• The Often-Overlooked Importance of Leases

    The Often-Overlooked Importance of Leases

    When buying or selling a business, it is critically important that you evaluate the lease. It

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  • Buying/Selling a Business: The External View

    Buying/Selling a Business: The External View

    There is the oft-told story about Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonalds. Before he approached the

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  • The Advantage of Buying an Existing Business

    The Advantage of Buying an Existing Business

    Most people think of starting a business from scratch, developing an idea, building a company

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  • How Understanding Psychology Can Benefit Your Deals

    How Understanding Psychology Can Benefit Your Deals

    We work closely with our clients to preserve the integrity of deals so that they have the best

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  • Is Your Business Charging Enough For Goods & Services?

    Is Your Business Charging Enough For Goods & Services?

    A small increase in what you charge for your goods and services can make a tremendous

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  • Insights from BizBuySell’s 3rd Quarter Insight Report

    Insights from BizBuySell’s 3rd Quarter Insight Report

    Most business buyers and sellers are wondering what 2021 and beyond will bring.  BizBuySell and

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  • What Makes a Deal Close?

    What Makes a Deal Close?

    For every reason that a pending sale of a business collapses, there is a positive reason why

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  • Buying a Distressed Business 

    Buying a Distressed Business 

    It is safe to state that Howard Brownstein, President of The Brownstein Corporation, is a true

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  • Considering Generational Strategies

    Considering Generational Strategies

    When you are buying or selling a business, you might very well end up making a deal with

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  • Essential Meeting Tips for Buyers & Sellers

    Essential Meeting Tips for Buyers & Sellers

    The buyer-seller meeting is quite often a “make or break” meeting.  Your business broker or

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  • Negotiating the Price Gap Between Buyers and Sellers

    Negotiating the Price Gap Between Buyers and Sellers

    Sellers generally desire all-cash transactions; however, oftentimes partial seller financing is

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  • 6 Tips and 90 Days to Protect Your Business

    6 Tips and 90 Days to Protect Your Business

    There can be no way around it, Inc. contributor Brian Hamilton’s April 2020 COVID-19 centered

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  • Improving Your Telework Habits

    Improving Your Telework Habits

    In her recent April 20th, 2020 Forbes article, “Three Keys to Engaged, Productive Telework

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  • Don’t Fear Failure, Learn from It Instead

    Don’t Fear Failure, Learn from It Instead

    Failure is rarely fun.  But it is also a key ingredient in success.  While failure can be

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  • How to Connect During a Crisis

    How to Connect During a Crisis

    Small business owners are facing new challenges during this crisis.  Communicating with

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  • Finding the Best Business for You

    Finding the Best Business for You

    Owning a business and owning the right kind of business for you are, of course, two wildly

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  • Tackling Growth Delusions When Buying a Business

    Tackling Growth Delusions When Buying a Business

    There is no doubt about it, it can be exciting to buy a new business.  However, in the process,

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  • A Closer Look at 3 Major Factors to Consider When You Buy a Business

    A Closer Look at 3 Major Factors to Consider When You Buy a Business

    The simple but undeniable fact is buying a business is one of the single greatest financial

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  • Do You Know What Kind of Business Owner You Really Are?

    Do You Know What Kind of Business Owner You Really Are?

    Does your business have real, long-lasting longevity or is your business a temporary entity

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  • Business Buyers Can Leverage SBA Lending

    Business Buyers Can Leverage SBA Lending

    Finding the money to start your own small business can be a challenge.  Over the decades,

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  • How Employees Factor into the Success of Your Business

    How Employees Factor into the Success of Your Business

    Quality employees are essential for the long-term success and growth of any business.  Many

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  • 5 M&A Myths and How to Deal with Them

    5 M&A Myths and How to Deal with Them

    Where your money is concerned, myths can do damage.  A recent Divestopedia article from Tammie

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  • A Step by Step Overview of the First Time Buyer Process

    A Step by Step Overview of the First Time Buyer Process

    A recent article on Businessbroker.net entitled, First Time Buyer Processes by business broker

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  • What Should You Evaluate When Buying a Business?

    What Should You Evaluate When Buying a Business?

    Buying a business can be an exciting prospect. For many prospective business owners, owning a

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  • Interested in Buying a Business? Check Out These 3 Commonly Overlooked Areas

    Interested in Buying a Business? Check Out These 3 Commonly Overlooked Areas

    When it comes to buying a business, nothing is more important than the factor of due diligence.

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  • Key Elements for Every Partnership Agreement

    Key Elements for Every Partnership Agreement

    You should never forget that your partnership agreement is, in fact, one of the most important

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  • Is It Time to Become a Business Owner? 3 Questions to Ask Yourself.

    Is It Time to Become a Business Owner? 3 Questions to Ask Yourself.

    Many people know that owning a business isn’t for them. But for others, the appeal and

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  • The Importance of the Term Sheet

    The Importance of the Term Sheet

    The value of the term sheet shouldn’t be overlooked. From buyers and sellers to advisors

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  • The Top 3 Key Factors to Consider about Earnings

    The Top 3 Key Factors to Consider about Earnings

    Two businesses could report the same numeric value for earnings but that doesn’t always

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  • Are You Sure Your Deal is Completed?

    Are You Sure Your Deal is Completed?

    When it comes to your deal being completed, having a signed Letter of Intent is great. While

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  • What Should Be in Your Partnership Agreement

    What Should Be in Your Partnership Agreement

    Partnership agreements are essential business documents, the importance of which is difficult

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  • Can I Buy a Business With No Collateral

    Can I Buy a Business With No Collateral

    At first glance the idea of buying a business with no collateral may seem impossible, but in

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  • Should You Become a Business Owner?

    Should You Become a Business Owner?

    While being a business owner may in the end not be for everyone, there is no denying the great

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  • Three Overlooked Areas to Investigate Before Buying

    Three Overlooked Areas to Investigate Before Buying

    Before you jump in and buy any business, you’ll want to do your due diligence. Buying a

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  • 5 Tips for Buyers of International Businesses

    5 Tips for Buyers of International Businesses

    The decision to buy an international business is no doubt quite serious. There are numerous

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  • 5 Reasons Buying a Business is Preferable to Starting a New One

    5 Reasons Buying a Business is Preferable to Starting a New One

    If you are considering running your own business, one of the first questions that might pop in

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  • A Buyer’s Quandary

    A Buyer’s Quandary

    Statistics reveal that out of about 15 would-be business buyers, only one will actually buy a

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  • The Confidentiality Agreement

    The Confidentiality Agreement

    When considering selling their companies, many owners become paranoid regarding the issue of

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  • The Devil May Be in the Details

    The Devil May Be in the Details

    When the sale of a business falls apart, everyone involved in the transaction is disappointed –

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  • Family Businesses

    Family Businesses

    A recent study revealed that only about 28 percent of family businesses have developed a

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  • Two Similar Companies ~ Big Difference in Value

    Two Similar Companies ~ Big Difference in Value

    Consider two different companies in virtually the same industry. Both companies have an EBITDA

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  • What Are Buyers Looking for in a Company?

    What Are Buyers Looking for in a Company?

    It has often been said that valuing companies is an art, not a science. When a buyer

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  • A Reasonable Price for Private Companies

    A Reasonable Price for Private Companies

    Putting a price on privately-held companies is more complicated than placing a value or price

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  • Who Is the Buyer?

    Who Is the Buyer?

    Buyers buy a business for many of the same reasons that sellers sell businesses. It is

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  • Buying (or Selling) a Business

    Buying (or Selling) a Business

    The following is some basic information for anyone considering purchasing a business. Is may

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  • The Deal Is Almost Done — Or Is It?

    The Deal Is Almost Done — Or Is It?

    The Letter of Intent has been signed by both buyer and seller and everything seems to be moving

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  • Three Basic Factors of Earnings

    Three Basic Factors of Earnings

    Two businesses for sale could report the same numeric value for “earnings” and yet

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  • A Listing Agreement is More than Just a Piece of Paper

    A Listing Agreement is More than Just a Piece of Paper

    In order to sell one’s business using the services of a business broker, a listing agreement is

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  • What a Buyer May Really Be Looking At

    What a Buyer May Really Be Looking At

    Buyers, as part of their due diligence, usually employ accountants to check the numbers and

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  • A “Pig in a Poke”

    A “Pig in a Poke”

    Once a buyer has negotiated a deal and secured the necessary financing, he or she is ready for

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  • Company Weaknesses

    Company Weaknesses

    Take two seemingly identical companies with very similar financials, but one of the companies

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  • Questions to Consider for the Serious Buyer

    Questions to Consider for the Serious Buyer

    A serious buyer should have the answers to the following questions: Why are you considering the

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  • Five Kinds of Buyers

    Five Kinds of Buyers

    Buyers are generally categorized as belonging to one of the following groups although, in

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  • Why Deals Don’t Close

    Why Deals Don’t Close

    Sellers Don’t have a valid reason for selling. Are testing the waters to check the market and

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  • Protected: A Buyer’s Quandary

    Protected: A Buyer’s Quandary

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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