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- Methods to market your Reg D offering - Online Solicitation & Advertising outreach
- Optimizing your expenditure on advertising
- About Broker-dealer involvement
- How to get the attention of accredited investors
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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.
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I'll talk about that now marketing okay regd marketing online general solicitation we have an investor member base of accredited investors that you're welcome to email to we'll encourage and facilitate that with the marketing agency involved you aren't going to raise all the money there because our investor list is too small we don't abuse them we respect them they don't get inundated with emails but each offering is so different than the other I only I think that the only way we'll raise money easily from our investor base is when we have more than a million investors that are not abused and that these days are a big platforms like start engine with giant investor list but they abuse the privilege so there's all sorts of restrictions there in terms of the effectiveness of being able to access those people okay but advertising is the so the real issue here is that advertising outreach is the most effective vehicle and there are some exceptions with email we're working exclusively where they start an email company that has rebuilt the email system they vertically integrated and use AI in judicious careful ways but also do very intelligent things with getting email delivered to recipients in an effective way for a 506c offering so this is a rare exception to where what I've seen in the main with email with with bought and rented lists of supposedly or actually accredited investors generally those email outreach programs are very ineffective I've seen that chapter in verse advertising outreach through social media is the best way Google isn't very good LinkedIn isn't very good twitter slash x isn't very good.
Although that might change because because that's a moving target but advertising is the outreach vehicle that does work targeting using the right investment target I'm sorry right invest or targeting methods which is a state-of-the-art thing that is constantly evolving so if we're working together I'll be advising you and the advertising agency in order to make sure that they're doing the right work to target the right people and bring them in cost effectively one of the nice things about this method is that it's easy to see quickly how cost effective it is how much resonance we're getting from the advertising and from the offering page it doesn't take months and months or even weeks and weeks to tell whether we have successful engagement or not not to say that everyone's going to rush in and invest on day one with accredited investors they will take their time and again consider what they're doing but they will be investing over time but the point here is that we can easily track the cost of acquisition of each lead and that tells us an abundance of things right and then of course the conversion rate of those leads into investors is also easy although not instant to figure out so my point here is that you don't spend a lot of money up front in advertising typically a ten thousand dollars of ad spend per month is enough first month to ascertain which which ads are working best which messaging is working best you're obviously not going to raise much money on a 10k ad spend but getting that efficiency of conversion into prospects who then and then optimizing the conversion of those prospects into actual investors is key and we build that efficiency over time we are not a marketing agency we we're involved in too many things to be allowed to be a marketing agency but we advise you and we advise the marketing agency to maximize their efficiency and your efficiency of the outreach okay you don't need a broker dealer you're allowed to have a broker dealer on a REG D generally it isn't it isn't going to help much because excuse me in these online raises a broker dealer even if they intend to raise money from the get-go when it's a blank slate they're not going to do anything they're not going to put their client relationships at risk for an unproven offering once we've we've done the heavy lifting together to bring in prospects and get them to invest and have a good result from that it's going to take a little while to do that.
Once we have that success if we think it's less expensive to bring in investors through a broker dealer then adding one would make sense very rarely the case in a regd that would have value a big a big part of there was a question in the preamble for the few folks for the folks who were here before we got started about how to target how to find accredited investors the problem isn't so much finding them it's getting their attention in my view because they have so many and such an abundance of places to put their money that's one thing is showing is being exciting enough for them to care another one is that i'd have to say probably intentionally if you if you go for the most wealthy segment of investors on instagram and on facebook they still deliver an abundance of people that aren't accredited probably they're doing that for their selfish reasons to bring in more money to their coffers but it isn't helpful to us right so it is difficult you some of you guys are familiar probably with the way online advertising works in today's market in today's world there's a lot you can do with targeting of advertising to fine tune it and these platforms these social media platforms they have ai software that is tracking it's up to us to make sure we get early effectiveness and that from that effectiveness then their ai will track oh we got another one of those people that like this company enough to invest let's get more of those they continually adjust through their ai to find the right people and it's up to us to nudge it and adjust it and tweak it enough to make that work quickly to get the efficiency of outreach as high as humanly possible
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