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                      Dear Business Owner, 
                       July, 08. I am currently recruiting two new members one 
                      on one, there are no special informational events 
                      occurring at this time. 
						 Two Boards had two owners "graduate" , we 
						helped them sell their businesses in July, so they are 
						no longer eligible for TAB. I have two seats available. Walt 
                       
                      Many business experts strongly recommend that business 
                      owners of all sizes form an advisory Board of Directors.
                       
                       
                      The information exchanged between you and your peers can 
                      be very beneficial in growing, maintaining and eventually 
                      selling your business while eliminating the frustration of 
                      trying to get your business to the next level.  
                       
                      After all, how many business owners do you know that will 
                      admit that they know everything there is to know about 
                      running a business? Even the brightest, the most 
                      successful, the best, certainly do not make this claim.
                       
                       
                      The Alternative Board (TAB) will give you access on a 
                      monthly basis to other experienced executives in 
                      non-competing businesses who have different skills and 
                      backgrounds from your own. Each Board member shares his or 
                      her expertise with you in exchange for being able to tap 
                      into your business experience in a confidential 
                      “think-tank” Board of Directors environment.  
                       
                      Come and find out why The Wall Street Journal call TAB “The 
                      low cost source of outside business expertise for the 
                      business owner.”  
                       
                      I would like to invite you to join me - as well as a group 
                      of your peers - for a 90 minute working lunch to discuss 
                      and demonstrate the TAB process. The lunch is 
                      complementary and there is no cost or obligation to 
                      attend. We will finish on time if not early.  
                       
                       
                      Sincerely,  
                        
                      Walter L. Brown III 
                      The Alternative Board Raleigh  
                       
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