CORPORATE PROFILE: TD Smith & Associates

Tony Smith has been working his craft as a business strategist and business plan writer since 1995. As the principal and CEO of TD Smith & Associates Incorporated, he and his team write business plans, provide due diligence research, marketing research, target market research, and ultimately provide

business plans which may be used for SBA guaranteed loans, angel investors, venture capital, land development and construction loans. What is remarkable about his process for writing plans is they provide citations, references and assumptions worksheets which validate the forecasts, proformas, use of funds, and return-on-investment worksheets in such a way that banks and investors appreciate them to such an extent that a significant percentage of loan packages submitted are approved using the TD Smith system.

Smith has written hundreds of business plans, business proposals, and marketing plans. He has launched more than 40 startup small businesses. Currently, he is working with clients on land development projects along Interstate 15 north of Barstow as well as some interesting restaurant, retail and Web-based businesses. One such example is a Web-based video resume company - see www.workblast.com as an example. Specifically, Smith's niche is restaurants, bars, nightclubs, retail, wholesale, Internet-based, land development and alternative energy businesses in Southern California.

Smith's professional corporation, SoCalBizOps, is licensed to represent its clients for buying and selling businesses, commercial real estate transactions, and commercial loan acquisitions. Southern California Business Opportunities works with clientsseeking SBA 7A, 7B, 504, low doc and mini loans as well as commercial construction loans, bridge loans, working capital loans, accounts receivable loans, hard money and general business start-up loans. Smith is currently working with more than 25 clients seeking funds ranging from $250,000 to $230,000,000.

Smith is a licensed real estate agent for commercial property and business opportunities. He has also written a number of publications including the "Business Development Directory" for the Pasadena area and the San Gabriel Valley. Additional publications in 2007 included the "Guide to West Covina," and "Doing Business in Covina." (Email tonysplans@aol.com. )

Another interesting project Smith is working on is the development of SBIMCO (The Small Business Incubator Management Company) which is a subsidiary of TD Smith & Associates and is not for profit. SBIMCO shall provide its clients the ability to launch new companies affordably. All TD Smith clients may use SBIMCO services in their facility for "at-cost" during their business launch or expansion including temporary office space for $.80 per foot and other executive office services.

Smith's future projects include the development of the Southern California Master Plan Institute. Southern California is considered the perfect place to live with its beaches, mountains, deserts, industry, Hollywood, and diversity of all people and walks of life - but it cannot support future growth without an organization dedicated for planning and coordination. Because of its geographic and economic draw, the five counties of Southern California are under fire to develop strategic planning for the future; hence the need for the Southern California Master Plan Institute.

The Southern California Master Plan Institute is an organization overseen by Tony D. Smith, CEO of TD Smith & Associates Incorporated, a business plan development and research firm. Tony and his team have developed more than 300 business plans since 1995 and the team has implemented more than 20 percent of them.

As Southern California's population is expected to increase to 50,000,000 by the next generation, the Master Plan Institute has been created to become the source of primary and secondary research for planning, development, and coordination - it serves as the project manager for numerous developments, real estate planning teams, and business start-ups. The institute is in the business of developing initiatives for Master Plans which shall include coordination between business, municipalities, education, media, county and state government as well as the entities that support them.

The team focuses on infrastructure planning for local communities, promoting the use of existing sites for multiple uses, building "up" and not "out," promoting the concept of living and working in the same commnunities, and developing strategic plans for second andthird shift plans which will ease the challenges associated with transportation, education, infrastructure, power, water, and the protection of our environment. The institute also develops per capita planning for businesses and development to best develop communities to support the population (For example, how many restaurants should be built in a particular area to support the current and future population? This information shall be vital for land developers, businesses, banks, investors, and the community governments that approve land use).

Management, control, and mission analysis is overseen by the board of directors and is facilitated by staff.

The thrust of the mission is to develop a marketing plan and strategic plan for Southern California to mitigate its current and future challenges of expansion and growth; to promote a grass roots, commmunity approach to the problems by helping local municipalities determine how they can best work into the master plan through information provided by the institute. Environmental challenges are also studied and mitigated.

The function of TD Smith & Associates is to write and implement business plans for its clients. The function of SoCalBizOps and its relationship with the institute is to secure construction loans, equipment loans, and other vital process needs of TD Smith & Associates' clients through relationships with its commercial bankers. SoCalBizOps has a "Broker of Record" Tom Marino and Principle Tony Smith, both of whom are licensed to sell real estate as well as secure real estate, construction, and business loans in the State of California. While Smith enjoys writing business plans and looks forward to the land development projects north of Barstow, most important to him is the service he feels his company provides to its communities by providing jobs and revenue to the people of Southern California.