Economic Zeitgeist and Bringing Power Back To The Citizens

When I was in graduate school, I had the discipline to study hard, get involved in various club organizations that catered to diversifying my abilities in business and finance but always felt that something was lacking. We would learn about economics within the capitalist and communist systems, pros and cons of globalization, big government, the instability of non-entrepreneurial markets and every other concept that catered to our professor’s desire to legitimize their theories by blasting out intimidating formulas that were true in theory but impossible in real life. If an economic stimulus is fully functional on paper due to formulas and calculation yet has never and will never work in the ‘real world’, what’s the point?

I’m eight years out of university and running a clean environment facility manufacturing everything from surgical equipment to dual circuit transistors and as I’ve grown into my career I’ve tossed the text books as a reference as it was getting me nowhere and started researching strategic economics with special attention focused on turning corporations and urban landscapes around from the black hole of absolute demise to a gleaming representation of socially responsible economic turnaround, without the government’s corrupt fangs plunging into the veins of the community. This concept of economic strategy has been labeled ‘Zeitgeist Economics’, a completely original political economic strategies concept that turns a blind eye to the bloodletting concepts by unproven governmental organizations that jack taxes, minimize citizen options, push back retirement age to correct the mistakes of the ill-informed yet uncompromising politicians that don’t know the difference between political economics and sock mending.

The headmaster and intellectual giant leading the Zeitgeist Economics movement is James Scott, Founder of a global strategies firm called Princeton Corporate Solutions in Manhattan, New York. The term ‘Economic Zeitgeist’ means the awakening of a population fueled by the intellectual capacity and drive to demand change with data driven evidence of establishment perpetuated failure. The movement doesn’t sacrifice momentum with time wasting concepts like protests or letter writing; instead those involved in this movement use the unwritten rules of the system to force change within the system. Most E.Z. participants have MBA or PhD. degrees with powerful legislative experience to create PAC, Lobby and think tank organizations that assist them in forcing the hand of change.

The incredible truth about this movement is that it parallels a broad spectrum of mind-blowing and obscenely cutting edge competencies for prompt and precise economic action within a target region. At the forefront of this movement, James Scott is a member of some of the world’s most elite economic think tanks that study and fill in the gaps for new legislation that will be passed today and without the expert analysis of Scott and his colleagues, the damages of inferior or irresponsible lawmakers would, otherwise, rain down five years from now and the blame will be passed and there would be no accountability while global citizens carry the debt load.

I’ve subscribed to the RSS feed for James Scott’s company and this was one of the most recent blog posts placed online. One of the characteristics of Scott that has catapulted him to the absolute pinnacle of global economics with an entire movement following his lead is his strategic, yet tactical, methodical yet well-paced process and a track record that leaves him in a class by himself. His writing is philosophical (with its flow sounding almost poetic) and attracts those who are looking for the well rounded expertise of a genuine economist with real life capabilities to save countries, cities and global corporations from self-destruction. Public recognition of his supreme abilities come with the occasional radio or magazine interview but for the most part it is the massive blogging of economists, MBA’s, PhD’s and international think tank members and professionals that have seen the end result of his mind-blowing economic turnaround, corporate structuring and political economic strategies.

I love the way the below entry reads. I get it all, philosophy, poetic flow, encyclopedia size content condensed into one page and the satisfaction of knowing that I’m reading some notes jotted down by a man that will eventually be referred to in the history books as the father of the Economic Zeitgeist movement, the process of Zeitgeist Economics and the for having the guts to tear out the eyes of the establishment and pass the keys to the kingdom to the citizens of the world as he guides us all on how to take our civilization back from political corruption and a debt driven hodgepodge concoction of monetary stew.

Executive Death Agreement: Executing Inhibitors That Cripple Organizations By James Scott, CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions

One of the most critical realities that a CEO of a public organization must face is the process and decision to die; death not in a physical sense, rather a snuffing out of the ego. Ego driven entities always fail and those who lead organizations under the false pretense of arrogance soon find out that this arrogance is nothing more than a temporary ‘fix’ to filling an emotional void within themselves with rapidly evaporating gravel. Emotionally led people lack stability due to the swings generated by the primal brain, a reactionary pleasure seeking portion of the mind offering the fight or flight, animalistic yet un-evolved action center.

One who leads with the ego distracts those he manages through the blindness of the emotions. Staring through a decision making lens corroded with the decay and grime of ongoing emotional inhibitors disallows the visual clarity that comes with a more evolved analytical perspective that ‘responds’ rather than ‘reacts’. A ‘response’ takes into consideration timing, tact, concept evolution, perception and has, at all times an eye towards the future. A ‘reactionary’ expression is fueled by all areas of the un-evolved ego: pride, insecurity, pure emotion, fight or flight and other regrettable and consistently damning actions no longer relevant yet still genetically present today from prehistoric man.

With the evolution and intellectual development of man comes the development of the analytical skills that allow one to dissect information and critique various responses before an idea can crash through the minds recently evolved critical faculty and plunge into the reactionary, animalistic primal brain which will spew forth an ocean of emotion driven reactions with universally negative outcomes.

Decision making via calculated and analytical processes minus the emotional cancer causing agents that cloud and stunt a corporation’s longevity and prosperity will attract strategic alliances, create comfort zones for much needed investors and streamline expansion strategies due to tactical templates designed by a C level executive that can think objectively without the collateral damage stemming from emotional reaction.

Find the original blog entry at PCS,if you’re curious, What is a Zeitgeist?

Taking A Company Public, IPO Consultants, Globalization Strategists: How To Pick The Right Consultant

I talk to Ivy League MBA’s on an daily basis (as if that even means anything anymore) and at the end of each conversation I just want to scream into the phone, ‘Do you have anything other than text book graphs and memorized clich quotations?’. I feel, in a way, ripped off. Turn on the TV and you see the talking heads telling automatons what to think about current events and the resume to the left of the screen talks about Harvard this, Princeton that and at the end of the segment you find that all they were doing is regurgitating information spoon-fed to them by corrupt manipulators placing them on that program to promote an agenda as opposed to introducing original and true concepts to viewers. Don’t get me wrong, Ivy League graduates make great employees when they are in an environment where they are controlled but as for free thinking and creative entrepreneurial strategists, well, sorry but they just don’t have it.

I’ve never been at a round table meeting after hours for a crisis management issue concerning the jobs of massive groups of people where anyone at the table was from an Ivy League school. The people around the table are people with something to prove, not to others but to themselves and this ‘proving ground’ is not based on insecurity, rather the obsession with pressing the intellectual and strategic evolution of the mind. Genius is not defined by intellectual IQ rather it is defined by emotional IQ, street-smart and inner demons that keeps one up at night with globalization charts and crisis response targeting maps. It’s the mentality of win at all costs, crush competition and controlled and evenly distributed rage to annihilate obstacles and absorb market share that makes one great in globalization and IPO facilitation. Attorneys are a must for corporate expansion processes and going public but they should never be the lead on the overall strategy. As for education, I’m more interested in the post university street education of a consultant or employee than where they when to university, as long as they had the discipline to complete their degree in a timely fashion, got involved and took advantage of all the school had to offer is a good start.

When choosing a consultant for political tie in strategies, globalization, ‘real’ mergers and acquisition facilitation and IPO’s you need someone that has presence. Look for nervous habits, the proper consultant will be absent of such ‘tells’, their eyes should tell a story of hardship and victory which is defined by their gaze which will penetrate you, intimidate you and make you uncomfortable, for; this is exactly what you want in someone that will be speaking and engaging the opposition on your behalf. They won’t need the last word in the meeting because they know that if they take you on as a client, in the end, their word is all that will matter anyway because they know the depth of their abilities that are most likely beyond your comprehension as during your conversations is mind is storming with tactical maps as he plugs your scenario into them formulating strategies that, based off of his track record, will already know the outcome before your meeting is over therefor he can give you a realistic perspective of your economic and corporate fate before a contract is even consummated.

The proper consultant is a street wise, intellectual street fighter that is open to confrontation under the right circumstances but doesn’t seek it out. Their decisions during a meeting are not solely based off of the words of the party on the other side of the table rather a combination of words, intonation, head tilt, facial creases, hand gestures, lip movement, body movement and other involuntary tells that give the truth behind the lies and over exaggerations.

The above is a guide to finding the right consultant after you’ve looked at the resume and want to take the next step with a consultant to take your entity to the next level.

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America’s Top 10 Consulting and Global Strategies Firms

Internationally, the top business strategies firms and corporate consulting firms are in the United States yet operate here and abroad. The Top Ten firms when taking into consideration globalization capabilities, governmental client base, regional rebound power, corporate ‘Who’s Who’ client base and overall exposure would easily be McKinsey & Co. based in New York, Bain & Company out of Boston, The Boston Consulting Group, Monitor Co. centralized out of Cambridge, Arthur D. Little, the omnipresent Booz Allen & Hamilton, newcomer Princeton Corporate Solutions a recent transplant to NYC from Philadelphia, Mercer Management Consulting in DC, AT Kearney in lonely Chicago and Mitchell Madison Group, another New York Madison Ave veteran. These companies have their strengths and weaknesses.

One universal strength is that they have unique and targeted niches. They are lean and mean and able to turn on a dime when making a decision. From an employment perspective these companies have more downside than upside. If you’re considering working at any one of these firms expect long hours, seniority rule (last to be hired is the first to go) which works out well for those that can hide behind their desk and duck behind the computer monitor when management comes by to lower the hatchet on the non-performers and rookies.

If you’re looking to hire one of these companies know what sets them apart from other firms and why you are paying the premium for their efforts. The Boston Consulting Group specializes in strategies consulting known for creating matrices and diagrams to clarify issues, Bain stresses that all its strategy recommendations must be immediately useful totally customized around the client, McKinsey & Co is focused mainly on the ‘long term’ strategy that builds traction over time best suited for those experiencing current organic growth and want to maintain it with a plan that will begin to yield scalability results a year or two down the road. (note: McKinsey & Co. is a hiring giant with over 9,000 consultants globally.

Princeton Corporate Solutions is a small firm with massive international exposure to senior governmental officials. Their unique blend of economic/political regional and corporate turnaround has made them one of the most powerful micro-corps on the international scene. (note: it’s pointless to try to engage their HR director for a job because, as difficult as this is to believe, they don’t have a human resource department, if you’re the best in your field of expertise, they’ll find you, spooky.)

Are you an MBA? How’s it feel to have wasted your time? Booz & Co, McKinsey and Princeton Corporate Solutions want real world experience and pedigree as opposed to a hiring decision based off of educational and solely analytical.

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Pre IPO Investing – Pre IPO Investments – A Must Read

For diversified investors, the IPO is the holy grail of all investments. Why? Because of the higher yields involved with a company with a great concept that is about to step onto the scene and change the order of an industry. Many times the investors are able to take advantage of a deeply discounted stock price compared to the retail price available to the mainstream.

For those who have experienced the power of an IPO, the next natural stage is the Pre IPO. A Pre IPO investment a few months before the company is issued a trading symbol is the creme de la creme of all stock investments. Many times investors are offered warrants for discounted future offerings with the company; the stock is typically discounted deeply to the IPO price, which in turn is discounted to the retail price. The investment mechanism is typically done via Private Placement Memorandum using rule exemption 506 of Regulation D.

Investors should make sure that the PCAOB audit and S1 authoring are underway or completed before going into an investment. The company should offer potential investors a package which includes a solid business plan, PPM stating risks and a valuation from which the share price originates. The share price will come from the valuation, number of authorized shares, total amount of capital to be raise pre public etc.

Another deal aspect to pay close attention to before investing is the market creation process put in place by the company. A strong Investor Relations and publicity campaign is crucial to generating interest in an IPO and this strategy should be put in place during the company’s comments phase with the SEC (if it is an OTCBB listing the company is initiating).

A solid investor relations campaign will consist of, at a minimum, two press releases per week, phone room assistance to introduce the company to the broker and investment market, SEO campaign, iTunes company and industry position downloads for interested parties, webinars, investor newsletter as well as radio, TV and university expert panel interviews and other public interactions to make the public aware of the company, product/service and stock symbol.

The above is just a Pre IPO investor introduction to help seasoned investors with their due diligence process and portfolio diversification.

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How To Take A Company Public – Over The Counter Bulletin Board

There are many ways to use capital without using bank loans, lines of credit and other shady methods like shelf corps and bogus platform scams. If you are truly trying to raise capital for your company here are some simple breakdowns of your options with a quick definition for each one:

 PIPE: Private Investment In Public Equity this is used primarily by mutual funds and private investment firms where they buy discount stock in order to raise capital, there are two types of PIPEs traditional where common and preferred stock is issued at a set cap to raise money for the issuer and a structured pipe issues convertible debt.

 DPO: Direct Public Offering is when you sell equity shares directly to customers, suppliers and employees.

 PPM: Private Placement Memorandum is also known as an offering memorandum takes advantage of Regulation D rule exemptions 504, 505 and 506. This process came into existence with the’33 securities act and popularized in the late’80s, companies can raise money from the public via private placement; there is virtually zero interaction with the SEC after you file form d as long as you stay legal. (most popular form of fund raising).

 IPO: Initial Public Offering: extremely expensive, need SOX 404 audits, must have board of directors, quarterly financial reports to shareholders, report heavily to the SEC and 1 out of every 1000 companies that want an IPO actually qualify. I love participating in these but most companies just can’t qualify for one reason or the other.

 OTCBB: Over the Counter Bulletin Board is an electronic quote system that is the next best thing if you can’t go public via ipo, there is minimal red tape to startups and small businesses and is legitimized by the stringent ongoing reports to the SEC which keeps investor confidence high (these are extremely solid and I suggest this structure to companies when I am hired by their company or legal team as a consultant as a fast, easy way to raise big capital from the public otc)

 Pink Sheet: you can look at pink sheets as the Burger King, while the OTCBB is McDonalds, they are competing otc mechanisms. Pinks sheets are commonly referred to as penny stock and notorious for ‘pump em’ and dump em’ controversies and a lot of crooked people are involved with this platform. This is not a long term process that will allow one’s company to grow, pink sheets companies are typically short lived but it is cheap to set up but not a professional structure that could be upgraded in time to an IPO.

 Reverse Merger: a group funds the filing and creation of a public shell, they then sell that shell to a company that wants to go public, the established company merges it’s entity into the public shell. The sellers retain around 30% equity after they charge an upfront fee of 300k to 1m. 99% of reverse mergers are successful with the merger, but unsuccessful to bring them to trade and the entity basically just fizzles out.

Taking your company public is actually quite simple and inexpensive when you have the right consultant putting the structure together for you. There are countless ways to raise capital quickly and easily. It’s important that you understand your options before you waste time entering into the red tape infested banking system for a loan.

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Global Expansion – Taking A Company Public – Who Should Proceed And Who Should Give It Up

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.

Your industry is actually secondary but the reality is that it should be as ‘recession proof’ as possible. I know what you’re thinking, nothing is recession proof and yes you are partially correct. But your corporation should still be able to operate during a recession and still bring in, no matter how slim, profits during hard times. This is how you will be able to bring in securities back PIPE loans and LOC’s when your stock is trading in minimal volume. I could go on about this point for pages upon pages but I only have 400 words to get my point across so I’ll move on.

Globalization is an endeavor that should only be taken on once you’ve conquered your own backyard. When you’ve truly dominated your competition in one region you should facilitate and supplement your growth by using your public stock as collateral for controlled liquidation if you go delinquent. Don’t liquidate shares onto the market in order to raise capital for that expansion to China or Japan. Your company should be able to use is liquid proceeds above and beyond operational costs for this growth and at a worst case you would collateralize assets or securities to come up with the rest of the cash needed.

Most companies that see greener pastures in another country are still two years too early for the expansion. Get an opinion from your corporate and legal advisors then go to your board, bring it to a vote then if the expansion is approved you should bring on a consultant to iron out the kinks and use their contact base to help you grow with as few bumps in the road as possible.

At the end of the day you should bring on the right people who are completely submerged in the IPO and globalization industry to help guide you during the above processes. If you feel you are ready have a meeting with your C level group of executives and write down the pros and cons for going public or expanding and if the pros out weight the cons, find yourself a turnkey consulting firm and take it from there.

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Need Investment Capital? Go Public On The OTCBB

Most companies who are on the venture capital trail are not set up properly to attract investors. When an investor looks at your business plan and private placement memorandum they are looking for certain things. Of course funding sources look for the obvious, a solid business model, positive cash flow, industry genre with solid future growth, recession proof business (if there even is such a thing) and minimal debt.

Countless companies are turned down for funding because they lack the basics such as: an advisory board, board of directors, solid executive staff with a well groomed pedigree, reasonable share price, business plan and PPM that spell out the risks for the investor and an original marketing strategy that covers all the angles. These are just a few of the most common mistakes that companies make out of naivety and by not taking the time to hire an expert to properly structure them to make the entity appeal to investors.

Seasoned expansion and turn-around consultants can step into a company and immediately zone in on the issues that will hinder a client’s investment magnetism. Often times it only takes 2 to 3 weeks to completely reorganize a company to make it stand out like a beacon in the turbulent finance industry. If you are seriously considering the idea of raising capital with a private placement memorandum, traditional institutional loans, venture capital or a public offering don’t be penny wise and dollar foolish.

Spend some money and hire a consultant who is completely submerged in the finance industry to take control of the elements of your corporation that are seen as ‘black eyes’ to investors so that you can achieve the capital you’re seeking.

The reality is, raising capital for your company is easy and straight forward if you’ve taken the time to examine your business objectively and sought out the expert analysis of an industry expert consultant who will run your company through a formula and make the necessary changes to increase your ability to raise capital.

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Raise Capital Fast – OTCBB – Global Expansion Consultants

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.

Business owners will often sign their lives away in order to obtain modest loans and lines of credit, the financial equivalent to signing your soul away to the devil in blood. As a globalization consultant I am constantly hearing from small and medium size companies who have proprietary patents and technology and will put them up as collateral for financing.

I must admit, at times its tempting to facilitate a merger between them and an existing client that will result in instantaneous profitability and distribution for my client and the end for this uninformed startup.

If you are an upstart you need to evaluate your options before signing on that dotted line and giving up a pound of flesh. Banks should only be used as a last resort. Venture capital funds should only be considered if all else fails.

Your key to raising capital is to go directly to the public via vehicles such as a Private Placement Memorandum (Regulation D Rule 504, 505 and 506) which will allow you to sell stock in your company in return for capital and the ultimate in maximum capitalization would be to go public on the OTCBB (Over The Counter Bulletin Board), NASDAQ or NYSE. Even the London Exchange or Frankfurt Exchange are better options then institutional lending sources.

Taking your company public, growth through acquisition and merger and solidifying your public position with a hefty amount of corporate publicity and hardcore investor relations, this is what will get you to the next level.

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London Exchanges – London International Exchange – James Scott

Why throw gobs of cash at a publicist with outrageous fees to get you a tiny insignificant article in a newspaper or magazine rag when you can literally become an industry niche sensation overnight using a carefully constructed video and a handful of long tail industry specific keywords?

Traditional publicists have become that’72 bowling ally loitering, disco dancing reject while a new breed of publicists have stepped in and transformed the industry from paper, to cyberspace in only a few short years. Why traditional publicists have been adjusting that pathetic comb over hairstyle, young and aggressive publicists have been creating publicity techniques that deliver results in 24 to 48 hours as opposed to 6 to 8 weeks and as far as results, there is no comparison.

Online marketing and publicity techniques such as creative video submission, if done properly can transform the direction of a failing company to “THE” industry powerhouse almost instantly by loading the video with solid, well thought out descriptions and targeted long tail keyword tags. A publicist who understand the concept of pure video publicity can tailor a campaign that can outperform any traditional publicity technique ever devised by the good ole’ boy networks who overcharge and under deliver for their clients.

Video publicity can stretch past the tiny geographic proximity of a city, across state lines and into international territory. Publicists that specialize in video marketing and other online methods used in strategic combination with one another, will have the client dominating every aspect of their industry niche.

Targeted video promotion by the Web 2.0 type publicists translates into instant client results that build stronger client relations and can transform the future of any company in any industry. Publicity marketing will always offer a turn-key solution to massive amounts of traffic, branding, marketing exposure and all the bells and whistles of a dozen traditional publicity firms.

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Reverse Merger Blog – Shell Merger- Reverse Merger Accounting

Private Placement Memorandum authoring and the process of taking one’s company public are services that require extensive experience and the ability to look at a deal objectively and peripherally to evaluate all the angles to enhance the ability of the client to achieve funding in a timely manner.

Many times, when I’m hired to structure a company before funding, they will be under the impression that my evaluation is a mere formality and they are ready to go. Often I’m the bearer of bad news when I have to break it to the client that their company has more holes than Swiss cheese and 30 to 60 days away from starting the fund raising process.

They will often get a second and then third opinion and usually run into the same thing before they eventually find their way back to our firm. As they call around to consulting firms they perpetually experience the ‘hard sell’ by firms who ‘need’ the business because they lack the rewards and referrals that come with cultivating each client relationship because they take on and spit out deals so fast they hardly remember their client’s name during the transaction.

This mentality dominates the larger firms because of their gargantuan overhead while the boutique firms can take a more personal approach because they have a steady flow of business and referrals because they are not stressed about bringing in the next big deal so they can meet payroll and keep their lights on. The smaller companies that focus on turnaround consulting, private placement memorandum authoring, top tier business plan writing and taking companies public usually take a one on one approach to the consulting process and will rarely pressure clients to sign on because their phone is ringing off the hook with previous clients who want to hire them for the next stage in the evolution of their company’s growth.

This business is all about relationships. Ditch the consultant that applies the high pressure sales tactics and seek out the smaller, more personalized groups that don’t ‘need’ your business but will cultivate and value it.

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