Entries by Apex Business Advisors

Lessons from the latest PR Disaster at Facebook

In all likelihood, you’ve already heard about the far-reaching Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal. In case you haven’t, here’s a brief summary: Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, used a personality quiz application on Facebook, presented as “for academic purposes,” in order to gain access to over 50 million user profiles since 2015. It did this […]

Case Study #16: Doubling Down on the Value of You

In 2011 Dan Bradbury was building a company called Business Growth Systems that taught marketing to small business owners. They would hold seminars explaining how to build infrastructure to create and track demand for products and services.  Often those seminars served as funnels into individual client work, in which he and his staff served as […]

Considerations When Forming a Business with Multiple Partners

In a previous article we discussed things to ponder when considering a business partnership. In this article, we’re going to deepen and broaden the conversation by considering the question from the aspect of bringing on multiple partners.   Partnerships continue to rise, according to IRS data, as do the profits from those partnerships, so this […]

Delegation Isn’t Sufficient: You Have to Trust, As Well

Delegation. It’s one of the surest and most necessary components of the growth of any business, yet it’s sometimes looked at too simplistically.   “You get to do this now,” only works if your colleague or employee knows he/she has your trust. Without that trust, what you delegate can be undermined from day one. Delegating […]

Case Study #15: Beware of Shares and Options

In 1992 Doug Chapiewsky started CenterPoint Solutions, Inc. He’d spent time at Bell Labs helping to develop what would become the call center model. But back then it was simply a single number that would then fork out to different people answering the phone.   He saw an opportunity in a space that the big […]

Book Club #14: The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox

Ask most business school students and they will often nod their heads in recognition when you mention The Goal.  It’s been a mainstay of business school curriculums for decades and despite the fact that it was published in 1984, it still retains relevance today.   Firstly, unlike the overwhelming majority of business books, it’s a […]

Know Your Broker: Ron Kleier

In this occasional series, we will share profiles of our team here at Apex so you can get to know the men and women that make us best qualified to help you buy or sell a business. While it’s true that Ron has only been in the industry for 3 years, he brings over 45 […]

Case Study #14: Even When You’re Early, You Can Sell

In 2006 when Claude Theoret began building elements of the company which would later become Nexalogy, the term “big data” didn’t even exist. It was just called data mining.   Today we’re familiar with the term and easily recognize big players like Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix not only using big data to improve their own […]