A million dollar question to a business owner

Words that Sell From an International Engagement Specialist. Grow Sell Retire Podcast with Richard Blank Business and Life Success tips for LAZY over-achiever. This podcast gives you the tips it took me 20 years to get right! Your business can be a lonely place, but hugely rewarding! In Grow, Sell and Retire, my goal is for you to have the tools available to make things happen in your business to create real change. Your business has two rockets and this is the ROCKET FUEL to bring you one step closer to feeling wealthy. The Who brought us Tommy the Pinball Wizard and now the GSR Podcast brings you Richard Blank who is the Word Wizard who loves Pinball from the heart of central America in Costa Rica. Richard brings his secrets and tips and tricks around engaging clients, building teams and making things happen to move your business to the next level. Escucha bien y vas a ver Pura Vida the love of life and business Richard has for the people that surround him. https://youtu.be/WgD4UucBWbE https://youtu.be/Of2aAxFMmRs Richard Blank hired bassist Garry Gary Beers of INXS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieGjN5H4xPQ Richard Blank produced a Rap Breakdancing video commercial https://youtu.be/GQvGZYcX71s?si=3I6N3p-LVxwTvnh2 #GrowSellRetirePodcast #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Gamification #CEO #growsellretirepodcast https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ The best selling book, Grow, Sell and Retire, is brought to life in this podcast. B.D. is joined by Thought Leaders, Influencers and prolific Authors from around the globe, offering their invaluable, implementable nuggets of wisdom that will enhance your life and business, today. Hello! My name is B.D. Actually, my full name is Barton Dyke Dalton II, a gift handed down from my father, hence the regal suffix. I come from a long line of liberating people: Clara Barton, who we get our name from, founded the American Red Cross and liberated people from famine and catastrophe. The Dalton Gang liberated people from their money by robbing people in the Wild West. Bart Simpson, no relation but same name, became a part of households everywhere in 1990 when I was living in Spain and learning about working with people, culture and language. But I am a lazy Over-Achiever. Immediately after high school I spent a year in Southern Spain on a Rotary International student exchange programme, spending as little time as possible in class but truly integrating myself into the Spanish life and culture. It was amazing and I didn t want to leave! When I went back to my home town of Tacoma, Washington, my goal was to find a career path that would support me and take me back to Europe. I majored in International Studies at Pacific Lutheran University during which time I was not lazy, working a full time job with a global logistics company so they would subsidize my university fees.I moved up through the company ranks, selling ice to Eskimos in Alaska not literally, it was actually groceries to convenience stores, but we did sell ice. Through these business trips I met my wife, Michelle, so there s proof even good can come from working in management of the evil empire ?Walmart?. An opportunity became available for me to join my father in his financial services business, and in September 1997 I joined Edward Jones Investments. In Tacoma, I built a highly successful financial advisory business, which did not go unnoticed by the partners at Edward Jones. When they expanded into Europe I was offered the chance to come over and be a part of the expansion, that was in 2002 and Michelle and I haven t looked back. Edward Jones decided not to continue expansion into Europe and sold its UK business in 2009, but as I had built up yet another amazing business from scratch, through the very hard tactic of door-knocking, we decided to stay. Now I have the freedom to build my financial services firm AND work with business owners in the UK and the USA to build and sell their businesses for more than they thought possible. So .let me tell you about the mistake the huge 1.2 million mistake: In 2011, one of my top clients was planning on selling the family business. They were going to gain 5 million pounds. This was the Lottery ticket they had worked for their whole lives. Choosing the winning numbers each decade of toil. Guess what? With one year worth of tweaking it would have sold for 7.2 million. Now it was time to sell and I had given them suggestions of who to use for their tax, and legal, and financing. They ignored almost all of my recommendations BECAUSE my advice was given for free and not valued. The tax bill was going to be 1.2 million. Working with my known tax advisers we had built a plan where redistribution of a few shares to a cousin would have mitigated all tax.