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    Creative Financing

    What could you accomplish if you had sufficient capital?
    In business, you either use your money or other people’s money. This creative financing book explains 500 proven ways to get cash for a business you own or want to buy. Business brokers, buyers and sellers say the ideas in the book enabled them to close the [...]

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    Don’t Proceed Without A Team

    You want to safely and profitably sell your business, don’t you?

    Selling a business is a team effort. Your team provides you with essential information and connections that you lack. Consider beginning your team with a Business Seller Advocate ™, a specialist without conflict-of-interest. This expert helps prepare you and your business for sale so you can sell it yourself or get the best service from a business broker.

    Assemble your support team before you begin offering your business for sale. Do not rely on the buyer’s or business broker’s advisory team. A seller who does not select the right team of advisors to promote a win-win deal will have one or more deal killers. This means you can lose opportunities that wiser sellers enjoy.

    Get information about Business Seller Advocates (at “Partner” On-Call Network) and access how-to tips from this nationwide group. They are not a business brokerage. They can introduce you to some of the best service providers, business brokers/intermediaries. Click to visit the headquarter's website.

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Wall Street vs. Main Street?

Is the public’s revulsion over Wall Street investment bankers adversely affecting business brokers/intermediaries and other service providers on Main Street? In ...

Nobody complains they got too much good advice.

Assemble an advisory team to help you sell your business. It’s unlikely that your attorney, accountant or business broker has ...

Dealmaking & Negotiating

Where you start determines where you end up.

A chain reaction occurs once you begin the process of selling your business. It is difficult to stop it. You can be swept along to your detriment in the wrong direction if you’re not totally prepared. You will get a better result if you confer with a business-selling expert whether you sell your business yourself [...]

Due Diligence-What to Disclose to Buyers

Balancing disclosure and timing is tricky.

What, how and when you disclose to buyers info about your business will determine whether you sell it or lose it. Your business ‘ future is at risk if the word gets out to the wrong people that your business is for sale.

Financing

Seller Financing and Creative Financing

Sellers materially increase the probability that their company will sell if they can show the buyer ways to finance the acquisition. Do not expect buyers to come up with creative financing acceptable to sellers.

Attracting Buyers

Do it right, you win. Do it wrong, you lose.

It’s a balancing act. You want to sell but it takes time to prepare and handle the selling process. And, you have a business to manage and a life to live. Don’t naively think you can delegate the selling process to just anyone. A large portion of your net worth is at risk, so it’s [...]