topic: Succession & Exit Strategies
4 Traps To Avoid When Selling Your Company
08 Aug 2016
Business owners have been known to refer to due diligence as “the entrepreneur’s proctology exam.” It’s a crude analogy, but a good representation of what it feels like when a...Read More
What You Need to Know to Close Your Business
10 Jul 2016
You’ve invested a lot of effort, time, and money to start your small business and keep it running. So it’s understandably difficult to make the decision to close your business....Read More
Business Valuation: What is Your Business Worth?
06 Jul 2016
Your business is likely your largest asset, so it’s normal to want to know what it is worth. The problem is: business valuation is what one might call a “subjective...Read More
To Sell or not to Sell? A Guide to Exiting Gracefully
30 Jul 2015
Despite the many benefits of selling, knowing the right time and the right approach for your exit is not always clear. Use this article to help you plan accordingly.
How Do You Tell Early Investors that You’re Going Out of Business?
05 May 2015
Borrowing from friends, family, and fools is very different than borrowing from a professional lender. Despite the consistent, good advice of ‘get everything in writing,’ these investments are rarely formalized.
Choosing Your Exit Strategy
27 Feb 2015
Choosing an exit strategy is about making the right decision for your financial future, make it a part of your business plan.
Succession Planning: Best Practices for all Levels of Management
03 Feb 2015
Succession planning is not a “set it and forget it process.” Best practices can help give the organization a framework for planning, but the process should be constantly revisited and reviewed.
Managing Culture Clash Durring Mergers & Acquisitions
02 Nov 2014
Mergers and Acquisitions have now been cited by Goldman Sachs as the primary global growth strategy for large-cap companies. The last twelve months have seen the return of the strategic...Read More
Delegate or Die – Seven Steps to Success
08 Oct 2014
Do you feel stressed and overloaded? Or that your business growth seems stalled? If so, then you may need to brush up your delegation skills! Learning to delegate is critical to...Read More
Social Media Marketing: What happens to your social media when the person who’s doing it is gone?
05 Sep 2010
Lately I’ve noticed a problem that I thought was worth bringing up. That is; what happens to your social media when the person who’s doing it goes away? This was...Read More
Losing Key Employees
14 Oct 2008
In my small business, Centratel, each of our half-dozen key management people has had several years of on-the-job experience. Training managers to operate a telephone answering service is a long, drawn-out...Read More
Leader and High Earner
15 Sep 2008
Not too long ago I participated in Cycle Oregon, a weeklong bicycle tour. Seventeen hundred riders pedaled an average of 75 miles each day through remote eastern Oregon. At night...Read More
Lessons Learned from the First Day of Kindergarten
26 Aug 2008
Yesterday was a tough day for many Moms- myself included. The baby boy that inspired the birth of my company, Glamajama, isn’t such a baby anymore. He started Kindergarten at...Read More
Five Potent Strategies to Auto-Pilot Your Small Business
14 Aug 2008
The numbers are gloomy. Statistics show that of one hundred new business startups, eighty will be out of business within five years. Too often, the causes of these failures are...Read More
Family Illness-managing your business during a crisis!
14 Jul 2008
Hi, This is my first official BLOG; I am new to this, so please be patient with me. I want to discuss something very dear to me and hope that...Read More
Overcoming Failure to Launch
03 Jul 2008
So you’ve got some ideas, a decent prototype, and a couple customers to boot…now what? Sadly, many would-be entrepreneurs fail at running a business before they even start. The complexity...Read More
