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One Way To Decide When To Sell
Republished with permission from Built to Sell Inc. How do you know the right time to sell your company? One answer to this age-old question is that the time to sell is when someone else is willing to invest more in your business than you are. When you start a business, nobody is willing to…
Mike Flux – Market Update and Investment Alternatives Q1-2017
In this video, I speak with Mike Flux, Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager of Connor Clark & Lunn Private Capital to chat about their investment outlook from Q1 of 2017. We also discuss how to interpret the current events, and how to properly position portfolios to take advantage of these market events IRONSHIELD Financial Planning’s…
3 Surprising Reasons To Offer A Subscription
Republished with permission from Built to Sell Inc. You can now buy a subscription for everything from dog treats to razor blades. Music subscription services are booming as our appetite to buy tracks is replaced by our willingness to rent access to them. Starbucks now even offers coffee on subscription. Why are so many companies…
The Anatomy of a Successful Exit
Republished with permission from Built to Sell Inc. Stephanie Breedlove started Breedlove & Associates in 1992 as a way to pay her nanny. The big payroll processors weren’t interested in dealing with one person’s wages and doing it themselves was complicated and time-consuming, too much for the then overwhelmed Breedloves. Breedlove saw a business opportunity…
The Downside of Selling Someone Else’s Product
Republished with permission from Built to Sell Inc. Are you tempted to re-sell someone else’s product to boost your topline revenue? On the surface, becoming a distributor for a popular product can appear to be a simple way to grow your sales—simply find something that is already proven to be successful elsewhere and negotiate the…
Mike Flux – Market Update and Investment Alternatives Q4-2016
In this video, I speak with Mike Flux, Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager of Connor Clark & Lunn Private Capital to chat about their investment outlook from Q4 of 2016. We also discuss how to interpret the current events, and how to properly position portfolios to take advantage of these market events IRONSHIELD Financial Planning’s…
Mike Flux – CC&L Private Client Loan Introduction
In this video, I speak with Mike Flux, Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager of Connor Clark & Lunn Private Capital to chat about their investment outlook. We also discuss how to interpret the current events, and how to properly position portfolios to take advantage of these market events. IRONSHIELD Financial Planning’s “Fly On The Wall”…
Will this be the year you seriously drive up the value of your company?
Republished with permission from Built to Sell Inc. If you have resolved to make your company more valuable in 2017, you may want to think hard about how your customers pay. If you have a transaction business model where customers pay once for what they buy, expect your company’s value to be a single-digit multiple…