Price or Value: Which Is Correct?

Price or Value: Which Is Correct?

When a business is sold, it may sell for more (or less) than the appraised value. Sometimes this doesn’t make sense to laypeople, but valuators understand that there are many valid reasons why price and value could be different. Small business owners that understand...
Sales Need a Jump-Start?

Sales Need a Jump-Start?

As a Maine-based small business owner, you know that even the most successful companies can get caught in a rut now and then: a vicious cycle of status-quo marketing and current-customer dependence. If this sounds familiar, it might be time to take action to help...
Safeguard Your Company’s Good Name

Safeguard Your Company’s Good Name

When it comes to businesses, there is a great deal of confusion over the legal meaning and significance of fictitious and corporate names. A company is a lot more likely to face a legal trademark challenge now simply because more businesses are operating nationally...
Don’t Gamble With Your Home-Based Business

Don’t Gamble With Your Home-Based Business

With so much technology available to us today, more and more people are able to set up home-based businesses. Many times, owners of these businesses don’t realize how vulnerable they are to significant money losses if something such as fire, theft or natural disaster...