choose must successfully reduce taxes and have enough cash flow so that the buyer can make all of the necessary payments to the retiring owner and still have plenty of cash flow for the buyer to live on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKer1gsohjk
7. “Types of Businesses”
There are several different types of businesses that you can use. For example, C Corporations, S Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Family Limited Partnerships, and others. If you are planning on selling the company in a few years you want to make sure that the entity that you are using currently for your business will give you the least amount of tax obligation when it is time to sell. During the years that you have owned the company has your basis in the stock increased? When you sell your company will you and the company both pay taxes on the sale? This video will cover briefly a few ideas about corporations and give you ideas to think about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0wmexkGWY
Pledge your support for Small Business Saturday®
The 2nd annual Small Business Saturday® is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.
On November 26, we’re asking millions of Americans to Shop Smallsm at their favorite local stores and help fuel the economy. When we all shop small, it will be huge.
Watch this video to learn about Small Business Saturday! http://youtu.be/rIYHjs1vEAo
Small Businesses, make the most of the day
From Twitter posts to posters, we have all sorts of tools to help your business get new customers and have a great Small Business Saturday
Constant Contact is helping small businesses get ready for the big day
Holiday Planning Webinar
Promotional Worksheet
To-Do Calendar
BONUS
Learn More: visit http://smallbusinesssaturday.com/
Just like ten years ago when you needed a website to be competitive, website video marketing is very quickly becoming THE must have. There are many reasons why website video marketing is being line-item budgeted by marketers. One of these is that online video production content is the only marketing tool that has a long tail…meaning that a video today can be used for many years to showcase your company and establish longevity and credibility. This long tail means amortizing the marketing investment over a longer period of time.
Additionally, a consistent video production strategy will improve your Google and YouTube algorithm rankings (they both give higher credit to more established content) and will make it easy for viewers to get more relevant content.
Business video marketing is also great for your daily sales and marketing tactics. Research from Forrester, ComScore, eMarketer, and other top organizations all support how marketing with online video production creates some form of action to move prospects into or deeper through the sales cycle.
Online video marketing drives action! Immediately after viewing a company’s video, buyers are far more likely to visit the company’s website or contact the company via phone. In fact, they can be up to 40% more likely to make some sort of contact. This is a pretty dramatic compared to other marketing tactics.
Video is one of the best ways to engage and convert casual browsers into leads and paying customers because, simply put, video reaches out, informs, and builds trust with your customers more quickly, more easily, and more effectively than any other marketing tactic.
Given this, many businesses understand the power of video but are unsure where to begin. Here are five types of easy-to-create videos to help you get started.
After your videos are produced, distribute them every day in your sales and marketing efforts, on your websites, and at other places on the Internet (such as social networking websites, i.e. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube).
Don’t wait until you have to catch up to your competition…gain a competitive advantage today and produce your first series of web marketing videos.
Click Here to Read More
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Castle Wealth has been working with Cooperatives on Financial Planning for years and has created a video series to educate members about different topics. View any video of interest below.
Introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_2zGB39KjA
1. “Two Year Window”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1QEOdsOMs
This video is intended to give you a few ideas to think about pertaining to selling your business in the next one or two years while we are sure what the tax rates will be. In this short video we will briefly touch upon long term capital gains, ordinary income, tax ideas that would be good for the seller, and tax ideas that would be good for the buyer.
2. “Transferring within the Family” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSj1QoU_6DA
This video discusses a few ideas about possibly selling your company to children or perhaps key employees. If you are an owner who is thinking about retiring and selling your business in the next three to five years then perhaps you may find the ideas in this video helpful.
3. “Valuing Your Business”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71OhORQkPCo
This video briefly reviews a couple of different valuation techniques for closely held family businesses. Valuations are very important if you are planning on selling the business to family members, key employees, or another coop member. This video may be helpful if you are planning on retiring and selling the business in the next three to five years.
4. “Protecting Stock and Stockholders”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EV1kfU1Q4
This short video will cover briefly ideas that are very important to business owners when children, in-laws, or key employees become stockholders. In this video we will cover the idea of proper Wills and Revocable Living Trust for business owners, and also buy-sell agreements which are very important. These documents help protect the company and keep the stock within the family. The provisions within these documents are very important to maintain control of a privately held family business.
5. “Retirement Income Ideas”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3zS6fwlPg
When current business owners think about selling the company their future retirement income becomes very important. There are many ways that owners can design the sale of a company in order to retain future income. This video will touch upon selling stock, selling goodwill, deferred compensation, consulting fees, board of director’s fees, and several other ideas for you to consider.
6. “Reducing Taxes”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKer1gsohjk
When it comes time to sell your company saving income taxes becomes very important. There are many different ways to sell a company, but the best plan must combine good ideas for the seller and the buyer. There is only so much useable cash flow that the owner of a business has to work with and the plan that you choose must successfully reduce taxes and have enough cash flow so that the buyer can make all of the necessary payments to the retiring owner and still have plenty of cash flow for the buyer to live on.
7. “Types of Businesses”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0wmexkGWY
There are several different types of businesses that you can use. For example, C Corporations, S Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Family Limited Partnerships, and others. If you are planning on selling the company in a few years you want to make sure that the entity that you are using currently for your business will give you the least amount of tax obligation when it is time to sell. During the years that you have owned the company has your basis in the stock increased? When you sell your company will you and the company both pay taxes on the sale? This video will cover briefly a few ideas about corporations and give you ideas to think about
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BizUnite is starting to schedule webinars hosted by our amazing member services team. The webinars are part of a new marketing campaign to engage members. All of the webinars are meant to be educational and a quick overview of the services and programs we offer. BizUnite wants to increase the awareness our organization's members have about the services we offer and build a strong relationship.
The member services representative hosts a 15 minute short webinar educating members on the following topics and answers member questions:
The webinar includes specific information for each organization and focuses on the programs that have the most potential or are the most successful with the membership.
BizUnite is finding that webinars help make it easier for members to understand our offering of services and start building a relationship with their dedicated member services representative. Webinars allow us to show our membership how to use the marketplace and inquire about all of the offerings, which is arming them with the information to save.
Look for more webinar invitations, video testimonials, and other interactive forms of media to be used by BizUnite is the near future.
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