In this comprehensive guide, two specialists take the reader step-by-step through the entire process, from how to determine when the time is right to sell to negotiating the final terms.
Takes readers from thinking, “Hmm, should I buy a business?” right through the process of choosing, investigating, and entering into a legal contract to do so.
Out there somewhere is a buyer looking to buy a business like yours. So if you're ready to sell, make sure you protect your interests and maximize your profit with this all-in-one guide.
Freedom. It's the ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want. It's the ultimate reward of selling your business. But selling a company can be confusing, and one wrong step can easily cost you dearly. The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top is the last in a trilogy of books by author John Warrillow on building value. The first, Built to Sell, encouraged small business owners to begin thinking about their business as more than just a job. The Automatic Customer tagged recurring revenue as the core element in a valuable company and provided a blueprint for transforming almost any business into one with an ongoing annuity stream. Warrillow completes the set with The Art of Selling Your Business. This essential guide to monetizing a business is based on interviews the author conducted on his podcast, Built to Sell Radio, with hundreds of successfully cashed-out founders. What's the secret for harvesting the value you've created when it's time to sell? The Art of Selling Your Business answers important questions facing any founder, including— • What's your business worth? • When's the best time to sell? • How do you create a bidding war? • How can you position your company to maximize its attractiveness? • Who will pay the most for your business? • What’s the secret for punching above your weight in a negotiation to sell your company? The Art of Selling Your Business provides a sleeves-rolled-up action plan for selling your business at a premium by an author with consummate credibility.
The most comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to selling a business available! Out there somewhere is a buyer looking to buy a business like yours -- so if you're ready to sell, make sure that you protect your interests and maximize your profit with The Complete Guide to Selling a Business. It covers: getting your business ready to sell pricing your business and valuing your assets finding the right buyer analyzing the tax issues negotiating a payment plan and other terms of sale planning your future relationship with the business limiting your liability working with lawyers, accountants and brokers closing the deal and transferring the business to its new owner The Complete Guide to Selling a Business helps you create more than two dozen crucial documents for both asset and entity sales, including: the sales agreement confidentiality letter promissory notes and security agreements noncompete and consulting agreements closing checklists This edition edition is completely updated with the latest tax considerations, and now provides more advice on marketing the sale of your business. There are literally dozens of competing titles on the market, but none can match The Complete Guide to Selling a Business for sheer depth, accuracy and ease of use.
80% of small businesses never sell. In The Ultimate Sale, award-winning certified financial planner Justin Goodbread reveals the challenges small business owners face, including that only 30% of family-run businesses survive into the second generation. The good news is, Justin can help you beat the odds and prepare your business for a final sale by teaching you: The three types of capital you may be missing when it comes to knowing what your business is worth. How to identify which appraisal method you must use to get the most value out of your business. The surprising and vital role "human capital" plays in the ability to sell for maximum profit. Who you need on your business Dream Team and why these key players are worth it. How to pinpoint your ideal buyer with breakdowns of the most important types of customers. Discover the exit strategies Justin Goodbread teaches business owners to use sell their businesses and rise above dismal industry statistics. The Ultimate Sale is your guide to navigating business sales, mergers, or buyouts ultimately to prepare you for the next chapter in your life.
"Explore the universe of potential buyers. Learn how to assemble a team of expert advisors to prepare your business for sale. Walk step by step through a typical investment-banker-led midmarket sale process from start to finish."--
"In Jim Cumbee's Home Run, a Pro's Guide to Selling Your Business, you'll learn how a buyer will look at your business based on what Cumbee calls the Seven Principles of Irresistibility: DIVERSE CUSTOMER BASE, SUSTAINABLE REVENUE, RELIABLE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, DEMONSTRABLE SCALABILITY, UNIQUE MARKET POSITION, OWNER INDEPENDENCE, BELIEVABLE GROWTH STORY"--Jacket