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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? Barlow research – Two-thirds of lower middle-market business owners are expected to retire. Between 35 & 45% of these owners are 65 or older (2018).

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

On June 2, 2018 Jason Zweig’s article in the Wall Street Journal was titled, “ The Fanciful Alphabet Soup Companies Use to Fool You.” This goes back to before the stock market crash of 1929. Zweig writes that any form of modified profit isn’t cash flow. Marketing expenses (the marketing didn’t work so it’s really profit).

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Pros and Cons of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) Why a “Virtual PEO” May be the Better Option

Emerson Consulting Group

For example, the CEO of McBassie & Company reported in 2018 that 750,000 US companies with 3.7 The primary rationale for retaining a PEO – at least according to the marketing of the PEO itself – is that by bundling multiple employers together it is possible to leverage efficiencies of scale. 1] Bassi, Laurie (September 2018).