How To Sell Your Business The 1 Guide To Maximising Your Company Value And Achieving A Quick Business Sale

Interested in retiring, cashing-out, or starting a new adventure? Eager to exit your business so you can to enjoy more time with loved ones, spend some of your hard-earned cash or do all the things you've always want to do but never had the time? How To Sell Your Business: The #1 Guide to maximising your company value and achieving a quick business sale will help you: - Gain techniques and tips on how to best maximise your profit personally- Ensure that the sale process goes as quickly and smoothly as possible- Increase the likelihood that you sell the first time through the sale process- Demystify the business sale process so you can be one step ahead of the buyer rather than behind- Be prepared to handle the emotional journey- Understand your current valuation and how to best increase it- Avoid being 'price chipped' (the buyer reducing the offer price) and avoid costly mistakes- Escape an earn-out (having to stay on as an employee and hit targets after the sale)About the Author - Joanna MillerWhen Joanna and her business partner sold their £4m turnover company they went around the sales cycle a total of five times, had ten potential buyers at different times, had four indicative price offers which the highest price was five times more than the lowest price. They even had a deal killed one week before completion day! On the sixth attempt the business sold for millions. Attempting to sell a UK business six times taught Joanna a variety of invaluable, but very expensive, lessons. By the final sale, Joanna learned every technique imaginable on how to maximise profits and sell quickly. Avoid frustration, save money and enjoy a smoother business sale journey by discovering the wisdom, techniques and tips offered in this book.

Interested in retiring, cashing-out, or starting a new adventure? Eager to exit your business so you can to enjoy more time with loved ones, spend some of your hard-earned cash or do all the things you've always want to do but never had the time? How To Sell A Business: The #1 Guide to maximising your company value and achieving a quick business sale will help you: - Gain techniques and tips on how to best maximise your profit personally - Ensure that the sale process goes as quickly and smoothly as possible - Increase the likelihood that you sell the first time through the sale process - Demystify the business sale process so you can be one step ahead of the buyer rather than behind - Be prepared to handle the emotional journey - Understand your current valuation and how to best increase it - Avoid being 'price chipped' (the buyer reducing the offer price) and avoid costly mistakes - Escape an earn-out (having to stay on as an employee and hit targets after the sale)

In this comprehensive guide, two specialists take the reader step-by-step through the entire process, from how to determine when the time is right to sell to negotiating the final terms.

Selling your business should be a profitable, crowning moment of achievement, but it can also be slow, difficult, and loaded with pitfalls. Inside, author and corporate attorney Frederick D. Lipman provides you with the comprehensive resource for selling your business--from strategically positioning your company's assets to finalizing the perfect deal. Straightforward and easy to read, this book explores the potential difficulties and demonstrates how you can enhance the value of your business and conduct its sale smoothly and profitably. You'll discover how to: - Establish the true value of your business, including intellectual property - Market your business to prospective buyers without alarming staff, suppliers, competitors, and the media - Negotiate the deal properly - Structure the transaction to avoid paying exorbitant taxes - Avoid potential "deal-killers" right from the start - And more! Also included is how to assemble a professional team of bankers and attorneys and conduct an auction, as well as appendixes providing detailed examples from actual sales and samples of key documents. For anyone selling or contemplating selling a business, this book is absolutely essential reading. "The best explanation I've ever seen on how to get the highest price for your company. Thanks for the millions."--Stan Gordon, President, Gordon Phillips Beauty Schools

Have a business to sell? This book will be all you require to get the information you need from start to finish on how to sell your business. The book will show you how to Maximise your selling price, how to follow up enquiries and provide valuable tools such as the best places to advertise. Being described as " The most insightful book on selling a business to date", you will not be disappointed. The book is brief and gets to points quickly and draws on personal experience to give you the best picture on how to sell your business quickly, effectively and at the best price.

How To Sell Your Business is tailored primarily for the owners of small to medium sized privately owned businesses, it contains a route map of the main factors you need to be both aware of and to consider in contemplating the sale process. It offers clear vision and methodology through what can be a very complicated & stressful process. Drawing on Don Matlock's twenty plus years of personal experience selling, & consulting on the selling, of businesses big and small the book will be must have guide to anyone entering this potential minefield. It shows you how to value your business, present for sale, maximise the price, find a potential buyer, handle due diligence and sign a contract for sale among other aspects.

This insightful and invaluable guide reveals how anyone can get a positively outrageous price for their company. Selling something that you’ve poured money, energy, and incalculable amounts of time into is tough enough. Getting anything less than the maximum you deserve in return for all your work is unjustifiable. You deserve to squeeze every dollar you can when it comes time to hand the reins over to the lucky investor who wants to profit from all your back-breaking groundwork. In Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price, you will discover how to: Prepare their companies and themselves for sale Recognize the best time to go to market Identify, attract, and motivate deep-pocketed buyers Determine their company's competitive advantage and leverage it for the best offer Find a transaction advisor with the skills and experience to guide them through the MA jungle Foil buyers' attempts to undermine sale price Featuring real-life case studies and an appendix of indispensable tools--including due diligence lists, sample nondisclosure agreements, a sales readiness assessment, and a sample engagement letter--this book reveals what you need to do so you can get paid!