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M&A Weekly Digest – March 22, 2013

March 22, 2013 By Editor

This edition of the M&A Weekly Digest features education about valuing a company and a review of current middle market and merger trends. As usual, click on the headline for the full article.
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How To Stick With Your New Year Resolutions Past the First Week of 2013

January 9, 2013 By Lindsey Perkins Wade

Many people make New Year resolutions around this time of year. Even though 2013 has technically started, there’s still time to set new goals, both personally and professionally, and achieve them. Here are five steps that should help you get what you want out of this year. [Read more…]

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M&A Weekly Digest – March 16th, 2012

March 16, 2012 By Lindsey Perkins Wade

Today’s M&A Weekly Digest features articles that discuss industries that strategics actively making acquisitions in, how business owners’ exit planning strategies need to line up with the new reality, and the difference between economic value and market value of a business when conducting a valuation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: M&A, M&A Weekly Digest, Uncategorized Tagged With: business valuation, corporate strategics, economic value, exit planning, market value

Silence Is A Communication Tool

August 22, 2011 By Derick Schaefer

When a business owner works with employees in order to grow their soft skills, one area of focus is often communication. A business owner wants an employee to ask the right questions, provide concise answers, and even diffuse an upset customer or vendor when the situation demands it. Moreover, good communication training focuses heavily on listening skills.

Still, one communication skill that is often overlooked is the use of silence.
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Filed Under: Operations, Uncategorized Tagged With: communication, employees, negotiation, People

How business owners should approach the promising M&A forecast for 2011

May 17, 2011 By Carl Doerksen

Too often we hear middle-market business owners state that because M&A activity has declined, now is not a good time to enter the market. However, in reality, the opposite is true.

Although M&A activity did experience two years of declines in 2008 and 2009, it actually began to rebound in the latter half of 2010 and most analysts expect this to continue in 2011 and beyond.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: corporate financing week, m&a activity

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