Chris Seegers guides Main Street owners through the biggest transaction of their lives. He has been the seller, the buyer, and the advisor on both sides of the table.
"We are in the people business. Our mission is to help people achieve their Life, Business, and Wealth Dreams."
— Chris SeegersHe drove past an abandoned town in Colorado and called his wife: "I think I found our next project." In 2015 they bought Hillside, Colorado. Tara had the vision and ran it — within three years it was immaculate, profitable and growing, and people were driving in from all over for events, milestones and the stargazing. It is the whole thesis in miniature: find something worth saving, put systems around it, run it like a mission.
He was thirty-one, in a West Texas conference room, holding one of the biggest oil and gas deals his company had ever seen — over twenty million dollars of projected profit in under six months. Then a higher offer arrived and his investors won the argument. They broke the terms of the first deal and took the money. The extra money never came close to covering what it cost. Relationships from it are still not mended, and he tells it on the record.
Three books out and one in edit, with one architecture underneath them: the Exceptional Life OS, the Business OS, and the Wealth OS still being built. Eight pillars in the life system, four phases in the business one. Owners get the framework, not a sales pitch. "The business exists to serve the life. The wealth plan exists to fund the life. The life is the point."
Three operating systems, one architecture. "The business exists to serve the life. The wealth plan exists to fund the life. The life is the point."
A generation of owners is heading for the exit. Judy held offers between $4.5 and $5 million. Four years later her business was worth $900,000, and he was the one who had to tell her.
He drove past an abandoned town, called his wife, and bought it. Then he refused to sell it at the top of the market, and he knows exactly why.
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Chris Seegers is the founder of Exceptional Business Advisors, a Colorado and Texas firm that guides Main Street business owners through selling their companies. He runs a family office with ten operating businesses, wrote Selling Main Street, co-authored Exceptional by Design with his wife Tara, and in 2015 he and Tara bought the town of Hillside, Colorado.
