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Welcome to the Aspen Business Advisors' web site.  You will find the information contained here helpful to you and your business.  In these challenging economic times, it is more important than ever that your business have a well defined plan of action.  If you don't, we can help.

Aspen Business Advisors was founded to provide help and guidance to small and mid size businesses. Our years of experience, running companies of varying size, enables us to bring effective, practical solutions to the problems and opportunities that our clients face.  We know how difficult it can be running your own business, and how lonely it can be seeking answers to the daily challenges that you encounter.

While Aspen Business Advisors offers a complete array of consulting services, our specialty is Sales and Marketing.  We have helped many companies identify and implement plans to approach new sales opportunities.  Our experience includes interviewing and hiring sales personnel, training salesmen and sales management and developing sales compensation plans to achieve the best performance for the sales dollars spent.

When you work with Aspen Business Advisors, you will find that our help differs from that of the typical consulting firm.  We are a "hands-on" firm.  After analyzing your problem or opportunity, we help you to develop a practical, workable solution that fits your specific need and budget.  But our help does not stop there.  Once the solution has been decided, we help you to implement the plan suggested, insuring that you receive the maximum benefit for the  advice given in the shortest amount of time. 

If you are like most of our clients, you are so busy trying to run your business that you don't have the time, staff or know how to implement the suggestions for change presented to you.  We stay with you until the job is done, helping you to quickly achieve the objectives set.

We would welcome the opportunity to discuss how our services can be of benefit to your company too.  Contact us to discuss your particular need or to schedule a FREE business evaluation.


 

Can you answer YES to any of these statements?  If so, we can help to get your business back on track.

• Do you spend most of your time working "in" your business instead of "on" your business?
• Do you regularly take work home at night?
• Can't seem to find time to work on sales?
• Are you still trying to find time to make a Business Plan, Budget or Cash Flow?
• Does your business planning only happen at the end of the year when you meet with your Tax Guy?
• Do you have difficulty hiring and keeping good employees?
• My business is my retirement, but I don't have a plan for when I retire.

For many business owners, their  business is their main asset.  When it comes time to think about retiring, they hope to be able to sell their business and use the cash to meet their retirement goals. 
                                                                                    
The reality is that most business owners will not be able to sell their business or to get the value that they think it is worth.  Why?

Because they do not plan in advance to make it happen.  Selling a business and getting the maximum value does not happen by chance.  It takes planning...several years in advance of when the owner hopes to leave the business.

Think about it.  Most small or mid size businesses are built around the owner.  If the owner leaves, much of the value of the business leaves also.  To avoid this costly mistake, start developing an exit plan 3, 5 or even 10 years earlier than you want to leave the business.  That provides sufficient time to build a management team that can continue the business operations after you leave the business. 

It also provides time to strengthen areas of the business that may be lacking.  To achieve the maximum amount possible for your business, an outside buyer must be able to see the business as on-going.  That means having a competent management team in place and having all areas of the business following a defined plan of action.  It also means developing the reputation or identity of the business, independent of that of the owner.

At first, the task seems daunting.  But, with a well thought out Exit Plan in place, and sufficient time to implement it, you can achieve the maximum monetary value for your company.