What the Business Value Booster Method is About

Being Prepared for Someday

makes your business more profitable and enjoyable today

It was truly painful to meet so many owners who worked at their businesses for years, but  were devastated to learn that they would get little or nothing for it when it became time for them to retire. Nobody wants to be the bearer of that kind of news – and we don’t have to. There is another way.

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Our Story

As business brokers, our founders found it painful to meet far too many owners who worked at their businesses for years and made a decent living as long as they kept working, but are devastated to learn that they will get little or nothing for it when it comes time for them to retire. Nobody wants to be the bearer of that kind of news – and we don’t have to. There is another way, one tailored to the situation of true Main Street small businesses.

Most business owners are not planning to sell their businesses tomorrow. All too often, all you hear on this subject is phone calls or emails from business brokerage telemarketers asking them if they are ready to do so. For the 95% who are not, you get annoyed at yet another spam call, but what it should be is a reminder that one day you will have to exit the business. Will you have positioned it to deliver the best value then? And remember that “then” could be tomorrow. There are so many things you can do to make the business more valuable when it sells, and many of them cannot be done at the last minute. Many of those actions can be done at little cost now and will make the business more profitable now. We help you decide which specific steps move your business towards its optimal value at a pace and cost that make sense for you.

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​We’ve been helping businesses make improvements for over 25 years. Our team has experience in business ownership, business consulting and business brokering. Nobody knows your company as well as you do, but we can tell you where it fits in its industry and how to make it more attractive to a potential buyer. (By the way, that usually makes it more profitable in the short-term too). We can help you take the actions that will increase value vs. just increasing operating costs. If you want to learn more, set up an appointment at a time of your convenience and let’s chat.

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Values & Beliefs

What You Need to Know, Not Just What You Want to Hear

There are some in our professional fields – business brokers, appraisers, consultants, advisors – who will tell you what you want to hear to get you to sign up for an engagement. Eventuall the market realities catch up. By then it may be too late to take the steps that could have turned a struggling business into a serious capital asset.

Main Street Businesses ARE Different

Most of the materials about owning, growing, and selling a small business, whether you find them on the internet or in books and training programs, are really about quite larger busiensses, with revenues over $10 million and as many as 100+ employees. Those busienses are valued and sold using a “mergers and acquistions” (M&A) process that is very different fromwhat happens with smaller “Main Street” businesses.  The Business Value Booster programs are specifically tailored for the situations that a true Main Street owner will encounter, and they come from real brokerage experience, with not a word generated by AI.

It's Your Life's Work and Life Savings On the Line

Your advisors give advice, hopefully their best advice, but in the end when the job is over they get paid and go home. You are the one with lifelong consequences from wahtever we do or don’t do while we are working together. You may not always do what we might reocmmend, but it is always your life savings on the line. We never forget that.

Small Businesses Are the Backbones of Our Communities

In 30 years of working with companies large and small, it becomes clear that while large companies can provide us with a fantastic range of products and prices, the leaders of such companines are insulated from their workforce, from their communities, and usually from any consequences for the bad decisons they might make. That’s not the case for a Main Street business owner. They employ our neighbors, deliver us the services we need the most, and they participate in and support our communities in so many ways. Their owners deserve a good lifestyle, they deserve a good capital reward for years of work, and they deserve our respect and gratitude for a job well done. We are luck y to work with them!

My Approach

I got into value building and exit planning when, as a broker, I realized that most of the owners I spoke with were:

  • Not ready to exit
  • Too busy to get ready
  • Probably going to close their doors without being able to sell

I can only take on a few clients.  You won’t get a hard sell. But if you’re serious about preparing your business for Someday, let’s see if the Business Value Booster Method is a solution for you.

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Featured Publications and Appearances

Appearances

Business Value Book Series

  1. The Business Value Booster Method – How a Small Business Owner Can Earn More Profit By Taking More Time Off
  2. You Only Get One Shot – How to Sell Your Small Business in 12 Months or Less
  3. The Goldmine on the Corner – Seven Steps to Buying a Small Business and Getting it Right Your First Time.
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