Manny Ramirez struck the winning pose by hitting his second 2 run double in the 10th inning.  Manny, of course thought it was a 3 run homer which is just Manny being Manny.  As he dazed into space and admired his ball from the batter’s box as Julio Lugo was running his tail off from second base to finally score at home. 

Manny is just 1 of 4 Red Sox players in the past 50 years to have 4 RBI’s in Boston’s opening game. 

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How 15 Manny’s or 15 of The Capital Factor’s speakers (www.thecapitalfactor.com) can help you manage and grow your small business.
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10 Reasons to come to The Capital Factor’s Spring Conference
1. one couple brought their credit rating from 250 to 720 in less than six months and how you can too!
2. How to fix any credit challenge, even bankruptcy, the easy way!
3. Where to find over 200 lenders that will lease just about anything to anyone.
4. How to get the SBA guarantee that will enable you to get a loan from a bank.
5. The process for getting small business financing and unsecured loans.
6. Know about the new web-based tools that boost the growth of any business.
7. How to direct more of your web site visitors toward positively responding to your call to action.
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9. How affiliate programs can increase your revenue while you promote other peoples’ products to your customers?
10. How “local search” is becoming one of your most valuable sources for advertising.

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Remember to sign up for your Fantasy Leagues ASAP because the series in Japan begins regular season play.  While you are registering for your fantasy baseball go to www.thecapitalfactor.com and register for one of the best marketing and financing conferences in the country for Small Business.  Come to Denver on April 5, 2008 to find out what all the talk is about (www.thecapitalfactor.com).

Come a day early to see the Colorado Rockies home opener and attend our Quick Start program.  Go to http://thecapitalfactor.com/2008/quickstart.php to learn more and sign up.

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What I didn’t know was that I was getting a credit score by just renting, going to school, etc.  Since I didn’t know, I wasn’t necessarily doing a good job building a good credit score.  Now that I have taken my head out of the sand and learned about taking responsibility for my actions and learning the full consequences of those actions, I am doing much better.  It’s kind of like a grade point average, though; it takes more As in the last semesters of school than in the early semesters to make a change (i.e. balance out that C in Business Statistics I shouldn’t have taken…). 

Like I said, I have now started to learn about how to manage my credit instead of it managing me!  I used to think I should get as many credit cards as I can and use them to the limit.  Bad idea– first, because I didn’t have any emergeny fall back credit (still have a great CD collection from the ’90s though!); second, because I didn’t know my credit was affected by using more than half of my authorized amount; and third, because I didn’t have a very good mix of types of debt– heavy on the revolving, unsecured debt and light on the “pay off in this millenium”, secured type.

So my point is, credit is a deeper, more complex subject than most people know and it certainly affects more things than you know and more than it used to.  That is not likely to change, so you might as well get yourself educated and play the game well. 

I am learning by working with people that already know the rules and soaking in as much as I can from them.  I’m talking about people that know how to start, run and explode a business.  I am helping to organize a conference with 11 of these experts that is coming up the first weekend in April.  Go to www.thecapitalfactor.com to get all of the info!

Being a freshman is difficult but many of these young men are very talented and with a lot of practice have been some of the best athletes on their teams.  Learn how you can be the best in your industry.  Are you a small business owner looking to grow your business? 

Come to one of the best marketing and financing conferences for small businesses; The Capital Factor www.thecapitalfactor.com

The Capital Factor has so much to offer you.  Don’t let this opportunity pass you by.  The Capital Factor is being held in Denver, Colorado on April 5-6 2008.  Register Now www.thecapitalfactor.com

While you are filling out your brackets go to www.thecapitalfactor.com and sign up for one of the best small business conferences.  The Capital Factor will show you how to be the best in the bracket by showing you ways of infusing capital and marketing into your business.  Hurry though, The Capital Factor is right around the corner and you don’t want to miss out!

Be The Tiger Woods of your business. 

 The Capital Factor can help you do that: 

- Learn how to infuse capital and grow your business with finance and marketing strategies. 

- Learn about real-world solutions and marketing that works.

- Listen to some of the best speakers in the country.

Do you have the guts to start a business around it?  As much as it takes guts, it also takes money.  For the sake of a reason to write, let’s assume you don’t have exactly what you need in your pocket.  You may be surprised at all of the options for getting funding to start a business.  You used to have to go to the bank and beg; but don’t bother unless you had something to use as collateral.  Then came the Small Business Administration and other like-programs designed to help people get started.  I say if it looks like a bank, sounds like a bank and smells like a bank…  You get the idea. 

So what is an entrepreneur to do?  What got them to this point of opportunity in the first place– GET CREATIVE.  This is not the time to take no for an answer or only see the cookie-cutter options.  First you want to look to yourself and put your money where your mouth is:  sell assets and/or luxuries you can live without for a while; take out a loan against your home, insurance policies, and/or 401(k) plans; and check out your options with your credit cards.  Outside of yourself, consider requesting either loans, or business-interest purchases from family, friends and/or acquaintances.  Further still, even simple research will open your eyes to the likes of:  angel investors, venture capitalists, royalty financiers, and loan guarantors.

Check out these options and more at The Capital Factor Spring Conference, April 4-6, 2008 in Denver where world-renowned speakers discuss both successful funding and effective marketing specifically directed at small business owners.  Here’s the link:  www.thecapitalfactor.com.  Wise entrepreneurs don’t re-invent the wheel; they listen to the experts that have perfected the wheel.

And, that just goes to show that Blogs can definitely make money for your business.  But, you have to package those messages or you’ll lose your readers.  The offer needs to be extremely compelling, almost impossible to turn down.  And, it has to be real.

Just ask Armand Morin who will be speaking at The Capital Factor in Denver Colorado on April 5th and 6th.  Armand’s combined businesses make more than $15MM in annual sales from the web…and you can bet that Armand has cracked the code on using blogs to sell online too.  You’ll hear all about it at The Capital Factor.

Congrats again Eric!

He said he “could” physically continue to play and that he would be able to play if football only meant playing on Sundays, but it’s the practices during the week he has lost interest in.  Sorry Brett, no Sunday quarterbacks allowed.

If you’re a serious business owner, you know how Brett must feel.  Eventually, we all need to retire from the business we’re in.  Sometimes we have the option like Brett where we can just say goodbye and be gone from the spotlight in the blink of an eye.  But, most of the time, something else happens that forces us out of business; a divorce, death, lawsuits, health issues, age.

At The Capital Factor Spring Conference we have re-invited Mindy Smith to teach the audience how to value your business and plan for an exit strategy.  There are very few people who know how to do this right.  Checkout The Capital Factor coming April 5th and 6th, 2008 and I’ll leave this posting with a question:

“Do you think Brett Favre has REALLY retired or are we going to see the announcement in August that he’s pulled a Michael Jordan on us and is back in the game suddenly?”  Cast your vote in the comments area!