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Key Parties in a Transaction
All transactions end with a buyer and seller signing on the dotted line and checks and wire...
Corona Virus and Your Business
It wasn’t that long ago that we were discussing the effects of an election year upon the business...
Selling a Franchise Business
Here at Apex we’ve sold every type of business you may have heard of, and at least a dozen you...
Case Study #35: Jazz Guitar Lessons and $250k Annual Revenues
For some years, Marc-Andre Seguin was the typical struggling artist, specifically, of the musical...
Book Club #21: Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top, by Bo Burlingham
We’ve run into Bo Burlingham here on Book Club before. We’ve reviewed his groundbreaking Small...
5 Signs You are Burning Out (and 10 Strategies to Fix It!)
There’s a fair amount of content available these days on burnout. Far from our future of flying...
The 8 Components of the Sellability Score
We’ve reviewed John Warrilow’s book Built to Sell in our book club series and many of our case...
4 Financial Ratios to Better Understand Your Business
Some business owners confine their working knowledge of finances to what’s in the bank today vs....
Book Club #20: The Lifestyle Business Owner, by Aaron Muller
The subtitle of Aaron Muller’s book is “How to Buy a Business, Grow Your Profits, and Make it Run...
2020, Elections, and Capital Gains Taxes
The new year is upon us, and it happens to be an election year. While the ups and downs of...
Continued Success in a Mature Market
A lot of business press focuses on the “next big thing,” or unicorns that roam around (or more...
Apex Success Stories #4: Getting to the Right Deal
One of the things we strive for as advisors is for our sellers to be in conversations with...
Case Study #34: Printing Profits
John MacInnes started Print Audit in 1999. He aimed his software at anyone who would normally...
Selling Strategies
Sometimes businesses come to us that need a bit of creative spark to sell properly. This is often...
Three Keys in a Recurring Revenue Business
Recurring revenue businesses, particularly those built around subscriptions, are becoming more and...
Use the Net Promoter Score to Increase the Value of Your Business
We’ve seen the question posed so often after completing a transaction that we know the words by...
“Call Me When You Have a Buyer”
As part of our job as business brokers, we cultivate long-term relationships with buyers and...
Common Characteristics of Businesses That Sell Quickly
While every business sells for different reasons, the businesses that sell quickly here in our...
Cautionary Tale #7: Excess Inventory Blocks a Sale
We all make mistakes in business. Sometimes it costs us money immediately, other times in the long...
Case Study #33: The Acquirer Gets Acquired
Long before the general public knew what Amazon Web Services was, and that it provided the...