Investing in a Volatile, Yet Trendless, Market

As the SEC neglects mandated deadlines for implementing key components of the JOBS Act, America’s businesses constituting all sizes and industries are losing valuable opportunities to raise expansion capital, innovate and create new jobs. At the same time, America’s smaller investors continue to miss out on the chance to recapture portfolio yield and help fuel economic expansion.

Fortunately, the States are beginning to adopt their own legislation that legalizes crowdfunding under an intrastate exemption. Join us for this insightful webinar and learn how intrastate crowdfunding is set to unite communities and inspire local economic growth.

Moderator: Dara Albright, Founder, NowStreet – Panelists: *Douglas S. Ellenoff, Partner at Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole; * Richard J. Salute, CPA, Consultant with extensive expertise in capital markets and securities regulations; *Jeff Bekiares and Megan Johnson, Co-Founders of SparkMarket, the nation’s first bona fide crowdfunding portal allowing unaccredited investors to legally crowdfund via intrastate exemption.

Bonus session

How to unleash the power of technology.

March Quarter 2013 GREIT Market Update

This webinar presents a streamlined process that puts business growth planning on steroids! It has been designed to reveal specific ways you can become more profitable in the next 12 months by creating a simple 6-step business plan. Short-term planning builds long-term results, but it doesn’t have to be difficult or require lots of writing. Join us to learn how to transform your ideas into actions with this dynamic and focused one-page planning approach.

Discover:
- The #1 marketing strategy most companies fail to execute
- A simple 6-part planning process that focuses on business growth and defines daily priorities (say “goodbye” to overwhelm!)
- The 6 simple questions you’ll answer in your plan that automatically save you time and money (especially in the areas of new client acquisition and MARKETING)
- How to design objectives that are MOTIVATING and PRODUCE the RESULTS you desire
- The formulas to construct a vision statement, objectives, strategies, and action items (and leave the webinar having created at least one of each)

Learn the secrets of how to fill your pipeline with qualified prospects and develop a community of raving fan customers.

Since the signing of the JOBS Act in April 2012, there has been a lot of speculation as to how the angel and VC community will participate in crowdfunding and view businesses possessing heavily populated cap tables. Chris Camillo, an accomplished angel investor, author of Laughing at Wall Street and one of the country’s top crowdfunding industry analysts will show issuers how to obtain angel investors during and after crowdfunding campaigns.

This webinar is ideal for any company seeking to raise capital via the forthcoming crowdfund exemption as well as any professional guiding new crowdfund issuers such as investment bankers, investor-relations professionals, brokers, emerging portals, CPAs and attorneys.

We interviewed social media maven, Cathy Curtis on the following topics:
- The Value of Having a Target Client
- Turning Your Website into a Lead Generator
- Attracting Your Perfect Client
- Blogging Best Practices
- What advisors could do better

Did her answers spur new ideas for your practice? Do you still have unanswered questions you'd like to ask Cathy?

To help answer any questions that might've arisen, we've invited Cathy back for a live Q&A with our audience. Don't miss this chance to connect with Cathy and to ask her your questions!

In this live webcast, Aberdeen's Donald Amstad speaks to the structural factors that are influencing the Asian region and why Aberdeen believes Asia has such potential from an investment perspective.

The “Preparing Issuers for equity-based Crowdfunding” webinar is ideal for any company seeking to raise capital via the imminent crowdfund exemption as well as any professional guiding new crowdfund issuers such as investment bankers, investor-relations professionals, brokers, emerging portals, CPAs and attorneys.

Format will be as follows:
•Introduction – Dara Albright, Founder of NowStreet (5 minutes)
•Liz Kulik, CEO and co-founder of donation- and equity-based crowdfunding incubator ProHatch, will provide:
o Key differences between equity and other forms of crowdfunding,
oAn overview of the latest developments in equity crowdfunding,
oTips for ways issuers can begin preparing for their crowdfunding campaigns,
oConcrete steps to ensure issuers are ready to hit the ground running once equity crowdfunding goes live (15 min)
•Mary Juetten, Founder of Traklight will discuss protecting the issuers IP when Crowdfunding (15 min)
•Ruth Hedges, Founder of FundingRoadap will discuss becoming compliant for equity crowdfunding (15 min)
•Q & A (10 min)