Category: Selling

Why are Small Business Sellers So Crazy?

It was an interesting way to start an interview. Why does everyone selling a small business go nutso? I wish I could have challenged the assumption of the question, but I couldn’t. As anyone who has tried to buy a business knows, a high percentage of business owners go whack-a-doodle when they try to sell their small business.

How To Value A Business

What’s my business worth? As small business owners we ask the question all the time. The problem isn’t a lack of answers, it’s too many answers. Various formulas and rules of thumb leave of us with too many possibilities. Some simplicity would be appreciated. That’s what Matthew Pohl from The Capitalist Alliance offers us in an article that originally appeared here.

High Profits Required to Sell your Business?

I’ve been looking at a lot of business broker websites recently, and one really stood out. The website highlighted the broker’s great success. They claim an almost 90% sell rate on their listings, compared to an industry average “below 30%.” They say they sell more of their listings than anyone else in their region.