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When To Prepare For Selling A Business

A Succession Plan Although hard to imagine, someday you’ll want to, or need to, sell your business; maybe lack of interest or energy, age or unexpected failing health. You should start thinking about a sale from the day you incorporate. Having a succession plan is critical for an organized, orderly, successful sale. It creates certainty and relieves your stress. Things to think about. 1.    Who? Who do you sell your business
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The Benefits of An Advisory Board

This blog is relating a much appreciated testimonial from a successful client who has been with ASE for over twenty-seven years!   He has recounted well, his ups and downs and how the ASE team helped in supporting, advising, and guiding him and his business over those many years. It shows the importance for any business to have a sage, clear thinking and objective team in its corner. “I first got involved
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Leadership

Leadership – Part 2

In last month’s blog (Leadership – Part 1), I identified four key traits great leaders possess; Authenticity, Empathy, Vision, and Resilience. My source of reference is from the book ‘Great Ted Talks – Leadership’ by Harriet Minter.  As with the previous blog, I have ended each section with questions so you use as a planning tool for guiding your business..  This blog addresses: Strategy, Collaboration, and Accountability. Strategy- Whether you have one employee or a team, as leader
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Leadership

Leadership part 1

LEADERSHIP -Part 1 For this newsletter, I turned to ‘Great Ted Talks – Leadership’ by Harriet Minter. In it, I identified four key traits that great leaders possess; Authenticity, Empathy, Vision and Resilience. My suggestion is you treat this as a workbook and use it as a planning tool for your upcoming year. The questions following will guide you in this process. Some of you may be leading teams,
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Why Do I Need To Learn To Sell To Be Successful…

This is a question that is frequently raised in our ASE meetings. Whether in business or in life in general, I feel that ability to convince and persuade, is a most important differentiator between success and failure. We all inadvertently sell. Many conversations opinions and assessments we engage in, are selling statements. Some have opined that the ability to communicate and connect is probably one of the most important
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Marketing strategy

Whether you are a new business entrepreneur or you are a veteran business owner, whether you understand marketing strategy intuitively or have addressed it intellectually in the past, it is important to have another deep analysis of who and what is the target market you are approaching. Every business needs to promote their business, but it is important to have the marketing strategy, down and detailed, before even considering
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ASE update

Dear Friends, clients and future clients, Over the years we have enjoyed presenting our newsletter to you and are always happy to hear that you are enjoying the content. It has been a great pleasure for us to help so many of you with so many aspects of your business over the years in our focused meetings. We are reaching out to say that we have ‘covidly’ transitioned to
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INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS

I remember the days when business life was simple, everything was manual and computers didn’t exist. In reality it was not that long ago. History indicates that in 1951 the first general purpose computer for businesses came into play. Since that time computers have evolved to be in every part of everyday life. IT used to be the glass house where nerds would write and test complicated programs based
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