This week on Grow Money Business we have another distinguished guest: Tammi Caress. Tammi is an estate planning attorney, and the founder of Caress Law, P.C.. Throughout the episode, we dive deep into the process…
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Episode #59: Everything You Need to Know About Buying & Selling Small Businesses With Greg K Williams
In today’s episode, we have another distinguished guest: Greg K Williams. Greg is a certified mergers & acquisitions professional who has years of experience helping business owners and buyers through the process of…
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6 Reasons Basic Estate Planning is So Important for Business Owners
In general I am not a fan of “listicles”. They feel like a cheap, click-baity, headline grabbing way to produce content and drive traffic to your website. Reading them can feel…yucky. So I typically try…
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It’s Never Too Early to Start a Succession Plan
So here’s a topic that all business owners have thought about but few have taken action on: succession planning. I was reading a study by Wilmington Trust the other day that polled 200 different owners of…
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8 Considerations When Protecting Your Business With Life Insurance
I read a stat recently that stated 71% of small businesses depend heavily on a few individual owners and/or employees. This number makes quite a bit of sense, once you consider the limited resources most…
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Family Business Succession Planning: 3 Best Practices & A Review of the Statistics
If you’re reading this post, you’re probably familiar with the statistics: the failure rate for second generation family businesses is very, very high. When you consider the fact that family businesses make up about 60%…
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Grantor Retained Annuity Trust: An Easy Way for Business Owners to Reduce Wealth Transfer Taxes
For business owners starting to think about the next generation, the phrases”estate tax” or “transfer tax” almost seem like curse words. The bad news is that when you build an estate of a certain size,…
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You’ve Inherited an IRA. Now What?
Inheriting an IRA is quite a bit different than inheriting any other asset. Unlike cash or investments in a traditional investment account, if you inherit an IRA you’ll need to start withdrawing from the account…
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Adventures in Estate Planning: The Educational Trust Fund
Helping loved ones finance the cost of education is a wonderful & long lasting gift. But when you build this type of gift into your estate planning aspirations, the more traditional vehicles can be limiting…
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The Ultimate 7 Step Checklist For Hiring a Financial Advisor
A few years back, I had a friend approach me at a BBQ. He had some questions about how his financial advisor was managing his accounts. Friend: “Yeah, I just don’t know if this…
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