The business owner’s dream, early retirement – In the end, almost every owner wants to sell his or her business.  Many want to sell it at a price that will pay them in retirement what they earned while working.  Few do.  One must plan way in advance to sell and earn the same.  Earning the [...]

A buyer and I were discussing a possible partnership with the selling business owner.  Because I am neither an accountant nor an attorney, I always demure from making structure recommendations but I certainly have opinion on things that should be included.  This is a quick list made for the buyer.   Perhaps you have other contributions. [...]

Don’t you find that sometimes it is better to take the road of least resistance? My short and sweet example is a need to identify a gift for a client., Rainforestbaskets.com.  I had decided on an engraved garden stone with an image and text, using their fonts and images.  In the end the stone was [...]

We have all seen it happen.  A great business goes south.  The going south can be due to a number of situations – change in trends, economy, embezzlement  (way too much of this for sure,) illness, mismanagement of records, too little capital to support needs, not keeping one’s eye on the ball (aka business.) It [...]