Business Marketing Consultants is celebrating its 12^th year of service to the publishing, film and printing industries. We are best known for representing buyers and sellers of publishing and printing companies.  Mr. Kerr is a prolific writer on the subject of valuing film and print companies and has conducted scores of appraisals in this area. We also place a value on intellectual property libraries and divisions – as well as entire enterprises. Our firm has been active in representing catalogs, distributors, Internet, wholesalers, corporate training companies, post production studios and educational properties.

Call on Business Marketing Consultants for any of the following needs:

• Business Appraisals

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• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Roll-ups in the Communicating Arts
• Public Offerings
• Financial & Business Consulting
• Business Plans
• Capital Formation
• Private Placements

Business Marketing Consultants was founded by Stephen J. Kerr in January 1989, after thirteen years of work in the printing and publishing industries. Our firm services mostly small to midsize companies in the communicating arts. Many of our clients have sales under $10 million. We even take on companies with sales of less than $1 million, if they have excellent prospects.

If you are looking for financial direction, fresh capital or a buyer…call us. Take a moment to look at our Project Board for holding companies, venture capital firms, individuals and corporations looking for good investments in the communicating arts.

If you are seeking to buy or invest in a professional, trade or educational publisher, special interest film producer, music or spoken-word audio publisher…this is the place to be. We often represent regional or national book wholesales, distributors and remainder houses as well. Check out our Project Board for a current list of our properties. If you don’t find what you are looking for, call us at (888) 615-9727, because there is a good chance that we know the kind of company you are looking for.

Stephen Kerr typifies the new breed of mergers and acquisitions intermediaries and is the President of Business Marketing Consultants.

Prior to entering the field of M&A consulting, Mr. Kerr was president of Marketing Tools, a book and film design, production and marketing company in California. A Business School graduate of San Diego State University, Mr. Kerr has spent most of the past 16 years working in the publishing and printing industries.

Mr. Kerr also writes a quarterly newsletter to his clients and articles for as much as six media and printing industry magazines, conducts seminars and workshops six to seven times a year. You can reach Mr. Kerr by e-mail at skerr@bizmark.net.

Peter has been with our company for five years. Prior to his arrival at Business Marketing Consultants, Peter worked as a Financial Analyst. Peter has an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of San Diego as well as an Engineering degree from Sweden.

Peter handles much of the write-up and design of our Acquisition Profiles and Business Plans. Mr. Stahl is also responsible for much of the analysis work in our Valuations as well as he writes articles for our newsletter and for different magazines in the publishing industry. Peter is the creator and maintains our company website www.bizmark.net. You can reach Mr. Stahl by e-mail at pstahl@bizmark.net.

Mr. Smith has a broad background in media and entertainment.

After receiving his B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, Mr. Smith began his entertainment career at the CBS owned and operated television station in Chicago. He was promoted to Director of Strategic Planning and then subsequently promoted to Chief Financial Officer for the CBS Television Network on the West Coast, overseeing 80 people and $1 billion in operating and capital expenditures. Additionally he served on the Management Board of CBS/Fox Studios and CBS/MTM Studios. Concurrent with his CBS duties, with CBS' special permission, Mr. Smith also executive produced an independent feature film.

Subsequently he left CBS to become Vice President, Business Development for the broadcast division of IMG, the leading sports marketing and management company in the world. Mr. Smith developed and ran four new business areas, overseeing over 40 home video programs (including projects with John Madden, Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Wimbledon and the Masters), a thirteen episode CBS animated television series, ten live two-hour broadcasts on ESPN, and a 156 program in-flight series for Delta Airlines.

Mr. Smith also consummated a 130-episode television agreement with Home Box Office that was the largest program acquisition in the history of Comedy Central. The programs garnered two ACE Award nominations. He later became President and majority owner of a location-based new media business that provided professional offices with customized internal marketing systems supported by commercial sponsors. At the time Mr. Smith sold the company, it had an installed base of approximately 4,000 monitors in 1000 venues and had developed six sponsorship programs.

After the sale he became the Chief Operating Officer of Stars Online, a celebrity-driven entertainment Internet portal in start-up phase financed by the public company, eMarketplace. Mr. Smith established the corporate infrastructure, developed key strategic alliances, identified and acquired assets returning a 80% ROI, and negotiated talent agreements to create and operate official web sites for major celebrities.

You can reach Mr. Smith by e-mail at gsmith@bizmark.net.