Family Business Blog



The Family Business Blog [short for "web log"] is our mini-journal about Family Business Experts. It lets you know...

  • whenever we add or update pages at the Family Business Experts web site
  • about new products and services that we are bringing online
  • about features and specials that are available from time to time
  • when FBE principals are in the news
  • when we issue our Understanding Family Business e-zine newsletter (for those of you who don't like to give your e-mail address, or if your ISP's filters are too aggressive and cause you to lose mail). The e-zine is posted to the web site as well as being e-mailed, so you can click right to it from this blog. Easy!
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Family Succession Plan First

The family succession plan must be done and agreed upon before a succession plan can be successfully developed and implemented for the family business.

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Nexters

Nexters and the succession process - succession is not a spectator sport!

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Start an Affiliate Program

Start an affiliate program - create a new revenue stream for your family business

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Exit Planning

Exit planning is necessary because you will transfer your business interest - either during your lifetime, or you will die or become incapacitated. Learn how to avoid the chaos of forced liquidation.

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Family Business Experts

Family Business Experts 20 person team is nationally recognized for our work in pioneering the multi-discipline approach to solving the unique and complex problems that impact the family business.

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Ask the Family Business Expert

Ask The Family Business Expert - Here's your chance to ask our family business expert about issues and concerns you may have about your family business.

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Performance Metrics

Performance metrics requires that the major work functions in every department be identified both in terms of volume and time. The premise is that work not measured cannot be managed.

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Altruistic Marketing

Altruistic Marketing is a great marketing strategy for family businesses.

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Innovation

Innovation is a key leadership practice

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Estate Planning

Estate planning is needed and is more challenging than ever. Learn the concepts, tools and techniques to use

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Alcoholism and the Family Business

Alcoholism is a disease that can hurt family businesses when a key family member is losing the battle with alcohol addiction

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Online Business Plan - Differs from other Business Plans

An online business plan is different than a regular business plan. Describes an outline and seven ways an online business plan differs.

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Building Family Business Infrastructure

Building family business infrastructure is an on-going process for successful family businesses

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Alcoholism Impacts Family Businesses

Alcoholism impacts family businesses - tell us your story!

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Addiction Treatment Recovery Process

Addiction Treatment Recovery Process should include helping family members and friends needs to be on a par with helping the addicts and alcoholics

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Alcohol Addiction

Alcohol addiction can destroy a family and the family business

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Who Will Read Your Business Plan?

Potential investors or lenders will read your business plan, of course. But now there are many more potential readers, some of whom will be a bit surprising...

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Family Business Executive Coach

Our family business executive coach can help a family business realize its true potential - helping businesses perform better and improve the value proposition

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family business analytics

Family business analytics can be the key to growing your family business in size and profitability

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Family Business Media Center

Family business media center provides writers, editors and reporters with insights into the complex dynamics of family-owned businesses

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Family Business Advisor

Family business advisor Don Schwerzler, top family business expert and founder of the Family Business Institute has been studying and advising family businesses for more than 40 years.

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Highlights of Sarbanes Oxley Act

Highlights of Sarbanes Oxley Act - the 3 key sections of this complicated and extensive legislation.

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Succession Management Process Gains International Recognition

Our succession management process is gaining international recognition. Learn why as we describe it from the most important perspective - the clients.

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Family Business Expert

Family Business Expert Don Schwerzler offers success strategies for family businesses

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Family Business Experts

Family Business Experts is the best family business resource on the Internet. We offer hundreds of great strategies and tips for families in business together.

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Wills and Trusts - the Basic Essentials of Estate Planning

Wills and trusts are two of the most basic tools of estate planning. In fact, a Will is the one essential tool - everyone should have one!

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Planning for Retirement

When a family business owner is planning to retire, a profound and basic decision must be made: whether or not to pass the business on to the next generation

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Alcohol Addiction Intervention

Alcohol addiction intervention can save the life of an alcoholic, their family relationships and their family business

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Customer Experience

Customer Experience (CX) strategies can empower your business and can improve business outcomes

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Pruning the family business tree

Pruning applies to family businesses as well as trees. Prune to ensure that only qualified family members are employed. And learn what non-employee family members can contribute.

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"Battleground" Describes Your Family Business?

A battleground can result in the family business from mixing good family behaviors with an effective business system.

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Comprehensive SWOT Analysis

Answer these questions - and you have a comprehensive SWOT Analysis - your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

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Environmental Mission Stopper

For many family businesses, at succession time they discover an “environmental mission stopper” that is part of the legacy of the family’s business.

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Family Business Divorce Strategy

Without a strong family business divorce strategy, the cause and effects of divorce on a family business can be a profound threat to the family and to the business.

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Financing A Business

Financing a business. Here's what you need to know and a comparison of advantages and disadvantages of different sources for financing your business.

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Family Business Assessment

Our Family Business Assessment process has been perfected over 40 years working hundreds of family businesses, large and small and a broad spectrum of industries

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Family Business Help Desk

The Family Business Help Desk is a resource family business owners can use to get expert advice on family and business issues that are hurting their family's business

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Preparing A Mission Statement is Do-able

Preparing a mission statement is challenging - you are trying to capture into about a page the very essence of your family business. Discover some of our hints and ideas. It can be done.

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Packaging Products and Services

Packaging products and services is the crucial junction where products and services are conjoined with marketing and advertising strategies to improve branding and value perception that will increase

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