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Throwing Good Money After Bad

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“Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, and know when to run…” Kenny Rogers may have been talking about gambling, but the lyrics work for business owners too. Over half of businesses in the US have been impacted by COVID this year to some degree and as we ...
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Marketing Blindly and Nationally

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If you’re a savvy business owner, you know that maintaining strict confidentiality is critical when selling your business. Only a handful of people should know you’re thinking of selling: your spouse, financial planner, accountant, and attorney. Often, this element alone will push a seller towar ...
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Lending Posture

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One of the top questions we’re asked in this unprecedented COVID environment is “are you still selling businesses?” The answer is a resounding YES! The follow up question usually has something to do with how banks are supporting those transactions, so we thought we’d examine what we’re see ...
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Hope is Not a Strategy

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You probably have a financial advisor who is managing your money and will advise you as to whether or not you’re on track for retirement. That’s smart and, for most of us, essential. Even the most talented, worth-their-salt money manager will tell you that their financial models can be “garbag ...
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Coronavirus and Buying or Selling a Business

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  Coronavirus. Yep, we’re jumping on the bandwagon. Why on earth are we, business brokers, talking about Coronavirus?! It has nothing to do with buying or selling business, right? Hang with us for a minute… Last week, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points (0.50 ...
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The Importance of Knowing Your Business’s Value

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How much is your business worth? How much is it actually worth to a buyer if you were to sell it right now? Even if you’re not ready to sell at this moment, knowing this number is very important for a few reasons: Planning: We know that most business owners work with financial planners and ac ...
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Business For Sale By Owner

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With all of the online options at our fingertips these days, it is easier than ever to sell things. You can sell everything from a couch, to a car, to a house just by listing them online. In these days of the FSBO (For Sale By Owner) posts, wouldn’t it just be easier to try to sell your business t ...
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Should I Tell My Employees I’m Selling?

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The short answer: no. We have sellers all the time who ask us this and our answer is always the same: it’s a bad idea. Even if your team is small in number and a very tight knit group, we still recommend that you don’t take them along with you on the ride of selling a business. There are a few l ...
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Congruence

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Congruence explains how things correspond or agree with each other and it has EVERYTHING to do with selling your business. Many buyers mystery visit your business before they make an offer on it. They want to see how your website, collateral materials, products, and staff interact with them as a ...
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How Much is Your Business Worth?

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Is your business gaining value each year? Are there issues in your business that are reducing the value? Are you counting on the proceeds from the sale of your business to help fund your retirement? In business there is one certainty: At some point every privately held business will be sold ...
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Discounted Cash Flow

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In an academic setting, a discounted cash flow model sounds like a completely reasonable form of valuing a business. You project out the anticipated cash flows for 5-10 years, use a discount rate and look at what those future cash flows are in present day dollars.  The formula for this is usual ...
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Pricing Your Business to Sell

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If the business is not priced correctly, it will most likely continue to sit on the market. This frustrates you and turns away possible buyers. Most businesses are sold at a price based on current performance. All businesses have future potential that may be much greater than the current numbers, bu ...
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Do You Own A “Business” or Do You Own A “JOB”?

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You’ve owned your business for many years. You’ve built it from nothing to where it is today. You enjoy going to work each day and receive a great sense of satisfaction from the daily accomplishments of the business. But now it’s time to sell, or at least develop an exit strategy. The problem ...
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Is Your Business Ready To Sell?

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At some point, every privately held business will be sold, transferred to a relative, or closed. Some business owners operate their business without ever considering an exit plan. Then something unfortunate occurs and the business is not prepared to sell, but must be sold quickly – and us ...
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Walk a Mile

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There is an inherent rub when a buyer and seller are trying to negotiate the sale of a business. The buyer wants the lowest price and the most favorable terms possible. The seller wants the highest price and to protect themselves while minimizing their tax bill. Here are a few ways you can help y ...
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Selling a Business in 2018

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One of the questions I’m asked most often is: How does one go about selling a business? The short answer is this: Carefully, and with help from several places. The starting point for selling any business is to engage a trained business broker who will examine and value your business, find a su ...
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Fixer Upper

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Change hurts. Changing our businesses with the times is difficult and we can be forgiven for wanting to avoid anything that’s both difficult and painful. Still, the ways in which businesses connect with their customers has changed and is continuing to do so because those customers’ expectation ...
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