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Selling Your Business Yourself
As business brokers, we turn away many of the prospective sellers that come to us. It's not that we could not sell their businesses, but for one reason or another we have more promissing businesses to sell. Once we agree to sell a business we have made a serious comitment that is important to both us and to the seller. Selling a business is time-consuming, and potentially lucrative for both the seller and the broker. Since we work almost exclusively on a commission only basis, we are takiing a big risk when we accept a listing. We don't take the comitment lightly, so we enter into it with few.
Until now ther have been few resources to guide a business owner through the process of selling a business independently. There have been books, some of which we wrote, but books are limited in what they can do. So, we have assembled a website that combines the best advice and a set of on-line tools to help business owners sell their business.
Our Book
This site is based on a book that we published. Our new book can be purchased as a paperback or read online. You can start at the introduction and read through the entire book, or you can just go to the sections that you want, using the search or the sitemap.
The Tools
We have created a series of tools, including a calculator to calculate the value of your business and set an asking price, spreadsheets to keep track of prospects, templates for a one page summary of your business and a complete prospectus, a compilation of useful links to other websites, and checklists to guide you through every step of the process.
Our Services
You may decide that selling the business on your own is more than you want to do. If so, we stand ready to help. For most users of this site, we expect that a few hours of consulting is all that they will need. If you want to find a reputable business broker, we will consider taking your listing OR we will help you find a reputable business broker.