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Venture Capital for Your Beverage

Beverage Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investment Teleseminar

You’re invited our FREE teleseminar “Venture Capital for Your Beverage” with the largest Angel Investment network in the USA. This is not just one Angel Group or Venture Capital Group, this is the larges network of investors in the whole United States compiled of almost every single organized investment group in the country.
Over 10,000 accredited investors are invited to this funding event.

For Beverage Investors: Learn how to be part of this network, get pre-qualified deal flow, entrepreneur profiles, join the private social network, and give feedback on projects or become a mentor to an entrepreneur.

Investor/Advisors can sign up for the Angel Capital Summit Here: http://businesscatapult.com/og/subscribe/6184

For Beverage Entrepreneurs: Learn how to get Mentoring form Angel Investors and Capital for your Project!

Entrepreneurs can sign up for the Angel Capital Summit Here: http://businesscatapult.com/refcode/pg6184

The beverage venture capital teleseminar interview will be held next Monday August 30 at 3 PM PST 6 PM EST by calling (347) 884-8982.

In this teleseminar interview you’ll learn how this incredible private equity group works and how you can submit your company, product or project for funding.

I’ll be interviewing Kevin Johansen, chairman of the Angel Capital Summit and Les Makepeace, the Executive Committee Chairman of the Angel Capital Summit 2010.

Projects funded by this Investment Network include software technology, consumer goods, green projects, services, and most other businesses. In the interview we’ll go over not only the general Venture Capital and Angel Investment process but what you need to get funded from this group.

Venture Capital Teleseminar Interview Information

Title: Get Venture Capital for Your Business
Date: Monday August 30
Time: 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST
Call in Number: (347) 884-8982

You can also listen and interact asking questions through the internet at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jorge-olson/2010/08/30/get-venture-capital-for-your-business

Thanks,

Jorge S. Olson

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We have regular scheduled Webinars and Teleseminars.  You will get an email whenever one is scheduled.  The topics of these are:

  • Sales and distribution
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  • Reach 200,000 c-stores
  • Connect with hundreds of Beverage Distributors
  • In-Store Marketing
  • Beverage Development
  • Trends and New Products
  • Venture Capital
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Beverage University

This Beverage University is here for you. To help you start or take your beverage company to the next level. Here you will find Audio Recordings, Videos, and Best Practices to help you start, develop, bottle, market, sell and distribute your beverages.

Learn more about beverages, energy drinks, energy shots, beverage development, sales and distribution

Keep coming back to the Beverage University as we will add new content every single week. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed to stay on top of any changes made or new content.

You can also dial in to our free Teleseminars and listen in on different sales, distribution, funding, merger & acquisitions and other strategies related to the beverage industry.

If you have not already, go to our Beverage Industry Networking Site called BevFan.com. Here you will likeminded executives and entrepreneurs looking for ideas, distribution, to network, to get funding or just to learn more.

Call us today at (619) 852 6942

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Learn Useful Information About white wine

Red wines have been very popular lately, thanks to medical reports about their antioxidant and heart-protecting properties. It’s true that red wines are amazing, but that doesn’t mean the other less noticed kinds of wine are bad. Many people are confused about wine, especially whites. For the uninitiated, here are some of the most common kinds of white wine:

1. Chardonnay – The most renowned type of white wine is very much befitting of the superstardom. This type of wine originated in France from grapes of the same name. Its flavor reminds one of the fruity tastes of pineapple, peach, citrus, apple combined with luscious tang of vanilla, oatmeal, and nuts. Sauvignon Blanc – Another wine that hails from France, particularly around the Loire valley, the Sauvignon Blanc can also be found in New Zealand. Its flavor evokes freshness of the pastures around its area, reminding one of the aroma of freshly cut grass, giving the wine an herbaceous flavor with hints of fruits. It is best to enjoy this wine immediately as its fresh flavor doesn’t last long.

3. Chenin Blanc – another product of the Loire valley, this exceptional wine usually goes unnoticed as the underdog of the wine kingdom. However its flavors are truly magnificent with hints of tangy pineapple and lime combined with the sweetness of honey and licorice. A wine with a louder character, with hints of spice and floral taste.

5. Pinot Gris – this crisp and smoky wine with hints of apricot comes from Alsace, North Eastern Italy, and New Zealand.

6. Riesling – a noble tea-like, honey flavored wine comes from Alsace or Clare Valley in France, or from Germany.

There are so many other kinds of white wines, all evoking elegant and luscious flavors that make them perfect companions for soft cheeses, white sauced pasta, fish and poultry. When it comes to the joys and pleasures brought about by wine, whites can compete with reds. To know more about white wines, it is best to befriend a wine dealer.

Basically, red wines are one classification of wines according to style. The other type of wine according to style is the white wine. Red wines are generally made from grapes. In most cases, red wines are further classified into kinds of grape selections. For instance, there are red wines that use one variety of grapes as the main ingredient. In this case, the mixture becomes varietal, which means that a particular red wine was made from a single variety of grapes.

Classifying red wines can be very complicated. However, for those who wish to get a first hand note on the best red wines that are available on the market today, here is a list that could help you choose the best red wine for your next dinner party:

1. George Dubroff Morgon

Young Morgon wines are soft, fruity, and easy to drink.

This kind of red wine will complement almost any dish.

2. Gran Tierra Red

This type of red wine is made in a fruity style that is easy on the tongue for any wine drinker. It is made from Tempranillo grape, the mystical grape responsible for Spain’s great Rioja wines.

This type of red wine is perfect for steaks and any rice or casserole dish.

3. Blackstone Merlot

Merlot is an old-world grape grown in the Bordeaux region in France, where it has enjoyed popularity with most red wine drinkers. This Monterey wine embodies Merlot in its perfection — a well-structured smooth wine with plum and fruitcake flavors, touches of oak and firm tannins to produce a flavorful and balanced wine.

These are just a few of the best white wine ever created by the greatest wine makers. You can expect great wine products made from quality grapes.

For the quick and easy recipes – please feel welcome to visit this blog.

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Beverage Business Book Special

ATTENTION: Buy the book this week and receive 2 free recordings with a total of 1.5 hours (45 minutes each) to learn how to sell to 200,000 convenience stores.

The first recording will show you how to place your product into 200,000 convenience stores with the use of wholesalers and distributors. Selling to top accounts and working with these distributors to reach independent and chained convenience stores.

The second recording teaches you how to sell to 83,000 with the use of only a few master wholesalers. This is a fantastic way to reach thousands of accounts while having only 2 or 3 customers to worry about. You will have less accounts receivables and fewer worries.

Yes, these 2 recordings will show you how to use distributors and wholesalers to place your products in up to 200,000 convenience stores including independent stores like liquor stores and gas stations and chains like 7-Eleven, Circle K, Valero, and more.

These recordings are yours 100% free when you buy your copy of “Build Your Beverage Empire” on Amazon.com. The only thing you have to do is purchase the book and send me an email forwarding your purchase and receipt from Amazon. It is simple; after you purchase the book amazon.com will send you a receipt by mail. Forward that receipt to book@liquidbm.com and you are done. I will send you a link to the audio recordings.

1. Get the 2 recordings for free by just purchasing a copy of the book on Amazon.com
2. Email your amazon.com receipt to book@liquidbm.com
3. You will receive a link to your 2 audio recordings by emailA step by step guide teaching you how to develop and brand your beverage, reach your perfect target market and sell it using wholesalers, distributors, convenience stores and supermarkets.
The Beverage Industry Guide Book is finally here. Learn how to develop, market and distribute your beverages.

From start to finish, you will discover how much it costs to develop your drink, how to position it in the marketplace and how to land the best wholesalers, distributors and retailers.

Sell to convenience stores, supermarkets, chains, independents, and every type of wholesaler and distributor in the USA. This book is great for entrepreneurs, salespeople all the way up to senior beverage executives.

 

How To Market to Beverage Distributors

This week we have another great topic for our beverage business group. Last 2 weeks we had more than 2,000 downloads of our program and we already got sales for 2 companies. Wow, in 2 weeks!

This week’s topic: How To Market to Beverage Distributors

Blog Talk Radio & Teleseminar tomorrow Wednesday 28 of January at 3 PM PST or 6 PM EST – ” How To Market to Beverage Distributors”

Learn how to market to beverage distributors around the USA to get them to return your phone calls and start them in the lead process for sales.

You will learn how to choose the right distributor for you and your product as well as how many leads and distributors you can handle. Discover what it takes to handle a good beverage territory alongside your distributor and more.

Learn how to sell your energy drinks, energy shots, beer, vitamin water, high end or spring water soda, tea and more.

Listen how you can sell to small, medium and large distributors by the pallet and by multiple truckload quantities.
*****Teleseminar Details*****
+Wednesday January 28 at 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST

+Topic: How To Market to Beverage Distributors

+Listen on the web: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jorge-Olson
Call-in Number: (347) 884-8982

Remember, now you can ask questions during the teleconferences or even listen to them from your computer. Just go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jorge-Olson during the teleconference and click the listen and the chat button.

Need help with your beverage development, sales or distribution?

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Find out how to get your beverages into convenience stores using not only beverae distributors but also wholesalers and other distributors.  Visit http://selltoconveniencestores.com/

There are more than 200,000 convenience stores in the USA.  Of those 100,000 are serviced by large wholesalers and ther rest by medium and small and large wholesalers.  Lean how to sell to all these wholesalers and distributors who can take your product to convenience stores all over the USA.

You can sell to the large chains like 7-Eleven or Circle K or small independent accounts like markets or liquor stores.  For more information visit http://selltoconveniencestores.com/

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Basic Wine Making Supplies

Remember Liquid Brands can Help you develop, bottle and sell your wine and spirts. Please contact us for a private consultation.  You can make small quantities or truckloads of any type of wine in any tupe of bottle.

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When you are first deciding to Wine Making At Home, there are a few basic wine making supplies that you are going to need to have. For the set up of your wine making operation, you will need a 7.9 gallon primary fermentor, one that has a drilled gasket lid. This will be used to grow the yeast and as well to allow lots of oxygen to your wine.

You are also going to need a drilled stopper, which is also known as a bung, and this is needed to fit the carboy, along with the airlock, to allow the oxygen to stay out of your fermentation and keep the carbon to be released from the carboy.

More Wine Making Supplies

The hydrometer is another of the most important wine making supplies, and it is this item which is what makes sure that you have the proper amount of sugar in your wine, by measuring the specific gravity levels.

When you are making wine at home this level is usually anywhere from 1.05 to 1.10 S.G. The size of the tube in the fermentor is quite small, thus the need for the wine thief and test jar in your collection of wine making supplies. The wine thief is the item that is going to be used to sample some of the wine to insert into the test jar, which is then used to measure the S.G. with the hydrometer.

The hydrometer also informs you when you need to continue on to your next task in the wine making process. A siphon tube is another important piece of wine making equipment, and is used to deliver your wine from one fermentor to the next, while keeping out as many unwanted particles as possible from your wine by attaching it to the 5ft siphon tubing in between the two tubs.

The bottle filler is used as simply in the way that its name states, which is to fill the wine bottles. This item in your group of wine making supplies is used by draining the wine from the fermanter into each bottle, allowing you to stop and start the flow of wine as needed.

There are many other supplies that you can purchase as well, however these are the general basics, and so this is really all you require in order to make a full and delicious batch of Fruit Wine. However if you are planning on making specialty or larger amounts of wine, then you are going to have to purchase specialty wine making equipment as well.

Many people want to start their energy drink company and spend dozens of hours surfing the net and calling companies all around the USA to see how to get started, how to get all the ingredients, how to label, buy cans or bottles and how to bottle.

The problem is there is no real information out there on how to actually start your energy drink company. Suppliers are now asking you for large amounts of money just to speak with you because of the demand they have and lack of time. What can you do as an entrepreneur?

The first thing you should do as an entrepreneur of Energy Drink Beverages is focus on the most important points of creating your company. These points will include:

Beverage Development: including flavor, formulation, label, package (like a can or a bottle), and size (the best is 16 oz).
Production: Where will you produce your energy drink, what is the price per case with what minimums, how to warehouse it and where, shipping costs.

Marketing: How is your product different from the rest? Your differentiator can be taste, packaging, ingredients, or sales strategy. Who is your customer and how will you sell to them? How will you let the distributors, retailers and consumers know about your product? What is your budget per store and per case?

Sales & Distribution: How will you sell your product to wholesalers, distributors, retailers and consumers? What are your pricing models for every level of sales? How many salespeople will you need and where? How many accounts will you open per city and how?

Exit & Business Strategy: How much money will you need? Do you have to raise money through investors? Will you sell the company? When will you sell it? How much money will your company make per year for the next 3 years? What are those numbers based on? How many accounts per day will you open to achieve these numbers?

We all see how Red Bull, Monster Energy Drink, Rockstart Energy Drink and other products like Sobe, Hansen’s products, Full Throttle, Noz and all the other energy drinks are growing. We see them in supermarkets, convenience stores an now in different types of retail stores. We’ve seen how these companies grow at up to 100% every year. The question is how can entrepreneurs start and do the same with their products. Or in many cases entrepreneurs don’t want to grow exponentially from the start and would like to sell to local stores in their town or in their city.

How can you start? Who can help? Who has done every level of beverage development, distribution and sales? We have! We can help you from start to finish with your product.

These are just a few points that you need to explore when starting your energy drink company or any beverage company. The points can be the basis for your business or operational plan.

If you are ready to start your energy drink or any other beverage NOW we have a new plan to help you start in just a few days and be ready with your product quickly. 

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Energy Shots are the new best seller in the Energy Drink and Beverage Industry World growing by up to 100% per year and making a big splash in Wholesale and Retail Sales and becoming the new darlings of distributors and convenience stores. This Teleseminar explores how to launch your own energy shot.

Teleseminar shows how Energy Shots are new best selling part on Energy Drinks and New Age Beverages. Learn how to develop your own energy shot as well as different channels of sales and distribution.

The Teleseminar will be held on Wednesday December 3rd at 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST and will be available free of charge to all listeners by phone or by listening on the web. The conference will last for 45 minutes.

The subjects covered will include: How to develop your own energy shot and how much money do you need. – Why is this category growing so much and so fast. – How to wholesale and sell your energy shots to distributors, convenience stores and supermarkets. – Alternative ways of selling energy shots. – Exporting your products to other countries like Mexico.

Teleseminar Details:

This Teleseminar will be hosted by Jorge Olson and Carlos Lopez of Liquid Brands Management using a Talk Radio format. Listeners will be able to ask questions via chartroom and get them answered on the call.

Jorge Olson, co-founder of Liquid Brands told us “It is exciting to speak about Energy Shots and what they can represent for new and existing companies, entrepreneurs and investors”. He continued by stating “Energy Shots are one of the fastest growing categories in all of consumer goods and especially in the energy drink and new age beverage category and there is a small window of opportunity to exploit this niche”.

About Liquid Brands Management, Inc.
Liquid Brands is a beverage development and consulting company as well as a beverage incubator helping companies, entrepreneurs and investors start, develop, launch, market, sell and distribute their beverages and other consumer goods products. The company is based in San Diego, California and it is sough after by new and existing companies wanting to start or grow their business. As expert strategists and marketers they help with marketing strategy and distribution development at a national or regional level.

Contact:
Jorge Olson
Liquid Brands Management, Inc.
Phone: (619) 852 6942

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