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Embracing Your Expertise: The Importance of Believing in Yourself with Ann Carden

Consulting Matters

She has founded and built six businesses of her own and has sold five of those businesses and therefore has personally experienced all the struggles, frustrations, pitfalls and mistakes many small business owners make when they are growing their companies.

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How I Became a Millionaire as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

On the other hand, you’d be able to take business-owner tax deductions and save more for retirement, both of which lower your taxable income. For more about this, I recommend this 90-second video: “ Friends Don’t Let Friends W-2 *.”) Maintain a sterling reputation to get repeat business. Siphon off 40% of every client payment.

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

Regular readers of this newsletter, and viewers of my video podcasts, know my feelings about projections in the buy-sell world, I feel they’re useless. It’s because there are a lot of assumptions in business valuations, which makes valuing a business an art as well as a science. An outsider may ask, how is this possible?

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. Related Video.

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