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Main Street vs Middle Market: What’s the Difference?

What’s the Difference Between “Main Street” and “Middle Market” Businesses? Even within the business brokerage and M&A industry, there is no standard definition of a Main Street business or a Middle Market business. Ask ten brokers or advisors – or ten accountants or attorneys – and you’ll get ten different

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Selling a Business Part 2: The Planning

How to Sell a Business: Part 2 This is the second of a five-part series on selling your business. To get the whole picture, read Part 1. Just like building a business, selling one takes planning. Selling a business takes planning, first, and following a process, second. Unfortunately, few business

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How To Sell a Business

How To Sell a Business – In Five Easy Steps. NOT! Though you’ll find five tips and strategies on how to sell a business in this post, I’m just kidding about five “easy steps”. I mean, come on! Like hip replacement and peace in the Middle East, if it was

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Do I Need a License to be a Business Broker?

Do I need a License to be a Business Broker?? We get this question at least once a week; “Do I need a business brokers license?” The short answer is, “it depends”. First of all, I want to be clear that we’re talking about a professional license, like a license

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What is Needed to Value a Business?

Once More: The Importance of the Valuation! NOTE: This post was originally geared toward business brokers and those that wanted to become business brokers. However, because it discusses how to value a business, much of the information, particularly the downloadable data at the bottom, is also pertinent to business owners

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What Does a Business Broker Do?

What Does a Business Broker Do? Indeed, what does a business broker do? We get this question all the time from all sorts of people who you would otherwise think were intelligent individuals. There are real estate brokers that sell houses, bond brokers that sell corporate and government bonds, visa

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Business Brokering: How to Handle Real Estate

What do you do if real estate is involved in the business sale? This is a question we get all the time. You meet with the sellers; you find out that either the business owns the real estate or that the sellers own the business and the real estate in

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Business Brokering: The Value of Co-Brokering

What is “co-brokering” and why is it important? The answer to the first part of that question is that co-brokering is the concept of working with other brokers. The answer to the second part is two-fold: First, because 50% of something is always greater than 100% of nothing – the

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