Starting a Rotary Club from Scratch in Brookside/Waldo

Jul 3, 2018 | General

Many of our brokers are involved in giving back to our community. We will occasionally share some of those stories with you. “It’s important to take care of where you live, not just your own street…but your neighborhood. You naturally want to improve it in every...

Why Due Diligence Matters

Jun 27, 2018 | General

Earlier this year, Todd Edwin Rood was sentenced in federal court for lying about the assets and liabilities of a company he’d sold just the previous year, Rood Machine & Engineering, in Kearney, Missouri.   In addition to a jail sentence of four years...

Case Study #18: Coming Back from Failure

Jun 12, 2018 | Case Studies

Shelley Rogers has been a leader in a field that’s now very trendy. But many years ago no one even knew the field existed. That field? Electronics recycling.   Little did she know that her initial success would lead to an even more ambitious move that ended in...

Know Your Broker: Jeff Crooks

Jun 5, 2018 | Know Your Broker

In this occasional series, we will share profiles of our team here at Apex so you can get to know the men and women who make us best qualified to help you buy or sell a business. Jeff Crooks has spent almost 20 years as a business broker. Even more impressive,...

Book Club #17: How to Win Friends and Influence People

May 30, 2018 | Book Club

Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People was the book that kickstarted the personal development genre that continues to grow every single year.   While some have attacked some of Carnegie’s methods as “forced”, its continued selling power since 1936...