Category: Selling

He Knows the Buyer, Maybe they Don’t Need the Bank?

It’s good to have a little brother, especially if he’s interested in buying your business. Since you know him so well, when the bank won’t play nice, maybe there are other options? David C. Barnett’s call with a small business seller reminds us that there are creative alternatives to explore.

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.

It is Critical to Our Financial Future, and Most Small Business Owners Ignore It

As a small business owner you are crazy busy. Crazy. So it’s understandable why some things, especially things that are “far in the future”, get lost in the details. For many of us, selling our small business is something that we hope will happen someday, and hope is all we do. But we don’t realize the risk that “hope only” approach creates for our financial future.