Category: Selling a Business

 Selling a Business But the Seller Wants To Keep an Asset 23 June 2025: Selling a Business: But the Seller Wants to Keep an Asset We occasionally are asked by selling clients about whether or not they can sell their business but hold on to one or more of

 Selling a Business: Price Matters 16 June 2025: Selling a Business: Price Matters We often discuss the importance of having a business valuation done when considering selling a business. This is a big part of our training for new brokers and real estate agents as well as our early

 Business Brokers and Realtors: How BIG is Our Market? 9 June 2025: Business Brokers and Realtors: How BIG is Our Market? “Derek Olson has made a fortune making machines that rip up flooring, like carpeting in elementary schools.” Thus begins a recent article by Juliet Chung in The Wall

 Selling Your Business: Is It Sell-able? 2 June 2025: Selling Your Business: Is It Sellable? With a tagline that goes. “Every Business that doesn’t fail will sell…Every one!”, you’d thing that the question in that headline would not be necessary. But the reality is that some businesses may not

 Selling Your Business? Disclosing the Secret Sauce 19 May 2025: Selling Your Business? Disclosing the Secret Sauce The following text is the opening paragraph of an article that came across my desk recently: “Many business owners make one critical mistake when selling: they share too much, too soon. A

 Selling Your Business: Some Cautionary Notes 12 May 2025: Selling Your Business: Some Cautionary Notes Selling a business is generally an arduous event, often taxing the business owner mentally and emotionally – and sometimes even physically. In the nearly 25 years we’ve been advising business owners (and business buyers),

 Selling a Business: 2025 Outlook 5 May 2025: Selling a Business: 2025 Outlook Stubbornly high interest rates. Tariffs both real and threatened. Elon running roughshod through Washington and lefties going from lionizing Teslas to torching them in response. What’s next, boys playing on the girls’ teams? Oh, wait… With

 Selling a Family Business: First, Make Sure You Can 28 April 2025: Selling a Family Business: First, Make Sure You Can Even in the best case instances, selling a family business is fraught with complications, obstacles and headaches. This is especially true if the business is more than one

 Selling a Business: Setting the Right Price 21 April 2025: Selling a Business: Setting the Right Price I’ve written often about the importance of having a business valuation done when selling a business. From the amount of time the business is on the market and being able to plan