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Prepare for Opportunity

Lead coach at Be Cause Business Resources, Inc. is John E. Anderson 4:58.

Here he speaks of exit planning and the importance of preparing today, for tomorrow.

Dr. Dane Smith DDS PC

Learn from experience

Dr. Dane Smith DDS PC practiced oral surgery for 25 years, then carefully organized his business and sold it.

One to two minute excerpts and our full Interview:

Decison To Sell 1:58

What Dane Sold 1:49

Investment Portfolio Built 1:20

Dane's Exit Plan 34-Minute Video Interview.

Farr's True Value Hardware Stores

Len and Jay Farr, father and son, looking towards the next generation, number five, in this retail hardware firm in Southwestern Oregon.

Begun in 1916, their two-location True Value hardware business employs 30 persons. Len took over from his father after WWII. Other family members are partners, and together they are using technology and prudent decisions to adapt to changes in the market and within their stores. Len and Jay Farr 29:45

Jay (left) and Len Farr (center) with John

Alfredo Guilio, chef

Alfredo's Paradiso Ristorante

Alfredo (37:28) is building a great Italian restaurant in Merritt Island, Florida that he is preparing for sale in 10 years or so with his wife Linda.

South Coast Printing and Graphics

This printing firm supports a new initiative, Classic Prints And Maps.com to transform itself to marketplace changes. Learn how owner Jon Menke (28:06) evaluates, buys, builds and then sells businesses to advance his retirement and exit plan.

Jon Menke (left) with John

Rusty Fischer of Rusty's

Rusty's at Port Canaveral

Rusty (25:21) took over Bernard's Surf from his father. After almost 50 years, he sold it in 2006. Now he's grooming Rusty's at Port Canaveral (Florida) for his son and a package liquour store for his daughter to each take over. (25-minute video interview)

Marsden R. Smith, Controller/CFO

Consulting controller and CFO Marsden R. Smith is John's guest discussing a client's recent experience when the client had to leave his business to rescue his wife from across the country when she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

This business was prepared with carefully trained managers to maintain operations during the owners absence. Is your business prepared should you need to be away? Join us to consider how you can reduce risk and improve your the sustainability of your organization. Marsden R. Smith 32:50

Marsden R. Smith

The future consists of ways of being, people in your life, physical and financial things and accomplishments you are proud of having achieved. Your average day's activities, your office and home life, the lives of people you are close to and care about, the resources at your disposal.

Creating a GREAT LIFE requires foresight, direction and dedication. If it happens by accident, it could stop at a moment's notice. Life is terminal, and we can make a difference in our lives if we choose to work with others and invent possibilitites where others may only see hardship. What are you creating today and envisioning for tomorrow?