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The Most Important Conversation You’re Not Having with Clients
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The Most Important Conversation You’re Not Having with Clients

Kevin Manley
July 14, 2016

Death … taxes … feelings? You know that your business-owner clients don’t want to talk about this stuff. They want to run their business and make more money. They want to keep their head down and stay hyper-focused on top-line revenue and bottom-line profit. But, as their professional advisor, you…

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Why Every Business Owner Needs an Exit Plan
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Why Every Business Owner Needs an Exit Plan

Kevin Manley
October 2, 2015
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You’re busy. I get it. You’re trying to run and grow your company and juggle a hundred priorities today.   You also may have to take the kids to soccer practice, take a parent to the doctor, and squeeze in a date night with your spouse. You probably don’t think you…

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From Startup to Seven Hundred Million Dollars – Part 5

Kevin Manley
September 10, 2015

Click here if you missed Part 4 or Go Back to the Beginning September 1999 – The “Road Show” We had targeted September 23, 1999 as our IPO date (which happened to be the day before my 30th birthday). You may recall the volatility of the NASDAQ in late 1999.…

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From Startup to Seven Hundred Million Dollars – Part 4

Kevin Manley
September 10, 2015

Click here if you missed Part 3 or Go Back to the Beginning January 1999 – The Game Had Changed Now, four years into our company, the game had changed. We’d now taken someone else’s money and we still needed to raise another $4 Million (we initially only were shooting…

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From Startup to Seven Hundred Million Dollars
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From Startup to Seven Hundred Million Dollars

Kevin Manley
September 10, 2015

The story of my 5-yr journey from pre-startup, through growth, IPO, acquisition, and exit.

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From Startup to Seven Hundred Million Dollars – Part 2

Kevin Manley
September 10, 2015

Click here if you missed Part 1 or Go Back to the Beginning Summer 1995 – Becoming the “Expert” We scrounged together $1000 to send out our brochure to the top advertising and marketing firms in Chicago.  Several took the bait.  Essentially, I was giving them an Internet and email lesson…

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From Startup to Seven Hundred Million Dollars – Part 3

Kevin Manley
September 10, 2015

Click here if you missed Part 2 or Go Back to the Beginning Spring/Summer 1997 – The First Turning Point Our primary focus was WebPromote, and we had become one of the leaders in Internet Marketing with numerous top-tier clients. We were inventing and offering an ever-expanding suite of products…

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My Story: From Startup to Seven Hundred Million Dollars

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Kevin Manley, founder of The Exit Advisors, is a noted business strategist and entrepreneur. Kevin holds an MBA, a Masters in Engineering, and is a Certified Exit Advisor (CExP). He has founded, advised, and/or invested in a variety of companies in consumer electronics, medical technology, philanthropic technology, real estate development, etc.

In 1995 Kevin co-founded Yesmail.com, an online e-marketing solutions company. He and his co-founders took Yesmail public in 1999, and sold it to CMGI in 2000 for over $700M - KEVIN'S STORY - This 5-year process involved name changes, strategic focus changes, smart advisors, luck, great timing, and great people.

Kevin helps owners of both startups and established businesses maximize their company's value and formulate a plan to grow their business, leverage their talent, improve their focus, utilize technology, enhance overall stability, and develop and implement an exit/transition strategy.

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