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Keeping Peace in Your Family Business — What You Should Know

Dec 14, 2020
1 min

Keeping Peace in Your Family Business — What You Should Know

Whether your family has a business or not, families are complex! Layering family dynamics with running a business, different visions...

Keeping Peace in the Family – Family Owned Businesses and Transitions

Birkdale Transition Partners

Nov 10, 2020
1 min

Keeping Peace in the Family – Family Owned Businesses and Transitions

Watch H. Barry Goodman discuss what you need to consider for Planning and Ownership in Family Businesses as shared on NBC's TMJ4 —...

Creating the Path to Restore Value™: Restore and Improve Marketing and Sales

Birkdale Transition Partners

Oct 29, 2020
5 min

Creating the Path to Restore Value™: Restore and Improve Marketing and Sales

Businesses in every industry have been severely impacted by the crises caused by COVID-19. This unexpected and unforeseen shock to the...

Creating Predictable Profits & Cash Flow: Dimension 1 of the '3 Dimensions of Business Growth'

Birkdale Transition Partners

Oct 19, 2020
4 min

Creating Predictable Profits & Cash Flow: Dimension 1 of the '3 Dimensions of Business Growth'

Does This Sound Familiar? You want to grow your company, but you’ve hit a wall. Or maybe you’re trying to make your company easier to run...

Creating the Path to Restore Value During COVID-19

Birkdale Transition Partners

Oct 7, 2020
6 min

Creating the Path to Restore Value During COVID-19

Businesses in every industry have been severely impacted by the crises caused by COVID-19. This unexpected and unforeseen shock to the...

A "Cure" for Small Businesses During the Pandemic

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 5, 2020
1 min

A "Cure" for Small Businesses During the Pandemic

H. Barry Goodman guest stars on the Morning Blend for WTMJ-TV Milwaukee to give tips for small businesses during the pandemic:...

COVID Correction, An Opportunity to Rethink Supply Chains

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 5, 2020
7 min

COVID Correction, An Opportunity to Rethink Supply Chains

The world is changing due to COVID-19 and will never be the same. This may create an opportunity for many individuals and companies, but...

Risky Business, Safe Solutions in the Age of COVID-19

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
4 min

Risky Business, Safe Solutions in the Age of COVID-19

Business owners take risks every day. These risks are broad and include those that are controllable and others that cannot be...

Show Me Your Friends, I’ll Show You Your Future – Business Edition

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
5 min

Show Me Your Friends, I’ll Show You Your Future – Business Edition

It has never been more important to surround yourself with competent advisors. You might ask, why now and not in the past? Well now,...

Show Me The Money! Private Equity and Small Business Explained

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
5 min

Show Me The Money! Private Equity and Small Business Explained

For most owners, when the subject of private equity comes up, they envision teams of MBAs financially engineering a transaction that will...

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
3 min

The Business of Making Life Easier

The path to freedom is achieving optimal work/life balance. By freedom, we mean the ability to regularly step away from your business,...

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
1 min

The Inner Game of Life After Business

An interview with Barry Goodman on Life After Business – The emotion of no longer being involved in the business is vitally important to...

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
5 min

Playbook – Transitioning Your Business

If you’re thinking about selling or transitioning your business, you need to develop a well thought-out and documented plan. It should...

Planning Is the First Step to a Higher Valuation

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
5 min

Planning Is the First Step to a Higher Valuation

Business planning is one of the most profitable actions you can take to grow and accelerate the value of your business. Defining the...

Leadership Is the Second Step to a Higher Valuation

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
5 min

Leadership Is the Second Step to a Higher Valuation

Many businesses revolve around the owner or founder. These people started or bought the business and, when times were tough, they did...

Your People Are the Third Step to a Higher Valuation

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
7 min

Your People Are the Third Step to a Higher Valuation

Your people are your most valuable asset, even though they don’t appear on your balance sheet. Employee engagement, Organizational...

Your Marketing Is the Fourth Step to a Higher Valuation

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
6 min

Your Marketing Is the Fourth Step to a Higher Valuation

Marketing is the strategy that drives sales. When it’s designed right—and supported by the sales and finance value drivers—marketing adds...

Your Sales Are the Fifth Step to a Higher Valuation

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
6 min

Your Sales Are the Fifth Step to a Higher Valuation

Sales is the engine that runs the business. It can also add significant or actually harm value. A number of businesses were started...

Your Operations Are the Sixth Step to a Higher Valuation

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
6 min

Your Operations Are the Sixth Step to a Higher Valuation

This function is responsible for managing the resources needed to create the company’s products and services. The operations strategy...

Your Finance Department Is the Seventh Step to a Higher Valuation

Birkdale Transition Partners

Aug 4, 2020
7 min

Your Finance Department Is the Seventh Step to a Higher Valuation

Many business owners receive financial information and do not know what to do with it to enhance performance. Entering into a strategic...

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