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Show Episode: Packaging and Production Options for a Food Product Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Description: Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Producing and marketing a food line, seeking business opportunities and financing as a veteran, developing a lead generation system for your business, obtaining business liability insurance to cover products sold, billing cycles for a business, use of lobbyists and bidding on large contracts. Larry's final thought: See problems as challenges and overcome all fears.

Show Episode: Use a Lead Generation Strategy to Expand Your Business Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Description: Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: How to build a church hierarchy under the original charter of a church, setting up an IT company along with a strategy for hiring independent contractors, ideas for increasing business for a mechanic, routine and time management strategies, setting up a 501(c)3 Non Profit for a military charity, and starting a tutoring business. Larry's final thought: There is no amount of hard work that will compensate for the lack of organizing and planning.

Show Episode: Using Other Peoples Money When Purchasing a Business or Real Estate Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Description: Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: How to buy a profitable business by using the business you are buying to borrow the money for acquisition, using internships in your business, finding zoning laws in your area that regulate business, creating a strong tenant mix when renting warehouse space, preparing to sell a business, Protecting against liability in a service business utilizing an agreement with your customer, and purchasing real estate using seller financing. Larry's final thought: You have more potential than you could ever develop in a lifetime.

Show Episode: Creating a Membership Driven Business Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Description: Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Does a departing employee have to return a signing bonus, long term vs. short term ad sales during a difficult economy, protecting parts design, succeeding with a hardware store when big box store comes to town, business springing from a daily fitness routine, Larry's final thought: Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Show Episode: Increase Your Spendable Cash - Stop Paying Your Mortgage with a Strategic Default Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Description: Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Acquiring a vacant business location with savvy lease negotiations; by not paying your mortgage how you can eventually lower your monthly mortgage payment; the tax advantages of a home office lease; using social media in the employee hiring process; dividing a businesses assets when a separation of business partners occurs is a lot like a divorce property settlement; competing without relying on price to attract new customers. Larry's final thought: Energize your work strategy.

Show Episode: Understand The Ins and Outs of Asset Protection When Forming Your Company Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Consider forming a Company in a state other than the state where the business is located for asset protection, Selling real estate via the Internet, why would a real estate agent form a company, the S corporation needs to considered before forming your company, starting a real estate cash flow empire on a shoe string, how to prove you had a contract, and take criminal action against a former employee who has stolen your businesses intellectual property. Larry's final thought: Great achievements require time.

Show Episode: Inventory Buying Opportunities: Just Before a Vendor Files Bankruptcy Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Are my corporation's shares of stock the same as those sold by a stock broker; always use a written agreement when dealing with others; Inventory buying opportunity: just before a vendor files bankruptcy; controlling your company's website and database; resolving trademark disputes; crossing state lines with your business. Larry's final thought: Nothing works unless you do.

Show Episode: Developing Your Business Model Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Continuing a family business after the death of the owner, limiting liability with a touring bus, establishing a personal trust, must have item for all businesses, converting to minority ownership, and key components of your business model. Larry's final thought: Keep your eye on the competition.

Show Episode: Your Business Has Value, Consider Selling Your Business Rather Than Just Closing it Down Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Qualifying family members to work while in their teens, taking advantage of the current real estate market, challenges involved in a wife's interior design business, winding down a family business, becoming a consultant within a field of expertise, becoming a business manager for a friend's band. Larry's final thought: Don't burn bridges.

Show Episode: Look to Time Tested Business Models To Help You Obtain  Customers For Your Internet Business Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Sales for a local website, Purchasing a run-down hotel, Buying and selling used cars, Insurance for home Ebay business, Protecting a business name, a local investment club, and copyrighting songs. Larry's final thought: Adjusting your Sails.

Show Episode: Change Your Life in Six Months Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Whether a trademark should be owned by my Company, myself or an offshore company; qualifying as a woman owned or minority owned business: how to protect my business when giving an employee an ownership stake in my company: making money with YouTube videos, and establishing a commissioned sales agent staff. Larry's final thought : Perseverance.

Show Episode: Structuring a Business Relationship to avoid classification as a Franchise Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Analyzing franchise opportunities, use of social media, going into business with a spouse, ownership of intellectual properties, dissolving an LLC, expanding a sandwich shop business, Larry's final thought: Achievement, and trying something new.

Show Episode: Originality is Overrated - Start a business based on another successful business concept Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Starting a business just like my employers business, how can a buyer give me full value for my cash business, getting started in the food truck business, taking ownership title to my first home, for a low cost business to start, consider becoming a manufactures independent commissioned sales agent, and dealing with the death of a co-owner of an LLC. Larry's final thought: Shoot for the Moon; end up among the stars.

Show Episode: Create Legitimate Business Expense Tax Deductions - Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Determining the value of a business that is for sale, building business credit and advertising, capitalizing from trademark ownership, liability exposure for a musician renting a studio to other musicians, and deductible business expenses for tax purposes. Larry's final thought: Success and failure are both learning experiences.

Show Episode: Building Business Credit and What's a Business Worth - Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Questions include: Whether to buy or lease a vehicle for your business, the advantages of Copyright registration, the copyright registration of a recipe book, resolution of past tax issues, setting up a corporation for tax purposes, how to obligate musicians for representation, and whether travel expenses are tax deductible. Larry's final thought: Entrepreneurs should always be selling.

Show Episode: Must have a Marketing Plan - Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Topics include: How to protect original works of recorded music, setting up an entity to sell produce at a farmer's market, LLC vs S- Corp for a single member, difference between a Trademark, Service mark, and copyright, tips for record keeping and organization, the benefits of Federal Trademark registration, and extending credit to customers.

Show Episode: Not For Profit Corporations - Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Topics include: The difference between an LLP and LLC, the benefits of 501c3 being recognized by the IRS, protecting and renewing a trademark, making money with a non-profit corporation, incorporating a veteran's charity into a 501c3, one entity vs. separate entities and fictitious business names, with Larry's final thought about Trade Associations.

Show Episode: Which State to Form a Company - Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Show Episode: Personal Guarantees - Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Topics include: Best way to judge which form of advertising works best, will a business bankruptcy will prevent personal liability, estate planning and having a Trust vs a Will.

Show Episode: Hobbies Becoming a Business - Run Time 30 minutes. Click on the link to listen to the show with your computer or mobile device default audio player.

Larry Spiegel and host Joe Castello answer questions from entrepreneurs about starting, expanding, buying or selling their businesses. Topics include: Independent contractors vs employees, whether to form an S Corp vs LLC, hiring temporary help, how does a non-compete agreement stand up in right to work states.

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Lawrence J. Spiegel is the author of Detours and Contradictions: The Challenge of Being an Entrepreneur and is also the author of Charlie's Entrepreneurial Journey: A Guide to Success Through Entrepreneurship. 

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