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- Investment/Payment channels and processing
- Costs and fees on investments
- Build your credibility and sales techniques for smooth investment process
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Rod Turner
Rod Turner is the founder and CEO of Manhattan Street Capital, the #1 Growth Capital service for mature startups and mid-sized companies to raise capital using Regulation A+. Turner has played a key role in building successful companies including Symantec/Norton (SYMC), Ashton Tate, MicroPort, Knowledge Adventure, and more. He is an experienced investor who has built a Venture Capital business (Irvine Ventures) and has made angel and mezzanine investments in companies such as Bloom, Amyris (AMRS), Ask Jeeves, and eASIC.
www.ManhattanStreetCapital.com
Manhattan Street Capital, 5694 Mission Center Rd, Suite 602-468, San Diego, CA 92108.
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Payment processing a couple of important points most investments are completed on mobile phones these days more than half even an erect d offering credit card debit card ach payments wire transfer and checks are the payment methods of choice obviously with large sums it's going to be a wire transfer usually ach is the least expensive method but making it convenient to invest via debit credit card satisfies a lot of people and again on a smartphone amazingly you know used to be nine years ago nine and a half years ago when i launched manhattan's three capital we would we would rarely see investments via smartphone we would see people finding an offering and inquiring checking into it on their smartphone and then coming back on their computer or possibly their tablet but these days we see a lot of investment activity on the smartphone very impressive change in dynamics keeping the costs low is important um these days unlike in the beginning we have a lot of companies that we're competing with they aren't like us in that they don't offer the same degree of services that we do but they're at display i could i could consider them displacement competitors where companies will go to them because they find them they come across them and without looking at us so they may go to those other companies but they're often charging very rich payment processing fees you know four percent on a check deposit or a wire deposit ridiculously rich fees adding to the already significant fees for debit credit card payments making it way too expensive we do not make any of those charges we do not mark up any of the payment processing we don't mark up payment processing our back end system is the most cost effective you can find i think.
I think one thing to to explain to you guys obviously there's a mix in the audience i don't know exactly what your experience level is but for those of us who've only raised money in person or via email and phone meetings and discussions at length the fact that people will invest in accredited investors will invest online without having a meeting without having a discussion is really intriguing and impressive to me and probably it probably should be impressive to you because it's very different than one might expect by definition anyone who is open to investing in an online offering and actually has to be an optimist you know people who are not optimistic won't even contemplate it right the likelihood that somebody's going to fly across the country to check out your your business and have meetings with you in person is slim so it's up to us to do the maximum job possible via the offering and by email updates and by videos and webinars to convey the credibility of the company but it's still a leap of faith and only an optimist would take but they do take it so it's commonplace to see people investing 15 20 25 000 in a REG D offering without having had a phone call without having had a meeting of course the efficiency of conversion goes up when we have people when you have somebody working for you that maybe we introduced but that is working in your employee as a contractor or as an employee that is following up via email to inquire why that person started their 50k investment but didn't finish it and helping them nudge them across the line in legitimate ways then in that case of course we're training those people so they know what they can and cannot say and do and how they can be paid and so forth but my point is that obviously when there is when there's a proper appropriate sales effort going on then that will increase the number of investments that come in but you would be surprised how many people will invest unhelped with the content being provided to them and the follow-up emails that build credibility.
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