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Topics: Selling your business, business planning, selling business action plan, business valuations
Topics: Selling your business, business valuations, business brokers
Increasing your Business Valuation - 6 more tips
Posted by Richard Ludlow on Wed, Feb 09, 2011 @10:27 AMAs usual, to do this you will need to spend time working ON the business, not just IN the business.
Topics: Selling your business, business valuations
Ideally, business owners become motivated to sell their business at the same time business buyers are willing to offer the sellers an attractive price. Unfortunately, that is usually not the case. Many business owners wait to plan the sale until the reasons to sell become a compulsion.
Topics: Selling your business, selling business action plan, business valuations
Selling Your Business with Real Estate - 3 pointers
Posted by Richard Ludlow on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 @08:54 AM
Topics: selling business action plan, business valuations, business brokers
One of the main challenges a business broker faces with a new client is the business valuation. A business broker is trained to be able to develop a Broker’s Opinion of Value that represents the Market Value of the business. Various valuation techniques are used to evaluate and quantify the following three basic elements of value in an ongoing business: Cash Flow, Growth, and Risk. In other words what your business is worth depends on the cash it generates today, how much cash it’s likely to deliver in the foreseeable future, and the return any buyers would require on their investment in your business.
Topics: business valuations