Being Buyer Ready – A Priority for Business Owners
By All business owners should have a strategic focus to grow the value of their business. While bottom-line performance is a key metric, there are many objective and subject components of building value. Believe it or not, it is often the…
Full ArticleDetermining Business Value: Cash Is King, But……..
Many people believe that a multiple of earnings, or cash flow, is a static formula that applies to all businesses equally. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, net income is only one of many factors that influence…
Full ArticlePlanning Your Exit On Your Terms – A Comprehensive Valuation Begins the Process
Many of our clients have prepared themselves and their businesses to be successfully marketed for sale. The results proved the preparation to be worth the time and effort. Unfortunately, we too often see business owners after they’ve already made up…
Full ArticleA Gambler’s Advice for Business
You gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em……. Members of a certain generation can already complete the word of a song detailing a late-night meeting on a train “bound for nowhere” between the narrator and a…
Full ArticleGoing Beyond Whack-A-Mole: Succession Planning for Success
By Many of us went to fairs, arcades, and midways where games of “skill” & chance could be played for prizes. Some have suspect physics (the baseball in the peach basket game comes to mind), some require a bit of skill…
Full ArticleSee What Our Clients Are Saying About Us
We at Sunbelt Business Advisors hope you experienced a prosperous 2018 and have high hopes for 2019. We started 2018 with a bang and we ended that way as well. Gerry Chadwick and Roland Rapp started the year with…
Full ArticleFinish Big – How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top
Information from this article has been mined from the book “Finish Big” by Bo Burlingham, by permission of the author. “Every entrepreneur exits. It’s one of the few absolute certainties in business. Assuming you’ve built a viable company, you can…
Full ArticleTransferability is the Key to a Successful Purchase
There are many questions to be answered by a prospective buyer when considering the purchase of a business, a few of the most important being: Is it a good fit for their interests and skills? Does it generate enough cash…
Full ArticleWhy Do We Want Business Owners to “Get a Round Tuit”?
During the first half of 2018 Sunbelt Business Advisors of Southwest Ohio hosted seminars in Cincinnati and Dayton entitled “It’s Time to Get a Round Tuit.” The point of the seminars was to illustrate how important it is for business…
Full ArticleLocal Business Broker Earns Prestigious CBI Designation
Dayton, OH – The International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) is pleased to announce that Kate Vriner of Sunbelt Business Advisors of Southwest Ohio has earned the prestigious Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation. The CBI, which represents the gold standard in the…
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