Energy Business Owners: Create Control Over Your Future

The future is uncertain for fuel, oil, and propane business owners. Seasonality, inflation, politics, people, technology, and, more than not, owners without any plan for the future are a few headwinds impacting owners in the energy space.

Over seven episodes, Doug Woosnam, a Consultant with Cetane Associates, Clayton Latiolais, a succession planner with The Rawls Group, Marty Kirshner, Partner with Gray, Gray & Gray, and our very own succession planner Champ Rawls discuss strategies to overcome issues impacting the fulfillment of your persona, family, and business vision.

Working on your business and leaning on expert advisory guidance allows you to create more control over the future you envision. By proactively addressing possible, probable, and potential issues, you create many options at your fingertips.

This is one of many topics discussed in our Advancing Your Business, People, and Legacy Discussion Series. For podcast versions, visit our Succession Podcast page.

Balancing Seasonal and Political Uncertainties in the Energy Business

Balancing Seasonal and Political Uncertainties in the Energy Business

2023-06-15T14:14:37-05:00By Champ Rawls|Advisor Collaboration, Create Control Over Your Energy Business, Energy, Succession Blog, Video|

Seasonality, inflation, politics, people, and technology are a few headwinds impacting fuel dealers, wholesalers, and service contractors in the energy space. We are often asked, "How can we create predictable revenues in an industry influenced by so many outside "threats?" In this episode, Doug Woosnam, a Consultant with Cetane Associates, [...]

Generate What You Want and Need from the Business

Generate What You Want and Need from the Business

2022-08-26T11:46:26-05:00By Clayton Latiolais|Advisor Collaboration, Create Control Over Your Energy Business, Energy, Succession Blog, Video|

Hope is at the center of many dealers' business strategies. Hope that if they sell the business, the sale will return the cash they need to retire and support their dream lifestyle. However, many dealers have to show up with checks to pay debt and find a job to help facilitate [...]

How Successful Fuel and Oil Business Owners Protect and Build Business Value

How Successful Fuel and Oil Business Owners Protect and Build Business Value

2023-01-11T09:29:28-06:00By Kendall Rawls|Advisor Collaboration, Create Control Over Your Energy Business, Energy, Succession Blog, Video|

Many business owners lean on the DIY approach to strategic planning, integrating family into the business, succession planning, and positioning their business for sale on the open market. Where entrepreneurs are sharp in many ways, without outside help, they often suffer from being able to see the trees from the [...]

Strategies to Attract, Retain and Motivate Employees

Strategies to Attract, Retain and Motivate Employees

2022-08-26T11:48:04-05:00By Clayton Latiolais|Advisor Collaboration, Create Control Over Your Energy Business, Energy, Succession Blog, Video|

People are the backbone of any successful business, and business owners across all industries have difficulty finding qualified talent to fill open roles. No longer will people put up with toxic work environments or dead-end jobs; they want more for their future. In this episode, Marty Kirshner, Partner with Gray, [...]

Political Pressures: How Fuel and Oil Business Owners Can Protect Their Business

Political Pressures: How Fuel and Oil Business Owners Can Protect Their Business

2022-08-26T11:44:08-05:00By Clayton Latiolais|Advisor Collaboration, Create Control Over Your Energy Business, Energy, Succession Blog, Video|

Political and social pressures continue to impact propane and oil business owners. In this episode, Champ Rawls, a succession planner with The Rawls Group, Marty Kirshner, Partner with Gray, Gray & Gray, Doug Woosnam, a Consultant with Cetane Associates, and The Rawls Group's succession planner Clayton Latiolais discuss how to [...]

Return on Investment: Why Expert Guidance Matters

Return on Investment: Why Expert Guidance Matters

2022-08-26T11:50:15-05:00By Champ Rawls|Advisor Collaboration, Create Control Over Your Energy Business, Energy, Succession Blog, Video|

Growing, transitioning, or selling a business for top dollar requires planning and a team of experts. For example, many owners think they can decide one day to sell the business, put it on the market the next day, and save money by facilitating the sale themselves. Regrettably, those dealers leave [...]

Keys To Maintaining Successful Business Partnerships

Keys To Maintaining Successful Business Partnerships

2023-03-31T15:40:23-05:00By Champ Rawls|Advisor Collaboration, Create Control Over Your Energy Business, Energy, Succession Blog, Video|

Fifty/Fifty partnerships are common in the propane, oil, and gas business, and they work until they don't. One wants to cash out via exit or sale, but the other wants to keep working, and a variety of other differences of opinion on critical business issues. As a result, Fifty/Fifty partnerships [...]