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Selling Checklist

Thinking About Selling Here are some tasks business owners should consider completing before going to market to help their businesses sell. Remove any items not included in the sale. That family...

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June 27, 2012

Is Your Business Saleable?

Many business owners probably have asked themselves this question. There are many unique and different types of business. Some fill very small niches while others have carved out a unique product or...

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June 27, 2012

You Want How Much for Your Business?

This is often a prospective buyer’s first response when given the price of a seller’s business. This is especially true today when many excellent and profitable businesses have few hard or...

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June 27, 2012

A Business Owner’s Report Card

How does someone else, for example, a potential buyer, rate your business on the issues listed below   Rate your business and yourself on the time-honored “A” to “F” scale.  You can even...

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June 27, 2012

Is It Time to Make Some Changes?

One of the major advantages of small and mid-sized businesses is that it is much easier to make changes with this category of business than it is with the larger kind. The larger company can become...

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June 27, 2012

Selling Price Defined

When the time comes to sell your business, what makes up the selling price. What is it that you are selling and the buyer is buying It is important that the selling price be defined in such a way to...

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June 27, 2012

Questions Business Buyers Want Answers To

If you are even thinking about selling your business, it’s important to know the questions that buyers generally want answers to. For example, the first question almost always asked by buyers is:...

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June 27, 2012

What Happens If?

You may not have any intention of selling your business today. But, what happens to your business if you get hit by a truck, fall ill or are injured in some other way making you unable to operate...

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June 27, 2012

Increasing the Value of Your Business

Considering selling your business Just want to increase the value of your business Here are some areas to look at that can fairly quickly increase profits, which are, after all, a main building block...

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June 27, 2012

Unreported Income: “Show Me the Money!”

Prospective buyers don’t want to hear about “what the business really makes” – they want to see the books and records that show what is down in black and white. Here  is the old story about...

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June 27, 2012

The Highest Price Vs. The Best Deal

Naturally, sellers want the highest price they can get for their business. In come cases, however, it might not be the best deal. For this reason, every offer should be scrutinized carefully. When an...

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June 27, 2012

What’s Selling Now?

A recent survey revealed the following percentage breakdown of last year’s business sales by business types. The information was furnished by business brokerage firms nationally and compiled by...

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