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Our Goal is to support and mentor businesses in 3 key areas!

Starting Your New Business

Ask the right questions and find the right answers for issues such as entity type, financing, accounting structure, insurance, partnership, marketing and employees.

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Improving and Growing Your Business

Sales, Marketing and Advertising, Team Building and Recruitment, Systems and Business Process Development, and Customer Service.

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Selling Your Business for Maximum Value

Determine whether it is ready to be sold, its real value and an achievable selling price, as well as the potential structures for a transaction.

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Recent Mentor Articles

Minnesota Residents-Intention Does Not Always Win

By Roben Hunter, Hunter Advisors, PLLC

Minnesota has residents that consider themselves “snowbirds” – spending portions of their time (usually the long, cold, winter months) in a warmer climate and the summer months in Minnesota.  Typically, by the time they are ready to retire, at least one of their advisors will tell them that for tax purposes, they would be better…

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Are All Homeowners’ Contents Coverage the Same? No Way!

By Gary Sorenson, Insurance Brokers of Minnesota

Here are 21 Reasons to Purchase Deluxe Contents Coverage The following are covered by deluxe and not standard (put in simple terms): 1) MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE – Jewelry, furs, silver, gold and guns that are lost or misplaced (up to special limits). 2) EARTHQUAKE – Deluxe contents affords earthquake coverage automatically for contents. 3) BROADER WATER…

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How to Get Your Customers to do Your Selling for You

By Kelli Hoskins, Master Business Coach

We all hope that if we acquire a new customer and deliver our product or services to their expectations, we have a customer for life and through ‘word of mouth’ they’ll introduce us to many more.  While this happens some of the time, it’s a very passive and re-active way to grow your customer base…

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Are your Key Documents Up to Date?

By Kevin Lanigan, Carlson Estate Planning

Estate attorneys were relieved when Congress finally agreed to a long-term resolution of the amount of the federal estate tax exemption. Finally, after a decade of not knowing what would happen to federal estate taxes, lawmakers settled the matter when the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 became law.  As a reminder, the estate-tax exclusion,…

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How to Prevent Air Bag Injuries

By Gary Sorenson, Insurance Brokers of Minnesota

Air bags save thousands of lives each year, according to The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In frontal crashes, air bags reduce deaths among drivers by about 30 percent and among passengers by 27 percent. Air bags, however, can be dangerous. If small children sit unbelted in the front seat, they can be catapulted…

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Think Your Business is Different? Here’s Why It’s Costing You Money

By Kelli Hoskins, Master Business Coach

If I received a dollar every time I heard that statement well, I’d have a lot of dollars.  There is a simple formula that determines where your current profits come from and how to systematically increase your profits.  And this formula applies to every business, everywhere, every time.  If this is the case, why do…

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The Small Business: How Do You Know When You Need HR?

By Sheri Stolp, The Stolp Group

For the small business owner, conquering challenges like creating new business opportunities,  improving the bottom line or finding a new office can seem like small potatoes compared to hiring and managing employees. And as the business grows, entrepreneurs can experience major challenges in terms of finding great people, performance issues and the thing we all…

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Create a Safe Driver Culture in Your Business or Home

By Gary Sorenson, Insurance Brokers of Minnesota

Being a business owner involves a lot of responsibility.  When you have commercial autos, you become responsible for the safety of your drivers and other road users. That can be a lot to take on, so the best way to deal with it is to share the responsibility.  To create a culture where everybody shares…

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Success through Failure

By Kelli Hoskins, Master Business Coach

In business, massive failure should be avoided at all costs except if you want to achieve massive success.  The level of success you have experienced in your business and in your life is directly proportional to the level of failure you are willing to experience.  Most of us only achieve a limited amount of success…

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