One strategy for accelerating the value of your business is grow through acquisition….and we’ve discussed this strategy in past episodes with M&A Advisors Matt Craft and Laurie Barkman. Today we are going to revisit the topic with our guest who has made three multi-million $$ acquisitions to scale is core business to over $35 million in revenue.

If you’ve listened in at any time in the past…you’ve heard us mention the certainty that all business owners will stop being business owners at some point…and so there is no better time to begin planning for the inevitable than the present…the earlier you begin planning, the more options you will have for a successful exit.

All small business owners, at least all the ones we know, are continually focused on sales and increasing revenue. And rightfully so if they have a desire to get value out of the business eventually with a transaction.

Today’s focus is on owners who want to exit in the next 2-3 years with a sale to a third party…

9 out of 10 business owners we work with are married. Most are married…and as married business owners ourselves…we recognize the unique challenges of being both married and a business owner.

If you’re a regular listener of the podcast you may have heard us at some point say business owners cannot do exit planning without doing estate planning, and they cannot do estate planning without doing exit planning.

Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation is an unfunded, unsecured promise by the employer to a key employee to pay compensation at a specific time or upon a specific event in the future.

We would strongly encourage listening to Part One which is Episode 102 if you’re at all thinking that a sale to insiders could be a possibility and you have yet to do so…