Is Your Corporation Protecting
Your Family's Home & Lifestyle?
(like it was designed to...)
More than 80% of small business owners personal assets are totally exposed because they are "too busy" to be bothered with their Corporate Records. It's a looming disaster brought about by the incredible number of on-line or do-it-yourself incorporations done "on-the'fly"...
Are you one of those lined up for the slaughter?
Dear Fellow Corporation Owner:
Imagine you woke up one day ready to face the day. You’re in control of your business, making things work in the face of economic uncertainty, a crazy election cycle. You’ve got some great new ideas that should take you to the next level.
Out of the blue, you get a knock on your door. It’s a face you don’t recognize, a man in a suit. He looks serious.
You open the door, he asks your name, and hands you a “folded sheet of paper.”
And that’s it. Your day, your week, maybe even your business is shot. They’ve come for you. Welcome. You are now a statistic.
You’ve just gotten a summons to appear in court, and a subpoena for your corporate records. That means you’re being sued, and someone is trying to find all the money you’ve got... so they can take it from you.
This is no joke. In fact, it’s happening all around us every day. Look around at some of the ‘random’ awards people are getting... just for falling down.
Add it up. According to a report published by the White House, these lawsuits “conservatively” totaled $180 billion per year. And that was in 2000, before September 11. No other country comes close.
If you own a corporation and you aren't keeping up to date with specific
activities related to your Corporate Records, then your family's home and
savings are only one lawsuit from being under attack, and you could lose
everything you've worked so hard for...
You see...
Your corporation simply can't do the job it was designed for-- which is to
protect your personal assets from business events gone bad-- unless you are
fully complying with the "Corporate Rules". That means all the
corporate rules.
You say you never got a "Corporate Rulebook"?
Well, I own two small corporations, and I never got a Rulebook either.
Because they don't publish one. And to make it even worse, the books on the
subject are almost impossible to read. They all seem to be written for
companies like IBM, or people with law degrees.
Not for busy business owners like you and me who have too many things to do
and too little time to do them.
These legal books are very tough to understand and even more difficult to
take action on. Especially for small corporations with only one or a few
owners like ours. And they sure aren't written for owners who are also
deeply involved in the day-to-day running of the business.
You are looking for a recipe book, not a textbook.
You need actionable information that is clear, concise and to the point.
Step-by-step...
Without a lot of extra information that you don't need. You want to get this
done in the minimum amount of hassle and time. But it has to be right at the
same time, because you want to have peace of mind.
What are your real options to protect yourself?
I have convinced you to make the decision to take care of this haven't I?
Please tell me you are going to get
this done, one way or the other very soon...
There are two ways to get this done, the "Money is no Object" method and the
other way. (The third option "Ignore it and hope it never comes up" is now
officially "off the table".)
First, the big-bucks option... You go to an attorney and throw yourself on
his or her mercy to help you straighten things out. This will work if
you want to write a big check in the range of thousands of dollars-- that's
$1000's of dollars. And at the end of the process you probably won't
understand what you have done.
Or, you could take the smarter approach...
You could learn the basics yourself, get things prepared in advance, then
see a lawyer for his blessing and to discuss any specifics. You can do this
for a fraction of what the lawyer would charge to do it all from scratch.
And if you do already have an assistant, my system is set up so you can work
together on this and make it even more painless.
Does that make sense to you?
Would you hire Trump to sell your family home?
Learning the basics of a subject like this from a big-bucks attorney* is
like hiring Trump to sell your family home. It'll be very expensive, and
"The Donald" will be bored to tears doing the teaching. He'll also probably
be terrible at it. He might even make you feel stupid.
Don't get me wrong, I love experts like attorneys for some things but
teaching me the basics at $300-400 per hour is not one of them). It's a
win-win for you to use my simple system to learn the ropes and get your
records organized...
Without the proper records, your family's
home,
savings and lifestyle are completely at risk...
Do you want to risk the horror of watching them take away your home, and
being forced to move your family out of your house and into an apartment?
If you aren't taking care of these important records, that is exactly the
risk you are taking.
I sincerely hope that you are enjoying a comfortable lifestyle as a reward
for all the hard work and headaches that you put up with as a business
owner. And, I hope that you have been able to save some money for later in
life... because I don't think that we are likely to ever see a dime from
Social Security.
So, we need to do everything we can to protect our assets. Because we are
going to need them in the future.
As a business owner, I'm proud to know that we are the rocket fuel which
powers the USA's economic engine. Unfortunately, many uninformed, envious,
and yes lazy people see us as greedy rich people who have what they want.
And they have lawyers filling their heads with promises of big money at the
end of the trial. As businesspeople, we are used to being fair, honest and
professional in our dealings. Not everyone plays the game this way.
But there are many people out there who want what we have earned and they
are willing to go to great lengths to get it. And they will be happy to use
any unfair or technical argument they can to get our stuff. It is up to us
to protect ourselves from unfair lawsuits.
Will Your "Corporate Veil" Be Torn to Shreds?
Do you know that not having the proper Corporate Records cracks the door for
a vulture lawyer to swoop in, convince a judge to "pierce your corporate
veil" and then proceed to seize your home, your savings, and destroy the
lifestyle you have worked so hard to build?
Do I have your attention yet? Please give me 5 more minutes and I'll
make it worth your while with some valuable info and maybe a simple way to
end your confusion and get your family protected.
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How good are your Corporate Records?
If my talks with business owners is even close to right, then your records
are probably not good enough to protect you. I have done an unscientific
survey of small business owners and they fall into these four groups:
Group 1: The about 50% have no idea what I am talking about (and if you
incorporated yourself and don't have an attorney, how would you know?);
Group 2: about 30% know there are records to be kept, and boards, and
meetings, and some more stuff, but they aren't
doing it, and they aren't at all clear what they should be doing, or the
risk they are taking;
Group 3: about 10% think they are doing most of what they need to be doing,
but they aren't confident, or they are
relying on someone else and that worries them;
Group 4: the remaining 5-10% think they have their corporate records under
control. If you are one of these people, congratulations! You may be excused
now! I now count myself in this group, and I sleep a lot better at night
than I used to when I was in one of the other groups.
This information is shocking. At least 80% of all business owners are
definitely NOT getting the protection they are expecting from their
corporate veil, and most likely the number is more like 90-95%.
Less than 10% of Business Owners are "Safe"...
Unless you are one of the 5-10% who are safe, this might be the most
important information you ever read. If could easily save you $100,000's or
even $1,000,000's if you take action now (before you forget about it).
Please take action. I'm warning you even if you don't make the small
investment in my system.
Which of these groups do you fall into? Be honest now, it is just you and me
talking and I'm not recording...
Listen, I know that you are honest and professional in what you do in your
business...
You want to do things by the book and right, and you want to have peace of
mind. I am the same way. I totally understand being too busy to get anything
that isn't absolutely required done. But, the problem is that the judge,
jury and person suing you probably don't understand the time crunch you are
under as a businessperson. They will not cut you any slack.
I am telling you that this is one of those things that goes on the REQUIRED
LIST, like doing your taxes. It simply positively has to get done.
And since it can be done in seven easy steps, and kept that way for a couple
of hours a year, there is NO EXCUSE.
If you in one Group 1, 2 or 3 above, then you aren't following the
"Corporate Rules", and you are
potentially one lawsuit away from losing everything you have worked so hard
for.
Now, an easy solution to protect yourself is available...
Let's look at each group of business owners...
If you own a business and you don't know what I am talking about, then you
are playing high stakes poker with your family's lifestyle. You've likely
heard that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" and that would definitely
apply here. I urge you to take action immediately. [I have an easy way to
learn the ropes without having to learn Legalese* offered below]
If you fall into one of the middle groups that know you are supposed to be
doing this stuff, and either isn't doing it, or isn't doing all of it, this
is even harder to explain. You either don't understand the risk, or you
honestly think that you will be able to take a week off and create a bunch
of acceptable documents in the event of such a terrible situation, this is
dangerous thinking.
In either case, I urge you to read the rest of this vital information. These
5-10 minutes could save you everything you have worked so hard to build up.
You work hard to earn the money, you need to spend a little time learning to
protect your personal
lifestyle. Here's why you are in such danger...If you are ever sued, the
opposing lawyers know that most "small" businesses do not keep large amounts
of cash and other assets sitting in the business accounts. ("Small" for most
businesses refers to the number of employees, for our purposes I am
referring to the number of owners).
Once your owner profits are distributed , they go into your personal bank
account (at least what is left over after you pay the gut-wrenching taxes),
and there they are presumed safe behind this so-called "corporate veil" of
protection.
But this veil only works if you are running your corporation properly
according to a set of "Rules", and the only way to prove that is to have a
well-kept set of Corporate Records which involves a number of things.
All it Takes is one Technicality...
Yes, your family could lose everything you have worked for on a
"technicality". Because in order for your corporation to do the job it was
designed for-- to shield your personal assets-- you need to be doing a
number of things correctly.
These aren't super-difficult things to do, but it sure can be a pain in the
neck to figure out what applies and what doesn't apply to your situation.
Because the "Rules" that you have to abide by were written for companies
like GE and IBM... and there can be a lot of complexity that doesn't apply
to corporations with one to a few owners.
My system, Corporate Veil Pro, can help you get your Corporate Records
ship-shape in 7 days, and keep them that way in about a half-hour a month.
It is the clear, concise Step by Step Guide for busy Small Business Owners,
Like You! And it is written in English in a conversational style, like this
letter. I will teach you in seven steps how to take what you have now and
whip it into shape. And I can't say it will be fun, but it will be
relatively simple and you will love the Peace of Mind that you get from
being in control.
Who am I and what brought me to develop this system?
I am currently the owner of two US corporations (one with a partner) and
have been a business owner for about ten years now. A few years back, I met
someone on a flight who was in the middle of a horrific lawsuit. His name
was George. As he sat down next to me, he pulled out a thick legal file
(those longer ones that don't fit in any of our normal filing cabinets like
when you close on a house).
George told me that his corporation was being sued for a fairly simple
matter, but the people attacking him were attempting to "pierce the
corporate veil" and take everything his family owned. He was shell shocked,
he didn't know such a thing could happen...
We talked for a while about the whole terrible situation, and George was
obviously a smart, competent, totally professional businessman. It was just
this one small area of his business that he didn't ever find the time to
address properly.
At one point George asked me "Rob, are your corporate records up to date?"
and I had to admit that I wasn't really sure if I was doing everything I
should be doing to protect myself.
Are you in a similar situation?
Are you ready for that
"Knock, Knock.." on your door demanding that you produce all your corporate
records?
George warned me that, without proper records, everything I had worked for
was at risk, and he urged me to take action right away to defend myself and
my family...
Since then, I have talked to hundreds of business owners, and the majority
of them do NOT feel good about these important records. Some of them aren't
even aware of the tremendous risk they are taking by ignoring this ticking
time bomb...
After talking with this troubled business owner, I vowed to take immediate
action and get my records ship-shape...
I took massive action...
I bought and read a ton of books on the subject and I learned that most of
these books are written for companies that are a lot more complicated than
us small corporations with only one or a few owners. Companies like IBM and
GE with hundreds of thousands of owners need complicated methods to allow
all these owners to control the direction and decisions of the company.
But for us little guys, we wear all the hats and the idea of "annual
meetings" seems a bit foreign, because we are living and breathing the
business every day of the week.
But the rules still apply to us littler companies and we need to follow them
to protect our personal assets.
So, I dug in and I learned what the rules were and I adapted them for these
small "one to a few owner" corporations. To make it as easy as possible for
our situations...and I learned that you can, in most cases get your
Corporate Records ship-shape in 7 days, and keep them that way in about a
half-hour a month.
Can you spare a little time to protect your
lifestyle?
The real question is can you afford not to?
These corporate records are ABSOLUTELY VITAL from a personal asset
protection point of view, yet no one will ask for them until the IRS or a
lawyer comes when they are trying to take your family's home and savings.
They make you complete your corporate taxes every year by March 15, and your
personal taxes by April 15, and somehow they get done, even though they are
complicated and painful and expensive.
These corporate records don't have any firm deadline imposed from the
outside, and you don't file them with anyone. They just sit in your files
and wait for the day that they might be called upon to protect everything
you have worked for. Don't you want to feel confident that you have done all
you can to protect yourself?
Remember, ignorance of the law is no excuse. (We all know that deep
down, don't we?)
PRE-LAUNCH NOTE:
My product "Corporate Veil Pro" will be available soon, and I am offering a
very select Test Flight with one-on-one support next month. Sign up above to
get further information.
These important topics are
clearly explained step-by-step in your Corporate Veil Pro system. You'll
quickly understand:
* How to clean up corporate records from prior years
* How often you need to work on these records
* Easy tips for painless Annual Meetings
* The role of Shareholders, Directors and Officers
* The proper functions of the Board of Directors
* Important Duties of Corporate Officers
* Keeping proper Stock Certificates & Corporate Stock Log
* Using the Corporate Seal (do you need one?)
* Handling Bank Accounts and Distributions
* The right way to approve significant contracts
* What other things do you need to document in your records
* Thinking as a Director...
* How to Sign Corporate Documents to Protect yourself
* The Worst thing you can do if you are trying to protect yourself
* Selecting your Professional Team
* Starting your Corporation off right with CorporateVeilPro
I am on a mission to help small business owners to cut through a bunch of
complicated rules and get their "Corporations done right"
(TM).
Because we all have our businesses to run, and we don't have
time to waste.
What others are saying about CorporateVeil ProTM:
"Compelling, necessary, vital information for every small business owner."
--Sonya Lenzo, www.sonyamlenzo.com
"Now, more than ever, Realtors and other small business owners need the
increased protection of incorporation for their business ventures. Rob's
corporate records kit will get you on track so you can get back to what you
do best!"
--Linda St. Peter, www.ibisconsortium.com
"Rob is an amazing speaker, I enjoyed his presentation a lot. In addition,
his product is really valuable. More and more solopreneurs are getting
incorporated, and Rob's system will help them to do it the right way. I
highly recommend his system to my customers."
-- Marieke Hensel, Online Personality Brand Marketer,
www.brandingpersonality.com
"Rob is a natural teacher. His knowledge and advice is new age and extremely
valuable."
-- Eliot Hoppe, www.paramountlearning.com
"Rob gives a great presentation! The information in his product could save
your professional and financial life. Rob's message that "you have to be
more than just a corporation on paper" hits home to every small business
owner."
-- Judy Munroe, www.consistentmarketinginc.com
"Rob was able to clearly educate our audience about a confusing and
intimidating topic. People left fully inspired with the know-how to protect
their personal asets."
-- Larina Kase, New York Times Bestselling Author; Founder, Performance and
Success Coaching LLC;
www.pascoaching.com
"Rob addresses a critical need of business owners-- keeping your corporate
records. He walks his talk, and has organized some very important
information into an easy-to-understand package. As a small business owner
myself, I find this invaluable."
-- Steve Chambers, www.stevechambers.com
*Very Important Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer,
and I strongly encourage every business owner who uses my information to
talk with their own lawyer to verify that they are acting properly for their
own unique situations.
I will even provide you my tips for selecting a great attorney, and how to
save at least 25% on most typical attorney costs in my Free Bonus
Report: "Lawyer Selection Secrets".
PS: My information will save you many hours with your lawyer by painlessly
teaching you the terminology and record-keeping requirements. At $300, $350,
$375 an hour and up, lawyers are very expensive teachers. Learn it quick and
easy from this concise system!
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