Financial planning is critical to a comfortable retirement. But, too many business owners are following the same financial planning strategies that their employees are following and are jeopordizing their ability to retire as a result. Traditional planning from some very …
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Republished with permission from Built to Sell Inc. Prevention is better than cure To grow a valuable business – one you can sell – you need to set up your company so that it is no longer reliant on you. …
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Republished with permission from Built to Sell Inc. Warren Buffett famously invests in businesses that have what he calls a protective “moat” around them – one that inoculates them from competition and allows them to control their pricing. Big companies …
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By: Scott E. Plaskett, CFP & John Warrillow Why would two companies in the same industry, with the same financial performance, command vastly different valuations? The answer often comes down to how much each business is likely to grow in the …
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By: Scott E. Plaskett, CFP If you were to draw a picture that visually represents your role in your business, what would it look like? Are you at the top of a traditional Christmas-tree-like organizational chart, or are you stuck …
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By: Scott E. Plaskett, CFP & John Warrillow On June 1, 2011, both Floyd’s Coffee Shops in Portland, Oregon were busier than usual. The regulars were elbowed out of the way by new customers visiting the store for the first …
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By: Scott Plaskett, CFP & John Warrillow Doctors in the developing world measure their progress not by the aggregate number of children who die in childbirth but by the infant mortality rate, a ratio of the number of births to …
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