P J Busse Insurance & Financial Services

Retirement & Estate Planning, Business Continuation Planning – Buy Sell Agreements. Employee Benefits, Life & Health Insurance, Fixed & Variable Annuities, Disability Insurance, Long Term Care, Helping Your Business Grow Don’t have a Harvard MBA? You’re not alone. Most successful entrepreneurs started out with what seemed like a good idea and ended up running a business of their own. How can you learn to manage the business side of business? Read, study, ask lots of questions, and seek out sound advice from your tax, legal and financial advisors. You can also turn to me to discuss how the insurance and financial products that New York Life offers can help you support your business growth plan. Life Insurance for Risk Management As a business owner, you live with risk. That’s the nature of business. You take on risk when you borrow money to expand, launch a new product or service, hire a new employee, extend credit to a customer. There are dozens of risks in business…and few guarantees. Successful business owners, therefore, work to minimize risk, so they can focus on meeting their objectives. Life insurance is a risk management tool. For instance, if your company invested in new facilities or new vehicles, you would insure their value against the danger of theft, fire and accident. In the same way, life insurance can help protect the value of key employees to your business, reduce the risk that a loan might default if something happened to you, and, most of all, reduce the risk that your business and your family would suffer financially if you did not live to see your long-term plans completed. Employee Benefits Finding quality employees is half the challenge. Keeping them – and keeping them well motivated – is the other half, especially in today’s tight labor market. One way to do that is to provide competitive benefits. I know, when many small business owners hear the words employee benefits, they immediately think, one more expense I can’t afford! If this sounds like you, you might want to think again. Two reasons: (1) Carefully selected benefits can help reduce costly employee turnover, boost morale and, in turn, help assure your company’s stability and productivity. (2) Benefits need not cost you an arm and a leg. For example, a voluntary payroll deduction program lets workers – including you as an owner-employee – acquire valuable benefits at virtually no cost to you.