CBC is a consulting group that brings a strategic approach to your Internet presence. We combine technology, management, marketing and financial elements into coherent,. one-stop management e-solutions to moving your business into the 21st century!

Whether for Internet marketing or to electronically take your company public, we know how to help you build a presence that will affect the fortunes of your company for years to come.

CBC is a professional affiliation of executives from diverse backgrounds who understand traditional businesses and are good at integrating management, marketing and finance with electronic networks. We can conceive network strategies, design integrated systems, build them, give them content, maintain them and offer a management vision of how they should evolve, and a compass to steer by - whether for E-Commerce or raising Equity Capital on the Internet.

That vision involves helping clients exploit the extraordinary potential of the Internet -- along with its intranet, Extranet and virtual private network variations. We understand the importance of emerging new technologies, such as DSL, and how the Internet both parallels traditional ways of doing business and is something altogether new, yet not different at all, and our technology emphasis is directed at empowering clients, for example, to do their own web hosting!

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Business & Marketing Planning

CBC's top-level managers can help - from business planning and "Electronic Equity Marketing" to defining Internet marketing goals and the creation of sophisticated Extranets.

Whether you are looking for equity capital, a public web site or enhanced productivity through the use of a corporate intranet, we can help guide you through the challenges ahead.

The Internet has become one of the most confusing issues business leaders must deal with on a daily basis. They have many questions, few of them with clear and concise answers. For example:

• Should all of our employees have Internet access?
• Should we have a public web site?
• What benefits could be achieved for our business by using the Web?
• Does our business need an intranet or an Extranet? (And, by the way, what is an Extranet?)
• Can we raise equity capital on the Internet?

Our management, financial and marketing consulting services assist you in determining the benefits your company achieves using web technologies. Our design and development team then proposes to create your unique electronic presence.

When you are comfortable with a total corporate strategy CBC applies solid, traditional business rules to Web marketing and publishing dynamics. If you're raising capital, once we complete your securities registration your Equity Marketing Web sites are ready! Then, we work with you to administer and support the equity development program within the predefined, aggressive management and marketing context.

We can prepare a Preliminary Analysis for Equity Offerings, or an Internet Technology Application Proposal, but before you start spending on Internet marketing research or development, take the time to get an informal, no cost opinion on the benefits of using CBC Communications Corp.   To contact us use this Information Request Form, or call 707-579-8986.

Capital Raising Programs

CBC Communications Corp.'s Direct Public Offering (DPO) team is unique among consulting groups...

We've accomplished a very tight integration of legal, financial, general management, electronic marketing and advertising skills. And more, we've done it! We have the "hands-on" experience of receiving DPO proceeds and know what it's like to be responsible to stockholders after a DPO service team has earned their fees!

Electronic Equity Marketing can be private stock offerings to a company's affinity group (e.g., loyal customers) or it can be broadcasted with banner advertising, on-line public relations, electronic press releases and Web site registering for Internet search engines. The Internet is also useful for conventional marketing techniques such as "tomb stone" offering advertising included in a company's business Web site (as well as a company's product packaging) in order to more effectively reach their customers or potential customers.

CBC's approach to servicing capitalization needs of small companies is to plan an integration of all the elements that make up successful equity capital development programs. We do it by using financial modeling techniques that "look at" the effects of Electronic Commerce. To that we add "know how" in designing and implementing customer/investor databases that work with Offering Web sites and integrate with a company's current marketing, sales and MIS systems (see, examples, Electronic Equity Marketing).

CBC Communications Corp. can strategically position and optimize a DPO candidate's potential DPO market, public awareness, valuation and pricing, while minimizing major shareholder dilution and exposure.

  25k CBC white paper: Raising Capital for Small Companies using SCOR and the Internet

Strategic Alliances

We have management expertise and are willing to strategically align with companies that see the advantages of partnering with people who can help them increase market share and profitability.  Our corporate-level view allows us to assist with a range of possibilities, from an Electronic Equity Marketing program development to simply leveraging Internet commerce positions into strategic alliances.

We also provide value-adding management services that can turn a company around or redirect its energies into more profitable paths. Toward that end CBC can be interested in strategic allying with companies that see the value of collaboration with potential equity partners who earn a stake through such value-added services and results. To contact us use this Information Request Form, or call 707-579-8986.

Here's a snapshot of CBC's primary consultants.

Karl Reed Guest, Attorney
Larkspirit Editorial
Imagine Computing
CBC's Managing Director

Reed Guest

Reed Guest is a San Francisco-base attorney who specializes in business law, including mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property. He is the author of this web site's in-depth discussion on Internet capital raising, "Raising Capital for Small Companies, Using SCOR and the Internet."

"The Internet is presenting small businesses with almost revolutionary possibilities, especially with regard to raising capital. The government's approval of DPOs (Direct Public Offerings) using SCOR (Small Corporate Offering Registration) over the Internet radically changes the traditional relationship between small companies and capital markets. These companies can now go directly to millions of potential investors, bypassing traditional institutional investors."

"In short, 'the little guys' now have a chance to compete directly for investor favor by using a technology where they are not at a disadvantage when it comes to larger rivals. I think CBC's emphasis on electronic equity marketing as crucial to an overall web site strategy is an example of how much more clients should expect from any web site developer they work with."

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Larkspirit

Larkspirit Editorial. Several years ago a college literature professor told a Modern Language Association conference that "clear writing shows a lack of complex thinking skills and imposes a simplistic world view on the reader." He later boasted that a book he had recently written could be understood by perhaps only 20 other people in the world.

When you read a statement like that, it becomes clear that the act of writing has some important choices attached to it:   Like the professor, you can choose to join the cult that believes the inability to communicate clearly somehow makes its members superior. Or, you can write in a way that communicates with a broad range of intelligent people, and invites them to enter your world and see your point of view.

There's no magic to writing in a way that reaches people. Magic means waving a wand and awaiting an instant result -- good writing is a bit more labor-intensive than that. Like the construction of any well-made thing, it requires a willingness to pay attention to details and follow proven rules about how language can be streamlined to make it straightforward and clear.

At Larkspirit, we look for ways to take your story and tell it so well that readers are never aware of how the story is designed to hold their attention. The writing becomes transparent; the message it carries is what is important. 

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IMAGINE

At IMAGINE, we help businesses unlock the power of information technology. From initial client/server evaluations and complex system integration to data warehouse implementation, IMAGINE offers solutions that enable companies to compete successfully and yield a return on their investment.

At IMAGINE, our goal is to give your business the competitive edge today, in tomorrow’s market. To do this, we stay ahead of today’s technology and link our clients’ present capabilities with future needs.

When you work with IMAGINE, you can count on a solution that is aligned with your business. Our client/server specialists are masters at translating complicated technical issues into a language everyone can understand. We are comfortable in the boardroom or in the warehouse.

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CBC-Valente

CBC's Managing Director, Tony Valente, is a former U.S. Navy submariner who holds a degree in literature from Columbia University.  As a CEO for three small companies Valente has raised over $1 million of equity capital for each. His hands-on know-how of what it takes to successfully fund a company and to be responsible to stockholders "after the offering" is one of CBC's key assets that contributes to the Company's uniqueness.

A global thinker with formidable powers of concentration, Valente is noted for his ability to patiently pursue solutions to knotty technical and organizational problems, then act decisively. He holds three U.S. patents, products of the three high-tech companies he  founded in the 1960s, 70s and 80s: Quantum Industries (thin-layer and column chromatographic products); Telesonic Systems (milliwatt output AM radio devices for museum and national park site tours); American Gem Market System (international network gemstone trading).

When he established American Gem Market System (AGMS) in 1980 in Moraga, CA, Valente became an early pioneer of the possibilities of conducting commercial transactions over computer networks. AGMS was one of the first  networks in the world to introduce the concepts of private channels and gateways.  Its sophisticated user-oriented services pushed the communications and computer technologies of that time to their limits.

By the late 1980s, AGMS was recording $100 million a year in gem transactions, a foretaste of the high dollar-volume amounts now being generated by electronic commerce.

Today, as he watches concepts and services he introduced to AGMS subscribers 15 years ago become commonplace, Valente has turned his attention to helping small businesses understand how much a conscious approach to web site development can help their marketing and organization in the Internet era.

"There is so much more to a web site than eye candy and ringing mission statements. If properly approached, a good web site can open up a world of interactive marketing possibilities and give clients and customers a genuine feeling of participation and belonging.

"It can become a focal point for how a company organizes itself and conceives of itself. It can even become a means of raising capital without having to compete directly with far larger companies for investors' attention.

"The real news today is that networking and web technology are 'great enablers'. . .small businesses that can find the right help in using them are poised to make fantastic strides."

To contact us use this Information Request Form, or call 707-579-8986.

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