The first and most common set of questions having to do with the owner’s readiness to sell his or her business tend to be about…
JohnMFebruary 19, 2021
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Here’s an exchange I recently had with a supposedly seasoned businessperson, growth consultant, and business broker: Me: “There are a couple issues with this business, one in…
JohnMFebruary 3, 2021
The recent meeting of Seattle U Family Business Exchange (companies with multiple generations in the business) two of the presenters showed there are multiple ways…
JohnMJanuary 27, 2021
I was watching some football over the weekend and some post-game interviews. One question to a quarterback was about why a certain player has made…
JohnMJanuary 20, 2021
I recently got a newsletter from my friend Lisa Nirell with Energize Growth. She works primarily with middle market CMOs. The newsletter shared the following:…
JohnMJanuary 13, 2021
I’m writing this on November 16. The headlines and stories over the last two days are filled with President Trump tweeting, “I concede NOTHING,” how…
JohnMDecember 23, 2020
“I guess we’re really not ready to sell” was said to me by a client recently. Here’s the backstory. I got a call from a…
JohnMDecember 19, 2020
Recently we had the last real harvest from our garden as we picked tomatoes, arugula, lettuce, figs, beets, zucchini, and spaghetti squash. Then we got…
JohnMDecember 9, 2020
It’s Halloween season so let’s discuss scary things. I recently took advantage of the offer from www.cyberstreams.com to have them run a free Dark Web scan. As…
JohnMNovember 18, 2020
The September issue of the Fearey Group’s newsletter was titled PR Failure #26: The Ellen-ments of a Talk TV PR Nightmare. FYI, the Fearey Group…
JohnMNovember 7, 2020
Realize what I give as examples below represents at least part of our customer/client base, which is why we can’t assume too much about people,…
JohnMOctober 23, 2020
We’re doing online training with our adorable puppy Coco and it reinforces our feelings we lucked out and got a great dog. We see and…
JohnMOctober 21, 2020
It’s no secret the Seattle City Council makes good old-fashioned liberal Democrats look like the old John Birch Society or the Tea Party. So when…
JohnMOctober 16, 2020
Disclaimer: the title has nothing to do with current events like Covid, the recession, racial injustice, any political party, or similar. While not about sports…
JohnMOctober 14, 2020
Over the summer, California experienced electricity brownouts and power outages when demand peaked. The reported reason why is because the State forced power companies to…
JohnMOctober 7, 2020
On August 24 my phone buzzed with a news flash from The Wall Street Journal. It said the New York Attorney General is investigating the…
JohnMOctober 7, 2020
A good friend of ours told me his sales team made their first sale ever to a non-affiliated customer. He was hired earlier this year…
JohnMSeptember 30, 2020
I’ve had a security camera in our house for a couple years now. I won’t mention the company name (they’re local) as the main subject…
JohnMSeptember 16, 2020
It happened again. It shouldn’t surprise me, but it always does. Maybe I’m too optimistic about successful people knowing what they’re doing. A burned-out business…
JohnMSeptember 9, 2020
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