Our society is always changing, advancing. It can be a cut throat environment when deciding to sell your business, especially when you turn to the wrong brokerage firm. When recession hits a lot of people assume they will tank. Researching before you sell is key, and it’s important to listen closely for some other impactful tips that may help you make a big sale.  

Jessica Fialkovich is the founder of Exit Factor, and now acting CEO of a non-profit organization called Fight Back Foundation based in Colorado. Jessica also is an author of a number 1 best selling book called, “Getting the Most For Selling Your Business”. Jessica and her husband also own brokerages in Colorado, Dallas-FT. Worth, and Las Vegas. 

In this episode, Patrick and Jessica dive into the realm of how to sell your business the right way. Jessica speaks about her experience and how she got into the field of commercial real estate. Jessica and Patrick discuss key information about the ins and outs of building your business to sell. She explains how recession can be your friend versus your enemy, she also talks about the journey of how she became successful and how she wants to give back to small businesses. 

 

What You’ll Learn: 

• How one bad experience with a brokerage firm set her on course
• The strategies she acquired from working for herself
• Jessica's journey through the corporate world into being a business owner
• How recession is affecting the market
• Why it’s difficult to grow quantity 
• In 2010 Jessica’s business hit a positive turn
• Why Jessica got more involved in her non-profit 
• Where not having occurring revenue can negatively affect your pipeline 

 

Favorite Quote: 

“Life is way too short to make mistakes on your own.”

• Jessica Fialkovich

 

Connect with Jessica: 

Instagram 

TWorld 

Non-profit

Exit Factory 

Book 

 

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries. 

After college, Patrick’s career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you’re selling and why it’s important to believe in it. 

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group.  With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life. 

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what’s now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You’re in for a real-life education. 

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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