WE HELP COMMUNITIES AND CITIES BEGIN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TRANSITION PLANNING.

What is Your Economy Worth?

How Value Acceleration Can Boost Business Retention

Over the course of the 60-minute webinar economic development leaders will join leading value acceleration and transition planning experts to discuss techniques and programs to help existing businesses build more value, prepare for future transition events and find new economic opportunities.

Join us Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 11:00 am CT
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What is the RFN Cities solution?


The RFN Cities Program is a scalable business retention, preparedness, and transition program that helps educate and advise private business owners and entrepreneurs on business value acceleration and transition events.

The Ready for Next team works with each community to support businesses uncover, understand and learn more about building value in their business and the options for transitioning.

Together we work with a community to advance inclusive economic prosperity in the communities they work and live in.

What’s included in the RFN Cities program?

  • Automated business benchmark assessments made available for local SMEs in the community where the program is taking place. This is a tool chambers and business partners can promote as a free service.

  • Four tailor-made workshops and transition readiness scorecards four half day sessions for up to 200 business owners total.

  • Access to an online education platform committed to developing business transition, exit planning, and value acceleration content and training to support professional local small and medium-sized business owners.

  • A custom Business Transition and Preparedness Report for your community which when combined with various workshops will give our business owners, entrepreneurs, and community leaders an overview of the various resources available to those considering, transferring, acquiring, exiting, expanding a business in your community.

RFN CITIES SUPPORTS COMMUNITIES AND OWNERS

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The Ready for Next team works with each community to support up to 200 businesses uncover, understand and learn more about building value in their business and the options for transitioning. Together we work with a community to advance inclusive economic prosperity in the communities that we work in.
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What sets the RFN Cities Program Apart?

The program focuses on at-risk businesses:

● Provides data-driven insights leveraging a business disruption risk model and credible business credit risk partners to inform community and business leaders about the problem and raise public awareness.

● Offers leading-edge online education tools, cohort-based learning, and integrated value acceleration education workshops with up to 200 businesses per workshop

● Workshops include a comprehensive, dynamic group of professionals and certified business transition advisors, economic development leaders and local networks of expertise including tax, legal, financial, wealth insurance, mergers and acquisitions, employee ownership and more.

● Can opt for an additional component to attract, match and serve entrepreneurs from underserved/disadvantaged populations.

What is the Potential Risk to Your Community?

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PROGRAM STAKEHOLDERS

A community is made up of multiple stakeholders who have an interest in the success of its business community’s growth and continuity.

  • Economic Development

    Economic development partners have a vested interest in their community’s long-term success. Economic development examples include: local and regional government agencies, chamber of commerce, economic development organizations.

  • Local Companies

    Local companies, large and small, can be found in communities around the world and they are the backbone for all economies.

  • Invested Stakeholders

    Invested stakeholders for RFN Cities programs can be found in each community. Invested stakeholders include: banks, industry associations, educational institutions, trade unions.

  • Contact us for more information or visit ReadyForNextCities.com

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