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The Corona Virus for Small Businesses

Consultant Journal

At Consultant Journal, we know many entrepreneurs, small business owners and consultants wonder about the business impact. Think about what’s actually needed for your sales and marketing : Wave or nod instead of shaking hands. Take a look at your cash flow and what a change to sales or staffing could do.

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Martinka Consulting - Untitled Article

Martinka Consulting

A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” The gist of the article was sales are up over the same month a year earlier and the average discount was 11%, versus 9.4% He knew cash flow. Or should we say he knew short-term cash flow.

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Unrealistic Expectations

Martinka Consulting

I’m seeing more and more owners of small businesses ($3-10 million or so in sales) thinking their company is going to be priced the same as a $50-100 million firm. In the last few weeks owners (of companies doing $3-10 million in sales. In the last few weeks owners (of companies doing $3-10 million in sales. Conclusion.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! Wall Street Journal – The greatest transfer of wealth in history will occur in this country over the next decade; an estimated $10 trillion is expected to change hands, and much of this wealth is tied up in family businesses. This as per bizbuysell.com. Pretty small.

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

In the Discounted Future Cash Flow method profits are projected (same as the first issue) and discounted back to a present value. Using comparable sales of much larger firms will distort the value. As I write this, according to the Wall Street Journal, the current PE ratio for the S&P 500 is 25.89.

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Economies of Scope - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

ECONOMIES OF SCOPE is an idea that was first explored by John Panzar and Robert Willig in an article published in 1977 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics entitled “ Economies of Scale in Multi-Output Production ”. More stable cash flows are attractive for three reasons.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Indeed, some analysts have gone a step further, declaring that subscription boxes are in the midst of a venture capital-fueled bubble not unlike the flash-sale business craze that ended five years ago. that aggregate sales in the U.S. For example, Blue Apron rose to become the largest meal kit delivery business in the U.S.,