Learn what your business is worth, and how to grow it.
Guides, free calculators, and a plain-English glossary for owner-operated businesses. Written the way we work: useful, specific, and honest, with no invented numbers.
A rough, honest estimate of what an owner-operated business is worth: SDE times a commonly quoted industry multiple range, with the factors that move you inside it.
Ten yes-or-no questions that show whether your business could be sold or handed over at full value today, and which factor is capping the price.
What missed appointments really cost you per year, and what each point of no-show improvement is worth in recovered revenue.
The sales you need per month, week, and day before anything is profit, from your fixed costs, average ticket, and margin.
Most owners either never think about what the business is worth, or carry a number in their head that no buyer would pay. Here is how buyers of small …
Ask a broker what your business earns and they will not quote your tax return. They will compute SDE. If you plan to sell within a decade, or just wan…
The hardest number in small-business ownership: a widely cited Sageworks analysis, reported by Forbes in 2017 and echoed since by the Exit Planning In…
A business that cannot run a fortnight without its owner has two problems: the owner can never stop, and a buyer has nothing to buy. Both have the sam…
Every owner exits eventually: by sale, by succession, or by locking the door. The exits differ hugely in money, time, and what happens to your people.…
In a sale, your profit is worth what you can prove, not what you know. Clean books are dull, cheap to fix, and the fix pays a multiple of every recove…
Owners drown in numbers that do not change decisions. A working weekly review needs five, maybe six, each answering one question you would act on. Her…
A no-show is not an empty slot, it is paid staff, paid rent, and a turned-away customer stacked on the same half hour. Appointment businesses routinel…
In most owner-operated service businesses, labour is the largest cost you can actually control, and it is controlled in one document: the rota. Most r…
Every service-business owner says the same two things: good people are impossible to find, and the ones you train leave. Both problems are real, and b…
The same revenue is worth more when it repeats by default. Buyers pay a premium for income that transfers with the business, and owners sleep better o…
We build an AI board, so treat this as a comparison from a party with a position, argued in the open. Generic AI chat is genuinely useful for a busine…
Raising prices is the highest-margin move available to most owner-operated businesses, and the most postponed, because it feels like risking relations…
The complete operating blueprint for each trade: how to structure it, the full tool stack that covers everything, and the order to grow revenue, profit, and value.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
Structure, stack, and the revenue → profit → value ladder.
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Fresha, Booksy, Vagaro, Timely, Square Appointments, and Altegio compared for salons, by the criterion most reviews skip…
Square, Toast, Lightspeed, SumUp, and Clover compared for cafes and restaurants, by what matters at year three: margins …
Mindbody, Glofox, TeamUp, Wodify, and Square compared for gyms and studios, by the criterion that decides the business: …
Copy-ready policies and letters, usable as-is, with honest rollout guidance. Free, no email gate.
Two copy-ready no-show policy templates, a firm one and a softer one, plus the introduction script and rollout order tha…
A copy-ready price increase letter and a membership version, with the timing rules and the tone that keeps clients. Dire…
A fractional CFO brings senior human judgment for hours a month. Moonmoot watches your real numbers every day for a flat subscript…
Spreadsheets are free, flexible, and yours. They are also manual, silent, and only as current as the last evening you sacrificed. …
24 terms owner-operated businesses meet when they take value and exit seriously, defined in plain English: from SDE and multiples to owner dependence and due diligence.
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