Acquiring Minds
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Episode 281
Season 1
White-Collar Sisters Buy a Blue-Collar Business
Without backgrounds in business, Julie & Janna Hottinger have grown the $2.1m trades business they bought last year 50%.
Topics in Julie and Janna’s interview:
- Being warned away from the asphalt industry
- Sisters who bought a construction business
- How the seller worked to ease the transition
- Acquiring with no prior business experience
- Slowly taking the all-paper business digital
- Cash flow challenges as a subcontractor
- Building trust with the existing team
- Growing revenue by hiring more employees
- How Covid affected commercial business spaces
- Why industry trends aren’t always accurate
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