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Boost Your Business Value Reduce Owner Dependence

Name: Boost Your Business Value Reduce Owner Dependence
Uploaded: 2024-12-01T17:01:16+00:00
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Channel: Henning Schwinum
Description: A short spoken segment from Henning Schwinum’s YouTube video arguing that decreasing owner dependence is essential for scaling consulting businesses and…

1 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment from Henning Schwinum’s YouTube video arguing that decreasing owner dependence is essential for scaling consulting businesses and increasing their sellable value. The speaker explains that clients often expect the owner (Henning) to be personally involved, which reduces attractiveness to buyers; proposed solutions include organizational naming and hiring staff to take over key responsibilities.

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Decreasing owner dependence is key to scaling consulting businesses. If someone signs a contract to work with Henning Consulting, they do so with the expectation that Henning will personally handle their case. But if you're trying to scale a business that is then sellable buyers consider this a liability. Because what good is it for them to buy Henning Consulting if they don't have Henning themselves? And the way to get there is to focus on decreasing owner dependence. And you can do that through a number of different tactics. Some are connected to the naming of the organization. Some are connected to hiring and bringing in staff that takes over key responsibilities within the organization, and that in turn then increases the value. So if you decrease owner dependence and you can demonstrate to a buyer that this business works without you, then that is something that increases the valuation and with it, the price of your business.