Show us a business owner who does everything himself and we’ll show you a business owner who makes mistakes, who doesn’t have the best tax strategies and who is leaving money on the table.
Show us a business owner who knows when to bring in a trusted adviser, and we’ll show you an entrepreneur who can concentrate on what his business does best, who has time for a personal life and who has a team working beside him — and for him.
Meet eight trusted advisers who know how to show and tell smart strategies to smart entrepreneurs. Do tell.

Yo, yo, yo, Utah Valley!
It’s that time again — time to celebrate our local entrepreneurs who are the bomb diggity off the hizzie hook. (Did we say that right?)
Regardless of our wicked vernacular, these 10 crazy kids are legitimately cool — in business and in life. If there was an entrepreneur cafeteria, they would so own it.
Read on to find out who can bench press 300 pounds, who won a car on “The Price is Right,” and whose favorite movie is Justin Bieber’s “Never Say Never.” (Yes, this is the first time we’ve typed the words Justin Bieber onto BusinessQ’s glossy pages. And no, it probably won’t be the last. We’re cool like that.)

After spending most of the year in a back-and-forth uneventful trend, the world markets abruptly changed course. A severe lack of fiscal leadership from Washington coupled with a sovereign debt mess in Europe caused the global markets to sell off hard. This recent volatility has been the most extreme we have experienced since the 2008 [...]

Investing is difficult. You need to generate returns that will allow your account to grow and stay ahead of inflation … but you don’t like it when your account goes down in value. You need good returns … but you don’t like the uncertainty. Whether it’s a tsunami, a drilling rig disaster, a financial meltdown [...]

It was the best of times as the BusinessQ staff put together our cover package on local working wonders. And you know why? These folks are the best of the best — true story.

7 local leaders give entrepreneurs a head start

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Utah Valley regularly trounces national “best place to live and work” surveys.
And the best part? It’s no illusion.
Exhibit A, B and C: One on One Marketing, American Name Services and Xlear — three companies that work their employee magic 2,080 hours a year.
BusinessQ took just a handful of those hours to sit down with these spellbinding companies and coax them into spilling their secrets. (Now who’s the magician?)
Read on to learn the methods to their magic.