Emotions While Selling or Buying a Business!

May 21, 2007
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Most business buyers underestimate how emotions can impact the business purchase process. A lot of money, time and effort is repeatedly wasted on business transactions where buyers and sellers fail to deal with each others' emotions. From the seller's perspective: Business owners have spent a lot of time and energy building their business and...

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Baby Boomers Looking for Successors.

May 2, 2007
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In our marketing efforts to find new business listings, we find that baby boomers in the retirement age represent a large percentage of business sellers. In most cases, selling their business is the only remaining option. Their children are often not interested in taking over the business for multiple reasons:

  1. Children are seeking...

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Buy an Exiting Business or Start a New One?

April 30, 2007
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The skills and personality traits necessary to start a new small business and make it successful are much different from the skills necessary to take over an existing business and grow it . A small business start up needs an entrepreneur who has a vision and is passionate about his/her idea....

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How to Value a Small Business?

April 30, 2007
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The most frequently used method in valuing a small business is Seller Discretionary Income (SDI) multiple. The SDI for the business is calculated by using the income statement and correcting it by adding back to the profit figure all perks and benefits that the owner receives from the business. Then, a multiple (generally between...

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Business for Sale Listings

April 30, 2007
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Business buyers are constantly looking for new business for sale listings. Some spend long hours looking in different newspapers and magazines. Others rely mostly on networking, asking everybody they know about business opportunities on the market. Accountants and lawyers are also considered a source of information about new businesses for sale.

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