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Determine the ROI of hiring a small business operations consultant

Asamby Consulting

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

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The 5 Growing Pains of Service-Based Businesses in 2023 (and how to overcome them)

Asamby Consulting

Check out our privacy policy. Work with contractors To get over that initial cash-flow issue, it can make sense to rely on contractors instead of employees. You can join a project meeting with each client once a month. Don't be tempted to bring on the "best available" talent, if they don't meet your requirements.

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SBA Acquisition Loans – A Win-Win-Win Especially for the Seller

Martinka Consulting

2013 - it’s hard to find a non-SBA acquisition loan on a deal that meets the SBA qualifications. It’s much better for them to buy a larger business with systems, processes and a management team instead of an owner-operator business-and they can do so easier because of the SBA program. Who benefits? 5-year term, 5.5%

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What Should U.S. Companies Do If Congress Ever Passes a Tax Holiday?

Harvard Business

CEOs and their boards almost always believe their company’s shares are undervalued, and rarely have a full understanding of the performance expectations the company must meet to justify its stock price. To minimize this risk, companies should compare their expectations against the market’s.

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The Case for Stock Buybacks

Harvard Business

But these claims are very rarely backed up by large-scale evidence, and often driven by a misunderstanding of how buybacks actually operate. A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.” Buybacks are a red herring.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The differences were dramatic. Where Do We Go from Here?

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

She has worked with legislators, lobbyists, and attorneys to draft legislation and effect policy changes related to the state’s bonded indebtedness.” The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund. Buyers and traders in the $3.7