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Bluestem Resources Performance
It is easy to say the words about being qualified as corporate acquisition advisors, M&A intermediaries, business brokers, or others involved in business owner transitions. Trade puffery, it’s called. The right words roll easily off a glib tongue. Fortunately, proof is “in the pudding.” Bluestem Resources Group operates from Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a highly respected leader in the profession locally, regionally, and across the USA.
You deserve the most credible intermediaries and consultants when you seek a business for sale or to sell a business, whether that is an Oklahoma business broker, a Tulsa business acquisition advisor, or for help growing your business through strategic planning or profit improvements. However you know us; Bluestem Resources Group, LLC, BluestemUSA sm, or just Bluestem, we stand apart and above. We invite scrutiny, and recommend you insist on it from anyone you choose to work with, before committing.
At Bluestem Resources Group, our performance is clear and convincing. It encompasses our substantial achievements in the national and international professional groups of merger and acquisition intermediaries and business brokers. The leading professional associations have bestowed John C. Johnson, Bluestem Resources’ founder and CEO, with all of their highest awards for visionary leadership, commitment to ethics and ideals, and contributions to developing the profession. This is in addition to serving as President of the International Business Brokers Association and The M&A Source. No business intermediary, other than Bluestem’s John C. Johnson, has ever achieved this level of national and international peer accolades and leadership in the profession of selling small and midsize businesses. These are available here for your review under Awards & Distinctions.
Mr. Johnson holds earned professional certifications, both as a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) and as a Master Merger and Acquisition Intermediary (M&AMI). These credentials require education, professional commitments, experience, proof of acquisition deal accomplishments, comprehensive testing, and regular recertification. John was chosen by his peers to lead and oversee the writing of the comprehensive examination for national and international business broker certification. He is a licensed real estate broker in Oklahoma. These are in addition to and complemented by advanced formal education; an engineering degree from the University of Tulsa, an MBA from TCU’s M.J. Neely School of Business, and about one thousand hours of profession specific training for business brokers, mergers, acquisitions, in business appraisal, and strategic planning.
Bluestem Resources Group has nearly a quarter century of continuous and direct commitment to its profession. John C. Johnson has directly related employment in management of strategic planning, business appraisal, project analysis, and business acquisitions experience with two leading Fortune 500 corporations. This is in addition to his entrepreneurial experience successfully starting, building, running, and selling businesses he has owned, including Bluestem Resources Group, LLC, Bluestem Resources Affiliated Group, LLC and BluestemUSA sm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Johnson’s Resume, from university academics to present is available for your review.
Bluestem’s transactions and employed advisor history include hundreds of clients across Oklahoma and ten or more other states. This experience is selling businesses, business appraisals, strategic planning, outsourced business development, litigation support, corporate acquisitions, and court appointed receiver assignments. BluestemUSA sm specializes in preparing for, and executing, successful business transitions and exits. You are invited to sample the deal history Bluestem Resources Group, John C. Johnson, and his team have accomplished by seeing the Deals Done “tombstones”. Also important are what our clients, customers, and other professional advisors have shared; see what Others Say about Bluestem.
Note evidence by leading groups choice of Bluestem Resource’s John C. Johnson for critical leadership roles. Details of leading roles are found in the Bluestem Resources Group’s key Affiliations, Media Buzz, and Awards & Distinctions links. Beyond national awards from business brokerage and M&A professions, Mr. Johnson has received local and statewide recognition as the Tulsa Metro Chamber’s and the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Financial Services Advocate of the Year. He was recently a finalist as Tulsa’s Small Business Person of the Year. Mr. Johnson has been tapped as Director, Chairman, or Officer in leading groups such as Leadership Oklahoma, Tulsa Executives Association, Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce, Entrepreneurs of Tulsa, Oklahoma Alliance for Manufacturing Excellence, The M&A Source, Tulsa Economic Development Corporation, Oklahoma Private Enterprise Forum, and the International Business Brokers Association.
Comments from John C. Johnson on Selecting Your Acquisition Advisors
"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality."
. . . Harold S. Geneen
You deserve the most credible intermediaries and consultants when seeking guidance and results in business transitions. The resources and expertise offered through Bluestem Resources – Tulsa Oklahoma provide just that. Whether you seek an Oklahoma business broker, Tulsa business acquisition advisors, or someone to help grow your business valuation through strategic planning or profit improvements, Bluestem Resources will deliver for you. Known by Bluestem Resources Group, LLC, our BluestemUSA sm trade name, or just Bluestem, we simply stand apart and above. Bluestem invites your scrutiny and recommends insisting on it from anyone you choose to work with before committing. We are confident the wise choice will be Bluestem Resources Group for businesses located in Oklahoma’s Green Country, Oklahoma City, statewide, or in the surrounding region.
In Oklahoma’s Green Country, Bluestems are prevalent. Dominant grasses of the tall grass prairie are big bluestem and little bluestem. They are prevalent in the naming of ranches, parks, building companies, services, and other businesses. Part of the allure must surely be beauty of the name and the blue stemmed grass prairies. Despite the name, the lush green prairies do not look to be made of blue stemmed grasses. The tall, waving bluestem grasses plays important roles for Bluestem in the resource-based economy of Oklahoma’s Green Country and the prairies of the region.
Among the businesses, Bluestem Resources Group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is prominent. Bluestem Resources Group has a rich history over nearly a quarter century. Native Oklahomans, raised as Tulsans, and community based by choice, we created a resource-based services operation to serve our clientele. Our resources have been built to provide performance for our customers and clients. Bluestem’s reputation for excellence is built upon a gathering of advanced education, personal abilities, refined tools, market access and other fundamental groupings of resources, then blending these with high ethical standards, core values, and a long track record of performance. Bluestem Resources is affiliated with leading experts and professional groups around the USA. The result is Bluestem Resources Group’s ability to bring wisdom, art, effort, and resources together for the benefit of our clients.
TRUST THE ORIGINAL!
We’ve all heard imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. We’re flattered.
Bluestem Resources Group is unique and “the Original”. As market leader, we spawn competition. We do so with confidence and willingness to share our good fortune, uplifting others. That said, as with other knock-offs, wise consumers have learned to trust “the original” Bluestem for true value.
Competition makes us strong and aware. We welcome it with knowledge and confidence that Bluestem stands alone in ability to serve clients. Bluestem Resources’ position reflects our strength and draws from our history, knowledge and ability.
- Long and continuous tenure in our profession
- Personal experience; owned, built, managed and sold successful business enterprises
- Strong beliefs, core values, and tenants of conduct
- Broad diversity of clients served
- Numbers of successful engagements and transactions
- High levels of formal and continuing education
- National certifications and top awards
- Extensive active contacts and data bases, via local, state, national, and beyond
- Proven leadership in our profession and business communities - local, state, and national
- Effective in reputation and professional respect
At Bluestem Resources Group, LLC, we don’t rest on our history, but use it as our foundation for continuous growth and improvement.
In 2010 the trade name BluestemUSA sm and a matching fresh new logo were established, the dated Bluestem Resources Affiliated website under bluestemresources.com was dropped and our www. BluestemUSA .com website was created. The Bluestem history includes founding a coop venture LLC known as Bluestem Resources Affiliated Group, which we soon discontinued in favor of sticking with our proven long-time model and high standards for success.
We enjoy humor in variations we see as people reach out to us. We had a business association under Bluestem Resources Affiliated Group and still see that from time to time. Most common is blue stem. Not far behind are bluestern, blustem, bluesteam, and bluestream. We see resourced, resourcing, resource, resourse, groups, grup, and grouper. The all time favorite came over the phone and was bluegoose racehorses? By whatever name, we respect and appreciate our clientele and opportunities to serve their needs near and far from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Please consider the breadth and depth of Bluestem’s team, our grouping of resource-rich capabilities, and the experience available to manage your business transitions, when selecting your guide for one of the most valuable and important business transactions and transitions of your lifetime.
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