Sell My Green Business

The State of the Union address had encouraging words for small business.  Obama’s renewed call for ending capital gains on small business investment  is positive (if vague).  As to small business credit, the community banks I know don’t want  to have anything to do with TARP money.  I hope he continues to support stimulating SBA [...]

[Read more →]

Now that we seem to have passed through the worst of the recession of the last two years, we believe there are some key trends to look for over the next year.
In this article, we will go on the line and make some predictions for 2010.   In our view, these are some of the key [...]

[Read more →]

2009 was definitely a down year for mergers & acquisitions within the green industry – and for just about every other industry as well.  The twin specters of economic uncertainty and an often extremely challenging credit market caused the number of transactions to fall both out of necessity and out of caution.
That being said, many [...]

[Read more →]

The months after the holiday rush can be some of the most tedious and boring of the year. Winter has truly set in, and most people are not thinking of landscaping their yards.  Buying plants is counter-intuitive with a foot of snow on the ground, and the push to buy Christmas trees and poinsettias seems [...]

[Read more →]

The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship have introduced legislation to enhance Small Business Administration lending programs.Committee chair Mary Landrieu, D-La., and ranking member Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, introduced the “Small Business Job Creation and Access to Capital Act of 2009.” The bill would increase the limit for [...]

[Read more →]

From Accuval. Read it all here.
Identify and maintain your strengths and your best customers
Capture market share: consider opportunistic acquisitions
Manage liquidity as closely as profitability
Keep core activities in–house and outsource everything else
Create new metrics and manage by them
Communicate and reenergize!

[Read more →]

My wife and I recently visited a favorite high-end garden center in our hometown shopping for Christmas items.  She is a poinsettia fanatic (keeping them going nearly year-round) and also a very particular buyer of evergreen roping or garland.  This particular garden center had no less than eight different kinds of garland.  The kind my [...]

[Read more →]