asksamantha stern | Answers

There are several ways to calculate a business’ valuation, and make an offer, but for this you are going to need the owners to provide numbers (including important information such as net profits, etc.). If they cannot provide any information, then it could be hard for you to close a deal (or at least for you to make a wise business investment)l. If the owners have had the business for a long time (you mentioned they are in their 80s) they may have a strong emotional attachment to the business, so perhaps giving more information about yourself and why you are personally interested in investing their business could be a good start to establishing a good and trusting business relationship. An explanation as to why you need certain information (as it can help you both come to a reasonable and fair business deal), might be helpful as well! Hope it all works out for you!

If you don’t currently like the people you are hiring, maybe you aren’t asking the right questions that represent you, your company and what you are looking for in an employee. I’m not quite sure I understand what your definition of “ruling out the weak ones” is, nor do I think that’s an appropriate attitude to have or term to use. Be sure that you are clear in the type of personalities you work well with, not just impressed with brand names and certifications. People can be trained, but usually you can’t change someone’s personality, motivation, or work ethic.

I don’t think of new forms of media as replacements, but rather, more options to choose from. Our present culture is a culture of “more.” So if Twitter isn’t doing it for someone in a moment in time, perhaps they’ll switch on the news, or hop on Facebook. I don’t think the problem is that media is dying, but rather that humans have to adjust and adapt to evolve with a rapidly expanding and developing media. We have an obligation as business people and creatives not only to keep up with trends and continue to be relevant and decipher and navigate through developing mediums, but also to maintain our knowledge of the mediums in our repertoire, because as it has been said, they ain’t going anywhere: they will continue to progress us forward.

It’s pretty standard for it not to be ok to date your boss or subordinate, however coworker may be different depending on company policy.

You would want to look into any official rules so that you and your coworker don’t get into any trouble with your company or each other down the line.

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