25, Apr 2024
Most Business Property Can Be Managed to Higher Valuation

Valuation, the thing by which all property and business is purchased and sold. Someone must value a property/business enough to purchase it from someone who agrees with that valuation. As a business owner, it is important to you to get every fair dollar out of a property you sell, or…

27, Mar 2020
Investment Created America

In a time of great challenge by socialist leadership on the left, it is good to remember our roots.

1, Jan 2014
Ownership

Investing your money in a business, or in multiple businesses, means you are taking a position of ownership, and responsibility.  You will be responsible for knowing how the business is doing, how much you should expect to earn and when (could be years away), tax laws, ownership risk, and maybe…

18, Dec 2013
Appease Your Way to the Top

  If the title of this didn’t make you cringe, you may be a wimp.  As far as I can tell by searching the web, nobody has written a book with this title.  There are plenty of accounts of people who tried appeasement diplomacy but nothing regarding appeasement as a…

6, Dec 2013
Went to a KC Chiefs Game and a Third World Country Broke Out

I may be a Kansas City area resident but having lived in the Rockies for a large chunk of my life, I’m a Denver fan, so I took the opportunity to go to a Broncos vs. Chiefs game recently, in Kansas City. This was my first, and maybe my last,…

20, Sep 2012
Good Politics are Most Important to Business Owners

Business and practice owners need to consider the most important thing for the continuing development of their business.  Customer service, sales and marketing, product and service development, and productivity are all a constant but their effectiveness is not.  In the wrong political environment these constants are negatively impacted by slow…

24, Jul 2012
Yahoo! Falling to Ashes

Yahoo! may finally be heading to the pile of ashes, but we don’t know for sure if they will become a Phoenix.  I’ve been using Yahoo and their services for many years.  Once the leader of the online world, only to be dramatically overshadowed by Google which is willing to…

12, Jul 2012
Practice Management or Wealth Management?

Practice Management is a familiar subject.  Our specialty at Ecspex is providing the solutions your practice manager or service normally does not, a design for your successful lifetime. A major, often over-looked, segment of managing your success is developing a good over-all plan to manage your finances, business opportunities outside of the…

10, Jul 2012
“Dr. Doom’s” Economic Storm, with Silver Lining

Nouriel Roubini, who has been nicknamed “Dr. Doom”, is known for predictions of impending disaster in the economy of the world.  What he and others may not tell you is this is all part of a long-term cycle and it is normal for economies to reset and rebuild. Economic “Doom”…

3, Jan 2012
How to Grow Business in 2012

1. Ignore 2011 and the previous slow years and focus on the positives for 2012 2. Embrace Online Marketing and Sales as the future. It amazes me how few do this, even now. 3. Launch your business, or businesses now. 4. Use multiple platforms. 5. Broaden offerings and lines as…