b'How to Legally Raise Private Moneyting where the sponsor has not already established a substantive relation-ship with all prospective investors. If you state to a prospective investor that you are looking for investors, regardless of whether for current or future offerings, or whenever you pro-vide specific information to an investor about any current offerings that are available, it is generally considered to be an offer. That information could come in the form of a property summary, a prospectus, a pitch deck, or a business plan. 22 Examples of improper solicitation of offers to invest in a Rule 506(b) offering include: Announcements about investment opportunities made to attend-ees at a meeting in which you have not pre-qualified all of the at-tendees. Posts to the public on a blog, search-engine-optimized website or other electronic forum about your offering. Sending email blasts to multiple recipients with invitations to in-vest. Conducting or participating in informercial-type seminars when the solefunctionis to talk about a specific offering or previous transactions. When trying to decide if your proposed activity complies with the rules, it might be helpful to ask yourself, What would a jury of my peers think? They may in fact be the people deciding your fate if your conduct is ques-tionable. The safest route regarding the sale of securities pursuant to any exemption that doesnt allow advertising is to conduct discussions in a one-on-one setting.CROWDFUNDING YOUR OFFERINGADVERTISING FOR INVESTORSCrowdfunding is simply a method to legally advertise a securities offer-ing via the internet or other means. The JOBS Act allows direct advertising of securities on the internet 22 Note, however, that in recent litigation, the SEC claimed that email blasts to mul-tiple recipients, even where the syndicator had already established the pre-existing relationship, was a prohibited general solicitation. 100'