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Michelle Seiler Tucker – Exit Rich – How to Sell Your Business Like a Boss

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Michelle Seiler Tucker on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffEarly on in her career, Michelle Seiler Tucker, took the Corporate America approach to her career recruited by a Fortune 500 company, and still felt like she couldn’t get anything accomplished due to the slow moving culture. She decided it was time for a change. Today, with 20 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, she is an expert at buying, selling, growing, and fixing businesses and is the Founder & CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated.

In this episode, Michelle discusses the six P’s of selling your business, why it takes forever to create change in corporate America, and why relationships are our most valuable commodity.

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It’s not what you know that gets you in trouble in life, it’s what you don’t know.” – Michelle Seiler Tucker

Show Notes:

  • How being “The Best Kept Secret” was COSTING her too much in lost Revenue
  • Her GAME CHANGER Moment – One Action that caused her business to EXPLODE
  • The VERY BEST time to Sell
  • When your business should be VALUED for the purpose of Selling
  • The Most COMMON CHALLENGE Business faces when getting ready to Sell
  • How She moves through the really TOUGH Days
  • The SIX P’s of selling your business
  • Her FIVE YEAR QUESTION – this has become her Guiding Principle
  • Why Trusted RELATIONSHIPS are everything in Business
  • And much, much more!

The biggest issue is business owners working in the business not on the business.” – Michelle Seiler Tucker

Connect with Michelle Seiler Tucker:

LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Seiler Tucker 

Your network is your net worth.” – Michelle Seiler Tucker

Esther Crawford – Selling Her Squad App to Twitter

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Esther Crawford on She's Got Moxie with Joy ChudacoffThis week’s guest, Esther Crawford, was the CEO and Co-founder of the Squad app when it was acquired by Twitter back in 2020. I admire her transparency as she talks with me about her journey to break the cycle of poverty that she grew up in and why her curiosity has driven her forward at such an impressive speed. We discuss what it’s like to consider selling your company and what happens after your business gets acquired. She is aligned, grounded, and a deep thinker. It was a pleasure to sit down with her and explore the entrepreneurial journey with her.

Listen in as we talk about the inner journey of an entrepreneur, why launches are really important in business, and why we should never work in stealth mode.

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At every step along the way, I just followed what I was really deeply curious about.” – Esther Crawford

Show Notes:

  • How the inspiration to Pivot came from her Pre-Teen Daughter
  • It’s OK not to know everything; Their FIRST Idea FAILED
  • How DOUBT clouded her thoughts right before they Pivoted to their BIG IDEA
  • The DANGERS of Stealth Mode and WHY Launching in “PUBLIC” is better & FASTER
  • Why the FEEDBACK Loop is critical to an entrepreneur
  • What growing up in a cycle of extreme POVERTY taught her
  • The “Process” of selling her App to TWITTER
  • The STORY of her Name:  This is so POWERFUL
  • Her BEST Advice when making the decision to take the entrepreneurial JOURNEY
  • And so much more!!!

The reality of building something and launching something requires that you get feedback.” – Esther Crawford

Connect with Esther Crawford:

LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter

I learned a lot of things on the ground and on the fly versus having had the background in school or in my family.” – Esther Crawford

Linda Rose – Get Acquired for Millions!

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She’s the go-to-gal when it comes to helping companies get acquired and now she’s back with a NEW book to help you simply and easily understand how to get your business ready to be acquired!

Serial entrepreneur Linda Rose joined me on the podcast to talk about her NEW book, Get Acquired for Millions: A Roadmap for Technology Service Providers to Maximize Company Value.

Linda is a big proponent of listening to your clients before anyone else and running a company to sell rather than running a company to grow. She urges other entrepreneurs to think bigger and find mentors that can help them broaden their mindset.

On today’s show, Linda shares how CEOs can get away for up to a month without hearing from their team, two things she wishes she knew before she became an entrepreneur, and the value of organization intellectual property. She explains the Banana Concept, which book has impacted her life, and where she finds her joy.

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My joy is the bottom line.” – Linda Rose

Show Notes:

  • Why your clients are more important than anyone else – LISTEN!
  • Her solo journey on the Pacific Crest Trail and how this experience changed her entrepreneurial journey (she hiked for 500 miles ALONE!)
  • The different types of revenue and the ones you should be keeping your eye on
  • The difference between running a company to GROW and running a company to SELL
  • Details on completing four Big Acquisitions During COVID
  • The PERFECT Time to Sell your Business
  • A Step-by-Step plan for you to leave your business for a MONTH without any communication with your Team (not even a single TEXT)
  • What “single points of FAILURE” are and how to remove this obstacle in your business
  • The Banana CONCEPT – Brilliant!
  • The Metric that is more VALUABLE than SALES
  • The two things Linda Rose wishes she knew before she became an entrepreneur
  • How Linda Sets Goals – Pure GOLD!
  • The value of organization intellectual property
  • Two books that have impacted Linda’s life
  • Where Linda finds her joy
  • And much, much more

You have to stop thinking like an owner and start thinking like a buyer.” – Linda Rose

Connect with Linda Rose:

LinkedIn | Twitter | RoseBiz

It can fetch value if you identify it, package it, and give it a name.” – Linda Rose

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