GABB Spring Conference 2025

GABB Spring Conference 2025

Earn the credits you need to renew your real estate license and learn about Business Broker Marketing and Business Valuations at our Spring Conference on May 20, 2025!

8:30 am – 9:00 am – Networking, with light breakfast

9:00 am – 12:00 pm – Morning Session: Marketing for Business Brokers (3 CE Hours GREC and GABB)
Learn how to identify your market, find clients, and market businesses for sale. This class will be taught by Jeffery Merry, MBA, J.D., and founder of the BUSINESS HOUSE inc. Topics to be covered in this three-hour class include:

• Horizontal business brokering: the advantages and disadvantages of working with all kinds of businesses
• Vertical business brokering: the advantages and disadvantages of specializing in one or two industries
• Basic marketing methods
• Working effectively and ethically with other brokers, business buyers, and sellers

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Box lunch

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Afternoon Session: Business Valuations (3 CE Hours GREC and GABB)
Learn basic approaches to business valuation, including tax strategies for maximum profits in this three-hour class offered by the Georgia Association of Business Brokers. The class will be taught by Ricky Moore, CPA, PFS, ABV, QKA, MBA, the Managing Partner at EXEQadvisor. Topics to be covered in this three-hour class include:

• Reconciling Valuation Approaches – Why sellers like the market approach and buyers like the income approach
• Evaluating and Reducing company-specific risk
• How to increase after-tax proceeds at the exit point
• Ethical issues affecting business valuations

Participants have the option of joining us for both courses (6 total CE credits), or one course (3 CE credits). Lunch will be provided.

Cost:

Early-Bird Pricing: Register by April 30 to receive these prices
Early-Bird Member Full-Day: $99
Early-Bird Non-Member Full-Day: $250
Early-Bird Member Half-Day: $69
Early-Bird Non-Member Half-Day: $160

On May 1, prices increase to the following:

Member Full-Day: $149
Non-Member Full-Day: $300
Member Half-Day: $119
Non-Member Half-Day: $210

INSTRUCTORS:
Jeffery Merry, MBA, J.D., owner and founder of the BUSINESS HOUSE, inc. of Gainesville. After employment by a Fortune 100 company, Mr. Merry, began the BUSINESSHOUSE, inc. Since its inception more than 20 years ago, the BUSINESS HOUSE, inc. has become one of the most successful business brokerage firms in the Southeast. As a Business Intermediary, Jeff has been involved in over 200 mergers and acquisitions that have ranged in acquisition price from $60,000.00 to over $15,000,000.00. Jeffery specializes in serving the manufacturing, distribution, veterinary, service, and medical industries. He is a lifetime member of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers’ (GABB) prestigious Multi-Million Dollar Club, and was the first Georgia broker in the GABB to receive the Phoenix award for being in the Multi-Million Dollar Club for 10 consecutive years. Jeffery has been a member of GABB for 20+ years and has held the Presidency and Board of Directors positions many years. Jeff holds a Bachelors Degree from Mercer University, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Illinois, and a Juris Doctorate from Atlanta Law School. Jeffery is also a licensed real estate broker in Georgia and Florida. Further, he is an Adjunct Professor of strategic management, accounting, and finance in MBA programs.

Ricky Moore, CPA/ABV/PFS and Managing Partner of EXEQadvisor. Ricky is all about taking CPA services to the next level with communication and expertise. Equipped with custom tax strategies and a communication style that is easy to understand, he re-defines what you expect a CPA should deliver. Ricky offers advisory services focused on future growth. These advisory services include business valuation of closely held companies, business acquisition/exit strategy, tax & financial planning, Employee-Owned Stock Option (ESOP) retirement plan design, risk management, and other unique consulting engagements designed to specifically provide a solution to specific needs in industries such as transportation, dentistry, health care, food processing, veterinary practices, childcare facilities, and real estate. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Ricky was the co-host of the Forrestall CPAs COVID-19 Small Business Update webinar series and led a task force that assisted the business community receive loan forgiveness on more than $35 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. He has also been certified by local court systems and the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a ‘Qualified Source’ for business valuation and was awarded the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) designation by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Ricky also provides retirement planning services to both individuals and businesses and was awarded the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) credential by the AICPA and the Qualified 401(k) Administrator (QKA) by the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA). To give back to the community, Ricky is a current board member of both the Georgia Lenders Quality Circle (GLQC) and theHamilton Mill Men’s Golf Association.