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Maximizing Your Business’s Value Before Selling: Key Strategies

Maximizing your business’s value before selling requires intentional and consistent efforts. Addressing the factors that influence value can significantly enhance your business’s attractiveness to buyers. Starting the planning process at least three to five years before the desired exit date can ensure the best possible outcome.

For many business owners, the ultimate goal is to sell or transfer their business, often to fund their retirement. A common question arises: “How …
Maximizing Your Business’s Value Before Selling: Key Strategies

Top Five Metrics to Achieve 10x Revenue Growth

Achieving a significant increase in revenue, requires a strategic focus on metrics that directly drive sales performance and outcomes. In this …
Top Five Metrics to Achieve 10x Revenue Growth

How Do You Finance a Business Acquisition

Funding a business acquisition requires careful consideration of various factors, including the size of the acquisition, the financial health of the target company, the cost of capital, terms, and the risk tolerance of the acquiring entrepreneur.

How do you finance a business acquisition? There are several options, and in this guest blog, North Carolina business intermediary Jeff Snell …
How Do You Finance a Business Acquisition

An All-Inclusive Handbook on Small Business Loans: Obtaining Capital for Your Initiative

Entrepreneurs can confidently navigate the banking landscape and acquire the capital required to grow their businesses by comprehending the nuances of the loan process, accurately analysing funding needs, and presenting a compelling loan application.

First of all, In the world of entrepreneurship, obtaining sufficient capital is frequently essential to a small business’s success. One of the best …
An All-Inclusive Handbook on Small Business Loans: Obtaining Capital for Your Initiative

Capital Expenditure (CapEx): The Definitive Guide

CapEx can indicate a company’s growth and expansion plans or its need to replace aging assets. Investors often analyze CapEx relative to a company’s revenues and free cash flow to assess the potential for future growth and profitability.

When it comes to business financial terms, capital expenditure (CapEx) is one that should be on your radar. Understanding CapEx is essential for …
Capital Expenditure (CapEx): The Definitive Guide

How Top CEOs Managed The Stress Of Starting Up

The problem with stress is that it hijacks the brain and can even cause it to shrink. The stress response undermines a person’s ability to do the thing that will get their business out of a rut. It tends to be the first thing a person experience before they can make a rational or informed decision. That creates a problem.

The stress of starting a business is intense. Entrepreneurs must manage a range of emotions, running the gamut from elation to despair. One moment …
How Top CEOs Managed The Stress Of Starting Up

Succession Planning For Your Family Business

What is succession planning, and why should female business owners of today care about it?
Succession Planning For Your Family Business

Tips to Manage Inflation as a Small Business Leader

Inflation is an economic phenomenon that occurs because of certain economic conditions, such as when customer demand raises the prices of goods. As a…
Tips to Manage Inflation as a Small Business Leader

Tips to Manage Inflation as a Small Business Leader

Inflation is an economic phenomenon that occurs because of certain economic conditions, such as when customer demand raises the prices of goods. As a…
Tips to Manage Inflation as a Small Business Leader

Fed’s Third Jumbo Rate Hike Brings CRE Further Into New Normal

The Federal Reserve maintained its hawkish strategy to combat inflation Wednesday with a third 75 basis point (bp) hike on the central’s bank’s …
Fed’s Third Jumbo Rate Hike Brings CRE Further Into New Normal