Harbour Club: any views or opinons

[fisicx]

What would be the point of calling him? He very obviously doesn't want to back up any claims of his past business experience, for whatever reason. Which is fine.

No. He can back up his claims. He just isn't going to do it on this forum.

The exact thing he craps on, he does himself.

Where did you get this gem? Nothing I've seen suggests this is what he does.

 

[Clinton]

No. He can back up his claims. He just isn't going to do it on this forum.

Absolutely.

I've owned 27 businesses over the last 35+ years.

And I provide proof of none of them because I don't need to. Just because some pratt demands it in a forum is not sufficient reason. Anyone who wants to believe my claims can believe them. And anyone who doesn't want to believe can just p*ss off, I don't care

People selling courses need to prove stuff and they come up with all kinds of "proof" (much of it fake and which the muppets who sign up for the course can't recognise as fake). I don't need to provide any proof because I'm not selling any services in that space.

Just to be clear, my service is not about selling businesses. I'm not a broker. So, future readers of this thread, please don't contact me to sell your business, that's not what I do.

If you own a small business and want to sell it, I've shared my knowledge on the subject in extensive articles on my website and elsewhere. Use that information and sell your business yourself. Don't contact me.

My service is this: If you own a business with turnover of between £5m and £50m, I'll advise you on appointing the right corporate finance firm / advisory firm / investment bank to sell your business. I'll advise you on Rule 3 Advisers, Designated Professional Bodies, Nomads etc. and who you need to appoint to assist you with your strategic plans.

I know which advisory firms (high end "business brokers") specialise in your sector, what their fees and fee structures are, who has cross border expertise and, depending on your sector, who has the required CQC / Ofsted / FCA or other regulatory experience.

Sometimes I advise businesses that have between £1m and £5m in t/o if they are highly profitable, but otherwise it's generally £5m+.

That's it. I don't sell businesses, I don't buy businesses, I don't do brokering.

I just tell other people who they should use to help them sell their business. Yes, that advisory work is my full time job.

 

[Clinton]

Thanks for the "Likes", guys. Hopefully we can now get back to talking about Jeremy Harbour and the Harbour Club; let's fight further attempts by £1 Charlies to change the topic.

Some people can't stop talking about me, and I'm very flattered, but this is a thread about something else altogether. I may be more fascinating and more interesting than Jeremy Harbour, but you must fight this temptation to get taken off topic!

Back in November ol' Jeremy made a post saying he'd answer questions here about buying and selling businesses. I said I'd welcome that but I predicted that Jeremy would just fizzle out.

And fizzle out he has.

Jeremy's a smart cookie. And he probably recognises that members here aren't going to lap up any old nonsense.

UKBF has people like @The Byre who've sold businesses, people like @Gordon - Commercial Finance , @Mark T Jones and others who have understanding of finance/loans, people with experience in import/export like @MY OFFICE IN CHINA and scores of others who have experience running businesses and buying / selling businesses.

Bullsh*t won't go very far in UKBF (as @Aniela is finding).

I get about 20-30 enquiries a month in LinkedIn from £1 Charlies asking me if I know of any good businesses for sale. When I look at their profiles they are invariably people who've been employees for many years - as engineers, fitters, sales people, whatever. They've not owned businesses. They've obviously been on a Jeremy Harbour, Jonathan Jays or Michael Kohlerscourse.

You guys are not ideal targets for those courses so there's no point Jeremy wasting time on you.

So we won't be seeing a lot of Jeremy answering questions on this forum. We'll have to continue the discussion about Jeremy without the august presence of the man himself (though no doubt an employee like @lanac will occasionally register here to post a positive review without telling us of their association with Jeremy).

 

[fisicx]

Thread locked - it's gone way off topic