Involve Key Employees
in Long Term Planning

When planning ways to grow and expand your business for the next one to five years consider including your top employees in the process.

Since your know your business better than your attorney or CPA, it is not necessary to lean heavily on them for advice.

Ask your editor, ad manager and other key people to write their own performance evaluations for the past year and have them discuss their plans for improvement this year. Put the burden on them. They may develop a stronger responsibility and commitment to the company.

Rickenbacher

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Rickenbacher is a past member of the board of trustees of the American Management Association, and past officer and director of Suburban Newspapers of America. He has been designated a Certified Business Intermediary by the International Business Brokers Association.  He has completed the President’s Course and the Management Course through the American Management Association.

Afinowich served on the board of directors of the Arizona Newspaper Association for several years and was its president in l982.  At the age of 23 he purchased the Nogales International.

During his 10 years in the publishing business he started a group of shoppers, several specialty publications, and he developed a central printing plant.

After leaving the publishing business, Afinowich began a second career in the business brokerage business, and in the past 20 years has sold several hundred businesses.

He is recognized as an expert in the sale of businesses.  He is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences.  He has been designated a Certified Business Intermediary, a designation held by only 350 brokers in the United States. He can be reached at (480) 421-9789

Afinowich is a founding partner of Fox & Fin Financial Group of Scottsdale, Arizona, a regional mergers and acquisition firm.  Arizona Business Magazine ranked Fox & Fin the number one brokerage firm in Arizona each of the last 11 years.