eSmart Assessments, LLC

Tucker Capital Advisors LLC

Tucker Capital Advisors (TCA) is an investment banking and financial services advisory firm specializing in privately-held small and middle market companies. Our clients typically have values or financing needs of $1-25 Million. We provide our CEOs with transaction advisory services in buying, selling, valuing, financing, and expanding their businesses. We help CEOs maximize their financial position through timely advice and the aggressive pursuit of profitable financial transactions.

There is a large amount of money involved in capital transactions therefore, our pledge to our clients is to maximize their financial results, through innovative, solution driven consulting services. Since 1990 the Principal of TCA has provided financial advisory and consulting services in over 100 successful M&A and private placement transactions.

We provide business valuation services and reports to CEOs, law firms and estate and planning professionals. A business valuation may become necessary to document financial, legal, business, tax or financial planning issues, or to just answer the question - “What is my business worth?”

TCA offers a financial solution to your firm through the placement of capital. From venture capital to senior debt we assist companies in obtaining the right financing to meet their needs. We work with an extensive network of over 300 lenders and investors to provide capital for growth, acquisition, buy-outs, growing pains, turnarounds and special situations.

TCA provides financial advisory services to Clients of small and middle market companies seeking to create exceptional value or to position their firms for next level growth. We assist CEOs in financial planning and successfully executing growth strategies.

Effectively Leverage Your Human Capital

Eric Miller is President of eSmart Assessments, LLC and his focus is on helping businesses interested in growing from good to great be successful in that effort by adding web-based human capital evaluation products. His advice:

You Can’t Correct a Poor Hiring Decision.

No amount of money can solve the problems created when you hire or promote the wrong person. Traditional hiring methods fail to give you the essential information you need to make your best hiring and promotion decisions.  You know the problems created and the costs involved when the wrong person is placed in a position of responsibility either through hiring or promotion. You know too that the costs related to turnover, such as lost productivity and training expenses, have a negative effect on your bottom line.

Assessments offer a solution. Historically, employers depend upon résumés, references and interviews as sources of information for making hiring decisions. In practice, these sources have proved inadequate for consistently selecting good employees.

Leveraging your Human Capital

You will be able to quickly work on your people related challenges (current and future) using the assessment information. The assessment information will help you in improve overall employee productivity. And, assessment information will identify that you either have the right people in the right positions and or, you may need to make adjustments either in duties assigned or position re-assignment.  The goal is good employee retention and development.

“The Medici Effect is one of the most insightful books about managing innovation I have ever read.  Its assertion that breakthrough insights occur at novel intersections is an enduring principle of creativity that should guide innovators in every field.” 

Clayton M. Christensen, Robert and Jane Cizik, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

April/May 2005 Networking and Professional Growth Opportunities

New Meeting Scheduled

A third meeting series has been added to our regular schedule.

The additional location is:

Naden Lean, LLC
1966 Greenspring Drive, Suite 405
Timonium, MD 21093

 on the 3rd Tuesday of the month unless otherwise noted.

Officers

Format of Meetings:

We will go around the table twice, and the message should follow this format:

• Give an explanation of your company's business

• Ask for a specific type of referral (i.e. commercial realtors, chiropractors) or a contact in a specific company (i.e. a facilities person at McCormick Spice or the CEO at Under Armor).

Meeting Announcements

A Message from the President - Marquis McE. Smith, III

I'd like to welcome all of our new members to the Business Opportunity Network! We are growing quickly and the number of personal introductions is reaching an all time high! The goal of BON is to help you increase your sphere of influence and therefore your client base. We are contemplating the addition of 3 new locations for BON meetings - Timonium, Owings Mills, and Canton in order to accommodate the growth of our organization - and would welcome your comments on specific locations of interest. Please remember, however, that every effort is being made to maintain the integrity and quality of our group's membership.

All new prospects for individual membership will be asked to complete a membership application which will be reviewed by our membership committee. Our desired target mix is 50% business owners and 50% high level sales, marketing or business development professionals. Any business professional who fits that description and is interested in learning about our organization should be directed to Brian Razzeque to receive an application. Our annual dues of only $120 per year makes The Business Opportunity Network one of the best values for expanding your business in Maryland.

Please forward this newsletter to any contacts who you think might be a good addition to our membership. I am looking forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming meetings!

Thoughts about Happy Hour - Drew Lenear

"Another great BON networking event!! I was both a little disappointed and very happy to see more new faces than regulars.  Apparently many of us did a good job of getting the word out on the event but then couldn't make it ourselves. Anyway the evening was a success the food was good and plentiful. The new people I spoke to thought our organization had a good mix of professionals and that we were all very welcoming.  Many thanks to Jennifer Harrington and Anne O’Brien for putting it together!"

Addresses for Meetings

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