Creating a Successful Business Succession Plan

An exit strategy helps business owners ensure the long-term success of their company A good succession plan creates a blueprint for ownership transfer as you exit your business. It helps you prepare for your retirement, ensuring you have the income you need. And setting a well-conceived plan into motion protects the people around you, including…

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By Kimberly Campagna
December 21, 2020

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Understanding Your Retirement Income Plan

Manage cash flow in retirement with multiple income streams When you retire, you get to bid farewell to the working world. That’s the good news. The bad news? You’ll no longer have a paycheck coming in from your employer. To address that, you’ll need to piece together a steady stream of income from different retirement…

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By Kimberly Campagna
December 21, 2020

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Call him Allen of the Berkshires

DALTON — What’s the obligation of any business to serve the community it calls home? By the very laws of business, none. That’s not the purpose of business. The purpose — plain and simple — is to make money, to grow, to make more money, etc. Unless, of course, your business is Berkshire Money Management, and…

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By Kimberly Campagna
August 3, 2020

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Cowards can take their business elsewhere

To the editor: I am literally writing this letter to you on the morning of Juneteenth after receiving an anonymous note at the Berkshire Money Management office where I work. It reads: “All lives matter. No more business.” The message is scrawled — in bright red sharpie — across a page torn out from this…

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By Kimberly Campagna
June 23, 2020

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We cannot be silent: A special statement from Berkshire Money Management

Dalton, Mass. – The events of the last few weeks have brought directly to the forefront the longstanding inequality and injustice that plagues our communities, our cities, our schools, and yes, even our homes. We cannot be silent. We cannot say that “this has nothing to do with me” while blatant inequality and brutality continue…

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By Kimberly Campagna
June 4, 2020

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