Entries by Apex Business Advisors

Case Study #17: When an Earnout Wins for Everyone

In 2004 Dan Green was a mortgage officer. He started blogging about important trends in the industry, focusing on giving timely, relevant, non-biased advice.   He thought it would be a smart way to stay in touch with existing clients, as well as reach out to new ones. The strategy worked…a little too well. He […]

Book Club #16: Built to Sell, by John Warrilow

We’ve already spoken about a John Warrilow book before, namely The Automatic Customer, which is all about how creating subscription streams of income is something incumbent upon (and doable for!) most businesses today. But before he wrote that, he wrote a book called Built to Sell, which uses the story-telling devices used in The E-Myth and […]

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 […]