October 16, 2013
First Impression – Not Always What It Seems
I was at a professional group meeting recently, we broke into small groups to discuss an issue and the first thing one person blurted out…
October 5, 2013
Beware of Outside Feedback (It’s Probably Useless)
It's been a long time since I've experienced rain as we did at the University of Washington football game last Saturday. We were soaked under…
October 3, 2013
SBA Acquisition Loans – A Win-Win-Win Especially for the Seller
Pre-Great Recession - banks competed for business acquisition loans and I remember one client's summary that had eight banks, eight approvals, seven banks using the SBA…
September 11, 2013
Red Hot Seattle Economy
September 10, 2013 The August 26, 2013 Wall Street Journal had a page 3 article titled, "Seattle a Leader in Job Growth" and it discussed why…
September 4, 2013
Don’t Bumble Like the French
Over one month in the summer of 1940 the German military forced the French to surrender. Most people would assume that the German’s had a…
August 28, 2013
Don’t Just Watch Football, Learn From It
While on vacation earlier this month, a good friend of ours got us field passes to watch the Green Bay Packers practice. It was a…
August 21, 2013
Adapt Like a Fox
We were visiting my mother-in-law in Milwaukee a week or so ago, on Sunday morning we got some coffee and walked to the lakefront where…
July 17, 2013
When the Internet is Full of Junk
The two most recent newsletters from Business Brokerage Press featured a list of the current “hot” businesses for sale based on a monthly ranking of…
May 22, 2013
Silly Rules and Policies
Paul McCartney and Wings had a song titled, "Silly Love Songs" and it starts with the line, "You'd think that people would have had enough…
May 8, 2013
Communication Solves (Potential) Problems
On April 29 my Rotary Club (www.bbrc.net) held our annual fundraiser, the Bellevue 10K and 5K. When we picked up our family’s packets the day…
