Let's Chat (with Jim Parker): Recent Episodes
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"Let's Chat" is a live stream webinar program whose listeners are business brokers throughout the U.S. as well as international. Local, national and internationally known experts in the business sales industry join host Jim Parker each week to discuss the ins and outs of buying and selling small businesses. Whether you are involved directly in the field of selling businesses such as a business broker or are in a related field such as an M & A attorney, lending source or CPA. the information in "Let's Chat" is informative and up to date.Buyer and Sellers of businesses will also find this information valuable as they move forward throughout the process.Host, Jim Parker, is a twenty-year veteran of the business brokerage industry. He is a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Program (CM&AP) and a Mergers & Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI).Mr. Parker has been a featured speaker at conferences around the country including the Business Brokers f Florida (BBF), Carolina Virginia Business Brokers Association (CVBBA) and the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). He is an instructor for both the BBF and the IBBA, help write a course for the IBBA. Mr. Parker has won many awards based on his sales volume of businesses both in the State of Florida (BBF) where his company, Boss Group International is located as well as internationally through the IBBA.He currently serves as the State Chairman of the Business Brokers of Florida, one of the biggest business brokerage organizations in the country as well as he sits on the Affiliate Council of the IBBA and the Educational Committee of the IBBA.This Podcast series is the audio portion from the live webinars.
This was made the day after the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the U.S.House Of Representatives bill called the Payroll Protection Flexibility Act.
This act affects the Payroll Protection Program (PPP).
Our panel of experts, well known Lender Providers, CPAs and Attorneys as well as host, Jim Parker, discuss the new act, how if affects the PPP. We also discuss how easy or hard it will be to get the PPP forgiveness and how it affects the sale of businesses that have PPP money.
If you are a small business owner with PPP monies or help people buy and sell businesses, this is a must see video.
Expert Panelists:
Steve Mariani, SBA Loan Provider, Diamond Financial Services
Deborah Carman, Attorney, Carman Law Firm, P.A.
Tom Osbourne, CPA, Kelsey Osborne, LLC
Bart Basil, CPA, Attorney, Basi, Basi and Associates
Host: Jim Parker
Steve Mariani from Diamond Financials was with us to discuss different financing methods for business brokers to think about when trying to sell small businesses during the COVID-19 situation.
We discussed Earn-outs, Seller Financing, Forgivable Seller Notes and SBA Lending and how they can be used in different scenarios.
As always, we "opened the lines" for business brokers to ask questions, but this time we will be opening the lines to hear your suggestions and input as well.
Guest: Steve Mariani
Stephen Mariani has focused solely in acquisition lending, personally closing over $1 billion in SBA transactions since establishing Diamond Financial Services in 1996. Specializing in large goodwill transactions and utilizing the most aggressive lenders, Diamond Financial has become the largest, privately owned SBA loan provider in the nation. Self-employed since 1983, Steve is uniquely qualified to represented the small businesses of the United States. Steve has been a great source to the business brokers and our industry.
Host: Jim Parker, Business Broker in Florida