YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. I had a customer walk in my office yesterday. Seems she had been listed with another brokerage for over a year and it hadn’t sold. I had asked the day prior to send me her financials so i could prepare for the meeting. When i looked at the listing […]
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Mark Cuban – #Genius #truth
Saw this interview and thought it so helpful in light of a conversation I had with a colleague today. My colleague said to me “I have no problem with what your saying but how your saying it!” Which was a fancy way of saying your telling people the truth and the truth hurts. Oddly enough […]
Confidentiality …..dont tell anyone (this includes friends, family, priest, and your dog)
So yesterday we are wrapping up final details on a sale and the seller wants to announce to her employees and her customers she has sold the business (the deal hasn’t closed yet). Seems she felt she owed it to them! In short this is bovine feces. Every seller feels like they are the end […]
The 10 Commandments of Buying a business
Everyone is an expert it seems at buying a #business. Particularly those who have no skin in the game like family and friends. The single most important thing in #buyingabusiness is being educated. The best resource I found when I first started in this business was http://WWW.DIOMO.COM . Richie Parker’s course was a resource I still […]
Hire an Aggressive Business Broker
To those in business who do not know the value of a sales professional it is often lost on people just how critically important to a businesses success is the hunter. These professionals are aggressive and drivers. If business is not growing it is spiraling into death. When you hire a business broker it of […]