JohnM, Author at Martinka Consulting

Exiting & Selling

June 14, 2010

Tips to sell your business for more than you thought (2)

Buy before you sell - a small, profitable business is good. A mid-sized, profitable business is better. A larger company attracts more buyers who have…

JohnM

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling

June 9, 2010

What causes someone to sell their business?

Some recent motivations were typical, like retirement and a health issue. Some other acquisitions came about because of less typical reasons. One owner got in…

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Love97

Other

June 4, 2010

Small business pricing – little events can have a big affect

In a session with a buyer and seller, of a small manufacturing business, recently the subject of what multiple of profit or EBITDA small businesses…

JohnM

Love97

Other

June 1, 2010

Tips to sell your business for more than you thought

Avoid having to have a story - 80% of it probably is (it is my opinion on the 80%; not the result of any survey).…

JohnM

Love97

Other

May 27, 2010

Rube Goldberg and Business (buying, selling and growing)

Buy, sell or grow - it doesn't have to be overly complicated There’s an incredible YouTube video from the band OK GO for their song…

JohnM

Love97

Increasing Value Other

May 25, 2010

Customer service on the front lines

Last weekend we took Victoria, our 2-year-old granddaughter, for pizza at Via Tribunali in Seattle (Fremont location). Not your typical place to take a little…

JohnM

Love97

Business Buying Other

May 20, 2010

WSJ warns of SBA loan fraud

Need money for your business? Desperately need cash? Be careful. As per the WSJ, May 20, 2010, there’s new breed of con artists who “arrange”…

JohnM

Love97

Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

May 17, 2010

A Rotary Club is a lot like a business

As incoming president-elect of my Rotary Club I’m realizing, again, how much a 120-person club is like a business. We have to watch costs, generate…

JohnM

Love97

Business Buying Exiting & Selling

May 13, 2010

A new owner and the employees

Three deals, three new owners and three sets of happy employees. The following is equally valuable for buyers and sellers. Too often there is simmering below…

JohnM

Love97

Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

May 7, 2010

Change and a Business’s Resiliency

In an excellent column in the April 6, 2010 NY Times, "Relax, We’ll Be Fine" by David Brooks, Mr. Brooks writes about how, “America’s future…

JohnM

Love97

JohnM

Tips to sell your business for more than you thought (2)

What causes someone to sell their business?

Small business pricing – little events can have a big affect

Tips to sell your business for more than you thought

Rube Goldberg and Business (buying, selling and growing)

Customer service on the front lines

WSJ warns of SBA loan fraud

A Rotary Club is a lot like a business

A new owner and the employees

Change and a Business’s Resiliency

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