Category: Selling

Are You Too Old to Leave Your Business?

Do you plan to die at your desk? If that’s your intention, is it commitment or cowardice? Sometimes we get stuck, but thinking through the real impact of dying at the desk poses some real questions for your family, employees and customers. Paul Cronin from The Platinum Years helps us answer those questions in the article below. Content originally appears here.

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Positioning a Business for a Merger or Acquisition (# 3)

Selling a business is different than selling anything else, and your prospective buyer will closely scrutinize your business before they make an offer. Are you ready for that level of examination? Jim Grebey helps you get ready in this article originally posted here. (re-posted with permission)

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Positioning a Business for a Merger or Acquisition (# 2)

Selling a business is different than selling anything else, and your prospective buyer will closely scrutinize your business before they make an offer. Are you ready for that level of examination? Jim Grebey helps you get ready in this article originally posted here. (re-posted with permission)

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Unrealistic Seller Expectations – The Wrong Way to Exit Your Business

Along the way, I’ve heard many sad, and even sometimes horror stories, of people sold their businesses the ‘wrong’ way. It is heartbreaking to see years of blood, sweat and tears invested into a company only to have it end in a big fizzle out. The regrettable part of this is that it can be prevented by doing some simple, even basic, exit strategy planning.

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It Sure Looks Like Lipstick on a Pig From Here

Don’t make the same mistakes we see in this business for sale article – sales pitch with deep undertones of a failed business. Warning! Warning! Warning! There are certain warning signs that tell you you’re dealing with a failing business, before you ever see the financials.

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Positioning a Business for a Merger or Acquisition

Selling a business is different than selling anything else, and your prospective buyer will closely scrutinize your business before they make an offer. Are you ready for that level of examination? Jim Grebey helps you get ready in this article originally posted here. (re-posted with permission)

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How Best To Respond ​To An Offer To Buy Your Business?

What do you do with an unsolicited offer to sell your business? It’s exciting, it’s surprising, and it’s confusing. I just sold a small business from a surprise offer, and there’s a lot to consider in a short amount of time. Our good people at The EXIT Firm help provide some great advice below (from an article originally posted here).

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