98% of small business owners don’t know the worth of their business. You don’t plan for retirement a few months before you retire. So why wait until a major life event to plan the future of your business? It is...
The bigger my business grows, the heavier it is and the more responsibility I carry. It's all on my shoulders. I try to fix everything, and I can’t keep doing that. I don’t see my family enough. I’ve become the...
Trying to figure out where we are so we can plan out where we're going with the business. Up to now, I didn’t have a strategy and I didn’t know my percentages in finance. I didn’t know how things added...
ConsideOur parents are getting ready to retire from the family business, but I sense they’re not ready to trust that we can take over. There are four of us in the next generation. We have been in the company for...
We’re a two-generation company, and I find that transferring ownership across generations is very confusing. It feels like as long as the seniors are alive, we in the next generation will never own the company, even though we’re now doing...
How we describe ourselves, what our goals are, what we do. Describing those things are the biggest issues we face in building a marketing foundation. We’re good at what we do, but we don’t spend a lot of time crowing...
"We need to get our people working together. We've spent the last year getting everyone clear on who does what. Now they need to get back to helping each other. I know that with the challenges facing us this coming...
"As a business owner, how do I keep my company safe in a down economy? This comes from a recent Ask Andi forum, part of the Lunch and Learn Series, run by the Westchester County Association." Panelists included Robert Sanders...