Our work in yacht brokerage has led to a partnership with a European based yachting company that lets us start to expand our marketing and interests into the realm of superyachts.

Carrying their brand through, we are basically creating an entirely new division for the company with focus slightly tweaked for the target market. To achieve this a dedicated website has been built, with all new brochures, and a dedicated magazine as a promotional tool for launch and ongoing communication.

We have now expanded our publishing operations beyond magazines, and are pushing forward into the field of book publishing.

This move came about due to the lack of feasible publishing and distribution options we found for books we were creating with a wide gulf between larger houses and the proliferation of online outfits promising things they could not deliver.

It is actually taking off faster than thought, with two other authors already in talks to be represented.

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After being approached by a young, local entrepreneur we entered into a joint venture with our publishing work to create a magazine for his work within the Twin Cities metro and surrounding areas. POC Magazine was born.

This publication, with just two issues in print and number three in design, has proven itself so popular that it is about to expand into other cities around the U.S. under licensing agreements with business and entrepreneurial groups there.

We have just recently contracted with a 22 year old entrepreneur to take her concept of a company dedicated to the promotion of renewable energy items and turn it into a layer entity. Her goal was to remove the current stigma attached to the industry and provide an entertaining and educational platform for products.

The project covers all sectors of the industry from generation and storage through to all new forms of transportation - automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles, aircraft and watercraft.

We have been involved from the very beginning, helping with everything from naming and logo design, through web design, a new magazine creation, publicity, and direct marketing to all sectors of the industry on a worldwide basis. The project has been absolutely fascinating as even we ourselves discover the development and the amazing products now available.

Ths summer we brought into Minnesota the first Solar Sal 24 in the midwest area.

The boat is one of the vessels being marketed through IY Green, a division of our yacht brokerage that was started recently to focus on electric yachts worldwide.

Completely powered by solar, the boat is kept at our location in Afton, Minnesota as a show model and demonstration unit. She is the latest to be added to the lines IY Green represents with boats from the U.S. and Europe.