If you’ve been a regular listener, you’ve heard our consistent exhortation to “start planning now! Because it takes longer than you think to get ready for a successful exit -- if you wait to begin planning until you’re quote ‘ready to exit’ then you and your business won’t be ready!” You’ve heard us say these things so many times your response might be something like, “OK start planning today, I get it, enough already!"

Or perhaps you’ve had this thought, ”That sounds self-serving, get started planning today and, that’s fair it can sound self-serving but it’s probably the most important thing we say in any of these episodes"

So, we’re going to highlight today some clear reasons why it’s wise to start planning sooner rather than later today’s topic is
Why Do I Need To Start Planning Now???

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An issue that is important but often overlooked by business owners when preparing their business for a sale is working capital with owners we’ve worked with there has been at least confusion as to how working capital should be considered or treated if not total neglect due to ignorance until the sale is being negotiated.

So we want to bring some clarity today to this important but often overlooked planning issue as we discuss Working Capital and Preparing for a Business Sale Negotiation

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Today we want to talk about how accelerating business value and creating streams of revenue with your intellectual property or IP – this can easily be overlooked by small business owners…or if not overlooked completely, perhaps not prioritized as it should be.

Just like many of the topics we discuss, it can be tough to know where to begin and some owners don’t have a clear understanding of what qualifies as IP, let alone how to monetize it creating value and growing revenue. Sometimes owners have extremely valuable IP that their not even aware of.

And so our topic today is “Do You Have a Rembrandt In Your Business Attic?”

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In building value, of course a steady increase in revenues is a key driver of value, and increasing revenues always involves some level of marketing strategy.

Perhaps your strategy has been word-of-mouth and referrals, or mailers, or email campaigns and you have a website that you also consider to be instrumental in marketing your business.

But your website is not creating revenue and you’re just not sure how to make that happen, or perhaps it just seems too complicated, so you haven’t taken any steps to make it happen.

And maybe you question whether it’s even worth the time and expense it would take generate any revenue from your site.

Well, we want to continue to bring clarity to this issue of websites and marketing strategies…so that’s what we’re going to talk about today.

Simplifying Your Website Marketing Strategy

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In his book The Boutique, author Greg Alexander describes a Boutique professional services firm as being past the start-up stage but pre-scale. Examples being found in consulting, marketing, advertising, IT, etc. Basically, anyone that sells their expertise, maybe even an accounting or exit planning firm.

Greg explains in The Boutique how to start, scale, and sell a professional services firm and he is a very credible source as he has done just that successfully launched, scaled, and then sold his professional services firm for nine figures.

In this episode we’re going to focus on growth and scalability with the hopes of having Greg back in the future to discuss exit.

Our topic today is Professional Services Firms and Scalability.

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We’re excited to have with us guests Elizabeth Carr Ph.D, and Attorney Cherie Morris.
Elizabeth is the founder of Kentlands Psychotherapy which she launched in 2005 after serving six years as a Navy Clinical Psychologist. She continues to see some existing clients…but her role is now mostly one of leadership, administration, mentoring, and supervision of interns.

Cherie is a lawyer and now a full-time conflict coach and transformational mediator. She is a student of relationships and has expertise in advising individuals and couples on communication and co-parenting…as well as helping families and small businesses resolve conflict.
You can learn more about Cherie at www.Recompose.Us.

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In building a sellable business, you also need to “protect the value of your business” and continually manage areas of risk like the one we’re going to talk about today cyber security…

This is an area of risk management that we highlight at least annually because it’s so important and relevant. And if you’ve listened to any of the past episodes on the topic you’ve heard us mention the following statistics…

43% of cyber-attacks target small businesses.
60% of small businesses that are attacked go out of business within six months.
66% are concerned about cyber security risk.
While 47% say they have no understanding of how to protect themselves against attacks.

We want to help you build a business that can eventually be sold or transferred for maximum value --- and clearly if you experience a cyber attack…the chances of that happening are significantly reduced…

And today we are going to discuss how a cyber attack could negatively impact your business reputation…

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Today we’re going to hear from a gentleman who has indeed exited on his own terms and conditions with the successful implementation of an ESOP or Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

We occasionally have Keith Apton of the Capitol ESOP Group on to review the pros and cons and inter-workings of an ESOP…and we’d suggest that anyone interested in ESOPs go back and listen to those episodes…but today our guest is right now experiencing an ESOP as a selling owner.


Todays’ topic is “A Successful ESOP Story” and our guest is Kris DenBesten, the past owner of Vermeer Southeast Sales and Service…which was a 2nd generation family business established in 1967 until the family sold to an ESOP three years ago…

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In building a sellable or transferable business a key value driver is a next level management team – a management team that can take your business to the next level of growth.

And, deciding on the right plans to incentivize those key employees to grow the company as well as stay with the company requires careful and thoughtful planning.

A very common question business owners face is when and if to award equity in their business to these key employees.

For start-ups with an established goal of exit within a period of time with the sale of the business…a key strategy could be awarding equity or options for equity at launch…but for other small businesses the decision may not be so easy…

And that’s our topic today… My Employees Want Equity…What Should I Do?  

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If you’ve listened in before, you know that we mostly cover topics of interest to owners who want to accelerate and protect the value of their business and then exit it…which often results in a third party sale.

Today we are going to discuss some considerations on the buy-side or when someone is interested in buying a business…

And, actually, buying a business, or having an acquisition strategy, may be part of your strategy for growth and building value…

We’re going to talk about why a business owner would consider growing through acquisition…common pitfalls on the buy-side M&A process…and how a transaction intermediary can be helpful in the process…

So that’s our topic today…Buy-Side Considerations

And our guest is Laurie Barkman of Stony Hill Advisors

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