Sep 18, 2018 | Case Studies
Scott Miller started Miller Restoration, a firm in the property damage industry, in 2005. He managed to sell his company after 12 years for 3.5 times earnings, but only after two failed attempts. If we pay attention, we can benefit from his hard-earned lessons....
Aug 22, 2018 | Case Studies
Jim McManaman owned Solution One, an accounting and tax firm that handled business and personal accounts. At its peak, he had six employees and had just added a fee-only financial planning practice to the company. The company was very much a “main street” business,...
Jul 17, 2018 | Case Studies
In 2003 Jill Nelson founded Ruby Receptionists to help small businesses provide a great first impression to new potential customers by providing an answering service. This could help the business who just needed one person to provide skeleton phone coverage or a...
Jun 12, 2018 | Case Studies
Shelley Rogers has been a leader in a field that’s now very trendy. But many years ago no one even knew the field existed. That field? Electronics recycling. Little did she know that her initial success would lead to an even more ambitious move that ended in...
May 15, 2018 | Case Studies
In 2004 Dan Green was a mortgage officer. He started blogging about important trends in the industry, focusing on giving timely, relevant, non-biased advice. He thought it would be a smart way to stay in touch with existing clients, as well as reach out to new ones....
Apr 18, 2018 | Case Studies
In 2011 Dan Bradbury was building a company called Business Growth Systems that taught marketing to small business owners. They would hold seminars explaining how to build infrastructure to create and track demand for products and services. Often those seminars...
