JohnM, Author at Martinka Consulting

Business Buying Exiting & Selling

October 3, 2013

SBA Acquisition Loans – A Win-Win-Win Especially for the Seller

Pre-Great Recession - banks competed for business acquisition loans and I remember one client's summary that had eight banks, eight approvals, seven banks using the SBA…

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October 1, 2013

Details Are Important On Large & Small Things

We were in the airport in Bend, OR recently, returning from seeing one of my clients. As we waited for our plane, I couldn’t help…

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Increasing Value Other

September 25, 2013

Bad Communication = Frustration

I’ve been going through the wonderful experience of applying for a Rotary matching grant, for our Antigua project, in a new system. I’ve been our…

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September 18, 2013

Reputation – Precious, Fragile and Valuable

To the surprise of nobody who drives, J.D. Power and Associates released a study stating that Prius drivers are the worst drivers on the road.…

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling

September 11, 2013

Red Hot Seattle Economy

September 10, 2013 The August 26, 2013 Wall Street Journal had a page 3 article titled, "Seattle a Leader in Job Growth" and it discussed why…

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Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

September 4, 2013

Don’t Bumble Like the French

Over one month in the summer of 1940 the German military forced the French to surrender. Most people would assume that the German’s had a…

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Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

August 28, 2013

Don’t Just Watch Football, Learn From It

While on vacation earlier this month, a good friend of ours got us field passes to watch the Green Bay Packers practice. It was a…

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

August 21, 2013

Adapt Like a Fox

We were visiting my mother-in-law in Milwaukee a week or so ago, on Sunday morning we got some coffee and walked to the lakefront where…

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August 8, 2013

Business Sellers – Learn From Home Sellers

Our son recently sold his house and while discussing and coaching him through the process a couple things hit me. Business sellers could learn a…

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Increasing Value Other

July 30, 2013

Non-Tech Things Still Work (To the Surprise of Some People)

We were recently on the road, driving through North Dakota. It struck me that there were billboards, the type of which I’d never seen before.…

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SBA Acquisition Loans – A Win-Win-Win Especially for the Seller

Details Are Important On Large & Small Things

Bad Communication = Frustration

Reputation – Precious, Fragile and Valuable

Red Hot Seattle Economy

Don’t Bumble Like the French

Don’t Just Watch Football, Learn From It

Adapt Like a Fox

Business Sellers – Learn From Home Sellers

Non-Tech Things Still Work (To the Surprise of Some People)

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