Business Exchange Sessions

Business Exchange Sessions

Structured networking around deals, trends, and strategy.

Practice Growth & Development
Adding a Project Manager to Your Team

Facilitators: Jen Broeckling & Kate Roth
Learn the ins, outs, and value of adding a project manager to your team.

Your First Year as an Intermediary

Facilitator: Justin Sandridge
Surviving your first year as a broker can be tough. Come to this roundtable to learn ways to kick-start your first year as a broker, or reenergize your practice.

Customer Management

Facilitator: Mike Rooney
Master the art of customer management from initial contact to successful deal closure, mastering effective follow-up strategies, navigating the sales process, and leveraging your CRM to cultivate lasting client relationships.

Marketing & AI
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) & GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

Facilitators: Susan Bishop & Bill White, Jr.
As Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) reshape how users find professional services, the focus is shifting from ranking on page one of Google to becoming the “cited authority” within an AI’s structured response.

AI Tools Show & Tell: What’s Actually Working?

Facilitator: Vipin Singh
Peer-to-peer sharing of the specific AI apps brokers are using in their practice

Deal Structure & Finance
Close More Deals: How ROBS Strengthens Buyers & Borrowers

Facilitator: Guidant – Paul Cook
Have you ever found yourself looking at a buyers PFS and saying to yourself “if they only had more capital, we could make this deal happen”. It’s quite possible these buyers have plenty of capital available, you just need a way to unlock those funds. ROBS (Rollover for Business Startup) can do that for you.

Stock Transactions vs. Asset Transactions

Facilitator: Monty Walker
This roundtable will discuss the key things brokers and advisors need to know about Stock vs. Asset sales

Transaction Structure Case Studies

Facilitator: Live Oak – Mark Pompeo
Learn how lenders look at transaction structures and figure out ways to creatively structure the deal.

Tax Sheltering for Client

Facilitator: Elk Ridge Investments
Assist your clients with tax sheltering after transactions

Deal Execution & Strategy
Managing a QoE Process

Facilitator: Ron Buck
Learn how to prepare for and manage the Quality of Earnings (QoE) process so that your seller and the transaction successfully make it to the other side.

Managing Commercial Real Estate in the Transaction

Facilitator: Jesse Stone
Learn how to sell businesses that are based in the real estate model or have a heavy real estate component. For these businesses, the sales process is a combination real estate sales and business sales.

Negotiation Tactics: Persuasion Without Friction

Facilitator: Doug Batts
Share the “words that work” when defending a commission or managing deal-killing objections.

Referral Networks: Working with Financial Advisors, CPAs & Attorneys

Facilitator: Phil Eleson
How to position yourself as a resource so professionals send you their best clients. Share what “value-add” materials actually get their attention.

Working with Different Buyer Types (PEGs, Strategics, Searchers, Family Offices): What to Expect

Facilitator: Tom Foster
A discussion on the “pros and cons” of selling a client to a PE group versus a strategic buyer. Covers jargon, intense diligence requirements, and the “second bite of the apple”.