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What Are the Odds That You Will Sell Your Small Business?

It seems like this should be an easy question to answer. It is not. In fact, it’s nearly impossible. That should scare small business owners, especially since 78% of small business owners plan to sell their businesses to fund their retirement.

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Because I Know How Much Worse It Can Get

Why do you give small business owners such a hard time about preparing their business for sale? I’ve been asked that question before, and the best answer I have is . . .

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Specialist or Generalist – What Kind of Business Broker Should You Hire?

We know that all business brokers are evil, but are you better served by a generalist or a specialist?

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Are Business Brokers Evil?

Are Business Brokers Evil?

Are brokers born bad or just misunderstood? Do the majority simply try to make an honest living in a challenging industry?

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The Horrible Mistake your Accountant Makes – and How it Could Keep you From Ever Selling your Business.

I like my accountant. She’s smart, steady, responsive, and consistently gives me sound advice. But she’s human and she makes mistakes — and one mistake she makes over and over again is potentially devastating. The mistake?

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I Looked in the Mirror and Saw a Crispy Piece of Toast Looking Back

Are you burnt, crispy piece of toast like I was? That was my condition when I finally engaged the subject of selling my first small business.

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The Cruel Joke of “I’m Too Busy to Think About Selling My Business”

It’s the ultimate Catch-22. We’re too busy. We don’t have time to think about getting our business ready for sale, even though we’d like to.

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Hope Will Destroy Your Ability to Sell Your Small Business

Taking aim at hope is a dangerous thing — especially at a time when we need it so much. After all, optimism is like water to small business owners. We bathe in it. Without hope we are dead.

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An Ugly Baby: Getting Real About the Value of Your Business

Is your baby ugly? You love your business, it must be worth a lot. Right? Allen Harris of Berkshire Money Management tells us Marshall’s story, and reminds us that ugly, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

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I Sold My Business for $700,000, by Accident, with a Free Craigslist Ad – and You Can Do It Too

Who says selling a small business needs to be hard, or expensive, or take a long time?…

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Selling Your Stuff is Different Than Selling Your Business

What does it mean when someone says, “I sold my business?” Is it a real business sale or just a fluffed up, artificially sweetened story?

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Outside In
From the outside all you know is “Jim sold his business”. But that doesn’t make sense, because you know that the business wasn’t making any money. Does that mean you can sell a business even if it doesn’t make any money

Jim sold his business and he never made a penny. I’ll be able to unload my business when I’m ready, no problem.

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Poorly Endowed: The Small Business Owner’s Value Dysfunction

I’m sitting across the table from a small business owner (let’s call him Dave). Dave is at the end. His business is failing, or more accurate, the business has failed. It was a new food product – an ice cream treat. Carefully created, developed, tested, launched, distributed and sold. Dave and his wife worked hard.

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