On November 7, 2017 we* did our tenth annual Getting the Deal Done Breakfast Conference and had record attendance of about 180 people. Our guest…
JohnMJanuary 24, 2018
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While in New York City earlier this year we had dinner with one of our former exchange students. Alex recently moved to the New York…
JohnMJanuary 18, 2018
I was recently asked if money was the top issue for business sellers (once they’re motivated to sell). My answer was it’s one of the…
JohnMJanuary 10, 2018
I was speaking with a business owner who told me he recently talked to a business buyer. The buyer had a list of questions and…
JohnMJanuary 5, 2018
A friend told me how he visited Bozeman, MT and his brother-in-law complained about how (fast growing) Bozeman is becoming “too crowded.” One of my…
JohnMDecember 21, 2017
On Halloween I asked: What’s scary to you? Only you can answer it but we’re not talking about eating too much candy tonight, ISIS, North…
JohnMDecember 19, 2017
Regarding my upcoming book, Company Growth by Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense, a good friend asked me why I bothered having a print edition, implying most…
JohnMDecember 15, 2017
The big news in the NFL earlier this year was the best player in the NFL, Aaron Rodgers, was injured and will be out at…
JohnMDecember 12, 2017
Reading about the University of Washington’s big victory over rival Washington State I noticed the following from UW defensive coordinator Pete Kwiatowski, “When you beat…
JohnMDecember 8, 2017
Here’s a good way to lose customers. Change their agreement, which renews annually, without telling them and have the new agreement greatly reduce the customer’s…
JohnMDecember 5, 2017
The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article on how banks are reducing the number of branches. They explained how Bank of America, using…
JohnMDecember 5, 2017
My wife has been visiting our daughter in Baltimore a lot to help with a new baby, three trips in three months. She now has…
JohnMNovember 30, 2017
The other day I was on a conference call and heard a business seller give a very eloquent explanation of why he wants to sell…
JohnMNovember 28, 2017
A few months ago I bought a new desktop computer (I still like the big screen with a second monitor so I can have four…
JohnMNovember 22, 2017
It doesn’t take a lot of effort to find examples of poor customer service. It’s all around us and one has to wonder why management…
JohnMNovember 21, 2017
A while back I read an article about how the staff at Tesla can’t keep up with all the visionary ideas Elon Musk and his…
JohnMNovember 17, 2017
It’s interesting, and a bit sad, to see town car drivers waiting and waiting and waiting outside of hotels as Uber and Lyft cars come…
JohnMNovember 15, 2017
For the last five years or so my CEO Leaders Group has met at Pearl restaurant in Bellevue or its (former) sister restaurant Koral. In…
JohnMNovember 14, 2017
Recently I once again taught my very popular class, “Dynamically Growing a Consulting Business,” at the local SBA/SCORE office. Every class is different, which makes…
JohnMNovember 14, 2017
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