Oh, God, you people aren't still talking about me?!
Ozzy, darling, don't know where you got the idea I don't like you!
We've had many friendly chats.
Yeah, I had a stalker here once and when you were a newbie mod back in the forum, you kinda messed up on that and thought I was harrassing him rather than the other way around. But the way I remember it, you apologised and we've moved on, you banned him, you and I became Trump-Musk grade best buddies.
But, yeah, I've made no secret about the woke direction you've taken the forum with all the softly, softly, be kind, w*nk everyone first thing in the morning kinda vibe. The revised
Code of Conduct is nauseating in all its "inclusivity" and "be compassionate" language. That's the only point on which, I believe, we have very different opinions.
That woke reinvention is perhaps that's why the forum is attracting so many princesses and snowflakes!
Even if I wasn't on the spectrum, I don't believe I'd have much patience with them - the ones who come here for a valuation on their business, for example. Very few accept the general advice they're given that a business is worth whatever a buyer will pay.
Nah. They want a number. Gimme a number. Gimme a big one! I wanna number, I wanna number.
After dealing with thousands of business buyers / sellers over the years, it's very clear to me that
1. Most one-man bands are not sellable - they don't have transferable value. In my 5 year experiment spidering business-for-sale marketplaces on a daily basis, I realised that circa 95% of these businesses were still listed 12 months later (ie didn't sell). It's generally the case that nobody wants them.
95%
Princesses don't want to hear that. They were always told how special and clever they are. So if they built something, it must be amazing. Gimme a big number!
2. Even if there's some value in a microbusiness, that value isn't a specific defined number. It's about whatever you can convince a buyer to pay. I know of a couple who paid £400K for a pub that was, on paper, completely worthless. They had fallen in love with the idea of owning a pub in that village to put them at the centre of village life.
So the value in these businesses is entirely in finding the right kind of buyer and in how the deal is negotiated. Any price achieved is going to be pretty much 100% based on those two. There's no way of coming up with "a number". And that's the advice I provided in this thread as well. Politely. But it wasn't well received.
"I wanna number. Gimme a number"
So I continued with a
still polite post.
Nah, Didn't work. I got stamping of feet and insults in return and questioning whether I get any customers at all and how I can't afford to pay for membership here.
I can remember and do remember hundreds of phone numbers - I need to hear a number only once. I can multiply large figures in my head before you can type them into your calculator, I can do lots of clever stuff, but I really struggle with thick. And with princesses. I'm not that great with immature adults either. But all of those seem to be your target new signups, unfortunately.
Clinton ... has been a very very big contributor to this site for many years. If you read between the outbursts, there are many nuggets of good advice in my view.
You're very kind, thank you. I'm also flattered by how many people upvote posts like this one. Thanks to them, too.
