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From Service to CEO: Why Tampa Veterans Are Turning to Business Ownership After MacDill

June 4, 2025 by Michael Shea PA

Veterans are wired for entrepreneurship. The ability to lead, follow systems, adapt under pressure, and push through adversity makes them uniquely suited to owning and running a small business. In fact, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, veterans are 45% more likely to be self-employed than non-veterans.

Filed Under: Buy a Business, exitplan, exitplanning, Franchises, Selling A Business, Selling Your Company, Tampa Business Sales Tagged With: businessownership, macdill, mba, michaelshea, ownersinhonor, purpose, sba, veterans

Tracking the Right KPIs to Boost Your Business Value: A Tampa Broker’s Take

March 12, 2025 by Michael Shea PA

By Michael Shea, CEPA, CBI, CMAP, BCI – Transworld Business Advisors March 27, 2025 As a Tampa-based business broker with Transworld Business Advisors and a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®), Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Professional (CMAP), and Board Certified Intermediary (BCI), I often get asked: What should my business be tracking? […]

Filed Under: exitplan, exitplanning, Franchises, News, Selling A Business, Selling Your Company Tagged With: cbi, cepa, exitplan, smallbusiness, tampa, tampabay, tampabaybusinessbroker, tampabusinessbroker, Transworld

Anytime Fitness: A Deep Dive into Franchise Valuation Metrics

February 25, 2025 by Michael Shea PA

  Anytime Fitness: A Deep Dive into Franchise Valuation Metrics Anytime Fitness, a globally recognized gym franchise, continues to make waves in the fitness industry. With over 2,466 locations worldwide and an ambitious plan to expand to all seven continents—including a groundbreaking gym in Antarctica—this franchise is a fascinating case study for business valuation. A […]

Filed Under: Buy a Business, Franchises, Selling A Business, Selling Your Company, Tampa Business Sales Tagged With: #franchise, anytime, fitness, michaelshea, orlando, rulesofthumb, sweat, tampa, Transworld, valuatio

Why Is Your Brand So Damn Important

June 25, 2023 by Michael Shea PA

Ray Kroc : It’s not just the system, Dick. It’s the name. That glorious name, McDonald’s. It could be, anything you want it to be… it’s limitless, it’s wide open… it sounds, uh… it sounds like… it sounds like America. That’s compared to Kroc. What a crock. What a load of crock. Would you eat at a place named Kroc’s? Kroc’s has that blunt, Slavic sound. Kroc’s. But McDonald’s, oh boy. That’s a beauty. A guy named McDonald? He’s never gonna get pushed around in life.

Filed Under: Buy a Business, Franchises, Selling A Business, Selling Your Company Tagged With: #franchise, branding, emotion, hershey, kroc, recognition, smallbusiness, Transworld

QSR- The Quick Serve Restaurant – The Founder A Fun Teaching Tool

June 25, 2023 by Michael Shea PA

We all go there, been there, eat there. But how did they come to be….well “The Founder” film tells the story of McDonalds and its genius….out of that dining experience shift came a whole vertical within the food business birthing taco bell, KFC, Chik Fil A and more.

Filed Under: Business Management Tips, Franchises Tagged With: michaelshea, raykroc, tampabusinessbroker, thefounder, Transworld, ufg

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