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Here are some articles that have appeared in newspapers, magazines, trade journals or our monthly newsletter, The Business Buy-Sell & Growth Advisor:

Recently posted

• The 7 Deadly Sins of Business Buying
• Why Acquisitions Happen
• Control Your Own Destiny
  (a copy of an article published in the King County Journal on February 13, 2005)

Buying and Selling

• The Pricing of Small Businesses
• Your own business? Yes!
• Small business can play the M&A game also
• It pays to prepare your business for sale
• The Business Buying Climate - Summer 2002
• An ACTION™ plan to present your business
• Why sell your business
• Downsizing - don't let it happen again
• Buyers and sellers have the same concerns
• Exit Strategies - Maximizing your Return
• The economy and the sale of businesses
• Finding a good business to acquire
• Due diligence -- what is it?
• Buy vs. start a business
• Seller survey results
• Buyer survey results
• Business ownership factors
• Buying a business - three key factors

Valuation and Business Improvement

• Lessons from Europe
• We're all in a service business
• Competing in any environment
• How do you treat your customers?
• Owner's must help make sales
• Grow the top line
• Myths of Business Valuation
• Grow or perish? What does it really mean?
• Are you giving business away?
• Owner's must help make sales
• Plan to Grow
• Communication is essential to success
• Depopulating
• The importance of good financial statements
• Marketing to make sales
• Be nimble, be flexible and outpace the competition!
• What needs fixing?
• Visionaries
• Networking
• Businesses can learn from Microsoft
• B2B - Baseball to business
• Where is all the customer service?
• Who's listening
• Take a hint from current events (again)
• Hot or cold economy, does it matter?
• Sales, service and communication are key
• Leadership in a small business
• Tips for a cooling economy
• The News - Trends and Reasons
• Business owners need to be problem solvers
• Traits of entrepreneurial success
• Turnaround similarities 
• Internet is still an important business tool
• How do you rate?
• Entrepreneur traits
• Relationships are the key
• What happened?
• Increase your company's value
• Don't let it bring you down - a comment on the events of 9-11-01
• Three tips to survive
• Three more tips to survive
• Be focused and driven to serve your customers
• Necessary and Manageable Growth
• Sales strategies
• Risk and Reward
• How's your Pricing
• Sales don't just happen
• Plan to increase sales
• It’s what you say and what you do
• Ignite your sales
• How Not to do Customer Service
• Iraq offers business lessons
• The wait and see economy (spring 2003)
• Strategies for tough times

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• Creative Finance

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