Category: Buy a Business

26 February 2024: We Need Sellers Are you a business owner? How about a business broker? Or even a real estate agent that knows business owners and would like to help them sell their business? Are you a member of a business group such as a local Chamber of Commerce

19 February 2024: Selling a Business That’s Losing Money Can a business that’s losing money be sold? The answer is a qualified “yes”. We did two posts on this topic last year. The first one focused on smaller businesses; those that would be of interest to financial buyers. The second

12 February 2024: Valuing a Business – Assets Valuing a business is arguably the most important aspect of selling one and knowing how to do so, the most important bit of knowledge one must have if one plans to broker businesses; or sell their own business; or insure the lives

  5 February 2024: Valuing a Business – Earnings Over the past two weeks, we’ve posted twice about some of the methods we use when valuing businesses. In the first post on this topic we discussed from a high level vantage point four methods we use regularly. Last week’s post

29 January 2024: Valuing a Business – The Comparables Method Last week’s post describing four methodologies often used when valuing a business raised some questions. Surprisingly, the questions raised were pretty equally spread over the four methods we discussed. This wasn’t really surprising as we get questions all the time

22 January 2024: Valuing a Business – Methodologies Valuing a business is one of the first steps that must be taken when the business owner begins to consider selling. But there are many more reasons to have a business valued than just selling it. We do valuations for insurance reasons,

15 January 2024: Selling a Business: Earn Outs If you own a business of a certain size – or broker such businesses – are you familiar with the most salient intricacies of an “earn out”? If not, you should be because, in certain market environments – such as the one

8 January 2024: Selling a Professional Practice: Insurance Agencies A couple of weeks ago, we posted a two-part series on selling a professional practice. That series – which can been seen here (Part 1) and here (Part 2) – though mentioning veterinarians and accounting practices, was rather general in nature.

1 January 2024: Selling a Business: Increase its Value The beginning of every year is often a time when people consider where they are in their life and where they want to go – how they should plan for the coming year. In the case of many business owners, it’s

25 December 2023: Happy Holidays from Worldwide Business Brokers! No business today, ladies and gentlemen. But we send our best wishes to you and yours for the happiest of holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2024! – From all of us at Worldwide Business Brokers and The Brokers Roundtable℠. I’d