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Acme Advisors & Brokers is a matchmaker for buyers and sellers of businesses. We work with entrepreneurs to develop exit strategies and business transition plans. Our specialty is helping clients identify, refine, valuate and leverage their assets, leading to the sale or purchase of their business. Expertise includes due diligence analysis, acquisition strategy, business valuation, business brokerage services and commercial real estate.
Welcome to Grow My Business or Sell It, the podcast that helps entrepreneurs in three ways – how to grow your business in the most cost effective way, how to sell it for as much money as possible and how to invest the proceeds of all that hard work. Whichever stage you’re at, listen up because I guarantee you’ll take something valuable from every episode.
Phil Fraser has been through the entire entrepreneur journey from soup to nuts. After a couple of false starts he had the winning idea, grew the business from scratch until it became a market leader over an 18 year period then sold it for an eight figure sum. A transaction that has given him the breathing room to help other entrepreneurs as a coach…
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Kelley Powell - Why You Need an Excitement Committee to get you through the Valley Of Despair
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For this episode of Grow My Business Or Sell It we’re travelling all the way to Richmond Virginia to meet Kelley Powell. She has huge experience in private equity and M&A, culminating in her current role as CEO of MacLaurin Group, providing technology support to both sides of private equity transactions - the buyers and the sellers. She’s also a ve…
My guest today continues the international flavour of entrepreneurs we’ve spoken to on Grow My Business or Sell It as he comes from the Czech Republic. He had a promising career as a professional basketball player that was cut short by health issues. He then channeled his energies into business and grew one of the largest packaging materials compan…
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Ammar Mirza CBE makes Richard Branson look like a timewaster. He’s been involved in establishing over 700 new businesses, as well as helping many existing ones. He’s raised millions of pounds for a broad range of organisations alongside being an angel investor in fast growing companies. He sits at the epicentre of one of the largest and most influe…
In this episode author, speaker and investor Graham Rowan explains why you need to use your business as a giant ATM machine and how to funnel your profits into assets that will create multi-generational wealth for your family. You will get a lot more from this episode if you first download a template Wealth Pyramid at https://grahamrowan.com/pyrami…
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Jeremy Harbour joins me from his home in Singapore. Jeremy left school at 15 to start his first business and is now a globally renowned expert in Mergers & Acquisitions . He’s the founder of Unity Group, a firm specializing in buying and selling businesses, as well as attracting capital investments, and helping small and medium-sized enterprises to…
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My guest in this episode is the owner of a private equity group and his primary focus is as an investor who specialises in taking companies already producing multiple six figures in revenue and accelerating their growth to over 10 million. Dan Bradbury's love of numbers and finance is what sets him apart and allows him to find the hidden assets and…
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Jeremy Hall forged a reputation for growing organisations through acquisition during the dotcom boom and has gone on to become one of the UK’s most prolific aggregators of small businesses. Previously chairman of the prestigious global brand Who’s Who Publications, the CEO of asset provider WestWon has invested in a range of businesses over the las…
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Dan Bates is part of a very exclusive club – he’s the CEO of an alternative energy provider who survived the carnage in the market caused by the wholesale price explosion in late 2021. In fact the company he founded, Rebel Energy, has come out of the energy crisis in better shape than ever and is winning more than 1,000 new customers a week. He’s o…
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Nigel Botterill is famous for building NINE separate million pound businesses in the last 12 years. He’s a Sunday Times best-selling author, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Entrepreneurs Circle, the UK’s largest private organisation dedicated to helping entrepreneurs to get & keep customers. So its not surprising that he’s known as the most so…
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My guest today is a chartered financial analyst who is active in two spheres, property and private equity. She’s a regular writer on property matters for the London Evening Standard and views her own property investment activities as her 'guilty pleasure'. But in our interview I focus on her other role as chair of the Portfolio Advisory Board at No…
My guest today combines being the founder of Quantum Group, a multiple award winning fintech incubator that owns 2 fast growing unicorns, with being the leading light in the Compass For Life Foundation, providing leadership and values training for everyone from schoolchildren to senior teams in sport, business and the public sector. He’s made the r…
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Siam Kidd is a former RAF pilot who has packed a lot into his young life. He’s now a full time Investor and trader in the financial markets as well as owning a group of profitable businesses. What’s especially relevant for us is that he has built his main business - coaching people in financial trading - through organic growth while also using M&A …
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My guest today has made a career out of acquiring two kinds of assets - companies and property. Graeme Carling is Scotland's biggest residential landlord and chairman of United Capital. His property company has handled over £1 billion of transactions while United Capital is focused on winning big government projects in decarbonisation on the road t…
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Paul Avins is one of the most sought after business coaches in the UK. His Grown Up Business System is designed to help founders and family owned businesses to scale for a successful exit. He’s coached over 550 businesses through the system with many clients selling their businesses for life changing sums. His mastermind groups quickly fill up with…
My guest today is a real expert in the art and science of acquiring, growing and selling businesses. So much so that hundreds of people join his Dealmaker Academy mastermind group each year to learn from him. As well as teaching others he practices what he preaches and has built the fourth largest chain of nursery schools in the UK from scratch dur…
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Sell My Business Podcast
In this special edition we discuss farming, land and the unique planning involved in selling a farm.Walter Carnes has significant auction experience. He has owned an agricultural consulting company and has participated in the sale of numerous large acreage land tracts, timber and coal mining properties and equipment auctions in Kentucky, Tennessee …
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In this episode we discuss how to develop business partnerships (relationships) that actually work; interpersonally, functionally and legally. Rachel Schaffer Lawson, a Nashville-based attorney, joins us to discuss this critical approach to building out you company's future.Special Guest: Rachel Schaffer Lawsonhttps://schafferlawfirmtn.com/about/Bu…
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In this episode we explore a highly-valuable local resource for every phase of a business' development... Small Business Development Centers and our guest Miller Slaughter.LINKSSpecial Guest: Miller Slaughter, Directorhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/miller-slaughter-38389449/WKU's Small Business Development Center:https://www.wku.edu/sbdc/The WKU Small…
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TRUSTED ADVISOR SERIES: Commercial Real EstateIn this episode, guest Tyler Cauble lays out the 3 fatal mistakes most businesses make when they negotiate the terms of their lease.Linkswww.tylercauble.comwww.openforbusinessbook.comInstagram www.instagram.com/architecturenashville/www.instagram.com/commercial_in_nashville/…
