A lot of shop owners lead with their top line. “We do $1.2 million a year.” That’s a fine starting point, but it’s not how buyers think. What they’re buying is cash flow — specifically, something called Seller’s Discretionary Earnings, or SDE.
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What Is Your Auto Repair Shop Actually Worth?
Most shop owners who go through a professional valuation are surprised — sometimes pleasantly, sometimes not. Either way, knowing the number before you need it gives you time to act on it.
Cash Flow Is an Engineering Problem — And Most Small Business Owners Are Solving It Wrong
By Michael Shea | Transworld Business Advisors of Tampa Bay Most small business owners think about cash flow the wrong way. They treat it like a weather report — something to check, react to, and worry about when it looks bad. What they rarely do is engineer it. But cash flow has moving parts, and […]
How to Use AI to Measure Productivity in Your Restaurant — Front, Back, and In the Kitchen
OpenTable, Resy, and Toast all have analytics that touch on these areas. The AI piece comes in when you start combining data streams — pairing reservation pacing with POS timing with server assignments — to get a picture that no single system gives you alone.
The Quiet Before the Wave: Why the Main Street Dip Won’t Last
That’s the QSR franchise on the corner. That’s the plumbing company with twelve trucks and a two-year-old customer list. That’s the landscaping business doing $800K in owner earnings with no social media presence and more work than it can handle.