by chelly@marketingwiththeagency.com | Nov 14, 2017 | Seller Articles
A recent article posted on Forbes.com entitled “Small Business Owners Are Retiring, And Millennials May Not Fill The Gap On America’s Main Street” uses the closing of a 235-year-old hardware store to prove a startling fact: the Millennial generation may not be...
by chelly@marketingwiththeagency.com | Nov 6, 2017 | Seller Articles
If you are unfamiliar with CSR or corporate social responsibility, you are certainly not alone. In the coming years, you’ll be hearing a lot about CSR. In this article, we’ll look at CSR and how, when implemented with sincerity, it can positively impact...
by chelly@marketingwiththeagency.com | Oct 31, 2017 | Seller Articles
The saying “loose lips sink ships,” doesn’t have ancient origins. While it sounds like one of those sayings that has been around forever, the saying was actually invented during World War II. It was taken quite literally. The idea was that a lack of secrecy...
by chelly@marketingwiththeagency.com | Oct 23, 2017 | Seller Articles
If you own a business, then ownership transition should definitely be a central topic in your planning. A few years ago, MassMutual Life Insurance Company conducted a very interesting and thought-provoking survey of family-owned businesses. Obviously, family-owned...
by chelly@marketingwiththeagency.com | Oct 11, 2017 | Seller Articles
The reasons for selling a business can be divided into two main categories. The first is a sale that is planned almost from the beginning or by an owner who knows that selling is or should be a planned event. The second is exactly the opposite – unplanned; the sale is...
by chelly@marketingwiththeagency.com | Oct 4, 2017 | Seller Articles
A large percentage of business owners are not just owners, but also operators. Owning a business can be exciting and rewarding, but it is also a tremendous amount of unending work. In the end, the “buck” stops with you. With that realization comes a significant amount...