JohnM, Author at Martinka Consulting

Business Buying

October 8, 2011

Job Market or Business Ownership

September 27, 2011 The September 3, 2011 Seattle Times had an article titled, "Study shows state's middle-class jobs not expected to grow." The three main points of the…

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October 7, 2011

Do the Little Things Right

While in Baltimore for my daughter's wedding we spent a couple days at a very nice downtown hotel. By the time those two days ended…

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October 5, 2011

Don’t Ignore Existing Customers

Weekly Memo - September 20, 2011 I have never been able to figure out why big companies treat their long-term customers worse than prospective and…

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October 3, 2011

Don’t Follow the Herd

Weekly Memo - September 13, 201 The August 22, 2011 Wall Street Journal had an article titled, "Why is the Curves Franchise in such bad shape?" The…

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Increasing Value Other

September 30, 2011

Banking Realities in 2011

Weekly Memo - September 6, 2011 On August 26, 2011 Mike Flynn, former publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal and now active in the world of…

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September 22, 2011

Apple and Creating Buzz

Who believes that it was an accident when an Apple employee left a prototype of the iPhone 5 at a bar? It happened with the…

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Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

September 17, 2011

Three Tips on Preparing for Sale

At my Rotary Club meeting recently Tim Gibbons, co-founder and president of PharmacyOneSource, spoke about the evolution of the company and its sale to a…

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September 15, 2011