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Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

June 24, 2016

Your Employees are Like the Presidential Candidates

Seattle Times headline - "Sanders urges crowd to defeat rigged system." Magazine headlines - "Stopping Trump," "Unstoppable Force," and more Sanders and Trump supporters have a…

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling

June 22, 2016

Business Buyers Have Multiple Mindsets

My eight-year-old granddaughter brought something home from school about "growth mindset versus fixed mindset." It's an interesting concept and I find it enlightening they are…

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

June 18, 2016

Restricting Income Potential

On February 3, 2016 the Wall Street Journal had an article titled, "Noncompete Pacts Hobble Rookies." The prime example was about a young legal industry reporter who…

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June 15, 2016

What’s a Great Referral

So what is a good referral, whether you're an advisor or a plumber? 1) Here’s what it’s not: “I gave your name to so-and-so. Maybe…

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June 10, 2016

The Right Way to do Business

Recently I put the word out to my network that I needed to replace the person who’d been doing outbound telephone work for me, to…

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling

June 6, 2016

Ignore Good Advice at Your Own Peril

Awhile back I wrote the following on a piece of paper and put it by my computer. “I tell my business buyer clients what it…

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling

June 1, 2016

Win the Battle and the War

A business owner friend, in the process of selling his business, told me how frustrated he was with the deal and especially the buyer. The…

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Increasing Value Other

May 26, 2016

Job Security for the Ineffective

Business seller: "We implemented our plan, hit a speed bump, regrouped, profits are lower than per the plan, but pay me for the business as…

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May 17, 2016

Spring has Sprung

It's a different mindset when walking through our front patio and entryway or when sitting on the deck when there are bright flowers in the…

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Exiting & Selling

May 13, 2016

What’s Your Succession Plan? I Hope It’s Better than United Airlines Plan

On March 14 was the day United Continental Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz eturned to work after he had a heart attack and heart transplant last…

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