Am I Too Small to Sell My Language Business? Sales Narratives From Small Business Owners
Member Webinar
Am I too small to sell my language business? How small is too small?
In this online panel discussion, language service providers with an annual turnover of less than $500,000 share their experiences of selling their business.
What worked well? What mistakes could have been avoided?
They will answer the question, ‘If I had known then what I know now, what would I have done differently?’
The conversation will also cover pricing, cultural fit, due diligence, business integration and processes after the sale.
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Moderator: Michael Klinger (Language Transactions)
Michael Klinger runs Language Transactions helping Language Owners buy or sell their business. Michael has been in the language industry thiry plus years, has worked as an interpreter, project manager and owner of language services. He is conversant in six languages and runs a non-profit for schools in Niger, West Africa.
Speakers
Mrs. Jackie Metivier co-founded Bilingual Communications, Inc. in Cary, North Carolina in 1991. The company provides English-to-Spanish translation, interpretation, audio transcription and translation, and Spanish video voice-over services.
Mrs. Metivier has 30+ years of experience serving as a Spanish/English consecutive interpreter during court hearings, depositions and medical evaluations, as well as for simultaneous assignments for keynote speakers at Duke University, Health and Human Services webinars, OSHA safety meetings, IBM and Lenovo briefings, EPA seminars and Farmworker Forums throughout the US. Since 2019, Jackie and her team have provided simultaneous conference interpretation for hundreds of COVID-19 conferences for Roy Cooper, ex-Governor of North Carolina. Currently her team provides simultaneous press conference interpretation for Josh Stein, Governor of North Carolina.
Melissa Wurst is the former President and founding member of Language Solutions, Inc., a professional translation, interpretation, and global communication services company located in St. Louis, Missouri. Melissa has had a broad career immersed in foreign cultures and linguistics beginning in 1988 with her service in Thailand with the U.S. Peace Corps where she implemented language and training programs. Since founding the company in 1998, Melissa built Language Solutions into a thriving small business that specialized in healthcare communications, with a dedication to continuous process improvement and mentorship of clients with defined tools, objectives and measurements for their management of global communication.
Melissa is also an active community supporter and a cancer patient advocate lending her voice as an advisor on several national advisory groups.
Darlene Geyer was the founder and President of Accomodating Ideas for twenty plus years. Accomodating Ideas is an ASL business based out of Acton, California. She is currently the CEO of a Saas Platform for Language Access. Darlene is also a Nationally Certified ASL interpreter.
