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News and helpful advice for business owners, founders, and entrepreneurs who want to build and exit their companies successfully.
Most Recent Articles
Build & Beware: What it might cost you to sell your business
Congratulations, you’ve just sold your business for millions. You’ve signed all the papers, jumped through all the hoops, and handed off the last details. After years of investing your time and...
Eight Ways to Exit Your Business
When it comes to exiting a business, most people assume there is only one way out: sale. But actually, there are 8 distinct ways to exit a business. Before considering your next move, it’s crucial...
Navigating Payroll Taxes
Tax deadlines are creeping up, demanding your attention and time. You’re still busy making sure things run smoothly day-to-day; filing business taxes can feel like the last complication you want to deal with.
Cashflow: Why you need it, and how to have money in the bank for your next busy season
Gain insights from industry experiences and expert guidance to optimize your financial strategies.
If You Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
If you Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
Set Your Business Up To Run Without You
Set Your Business Up to Run Without You
Fixing an Unprofitable Business Model
Uncover expert tips on reevaluating pricing, cutting costs, enhancing efficiency, diversifying revenue streams, and more.
Scalability: What It Is and How to Improve It
Scalability is the ability to grow – to flex and adapt production and operations to accommodate a rising demand for products or services. Growth can create unexpected challenges, however. and if a business cannot scale, it could fail because it’s too successful too quickly.
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Articles on Exit Planning
Eight Ways to Exit Your Business
When it comes to exiting a business, most people assume there is only one...
The Formula for an Effective Exit Plan
Ask a business owner over the age of 50 when they plan to transition or exit their business, and you’ll get one of two answers:
– a blank stare, or
– “I’ll work another 5-10 years and call it quits.”(And if you ask this person again in another 5-10 years, you’ll likely get the same answer!)
The bottom line is the same – most business owners lack a plan for leaving their business. Read the article to learn what goes into an exit plan.
The Benefits of Planning for Life Outside of Work
How long has it been since you did something just for the fun of it? What is on your list of “Things I’ll Do Someday When I Have Time”? You may think that you need to wait to start checking things off that list, but that’s a mistake.
There’s more to life than work, and it’s the things you enjoy in your leisure time that make you a well-rounded and happy human being. In this article, we invite you to start exploring and experimenting to find enjoyable and fulfilling activities outside of work and give some practical suggestions for how to do it.
One of the Biggest Barriers to a Successful Exit: YOU
It can be a self-perpetuating cycle: a business owner tells me she knows she needs to delegate so she can create bandwidth to plan ahead. But she can’t hand anything off because she hasn’t documented her processes which would allow someone else to follow the same steps and get similar results. Why hasn’t this happened? Because she doesn’t have time because she has so much on her plate.
Read the article to learn how to break this cycle and get out of your own way.
Common Barriers to a Successful Business Exit
Before we begin our deep dive into successful exit planning, we pause to look at the bigger picture. A successful exit will require you to overcome multiple barriers, all of which are interconnected. The good news is we know what the most common barriers are, and by doing this work, you will also build a stronger business.
Videos on Exit Planning
The video below is the first in a playlist of 6 videos, each 2 minutes or less, on the kinds of challenges business owners must overcome to successfully exit their businesses. We can help with each of these.
Articles on Business Performance
Navigating Payroll Taxes
Tax deadlines are creeping up, demanding your attention and time. You’re still busy making sure things run smoothly day-to-day; filing business taxes can feel like the last complication you want to deal with.
If You Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
If you Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
Fixing an Unprofitable Business Model
Uncover expert tips on reevaluating pricing, cutting costs, enhancing efficiency, diversifying revenue streams, and more.
Scalability: What It Is and How to Improve It
Scalability is the ability to grow – to flex and adapt production and operations to accommodate a rising demand for products or services. Growth can create unexpected challenges, however. and if a business cannot scale, it could fail because it’s too successful too quickly.
Risky Business: High Customer Concentrations and Your Business Performance
Overreliance on a single customer or vendor isn’t good practice. This article explores the dangers of “putting your eggs in one basket”: loss of market share, reduced bargaining power, increased operating costs, exposure to risk from a single source, and difficulties in meeting demand.
Articles on Business Value
Build & Beware: What it might cost you to sell your business
Congratulations, you’ve just sold your business for millions. You’ve signed all the papers, jumped through all the hoops, and handed off the last details. After years of investing your time and energy into every aspect of your business, you are eager to finally...
Set Your Business Up To Run Without You
Set Your Business Up to Run Without You
How the Four Types of Intellectual Property Contribute Value to Your Company
Intellectual property is a highly valuable type of intangible business capital. It can take 1 of 4 forms: trademarks, patents, copyrights, or trade secrets.
Your company must take the time and invest the resources to protect its intellectual property! Learn why IP’s are so important, and how you can protect yours in our latest article
Five Ways Financial Management Improves Your Business’s Value
Poor financial management can manifest itself in many ways, but the price is always the same: the value of your business.
Odds are, as the owner of your business you are a strategist, visionary, and leader. But you likely don’t have the bandwidth to manage the complexities of your business’s finances.
But not to worry! We’ve outlined 5 ways financial management will improve your business’s value.
How To Avoid the Biggest Valuation Mistake Made by Business Owners
You’ve been working on the sale of your business for months now. All the work, not just to complete this sale but to build a business someone else actually wants to buy, is about to pay off.
You hold your breath as the sales agent slides a piece of paper across the desk towards you…with a number completely different than you’d negotiated!
“As you know, we did a final business valuation last week to determine the final sale price for the closing today,” she explains. “After reviewing all of your records, we have determined that the value decreased from our initial estimate a year ago. As a result, the sale price will be 25% lower than we originally planned.”
What happened to the profitable sale you worked so hard for?!
LEVERAGING FINANCE STRATEGY TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS.