The 'Executive Edge' Newsletter for Leaders, Professionals Executives & Owners from Paul Helmick, Premier Strategies
Published July 2005 - Available on the web at www.premierstrategies.com/news/NL2005-07.htm

  Advantage Valley Entrepreneurial League System ... has been funded with a $2 million dollar grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.  Learn more about how ELS is developing entrepreneurial talent (great news article), creating successful companies and building entrepreneurial communities.

Click for Recent News Article

 West Virginia Small Business Health Plan



 
www.wvsbp.org

West Virginia Small Business Plan Offers Lower Cost Health Insurance and helps make company-sponsored health insurance more affordable. Premium costs can be as much as 22 percent lower than the going market rates for comparable policies.

 MATRIC Funding & Commercial Research

www.matric.cc - MATRIC has announced it's new funding as well as it collaboration in the automotive research and development market.

This compliments MATRIC's mission of enhancing cooperation between state universities, research communities and to go after larger and more significant research.  MATRIC has both for-profit and non-profit R&D capabilities.
More information on MATRIC Commercial Research.
 

  Capitol Street Office  Space Available

Preservati Law Offices, located on the 10th floor of the Kanawha Valley Building (see building) is expanding out another several thousand square feet and has some professional offices available to sublet in the next 30 days.

If you are looking to enter the Charleston market and would like a professional office in the heart of town please let us know.


 
Wanted to Buy
$25-50 Million of Assets Under Management
- We are helping a buyer find a book of business to transition to an asset management firm.  If you know of accomplished stockbrokers or financial advisors who may be retiring and want to exit their business via a buyout, please contact us to help get them connected with a buyer.
 

  Wanted to Buy
Coal/Gas Reserves & Operations in WV
 
- If you know individuals in the coal industry who would consider selling certain assets, properties or operations, please contact us and we will work to help connect them with buyers.

  Want to Find Coal/Gas Companies Needing
$5-$15M of Investment Capital to Grow/Expand

- If you know individuals or companies in this industry who are seeking investment capital to grow or put together a deal to expand, please contact us and we will help connect them with investment partners.


 

  Ask Yourself...

 
Would you like to buy an established  business or acquire key assets, customers or talent to grow your business?

Premier works as a business broker and helps you find opportunities to acquire companies, capital and management to grow 

 


  
WV Inc Magazine Launches this Week
www.wvinconline.com 

...for Entrepreneurs and Growing Companies... The inaugural issue hits the streets this week in print.

WVInc Online Home Page

  New State Journal Website Online
www.statejournal.com

If you haven't visited recently - a whole new look is online - and it's a great way to keep up with breaking local West Virginia news.


 

  WV Executive Launches
 www.WVHealthweb.com

Providing in-depth articles and information on healthcare in West Virginia, this new healthcare portal is well organized and offers quick references to health information and resources.

The newest issue of WV Executive is also at the newsstands and is really focused on healthcare, providing several exceptional articles as well.

 


 
Make your own PDF Files - Free... Use the Cute PDF Writer to create a .pdf file of your documents, spreadsheets, or print off web articles to save / forward as a .pdf file. This saves you hundreds of dollars and works great for sharing information in .pdf files.

Example: A friend of mine, David Allen, author of "Getting Things Done" helps executives all over the world with personal productivity - he shares his personal workflow diagram in .pdf form.
 

 The 100 Best Technology Products of 2005 - So you want to be cool, hip, conversational, up-to-date, squared away?  But don't have time to read all those magazines and reviews?  Here it is... By Category or the Entire List A-Z - What's cool. What's hot. and most important... What works...
 


 
Sex Offender Lists Published Online
  ... maybe I've just watched one too many episodes of CSI, but I read these lists were online with photo's for each county in the state & 22 other states and thought they should be shared..

  Google Earth -  you saw the satellite maps - and you thought that was cool... You haven't seen anything yet... Download for Free (they paid millions - so enjoy!) - Google Earth. earth.google.com and you can go anyplace in the WORLD and zoom in, tilt down the perspective and do flyovers like you're in a plane (less the training and insurance) - Even bookmark places you have been for a global flyover and zoom in tour in full satellite resolution.
 


 

               

Thank you for your relationship and interest. 
As a client, partner, vendor, advisor and friend, we appreciate your allowing us to share news and information that can help you grow and prosper in your business and in your personal and professional endeavors.

Sincerely,
Paul W. Helmick, CEO

paul@premierstrategies.com

 

 


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  CEO Express Tools
www.ceoexpress.com

... the true one-stop shop for CEO's, business professionals and the rest of us.  99% of the web... On one single page...
 


 
Business For Sale:
Auction Express


$50-$75k Asset/Stock Purchase

This small business in Charleston going to market due to it's owner having to leave town to be closer to some new family responsibilities.

An exciting high-growth opportunity for someone who wants to quickly get into business for themselves and take an established and proven E-Bay consignment store business model forward.  Best suited for an owner-manager who wants to enjoy the upside of growing a business.

Respond immediately if you would like to be included and considered as a potential buyer of this business.  
 

  Ask Yourself...

Would you like to sell your business - move on to your next investment, perhaps retire?


Premier works as a business broker to find buyers for your business. Learn how we can help you. 

 


 
Sales Compensation Survey -
A fantastic (and free) .pdf summary report of their findings for 2005 base compensation and incentive compensation models as published by Sales and Marketing Management Magazine.
 


 
WV New Business Lists
- Are you interested in knowing who has started a business in your town, city, county or market?  We help clients conduct inexpensive and timely B2B direct marketing campaigns each month that new business data is published.

Each month 400-500 new businesses are charted or have ownership changes that go on record - these may be perfect leads for you to grow new business from - if you have a systematic way of communicating with them when the time is right. Contact us to learn how to act on and benefit from this information each month.
 

  Grow Sales Revenue & Profits

 Premier's Business Consulting services focus our time, talent, relationships and resources on improving your top line revenues and bottom line results.
 


Sales & Marketing Professionals - we're starting to grow in several lines of business and need to meet some entrepreneurial sales and marketing folks who know what it takes to help serve a client well and grow a profitable line of business.

  Access Database Developers - Please help put us in touch with some database pro's... We always have client projects that involve direct marketing databases and customer relationships management projects.  Any skills in database publishing to the web is a great plus.

 

 The 'Executive Edge' Newsletter for Leaders, Professionals Executives & Owners from Paul Helmick, Premier Strategies
Published April 2005 - Available on the web at www.premierstrategies.com/news/NL2005-07.htm

300 Capitol Street, Suite 1018, Charleston, WV 25301 (800) 300-2725 Phone/Fax Paul W. Helmick, CEO, www.premierstrategies.com Copyright 2005, info@premierstrategies.com