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Sled dogs are known as #1 source of transportation in the winter, and if you grew up in Alaska, you would be no stranger to these beautiful dogs. As a young boy, Bryan Bailey found himself up close & personal with wolves in the wild. The more time Bryan spent with these animals, he discovered the similarities between the wolves & his dog! This turned into a lifelong fascination for Bryan. Tune into this episode to hear about the amazing work that Bryan has done & continues to do throughout the world. Bryan’s passionate and powerful work is truly showcased in this episode! IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: [ 00:04:22 ] How is Bryan’s Training Programs Different from the Rest? [ 00:14:59 ] Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Trainer [ 00:29:15 ] Advice For Dog Owners [ 00:34:31 ] Dog Pharmacotherapy: What is it? [ 00:46:26 ] Bryan’s #1 Favorite Transformation Connect with Guest Name: 1. Follow Bryan on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram & Twitter 2. Find Bryan on his we

In our experience, your age has a big effect on your attitude towards your business and how you feel about one day getting out. Here’s what we have found about transition strategy plan and age: Business owners between 25 and 46 years old Twenty- and thirty-something business owners grew up in an age where job security did not exist. They watched as their parents got downsized or packaged off into early retirement, and that caused a somewhat jaded attitude towards the role of a business in society. Business owners in their 20’s and 30’s generally see their companies as means to an end and most expect to sell in the next five to ten years. Similar to their employed classmates who have a new job every three to five years; business owners in this age group often expect to start a few companies in their lifetime. Business owners between 47 and 65 years old Baby Boomers came of age in a time where the social contract between company and employee was sacrosanct. An employee agreed to be loya

There is solid momentum happening behind the scenes for Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels LLC, as we move ever closer to the construction of a facility to produce and supply Delta Air Lines with 60+ million gallons of biofuel jet fuel annually. As we continue to forge new partnerships with world-class engineering firms to fill the role of Owner’s Engineer, Project Manager, and eventually Construction Manager, the SAF and biofuels world continues to grow. Here are a few recent news stories that are indicative of the future growth we will all see in this sector. Agriculture & Biofuels Industry Group Pushes for SAF Tax Credit A group of biofuel and agriculture industry associations teamed up recently to send a letter to the U.S. Senate members to outline their recommendations for the SAF tax credit. The undersigned groups are: American Farm Bureau Federation Growth Energy National Biodiesel Board National Corn Growers Association National Farmers Union Renewab

The market for sustainable aviation fuel is still young and growing, but is gaining momentum by the day, with new projects, new funding, and new partnerships moving it forward. Here are a few news stories that are glowing proof of the growth of renewable biofuels, biojet fuel companies , sustainable aviation fuels.  U.S. Department of Energy Announces $61 Million for Biofuels Research to Reduce Transportation Emissions – Big news from the US Dept. of Energy announcement of allocating more than $61 million for technologies and processes that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. This is important news in the run-up to bring America up to net-zero emissions by 2050. Biofuels are made up of renewable resources that can power heavy-duty jets and trucks used to decarbonize the transportation sector as a whole. Biofuels are produced by converting biomass from waste resources into sustainable aviation fuel and other liquid fuels to use in place of fossil fuels.  In biojet fuel companies news

Preparing your exit transition plan from your business takes a great deal of forethought, analysis, and often outside expert counsel. Business owners often underestimate the time involved in the succession planning process, and because of that, the intention to ‘retire in a few years’ gets passed by. What’s needed is a clear business exit strategy, with defined goals at specific junctures.  Preparing your business exit transition plan is essentially creating the plan for finalizing your official status with the business, and wrapping up your full involvement in the company. Once you fully commit to this strategy, you will see yourself starting to make different decisions around the company’s operation.  You may start to delegate more of the nuts and bolts of operational aspects to others in the company. You may step back from hand-holding certain clients. You may inspire others to create new products to carry the company forward after you leave the firm. You may start to consider the

Wind Mobile founder Anthony Lacavera has started 12 businesses, six of which he has exited. His exits have ranged in value from the $6 million he got for one of his recent start-ups to $1.3 billion when he sold Wind Mobile. He did it by following two key CEO Exit Strategy tips. •           Understand what kind of company you are running Lacavera has owned hyper-growth unicorns and lifestyle businesses and urges entrepreneurs to be clear about their long-term prospects. Lacavera started a business supplying hotels with internet access and understood the company would be a good cash generator, but would never sell for a mint. He ran the business for almost two decades and used the cash it generated to fund various other ventures. Recently, he finally sold the business, which was generating $1.5 million in pre-tax profit, for $8 million—a relatively modest 5 times earnings, which was fine by Lacavera, because it had served its purpose of funding other companies along the way. •          

While fully embracing the right mindset is the first step towards transforming your business into a marketing machine, there are four key principles that you must understand in order to impact your success. These are so important to your business success in this new economy that unless you build your marketing strategies upon this solid foundation, you will have a 99% chance of failing. Therefore, it is critical that you take time to learn these four cornerstone principles and implement them into your business. LET’S GO OVER THEM BELOW Cornerstone #1: Calculate the Lifetime Value of Your Customer When business owners hire us to help turn their business into money-makers, one of the first things we do is calculate the lifetime value of their customers.  The lifetime value (LTV)  of a customer is the amount of sales and profit each customer brings on average to your business over the course of their buying lifetime. No, that number is not the equivalent of how much you sell your product

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Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels (NWABF), known for its expertise to produce sustainable jet fuel capacity for the financial marketplace and lender communities, announced that it has selected Black & Veatch, the global engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm as its EPC of record for its sustainable aviation fuel project. Black & Veatch is also being hired to complete the FEL2 and Front-end Engineering and Design Study, (“FEED”), for the Project, prior to the Construction phase. During the FEED, B&V will assemble the Technologies to process up to 3,000 dry tons per day of woody biomass into approximately sixty million, (60,000,000) gallons of Sustainable Aviation Fuel annually. “We are excited to move forward with Black & Veatch as we progress on our sustainable aviation fuel project,” says Dave Smoot, Manager of Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels. “Black & Veatch is a well-respected company with great experience for these types of projects, and we look forward to

The next step in the race to find renewable energy sources to power our global economy is sustainable aviation fuel, and one company has taken a big first leap toward that goal: Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels, LLC (NWABF). In a recently announced $2 million partnership with a major airline, NWABF is currently working on Phase 1 of a feasibility study to create that bio jet fuel from wood residue deposits and wood slash on forest floors known as woody biomass. Providing Solutions for Air Lines with West Coast Operations With the Phase 1 “Advanced Planning Study” of a bio jet fuel production facility underway, NWABF is already planning for a Phase 2 Front-end Engineering and Design Study that will allow the Project’s world-class Engineering and Construction Partner to design and construct the renewable bio jet fuel facility in Washington State. First deliveries are planned for the end of 2023 for use of the renewable jet fuel in this airline’s operations up and down the West Coast. This s

CORSIA, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, addresses the increase in total CO2 emissions from international aviation above 2020 levels. The CORSIA timeline outlines the mandate which was adopted at the 39th session of the ICAO Assembly in 2016. CORSIA’s obligations have already started. As of January 1, 2019, all carriers must report their CO2 emissions on an annual basis. The aviation industry is committed to technology, operational, and infrastructure advances to continue to reduce the sector’s carbon emissions. Offsetting is not intended to replace these efforts. Nor would the CORSIA make fuel efficiency any less of a day-to-day priority. It is forecast that CORSIA will mitigate around 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 and generate over USD 40 billion in climate finance between 2021 and 2035. Learn more about the corsia timeline  today. https://www.iata.org/policy/environment/Pages/corsia.aspx Contact Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels, LLC to learn

Paul Ponna (vendor) is well known for his products in the software world, as he produced a number of great software tools for entrepreneurs, online business owners and affiliates.  All of these were successful and sold in many copies and they are well in use today. Now, he brings around another blockbuster called DesignBeast . In short, DesignBeast is a package of 6 apps that make life very much easier for any entrepreneur, be it for affiliates or any other business. Why? Because graphics is so important in today’s world. Ever since the social networks appeared, graphics has played a significant role. Everybody needs it for just about every aspect of online business and/or promotion. Advertising and proactive networking is practically impossible today without having eye-catching graphics to publish and invite visitors to just about anywhere. DesignBeast incorp orates orates 6 complete apps that make up the core that everyone in this business can build upon and use for their business.

Why Your Website is Costing You New Business With technology growing at an alarming rate over the last decade, the Internet has been at the forefront of each and every single one of these advancements. Smart phones and tablet devices are now a part of everyday life. You can even use them to do your banking and to pay for items and services. Yes, technology is most certainly king and for that reason, if you want to stand any chance of succeeding within the business world, you need to embrace it and get with the times. The size of your business is irrelevant. The simple fact of the matter is that if you want to stand any chance of succeeding, you will need to own a website for your business; and if you want your business to flourish in these new times, your website will need to do more than the days of old.   Your website will need to work for you . If your website is outdated, neglected, or just simply poorly designed, this could potentially be costing you thousands in lost revenue ever

It has been said that some business owners have been known to refer to due diligence as “the entrepreneur’s proctology exam.” While this is a crude analogy, it is a good representation of what it feels like when a stranger pokes, prods, and looks inside every inch of your business.  Most professional acquirers will have a checklist of questions they need to be answered if they’re considering buying your company. They’ll want answers to questions like: Do you have consistent, signed, up-to-date contracts with your customers and employees? Are your ideas, products and processes protected by patent or trademark? What are the loan covenants on your credit agreements? How are your receivables? Do you have any late payers or deadbeat customers? Do you have any litigation pending? In addition to these objective questions, they’ll also try to get a subjective sense of your business. In particular, they will try to determine just how integral you are personally to the success of your business. 

Did you know the ideal timeline for succession planning is 5 years? It is possible though for the unexpected to happen and if/when it does, a  CEO succession planning best practices is to have a game plan i.e. a succession plan  all lined up and ready to go to ensure continued success with your business. Take a look at the ceo succession planning   timeline here: THE SUSTAINING PHASE Begin this phase 2-3 years in advance. The executives are preparing to thrive under the new leadership; Right Mindset, Future Outlook, Organization's Sustainability, Updated Strategic Plan, Executive Team Assessment, and Internal Team Candidates. THE TRANSITIONING PHASE Begin this phase 6-12 months before the leadership transition and consider overlapping with the Sustaining Phase. The organization embarks on the executive search process for the successors that may include board members, management team, and executives. Extensive work is done with transition planning. THE ONBOARDING & SUPPORT PHASE

Let me demonstrate just how powerful the right mindset is when you are monetizing your business. The wrong sort of thinking could even make you broke and hungry. These examples will show you how a shift in thinking can make the difference between success and failure. The Customers Dream Do you have any idea how long customers normally have to wait to get their furniture delivered? The standard wait time in the industry is three to six weeks for in-stock merchandise. That’s just crazy! Then along comes AMAZON! When you can shop at night and sometimes have it on your porch the very next day! In many industries before Amazon– that was UNHEARD OF! When Amazon began, not a single store in town was delivering furniture to a customer’s home within a couple of days let alone overnight. That was just not the way things were done. Amazon wanted to deliver in three days or less. Do you think the business owners were scorned and warned by ALL the other furniture retailers who they asked for advice

Is your business one of the 80% of businesses that do NOT have any type of written Transition Plan? 75% of Baby Boomers plan to sell their business within the next 10 years. Only 20% will leave it to a family member because 4 out of 5 do not want it. No matter what your reasons for wanting to exit your business are you need to have a sustainable growth and transition plan in place. If you are ready to get a solid business transition plan in place for your business, contact us at Value Growth Partners today.

Mark O’Brien, MBA, CMAA®, CEPA®, Managing Director of Value Growth Partners, a successful business growth, succession, and transition advisory firm, has added another high-level accreditation to his name and business. Mark has successfully completed the rigorous course requirements to become a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA®), as certified by the renowned Exit Planning Institute.   Being a CEPA®, Mr. O'Brien is now certified to lead business owners in the strategic process of successful business succession, transition, and exit planning.  “I have been blessed to know such wonderful mentors like Peter Christman, Richard Jackim, and Chris Snyder in the field of exit (succession and transition) planning,” said Mark O’Brien. “These experts have been very supportive in my goal to become a  Certified Exit Planning Advisor . I am thrilled to have learned and worked with them to be certified and I look forward to continuing to assist business owners with executing successful success

Learn how to create a safe and supportive workplace environment for your employees with this HR expert's new book on the subject!   UK author Josie Hastings has launched a new book called ‘It Stops Now!’ to tackle workplace bullying and harassment. With over 25 years of industry experience, this harassment, bullying and discrimination specialist is well placed to help businesses, managers and employees.   Her book is available to download on Kindle and in audio. It is ideal for managers like yourself as it provides a practical toolkit, proven strategies, and advice to help you support your employees.   Josie identifies how bullying has evolved from obvious overt behaviours to more subtle actions such as micro-aggressions. Both forms are damaging to employees’ self-esteem and confidence and could have serious implications for your organisation.   If you are equipped to recognise and deal effectively with harassment and bullying, you can protect your business from time-consuming grie