Case Study #19: Happy to Take Your Call

Case Study #19: Happy to Take Your Call

In 2003 Jill Nelson founded Ruby Receptionists to help small businesses provide a great first impression to new potential customers by providing an answering service.   This could help the business who just needed one person to provide skeleton phone coverage or a...
Is Your Business Overpriced?

Is Your Business Overpriced?

However a business owner makes it to that critical moment when he or she decides to sell, it’s important to realize that this is the beginning of an entirely new process.   Whatever amazing expertise he/she may possess in running a business, selling a business is...
Starting a Rotary Club from Scratch in Brookside/Waldo

Starting a Rotary Club from Scratch in Brookside/Waldo

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

Why Due Diligence Matters

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

Case Study #18: Coming Back from Failure

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...