emotional rescue-www.downtownlabiz.com

Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC-TP INC Emotional Rescue

• Business is not won through position papers. It’s won customer by customer: Retain, Add, Grow.
• Human attention becomes the principal currency.
• Revanchist works with our clients to stop fad-racing and stop focusing on advertising and conventioneering. We need to focus on making consistent emotional connections with customers and allying with other organizations of merit to build identities people can love.
• Emotional Rescue: Customers want to embrace emotions.
• Emotions lead to action- reason leads to conclusions.
• Emotions are unlimited resource- to be tapped with new ideas, new inspirations, and new experiences.

find out how http://www.flvllc.com assisted a company with $50,000,000 annual revenue gain market share growing revenues to $65,000,000 annually by emailing us at: inquiries@flvllc.com

whole foods: financier?

http://www.southparkla.com

posted by: martin cavanaugh porter C.E.O,  brett h tomich, Chief Development Officer, and daniel c wang Chief Technology Officer  of FLV LLC/TomichPorterInc: A hybrid micro venture capital firm with ecommerce solutions, located in downtown southpark los angeles, 1100 south hope #103, los angeles ca, 90015. t.001 213 550-4460, inquiries@flvllc.com

Brett, Dan  I are forever looking for forward leaning, progressive, alternative financing for our clients. It’s our passion.

Our core focus is developing new businesses in downtown south park Los Angeles. Financing our clients, building ecommerce solutions for them, developing marketing and branding strategies tailored uniquely to South Park Los Angeles (applicable, if followed, for any business, anywhere, really). We will work with any business we are in congruency with, anywhere in the world, and we do-we’ve done business in Paris, Manila, Hong Kong, Seoul, Thailand, Marseilles, Barcelona-the list goes on, but downtown south park l.a is our passion-we live here, we work here, and we have a fundamental passion underpinned by hard analysis and forecasting that south park los angeles will be the next Manhattan given five, ten, fifteen years. We are young men with long horizons.

We believe in prosperity and in business and in being agents of prosperity. Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC/TomichPorter Inc are, fundamentally prosperity developers for small-mid sized business in first-second-third stage growth, or in some form of distress or duress.

FLV LLC-TomichPorter Inc builds business: lines of credit, alternative financing, turn-around strategies, angel investing, business plans, marketing and branding plans-and we act-we advocate-and manage many of the businesses that we take on as clients.

We have degrees in business and economics from Ivy League Universities  etc…but we have decided to create/ascribe to an alternative philosophy  underpinning our business that moves, to a degree away from what we have been taught in University, toward a broader, grander, more enlightened view of business. And its this (refined and revised from Buddhist Economics by E.F Schumacher):

“If the nature of (business) is properly appreciated and applied, it will nourish and enliven the higher man and urge him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his free will along the proper course…into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his personality.”

So you can imagine how gratified we were to find that whole foods is now in the business of financing.

If you are a local organic producer or distributor of organic produce with a good business plan and cash on hand to finance debt, you can submit your business for financing through their business development arm:

http://www.wholefoodskmarket.com/values/local-loans-apply.php

FLV LLC-TomichPorter Inc salutes businesses that, despite our ecomomic cycle, pump-prime business by providing alternative financing.

Whole Foods has done just that and we think its tremendous.

We would like your feedback: Success stories, problems, queires, thoughts, ideas, regarding how you are managing through this recession-and building prosperity and security for your families despite it. Email us at: mcporter@flvllc.com, or at btomich@flvllc.com, or, if you live in downtown south park los angeles (South Park L.A) pay us a visit at: 1100 south hope street, suite 103. Short of that, give us a call: 001 213 550 4460.

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”

SouthPark L.A: Lets get to brass tacks-how to thrive as a business in South park (excerpt from www.southparkla.com)

Doing Business In South Park L.A: A road map to thrive and build (posted by Martin Cavanaugh Porter III, CEO Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC, TomichPorter Inc-Revanchist)

Our focus as a micro-vc, biz-dev firm in partnership with an internationally renowned ecommerce/web development firm (think Puma’s website and ecommerce solution, Hewlett Packard’s website and ecommerce solution, Sprint’s website and ecommerce solution, SBC website and ecommerce solution etc…think best-of-breed) is to bring a solid, hip mix of businesses to South Park L.A. and back them with strong financing and a powerful, blended mix of marketing tools, strategies and tactics.

We’ve said it before: in three (four?) years, South Park will be stabilized. In five to six years, The Manhattan of Los Angeles.

Our goal is to be pioneering amongst affluence. Though the lease rates are low, and many spaces are left vacant, and many developers are in deep trouble, the average income of residents and their education levels, are very high. The actual client mix is very good.

In order to for existing businesses to reach stabilization (reach the point at which their burn-rate=income) or new businesses that want to open in South Park, catering to its residents, they must engage in the following: A Targeted, niched, core focused, intense, and continued multi-tiered marketing campaign backed by the finances to do so.

What does that look like?

Concretely: Bricks and Mortar, Service, Retailers, Developers, Brokers, Realtors, Lawyers, Business Centers, Consultants, the list is endless: Businesses of all types must build into their budgeting and forecasting three years of meaningful capital outlays for marketing and action the following:

• Powerful best-of-breed website
• Highly monestizable, On Line eCommerce presence (online store-whatever it is you are selling-services or products-whatever it is)
• Supported by…..
• Targeted DMC: Direct Mail Campaigns (once monthly).
• Targeted Email Mkt Campaigns: (bi-monthly).
• Google AD Sense Campaigns (ongoing).
• Multiple Feeder Blogs: Tagging and meta-tagging your business onto Google with daily postings (daily-twice, three times daily).
• Social Networking: One coffee a day, three outreach events per week, walk the blocks, shake hands, be present= the potential tipping point that is word of mouth
• Find Three Local Stake-Holder Mentors-engage them, learn from them, give them as much as you ask for-give them value as you get advice and as they act as your calling card in the community (if you don’t give value on some level-emotional, actual, some kind of deliverable, your out of the game when it comes to mentors).

All of the above must be built on the following five foundations

1. Doable, monthly, year in, year out marketing budgets (supported by analytics and actual $ deliverables)
2. Low (really low) fixed costs:-drive tough bargains that still create win-wins
3. Multiple Stakeholders who want you to succeed.
4. Consistency in Marketing- systematized, creative, calendered.

Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC/TomichPorter Inc (Revanchist) is a massive South Park L.A booster.

I live here-work here-and see phenomenal benefits in businesses relocating to SouthPark or staying and in engaging in a formalized, process-driven turn-around strategy.

BOTTOM LINE:

UNLESS YOU DO ALL OF THE ABOVE WELL, YOUR CHANCES OF TURNING THE SHORT TERM NEGATIVES OF DOING BUSINESS IN SOUTH PARK LOS ANGELES INTO HUGE LONG TERM UPSIDES ARE SLIM TO NIL. ALL OF IT, EVERY COMPONENT MUST BE ACTIONED AND EXECUTED AT THE HIGHEST STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL LEVEL.

“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.” -Charles De Gaulle

This was our first post in our blog: www.southparkla.com- vigor, action, and intent-the way forward

Authored by: Martin Cavanaugh Porter II, CEO Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC & Tomich Porter Inc-Revanchist

Full Disclosure: Martin, Brett and the FLV-TomichPorter Inc-Revanchist team author and manage http://www.downtownlabiz.com and http://www.recessionkillerblog.com

I live and work in our SouthPark L.A neighborhood. I am the CEO of a  micro v.c and an ecommerce-branding business development firm and we’ve just headquartered our offices in SouthPark in the last three months at The Hope Business Center. Nick Van Parys, proprietor of The Hope Business Center, is an exemplar of customer service and willingness to do what it takes to help business-in this case, ours. We look forward to future, fruitful activities with him. He has our respect and sincere thanks.

I’ve been wondering  what http://www.southparkla.com’s first post subject should focus on and I’ve decided that this, our first post, should be a clear statement of intent: My team and I (all the members of Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC/Tomich Porter Inc are partners-we have no employees and so are fully committed and invested with passion and commitment to build the best organization we can for ourselves and for the community).

Declaration of Intent: Forbes-TomichPorter Inc will be a powerful, centralizing force in the South Park Los Angeles District-actively developing business in the neighborhood and bringing positive mix of  businesses and merchants to our community.

We’re putting our money (literally) where our mouth is:  Two of our clients will be relocating to South Park Los Angeles as a direct result of our efforts (business planning, financing, branding et al…). Both are absolutely positive additions:

A full scale health and wellness center (A Revitalization Center) complete with yoga, massage, acupuncture, and a multitude of other wellness programs.

A true green-organic ‘human-safe’ organic contemporary furniture store: How true? We will be working shoulder-to-shoulder with Micheal Van Parys, renowned Green LEED Consultant (and also a resident and stake holder in South Park)to insure that when the product goes live on the web, via an on line store and when the  bricks and mortar retail store opens both the furniture and the process of creating the furniture is human-safe and fundamentally green in nature. It’s about building confidence and being a  pioneer in South Park Los Angeles.

We’ve only just begun and we would like you to join us: Residents, Realtors, developers, merchants, landlords, Home Owner Associations, all the stake holders in South-Park,  join us, talk to us, email us, call us, let’s discuss projects, and with vigor and grace build a tremendous community.

As for us: Our focus is  South Park and developing business in South Park. Period. Look forward to hearing from you- to connecting, engaging, and growing together.

Final Note: Are the posts at our various blogs (downtownlabiz.com, recessionkillerblog.com, southparkla.com, and our corporate blog, revanchistgroup.com) wordy?  Yes. Why? We assume our audience is sophisticated, educated, and engaged. We’ve got lots to say-hope you stay in touch and read on, and, importantly respond.

Email: MCPorter@FLVLLC.COM/ MCPorter@RevanchistGroup.Com

Our Phone #: 001 213 550 4460

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” – Napolean Bonaparte

DowntownLABiz.Com: The E-Road Cycle-Almost Carbon Neutral

http://www.e-road.com

Full Disclosure: Blog Post written by Martin Cavanaugh Porter III, CEO Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC and TomichPorter Inc-Revanchist (www.revanchistgroup.com) . I have not test-driven the e-road, though plan on doing so soon.

You would think that there are multiple transportation alternatives for the average single driver, eco-conscious commuter who needs to zip from a-b without much hassle with some speed (ergo, not a bicycle).

The facts are that there just are not that many choices.

I met Logan Guzman (Senior V.P Universal World Music U.S.A-France) a couple weeks ago at an event highlighting French Artists in L.A (bravo French Artists in L.A-but I digress). We discussed amongst other topics his passion for E-Road-it’s an empowering alternative to Angelenos  who need to be able to get to their destinations with some degree of speed (bike has the capacity to easily run at 18 MPH) whilst being almost carbon-neutral. That’s a big step in the right direction.

Disclosure: haven’t test driven the bike yet, but when I do, I’ll fill you in.

They are having there grand opening today in West Hollywood at:8350 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 from 10-7. You can email them at: sales@eroad.com (guys put a name to the virtual face….sales@…really?  There is not an actual sales person  with a name?) And on the website there’s no one named-just contact customer care dept. I’m sure you guys are great: Let us know who you are-bring the connectivity of personal relationship potential by naming names on the website (just a thought).

Bottom Line: If the quality of the product stands up to its declarations then we the downtown consumer have found a potentially safe, eco-friendly alternative mode of transport at a very reasonable rate.

E-Road and LA Live/South Park LA: (another disclosure, my micro-v.c biz dev firm is headquartered in downtown’s South Park (Zip 90015), one block east of LA Live. Our demographics: extremely affluent, savvy, educated, and seriously eco-conscious. It’s a great market for E-Road (think FIDM etc…). I invite the distributorship and Logan, if he’s got the time, to contact us at mcporter@revanchistgroup.com. We’d love to test drive the bike and if we like the ride (no-pun here), then we would be happy to host a SouthPark “Get-to-know-ERoad Event.”

-Martin Porter, CEO FLV LLC, TomichPorter Inc (mcporter@revanchistgroup.com) http://www.revanchistgroup.com

Jorge C. Corralejo: Revive Small Businesses in Los Angeles NOW

Full Disclosure: This Posting was done by Martin Cavanaugh Porter and Brett H Tomich of TomichPorter Inc (The Revanchist Group) and is derived from LABJ, April 22, 2009, article:

‘Small Minority-Owned Businesses a Path to New ‘Main Street’ by Jorge C. Corralejo, founding chairman of the Latino Business Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles’

I know Jorge. He is the founding chairman of The Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles.

When I was COO of US Metro Group and dealt with the broad issues related to fielding USMG services to top-tier, best-of-breed multi-national corporations, Jorge worked tirelessly as an advocate and champion on our behalf.

Jorge=Game Changer

His strategies and suggestions worked particularly in relation to MBE Certification and putting our $65,000,000.00 company in front of the decision makers of multi-billion dollar companies for TFS: Total Facility Services: That is US Metro Group business.

It’s been a long time since he and I have been in contact and I was pleased to note that he wrote an important article in yesterday’s LABJ which I will just highlight-from my perspective.

The Latino Business Chamber is in the business of binding together various organizations and business associations to take full advantage of TARP and more importantly, to lift all the boats battered by the rough seas of this economy.

Jorge views small minority owned businesses of all stripes in Los Angeles as: “LA’s Gold”- Indian, Latino, Pakistani, African American, Asian-American, Korean, the list is endless-each nuggets of gold, the sum of the whole.

RFK said: “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”

Jorge-you’re a history bender and it was my pleasure to chat with you yesterday.

Downtown Los Angeles take note: A big man, with an important organization is working to move small business through this recession into the upland plains of economic resurgence.

It is always nice touching base with an old friend whom you admire for his resolve and integrity.

Bravo Jorge.

BY: Martin Cavanaugh Porter II, MCPorter@RevanchistGroup.Com (www.revanchistgroup.com)

Welcome downtown l.a

welcome to this new blog dedicated to organizations and businesses in downtown los angeles seeking to find new and better ways to connect and network  and to adapt to constantly changing economic realities.

I look forward to discussing with you my take on ecommerce, B2B and B2C On line efforts, financing, and many other topics with a core focus on  businesses  and organizations in downtown los angeles and, a laser focus on on zip 90015.

dowtownlabiz is all about cooperation and sharing ideas-sifting the hype about ecommerce (ex. its businesses saviour) and the truth about ecommerce (it is absolutely essential that every business and organization integrate it into their planning and activate ecommerce in one form or another).  Lets have a conversation about financing businesses, businesses in distress, and lets try to  build a community to support each other and, dare I say it, profit from each other.

full disclosure: I am The Co-Managing Director of  The Revanchist Group (http://www.revanchistgroup.com), a full service business development organization headquartered in downtown l.a zip 90015.

I look forward to your feed back and hope that my insights keep you tuned in for more.

my best,

Martin Cavanaugh Porter.