Weigh Your Business Options Intelligently
Why are you a successful businessperson? Because of your focus.
Most of the time, you focus on the customer and creating service sets to meet the customers needs. You are successful precisely because you work to understand your customers current needs and anticipate how they will evolve. You know your customers business nearly as well or better than your customer does. Your customer is priority No. 1, and maybe 2, 3, 4 and so on.
Understanding the customer is work, a lot of work. It leaves little time for anything else, including focusing on the strategic elements of your own business.
If you are like many partners, that lack of focus on your own business is your Achllles heel, the lethal point of vulnerability that can keep you from reaching your goals or, even worse, undo everything you have worked for.
It is never too late to start thinking strategically about your business. That is why Channel Partners has organized a pre-conference workshop entitled Strategies for Growth and Exit: Merger, Acquisition and Sale.” The expert panelists are Brad Miehl, president and CEO of MicroCorp.; Neil S. Ende, managing partner, and Craig Dingwall, attorney, of Technology Law Group; Eric P. Evans, senior managing director of Evans Hagen and Co.; and Scott McKinney, president and owner of connecTel Inc.
The panel will review a variety of subjects, including:
- how to value a company for purchase or sale;
- how to find a buyer or seller;
- how to evaluate an investment adviser;
- and how to weigh the pros and cons of merging versus acquiring or selling.
You have worked hard to build a successful business. In all likelihood, that work has been rewarding, emotionally and financially. Your business is probably the cornerstone of your life. You love your business. And that can be dangerous, taken too far.
Dont be short-sighted about your business as a business. You owe it to yourself to be analytical and create (or at least double-check) a long-term business strategy. “Strategies for Growth and Exit” allows you to pick the brains of some of the leading thinkers and doers in the channel, professionals who bring an analytical approach to business.
The “Strategies for Growth and Exit” pre-conference workshop will be held Monday, March 26, from 2-4 p.m.
Do something about your Achilles heel. Dont make the Homeric mistake he did. Heres a good chance to make sure your business strategy is better than the ancient warriors competitive strategy proved to be.
Larry Lannon is group publisher of
VIRGO
s Communications Network,
which includes
Billing & OSS World
,
Channel Partners
and
V2M
.
