Ever been blindsided by a Yelp “review?”

Here’s something buyers, sellers, and brokers should be considering. In addition to the flow of all the financial statements and all the necessary due diligence that takes place in business sales, something else is happening. While grizzled old timers (many of whom are younger than me) may pound on the table and claim “facts are [...]

Small Business Administration uses… gasp! YouTube

Not an organization best known for being on the leading edge of Enterprise 2.0 offerings, the SBA has started to offer business tips on its own YouTube channel.  To be fair, this service is only a few days old but as of a week ago, SBA’s channel boasted 141 subscribers, 17 informational videos and 4,396 [...]

a trillion… as in a Million Billions??? AND what to do about it

Last year, American’s cell phones transmitted a trillion text messages. A TRILLION. Take a million and muliply that by 1,000,000,000.  Like they say, a trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking Real Numbers…
It’s almost possible to dismiss this – truely – astronomical number as a LOT of  the argot that tends to run [...]

So, a business broker, a priest and a stripper walk into a bar …

OK. At least there’s a business broker in the joke.   Read on …
Business brokers – for the small percentage of Americans who know what they are and what they do – have a mixed reputation in business communities. On the one hand, they’re the people business owners turn to in the hope of getting [...]

not as much a SIC group as a center of gravity

I help entrepreneurs buy and sell companies who’s focus is on new- and social-media.
That’s the short version.  Here’s the fuller story.
Web 2.0 *anything* has been the darling of the popular press for a couple of years now and while it’s frustratingly difficult to pin down, think of all the ways companies are using things like [...]

Is YouTube a way to sell or buy businesses?

This isn’t meant as a question about production values.  Rather, my question is:  Do you think this kind of advertising captures more attention (and generates more serious inquiries) than tex-based ads?