Emmis Capital LLC

Emmis Capital helps micro-cap companies accelerate their business objectives by listing on senior stock exchanges such as NASDAQ, NYSE and NEO. We provide transformative bridge financing to micro-cap companies seeking to list on senior exchanges. We are selective with our investments with a foc ... see more

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Exchange Listing LLC

Exchange Listing was formed to provide growth companies with direct access to a one-stop solution in the strategic planning and implementation of listing on a senior exchange such as NASDAQ or NYSE in the most cost-effective and efficient process available.

We offer capital markets advisory services to private companies looking to access the public capital markets as well as public companies looking to grow to the next level. The scope of our advisory services include, but are not limited to:

-     IPO readiness assessment
-     Overall capital raising strategy
-     Guidance on IR / PR
-     Underwriter introduction / selection
-     Auditor/Legal evaluation, selection and introduction
-     Design of financial structure

Our Role: Your Partners:

-We are hands-on, frontline partners throughout the listing and funding process.

-We leverage our decades of Wall Street experience and a broad array of relationships with investment bankers, investors, attorneys, auditors, accountants, IR/PR firms, independent directors and the exchanges to facilitate your listing and funding.

-We orchestrate a tailored, company-specific yet systematic process for the listing, which enhances competitiveness and maximizing stakeholder benefits.

-We align our interests with your company management, board of directors and shareholders as equity partners to facilitate a successful listing and funding.

-Basically, our goal is to partner with you to achieve a objectives that are the most beneficial to your company and your shareholders


Our Principals:

-The principals of the firm have extensive capital markets backgrounds, track records and experience in the planning and implementation of listing on senior stock exchanges, collectively bringing over 100 years of Wall Street Experience.

-Our founders, strategic partners and advisors are entrepreneurs drawn from investment banking, securities law, corporate governance and business management.

Chief Executive Officer

Forbes Finance Council

I am delighted to join the Forbes Business Council, which is an invitation-only community for executives in accounting, financial planning, wealth and asset management, and investment firms.

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Grandview Capital Partners

Grandview Capital provides strategic financial, technical and innovative corporate advisory services to our clients who are emerging growth companies. Grandview’s pledge to our clients business is our commitment to quality, integrity, and success.

Founder, Chief Executive Officer 

Exchange Listing Publishing

The Entrepreneur’s IPO is a handbook that outlines exactly what to expect when pursuing a micro or small-cap IPO. Written from the perspective of someone with over 35+ years as a C-suite executive for public and private companies and an expert in navigating the ever-changing climate of Wall Street. This book provides in-depth knowledge and unique perspectives on the process required to IPO your company and the distinctive elements needed when seeking out the right bankers, investors, industry experts, and board members. The Entrepreneur’s IPO is a book that can practically guide any micro and small-cap company to IPO, proving that it is possible to IPO your company, and you do not need to be a unicorn to do it.

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Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc.

Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc. NASDAQ: STAF, is an emerging public company in the international
staffing sector engaged in the acquisition of domestic and international staffing agencies. As part
of its highly targeted consolidation model, Staffing 360 is pursuing a broad spectrum of staffing
companies in the information technology (“IT”), financial, accounting and healthcare industries
with a particular emphasis on Cyber Security. The Company commenced revenue generation in October, 2012 with an initial customer base that includes a Fortune 100 company and is pursuing additional opportunities in India. The Company is also currently developing a proprietary division focused on veterans’ staffing.

Co Founder - Chairman of the Board

CEO of Exchange Listing | Founder of Emmis Capital IPO Fund | Author of 'The Entrepreneur's IPO' |

As a skilled capital market advisor, I partner with emerging growth companies to provide access to capital and facilitate completing an IPO on Nasdaq or NYSE stock exchanges or advancing as a public company. 

In my 35+ years as a C-suite executive for public and private companies, I’ve established myself as a trusted resource in navigating the ever-changing climate of Wall Street. I have successfully launched several highly innovative companies through the complicated structuring and execution process to meet listing and funding objectives. 
I guide companies through the preparation, implementation, interpretation of actual listing analysis and metrics, and offer aftermarket support with authentic and unique value propositions.

I've successfully ushered entrepreneurial emerging growth businesses to their IPOs and helped them become uniquely positioned to access growth capital and international capital markets. How? By providing results-oriented, direct access to a one-stop solution in the strategic planning and implementation of listing on a senior exchange most cost-effectively and efficiently possible. 

I'm passionate about providing leadership in varied aspects of corporate finance and capital markets by drawing on my expertise with a myriad of diverse and satisfied global entrepreneurial clients. I've also just written my debut book, The Entrepreneur's IPO, a roadmap for going public as a small/micro-cap company. If you would like to know more about the book or order a copy, click here: https://pgoldstein.co/.

If you would like to get in touch please send me a personal message!

Peter Goldstein

One of the world's largest companies has made a quiet yet significant shift.

Walmart is moving its listing from the New York Stock Exchange to Nasdaq.

A company with more than $800 billion in market value. Listed on the NYSE since 1970. Now choosing a new home.

Moves like this are never about optics. They are about alignment.

Walmart cited shared values with Nasdaq. A technology-forward approach. Innovation. Client focus. These are not marketing lines. They reflect how the business is evolving.

The listing change adds another layer. It positions Walmart for inclusion in the Nasdaq 100. That means greater visibility and additional passive fund flow. It also reflects how much of Walmart’s future is tied to automation and artificial intelligence.

This is the largest exchange switch by market value in history. And yet the meaning is simple.

Exchanges compete on structure, technology, and alignment.

Companies choose the platform that matches where they are going, not where they have been.

Markets shift. Strategies evolve. Companies reposition.

What stays constant is the need for clarity, discipline, and the right environment to grow.

This is another reminder that listing decisions are strategic choices.

Entrepreneur & Capital Markets Leader | IPO Advisory | Founder, Exchange Listing | CEO, Emmis Acquisition Corp. | Author, The Integrated CEO

Obvi

Chief Marketing Officer

Junglee Inc.

Advisor

AfterSell by Rokt

Ambassador

PrettyDamnQuick

GrapevineAI

Elevar

Gorgias

Proxima

Ghost3Media

Co-Founder

Mohawk Group, Inc.

Senior Marketing Analyst

CMO and Co-Founder at Obvi

Ashvin Melwani

Every CRO test I run at Obvi makes me nervous.

New landing page layout = Could tank conversion rate. Different hero image = Might hurt engagement. Adjust the pricing display = Could hurt profit per visitor.

Your hypothesis might be wrong. And you won't know until you've already lost money.

But this new add-on we’re testing is different. It's the rare CRO move with zero downside risk.

We just implemented ROKT Pay+, a new product from Aftersell by Rokt.  

It’s super simple. 

When customers hit your payment page, they see a banner offering cashback or rewards for selecting Apple Pay or PayPal.

Apple and PayPal then pay YOU when customers choose their wallet.

That's it. No behavior change required. No new friction added.

Your customers were already using these payment methods. Now you just get paid when they use them. Bonus: Apple Pay and PayPal come with payment processing fees anyway. ROKT Pay+ helps offset those costs.

Here’s why this is literally no-risk → 

-Already extensively A/B tested by Aftersell

-Zero negative impact on conversion (some brands see lift)

-Integrates natively with your existing checkout

-Banner designed to match your site's look and feel

-Customers already trust Apple Pay and PayPal

Aftersell is reporting ~$20-25 cents added per order from early launches.

We've been running Rokt Thanks awhile, and it adds $10k/month to our bottom line. That’s $120k+/year in pure profit.  

So when they told us about Pay+, it was an easy yes.

Look, I test landing pages weekly. I test new offers constantly. I'm always looking for ways to improve profit per session.

But those tests come with risk. This doesn't.

This is the closest thing I've found to free money in DTC:

-No operational lift

-No conversion risk (extensively tested)

-No new products to manage

-Premium brand association

We just started testing this, so I'll share our Obvi numbers once we have enough data.

But if you're running CRO tests and want something with actual upside and zero downside, this is worth looking at.

#ROKTpartner

CTV is either your next growth channel or your biggest budget black hole.

The difference comes down to one thing: whether you're buying real inventory or paying bots to watch your ads.

Here's the reality: Most CTV platforms operate like black boxes. Fragmented ID systems lose signal across devices. First-party data can't connect to reach controls. 

Your dashboard shows results, but you can't verify who actually watched.

Vibe.co just dropped their 2026 CTV Performance Playbook. It's not another "CTV is the future" think piece. It's a technical breakdown of what's broken and how to fix it.

What you'll get:

-How to retarget your existing customers and site visitors on streaming TV with the same precision as Meta

-How to use AI to test narrative, pacing, and offers at scale, then tie those tests directly to site sessions and purchases

-How over 20% of Vibe.co ads were AI-generated using Vibe Studio (and tips on best practices)

-Real incrementality data showing how brands achieve 55% lower CAC on CTV vs paid social

If you've been treating CTV like a brand awareness play because "it doesn't convert," this will change your perspective.

Click the link in the comments to get the full guide. 

#Vibepartner

This BFCM, we did something at Obvi that most brands ignore, and it added $4.38 per order to our AOV and another $6K in straight profit from our thank you page.

What did we do?

Post-purchase upsells. That's it.

We focused on the part of the funnel most brands ignore – right after a customer hits “Buy Now.”

This strategy worked because once a customer has already entered payment info, the friction is gone. 

They're in buying mode. You show them a relevant offer, they click once, and it's added to their order.

We use Aftersell by Rokt Post Purchase Upsell for this. 

The tool lets us test varying offers against different customer segments. Purchase history, cart value, and shipping method all factor into what offer they see.

The multivariate testing is what makes it work. We're not guessing. We're using the data to see which products, discounts, and layouts drive the most revenue.

Then, there’s the revenue we drove from our Thank You page. This one's pure profit with zero effort. 

With ROKT Thanks, our customers see hyper-targeted offers from premium brands like Disney+, HelloFresh, or Nike, and if they engage, we earn $0.30-0.50 per order.

No COGS. No inventory. No fulfillment. No customer service. That $6,000 over BFCM cost us nothing to earn.

Setup took 5 minutes. We control what categories appear. Competitors are blocked. And the AI personalizes offers based on 200 million+ transactions, so engagement rates hit 16% vs under 2% for typical banner ads.

If you're running paid traffic and not capturing post-purchase revenue, test it. The upside is real, the setup is fast, and the downside is basically zero.

#Aftersellpartner #ROKTpartner

The CPG world takes itself seriously, so we decided not to.

On January 12th, we are setting the stage for a live comedy event where comedians will be roasting some of the most notable CPG brands and their founders. This is the one night of the year you can swap the board meeting for pure, high-energy laughter.

Come grab a drink, relax, and make new connections while laughing with (and at) your industry peers!

CPG ROAST
When: January 12th, 2026 | 7-9 PM
Where: Caveat, Manhattan

Reserve your spot through the link in the comments!

🧠 Your Meta dashboard might show a 7X ROAS…but you could still be wasting 6 figs a month on non-incremental spend.

That’s exactly what happened to one of Marin Istvanic’s clients. Looked incredible in-platform, but a total mess in reality.

After one change, they saved $200K/month. But that’s just the start. 

Marin was my first guest on the new Ad Spend podcast, and he dropped 7 Meta insights that every buyer should steal going into 2025 👇

Here are the 7 insights that stuck with me:

1️⃣ View-through conversions are lying to you. 
 Like I said, Marin’s client had a 7X ROAS on paper. Then he checked attribution:
 → 80% of conversions were view-through
 → Switched to 7-day click only
 → Cut $200K in spend
 → Revenue stayed flat

Rule of thumb: If >30% of your conversions are view-through, audit it. Especially if you have strong organic demand.

Meta will happily take credit for sales it didn’t really drive.

2️⃣ Don’t wait to scale. Scale inside the test.
Most media buyers separate testing and scaling. Marin doesn’t.
If early signal look strong, he quickly increases budget within the testing ad set.

He move from $100 to $1k per day withing a week, before moving an ad to the scaling campaign.

3️⃣ ABO > CBO (if you’ve got a good hit rate.)
CBO often over-allocates spend to ads that get good engagement. But that doesn’t mean good conversion rates.

Marin still uses ABO to keep control:
 ✅ 1 concept per ad set
 ✅ Even budget across ideas
 ✅ No over-indexing on ads that drive “post likes”

Only use this if your test-to-winner hit rate is 30%+. Otherwise, CBO can still help to protect your budget.

4️⃣ One ASC per product.
Different AOVs = different CPA targets. So why would you run them all through the same cost cap?

Marin runs a separate ASC for each product.
 → Tailored cost caps
 → Cleaner optimization
 → No mixed signals

Most brands underperform here without realizing it.

5️⃣ Your offer is more important than your creative.
One of Marin’s brands had a 20% hit rate. To improve, they didn’t change the ads, just reframed the offer.

Hit rate jumped to 45%. Even old loser ads started working.

Sometimes the pitch (not the ad) is the issue.

6️⃣ If you don’t set exclusions, Meta won’t prospect.
 ASC will always optimize for the easiest conversion path. Meaning, warm traffic and BOFU conversions over prospecting.

Marin excludes:
 → 180d purchasers (Pixel + Klaviyo)
 → 180d site visitors
 → Warm traffic from influencer/affiliate channels

This forces Meta to go find new customers.

7️⃣ Launch your tests on Wednesdays.
 Why?
 → Weekend performance is better
 → Launching Monday = limited signal by mid-week

Marin’s cadence:

Wed: Launch
Fri: Check
Weekend: Let it run
Mon: Evaluate + scale

More runway = better data.

🧠 My biggest takeaways:
→ ROAS can lie if you trust view-through attribution
→ ABO gives speed + control if your hit rate is strong
→ ASC should match your AOVs
→ Offer > Creative
→ Clean setup → clean signal → scalable growth

Growth in 2026 comes down to one thing: getting more out of what you're already doing.

CPMs aren't coming down. Competition isn't slowing down. Which means the only real lever is optimization: using the customer feedback you're already collecting, tightening up underperforming flows, stacking 2% improvements until they compound into real growth.

That's what I'm covering December 9th at 11 AM ET along with some of the sharpest operators in DTC. Maestra.io is hosting this one-hour session where we're each breaking down the small wins that are actually moving the needle right now.

We're not talking theory here. Every tactic comes with real numbers from brands that have already run it. Battle-tested plays you can actually use.

I'll be walking through the exact AI prompts I use to turn customer data into high-performing creative. Plus you'll hear from:

→ Tamanna Bawa – Tech Partner Manager at Triple Whale (analytics platform trusted by 45,000+ brands)

→ Kyle Cannon – Marketing Manager at Furniture Fair (9-figure revenue, 13 stores + online, 20+ years in retail)

→ Jonathan Cairo – Head of Solutions & Integrations at CustomersAI (5 years in event data & identity tracking for Skims, Netflix, Adidas, Unilever)

→ Andrei Rebrov 🚀 – Co-founder at Finsi, ex-Scentbird (scaled to 500K paying subscribers)

5 speakers, 15 proven plays, 1 hour.

You'll walk away with something you can implement immediately. And if none of the tactics fit your brand, Maestra will audit your funnel and map three fixes for you.

Forget the typical webinar format. This one's cameras on, live questions, real conversation. The kind where someone drops a tactic and three other people immediately jump in with how they'd tweak it for their brand.

(Oh, and Maestra's sending everyone a $10 Starbucks card when you register. Might as well grab that coffee.)

This is one hour you don't want to miss if you're trying to break through your current growth ceiling.

See you there. 

Register using the link in comments 👇

2025 made acquisition 10x harder. That’s why we’re doubling down on getting more value from our existing traffic at Obvi.

Right now, every brand I know is spending more to acquire the same number of customers.

With CPMs climbing and competition ramping up, throwing more budget to ads isn’t going to change the bottom line.

But focusing on strategies that allow you to make the most of traffic you already have might. 

Your cart page, checkout flow, and confirmation page represent 100% of your buyer's journey. But if you treat them like cost centers (plain, functional), they’re completely wasted.

We decided to test this premise by partnering with Aftersell by Rokt by Aftersell to make the most of the bottom of the funnel. 

And the results have been insane: 

-We're now adding $7.50 to AOV through optimized post-purchase flows

-Our confirmation page generates $10K/month in pure profit from ROKT Thanks alone. That's $120K+/year we weren't capturing before

Aftersell just released a playbook breaking down the entire framework we've been testing. It tells you exactly how to turn these touchpoints into profit centers.

What's covered:

-The "Yes Ladder" framework for structuring post-purchase offers that convert (and how to test sequencing, pricing presentation, and product combinations)

-How to layer ROKT Thanks on your confirmation page for $0.30-0.50 per order in pure profit with zero operational lift

-Cart optimization tactics that add $4-7 to AOV before checkout even starts (sales motivator bars, strategic upsells, trust signals)

-The 4 emotions killing conversions in your checkout flow and how to address each one

-A/B testing methodology for compounding marginal gains across your entire funnel

If you're focused on acquisition while your checkout sits at default settings, this is definitely worth a read.

Click the link in the comments to get the playbook.

#AftersellPartner

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