Business Brokering Buy Sell Business – Worldwide Business Brokers
Can I Charge for a Business Valuation?? We get this question from business brokers all the time. They know that valuing a business requires a good deal of their time – time that could be spent marketing businesses that they have already listed – and a good deal of money
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
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
If you’re considering selling a business, let’s discuss some of the myriad issues involved. From taxes and financing instruments to training the buyer and keeping the transaction confidential, there are dozens of issues that must be considered when it comes time to think about selling a business. We’re going to
How do Lease Terms Impact the Business? If you’re buying a business, what should you look for in the lease? Well, that depends. Let’s examine some of the issues. The most obvious one is the rental rate. If the business you’re buying leases its location from an unrelated party –
What are the Pros and Cons of Buying the Real Estate with the Business? If you’re buying a business, should you buy any real estate that the business owns? Well, that depends. Let’s look at some of the upsides and downsides. For starters, most business owners would prefer to lease
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
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
Like all professions, the Business Broker/Business Advisor profession has its own keywords and phrases that, in many case, our clients don’t immediately understand. “Contract work in progress” is one such phrase as is the term “working capital”. Those terms, however, aren’t necessarily pertinent to every business that we value, sell
American readers of a certain age will probably remember the game show, The Price is Right, in which contestants tried to guess the price of merchandise, and its host Bob Barker. Some of the shows were hilarious as contestants had no clue as to the prices of countless items and
