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Denver Businessman Acquires Colorado Springs Lawn Doctor Franchise

Denver businessman Brent Harl has acquired the Colorado Springs Lawn Doctor franchise. The Colorado Springs franchise is Harl’s seventeenth Lawn Doctor location in Colorado.  Harl bought his first Lawn Doctor franchise in 1998. Since then he’s purchased existing Lawn Doctor businesses and built his own across the state.  He bought his first Lawn Doctor store in Denver in 1998 and grew the store’s revenue to $400,000 a year. This year, revenue at all his locations is $4.5 million and his Lawn Doctor stores have about 11,000 clients — about 3,000 in Colorado Springs. Click here to read an article about … Read more

Understanding the Value of Your Business – Webinar

In this webinar, Ron Edmonds will unravel one of the most confusing topics for most business owners-business valuation. You are invited to participate in a webinar on  Understanding the Value of Your Business on Jan 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM CST. Click hereto register. This webinar will be led by Ron Edmonds of The Principium Group, a well-known expert on mergers and acquisitions in the green industry and author of a variety of related books, including Green Exit – Exit Planning for Lawn and Landscape Business Owners, Charting a Course -Acquisition Strategies in the Green Industry and How to Sell … Read more

Increasing the Likelihood of Getting an Offer

The Principium Group has partnered with The Sellability Score for over a year now.  Many clients and industry friends have taken the 13-minute Sellability Score quiz and received their Sellability Score and a detailed report. The Sellability Score is a cloud-based software tool that allows a business owner to assess the “sellability” of their company. It was developed by John Warrillow, author of the best-selling business book, Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You. The researchers at The Sellability Score analyze the data from users to understand trends in the business market, with a special focus … Read more

Preparing to Sell Your Business – Free e-Book Download

A new e-book, entitled Preparing to Sell Your Business – A Guide for Green Industry Business Owners, by Ron Edmonds of The Principium Group has just been published.  The 30 page e-book explores both preparing yourself (as a business owner) to sell your business and preparing your business to be sold. Preparing to Sell Your Business is available for download free of charge from The Principium Group.  Click here to download it.

Survey Shows Business Brokers Optimistic About 2013 Despite Near-Term Concerns

Brokers are seeing more buyers and sellers in business-for-sale market, but list national debt and the potential fiscal cliff as the biggest factors compromising economic recovery San Francisco, CA – November 28, 2012 — Survey results released today by BizBuySell.com, the Internet’s largest marketplace for buying or selling small businesses, indicate business brokers saw an increase in business-for-sale transactions in 2012 and expect even more businesses to change hands in 2013. Of the nearly five thousand business brokers surveyed across the nation, 61.1 percent of respondents believed the business-for-sale market improved in 2012 compared to 2011. Specifically, 45.5 percent noted … Read more