In 2003 Jill Nelson founded Ruby Receptionists to help small businesses provide a great first impression to new potential customers by providing an answering service. This could help the business who just needed one person to provide skeleton phone coverage or a growing firm that needed scalability over time. She’s still in charge of […]
However a business owner makes it to that critical moment when he or she decides to sell, it’s important to realize that this is the beginning of an entirely new process. Whatever amazing expertise he/she may possess in running a business, selling a business is something entirely separate. More than anything, emotion can get […]
Many of our brokers are involved in giving back to our community. We will occasionally share some of those stories with you. “It’s important to take care of where you live, not just your own street…but your neighborhood. You naturally want to improve it in every way.” With an attitude like that, it’s easy to […]
Earlier this year, Todd Edwin Rood was sentenced in federal court for lying about the assets and liabilities of a company he’d sold just the previous year, Rood Machine & Engineering, in Kearney, Missouri. In addition to a jail sentence of four years without the possibility of parole, he’s been ordered to pay $1.3M […]
Shelley Rogers has been a leader in a field that’s now very trendy. But many years ago no one even knew the field existed. That field? Electronics recycling. Little did she know that her initial success would lead to an even more ambitious move that ended in catastrophic failure. She didn’t let those lessons […]
In this occasional series, we will share profiles of our team here at Apex so you can get to know the men and women who make us best qualified to help you buy or sell a business. Jeff Crooks has spent almost 20 years as a business broker. Even more impressive, he’s spent almost double […]
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People was the book that kickstarted the personal development genre that continues to grow every single year. While some have attacked some of Carnegie’s methods as “forced”, its continued selling power since 1936 speaks to the timelessness of the ideas between its pages. In this article, […]
In everything we do, often the sheer excitement of an event, experience or a purchase pushes out everything else, including good judgment. That’s to be expected, and sometimes, can’t be avoided. But buying a business is such an important event that has the potential to affect so many other things in your life. Because of […]
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 […]
There are so many questions you might ask yourself when thinking about becoming a business owner. In fact, we’ve addressed many of those concerns in previous articles, here and here. But today we wanted to focus on three important ones that have to be answered. Where will I get the money? We’ve discussed various ways […]
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