As a small business owner, you face many challenges when running your own company. Financial management is one of the most critical aspects of any business, but hiring a full-time CFO can be a costly and unrealistic expense for many small businesses. This is where Fractional CFOs, like those provided by FocusCFO, come in. What…
Program produced by XPX Atlanta. “Making the Owner Irrelevant – Preserving Transferable Value Inside the Company We set the stage in January. Now, let’s get into it. Among the very first – if not THE first – questions from a buyer is, “So, tell me why the owner is selling and what am I going…
Since selling your business is likely the most significant and financially impactful transaction of your life, I share the Top 3 Sales Priorities every business owner must take to maximize their company’s sales price at Exit. Background – Unfortunately, Sales has been one of the most impactful, yet overlooked, aspects of Exit Planning. Exit Planning…
Here are ten ways to increase the value of your business: 1. Stop chasing revenue. A bigger company is not necessarily a more valuable one if the extra sales come from products and services that are too reliant on the business owner to deliver them. 2. Start surveying your customers. It’s a fast and…
Did you know that 80% or more of your company value lies within four areas of your business? These four areas are called the 4 Intangible Capitals and believe it or not….they have nothing to do with your financials! Just because you are a profitable business, does not mean you are a sellable business. Now…
Program produced by XPX Charlotte. This is the 5th of 5 programs focusing on strategies to improve the value of business enterprises prior to a planned exit, and the 10th in our case study series. Business value is predicated largely on expectations for future cash flow, and strategic acquisitions may be an important tool to…
When a valuable employee tells you that they’ve received a job offer from another company, making a counteroffer may seem like a no-brainer. But before you do, consider these potential downsides. If you are throwing money at jobs, think twice. Owners that have not paid attention to employee compensation on an annual basis will now…
Simply put, a predictable revenue model is a framework for consistency that provides business growth data based on a formulaic process. Think, forecasting. Implementing a predictable revenue model provides business owners an understanding of average revenue over time, including leads (MQL and SQL), sales growth, cost of customer acquisition, and more. In this new blog,…
Program produced by XPX Charlotte. This is the 3rd of 5 programs focusing on strategies to improve the value of business enterprises prior to a planned exit, and the 9th in our case study series. Business value is predicated largely on expectations for future cash flow, and workforce productivity and engagement is a major contributor…
Strategic Thinking in Uncertain Times – Albu Strategy Management (albu-strategymanagement.com) Our businesses are entering new challenging times. Inflation is at a 40-year high, energy prices have almost doubled, material costs are rising, and the federal reserve will be taking steps to slow the hot economy. On the heels of the pandemic, we now face new…
Date: April 8, 2022 Start Time: 12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time End Time: 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time Platform: Zoom Link for free ticket: Jay Samit Questions: Chat Are you tired of just paying bills until you die? Are you wasting your life at a job that doesn’t make you fulfilled or financially secure? Then Future Proofing You: Twelve…
It’s been called the Silver Tsunami. That’s the number of Baby Boomers who are ready to sell their businesses and move to the next stage of their lives. According to the North Carolina Employee Ownership Center (NCEOC), baby boomers own half of the privately held businesses with employees in the state: 78,757 business with owners…
Although graphic designers and brand managers should know the answer to the question, “How do brand colors help businesses increase brand value?”, many business owners don’t. And as members of the C-suite who have the most vested interest in their company’s success, this article will shed some valuable light on the importance of brand colors. Branding Color Schemes Do…
Does this sound familiar to you? You’ve held your strategy meeting with your leadership team late last year, identified strategic objectives and initiatives, assigned responsibilities and you were off and running. Everyone was on board, or so it seemed. What’s happening? Why are we not making any progress against these initiatives that are critical to…
Supply chains and labor shortages are the chief topics among the 40 or so business owners I currently work with. Their anecdotes are widespread and widely varied. I wanted to know why, so I did some research on behalf of you, my business-owner readers. Supply Chains A broken foot was diagnosed at an urgent care…
By Allan Tepper Often, parties interested in making a purchase are serial buyers, hence their advantage. But for midsize sellers, this will probably be the one and only time they sell. Sellers spend the better part of their lives building a company so they can now cash out and ride into the sunset. Unfortunately, mergers…
Entrepreneurial leaders do a lot of things well, but hiring the right people, aligning talent for top performance and optimizing collaboration is not where they want to spend their time. It’s not why they went into business and they are unfamiliar with the impact of talent on their growth and succession goals. They don’t understand…
Don’t be surprised if no one is answering the phones at Brody and Associates on June 19th. The number of private employers offering Juneteenth as a paid holiday continues to grow and has jumped significantly over the last three years. Last year, nearly one-third of all private employers gave their employees a paid day off. This…
Date: June 2, 2023 Start Time: 12 p.m. EST End Time: 1 p.m. EST Platform: Zoom Questions: Chat Click here for free ticket: Robert Jordan How is it that some leaders win brilliantly and repeatedly, while others struggle to reach their full potential? Over a decade, Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner set out to answer this question, interviewing thousands of…
Last week, the NLRB’s decision in Noah’s Ark Processors, LLC (“Noah”) held that repeat offenders of the NLRA could be subject to extraordinary remedies. The Board went on to detail when such remedies were appropriate, and outlined the types of actions violators could expect to be subject to if they have undertaken egregious misconduct or “have shown…
Methodology to Avoid Business Disruptions A business requirements study is conducted before the software implementation begins. The legacy software database is transferred to the test environment and verified daily for accuracy. Once test-environment data is verified for accuracy the step below will be taken. End users are trained in the test environment that has…
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