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EXIT PLANNING

Learn to delegate and manage, transfer ownership,

then withdraw with retirement income.

Easy Exit Planning - a FREE one-minute, five-question Transition Readiness Evaluation. Call us today.

Exit Planning varies greatly with each individual. We explain options, benefits and risks. We can assist in the coordination of your accountant, your attorney and other advisors to reach your objectives. We offer three learning programs to meet your needs:

Entrepreneurs are great at starting businesses. But few begin with long range planning, and fewer still have considered how to transfer ownership when they are ready to enter a new stage of life. Beginning, growing, leaving - each requires fresh skills, broader knowledge, and a wider perspective.

As the owner of a small business that has endured for years, you have likely noticed that over time the complications just multiply. You want to be organized, and you would really like to keep it simple. But it just isn't. You would like to delegate tasks to others, and you would like to be able to let go, but somehow it all seems bigger than you are. How do you start? How do you continue? How do you even think about it all?

Learn how to ride the waves of change in a way that is creative, exciting, and profitable for both you and your successor. Learn what to do when the path is blocked, when conflicts arise, and how to go beyond being stuck. Improve your business’ value and what you may receive for it. Then increase the odds that someone qualified will buy it and pay for it.

You owe it to yourself, your family, employees and customers to have a good plan to deal with change if you want or need to leave your business unexpectedly now or in 30 years.

Learn:
◊ How to determine transition readiness

◊ Motivation & valuation-What’s first?

◊ Leadership: inspiration and delegation

◊ The costs and rewards of exit planning

◊ Finding a buyer, reaching agreement

◊ Teaching the new owner to succeed

◊ Sale, buy-sell & employment contracts

◊ Moving from the present to the future

◊ How to deal with the unexpected

◊ What to do when you hit obstacles

◊ Using conflict for creative new ideas

◊ Getting support from staff and family

◊ How to have fun in the midst of change

◊ Beliefs that hinder or facilitate change

◊ Mastering the art of letting go

◊ Working and living your dreams

Easy Exit Planning - a FREE one-minute, five-question Transition Readiness Evaluation. Call us today.

Further Information

Short Background Sketches of Two of Our Exit Planning Coaches

John E. Anderson, MSM, is an entrepreneur, coach, consultant and facilitator. John founded several successful businesses and has sold two ventures with a third currently being prepared for sale. John earned a Master of Science degree in management from Antioch University, Seattle in 2005. He worked for a Chicago-based, international consulting firm where he won awards for quality and performance. After obtaining his master’s degree, John did Katrina recovery in Mississippi for a year. John is a trained and experienced coach and consultant to firms in Oregon and Florida. He is a member of the International Association of Facilitators. John has assisted small business owners in the success of their businesses since 1970. He earned a bachelor’s degree and did post-graduate studies in philosophy, anthropology, finance and accounting working as a business trade newspaper editor in New York. John’s experience founding and selling ventures, researching and collaborating has enabled him to advise entrepreneurs how to achieve their dreams.

Dr. Gary Reiss holds an LCSW, PhD., and is a diplomat in process-oriented psychology. Gary has a private practice in Eugene and Portland, Oregon, and teaches process-oriented psychology worldwide. His specialties include family therapy; working with organizations, businesses, and groups of all kinds; world-work facilitation in hot spots in the world, particularly his work with Israelis and Palestinians; and integrating process work with medicine, spiritual approaches, and business. Gary has consulted extensively with small and large businesses, non-profits, professional organizations, and different communities. He is also known for his interventions with people in comatose states. He is the author of five books: Changing Ourselves, Changing the World; Leap into Living; Angry Men, Angry Women, Angry World; Vital Loving, and Beyond War and Peace in the Arab Israeli Conflict. His books The Dance of Sex, Dreaming Money, and Befriending Coma will be released in 2008.

The fee for our Introduction to Exit Planning Program is $120 per person. Use major credit cards with PayPal's secure website via www.BeCauseBusiness/checkout

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John E. Anderson – 800.249.1622 • Dr. Gary Reiss – 541.686.8060

John at BeCauseBusiness.com

67539 East Bay Road, North Bend, Oregon 97459-9482 USA