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I will sell your business for nothing!
You probably got excited that I will take a zero percent business brokerage fee…and I will under certain circumstances like the one below. We sent a small batch of emails, and several came back, such as the one below. We also had business owners who died on the job,...
Can delegation be the enemy of Half-Retirement?
It sounds crazy, but delegation won’t get you to Half-Retirement. Business owners can ditch the work they don’t enjoy, cut their workload dramatically, and keep their income in Half-Retirement. Inevitably, the first place business owner’s minds go when trying to...
Why are business owners so mean…
Why are business owners so mean…to themselves? I've seen too many business owners that don't enjoy their work anymore. It's a shame. Usually, it happens accidentally over twenty years of running a business. There are little pieces of work that the team can't do, so...
Why did 1587 businesses just disappear?
Every year we cleanse our database for invalid emails. When our webmaster checked our Half-Retire email list, there were 1587 formerly good emails that were now gone….poof. That means that 1587 business owners disappeared from their company during 2022.No...
The 6th Exit Strategy
Go ahead and Google “exit strategies.” The five standard exit strategies below appear. Five Most-Common Strategies for Business Exit Sell the Business to Family or Friend Sell the Business to Employees Merge or Get Acquired IPO Liquidate or Quit For quite a few...
Delegation won’t help you Half-Retire
Half-Retiremnt allows business owners to ditch the work they don’t enjoy, cut their workload dramatically, and keep their income. Inevitably, the first place business owner’s minds go when trying to plot their course toward Half-Retirement is, “Ah ha, I need to...
The ridiculous game business owners play
Maybe it’s just my clients and me who play this game, but I have seen hundreds of business owners playing a subconscious “game.” It goes something like this. Step 1: I work so much that I’m not really used to doing much else, so I don’t think much about activities...
Is your business stress coming out sideways?
Anyone who has owned a business knows that it’s extremely difficult to compartmentalize work from home when there are always too many things to do at work. Recently, a client was explaining to me some of their family and home issues. The more they talked, the more I...
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Business owners say the funniest things
Have you ever heard a business owner say something like the real-world quotes below? “I read an article that said my business is worth two times revenue.” (i.e., Sales are the real value of the business, not profits) “I never took a salary.” (My sacrifices must have...
