Is the Market for Businesses Cooling Down?
The market for businesses is red hot, and that fact is translating over to lots of activity in businesses being sold. However, it is possible that this record-breaking number of sales could cool down in the near future.
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What Are Your Business Real Estate Options?
In a December 2018 article in Divestopedia entitled, “Options for Business Real Estate When Selling a Company,” the topic of business real estate was explored at length. One of the article’s key points was that understanding one’s business real estate options...
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Financing a Business Sale? 5 Questions to Consider
How should the sale and financing of a business sale be structured? This is an issue that should be addressed early in the sale process. For most people, buying or selling a business is one of the most, if...
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The Importance of Understanding Leases
Leases should never be overlooked when it comes to buying or selling a business. After all, where your business is located and how long you can stay at that location plays a key role in the overall health of...
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What Types of Buyers Will You Meet?
Selling a business can be exciting and lucrative. But going through the sales process means embracing the notion that you’ll have to be prepared for whatever might be thrown your way. A key aspect of preparing to sell your...
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Goodwill & Its Importance to Your Business
What exactly does the term “goodwill” mean when it comes to buying or selling a business? Usually, this term is a reference to all the effort a seller puts into a business over the years that he or she...
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4 Issues to Consider When Selling a Business
The process of selling a business can be complex. Whether you’ve sold a business in the past or are selling a business for the very first time, it is imperative that you work with an expert. A seasoned merger...
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Prepare Your Exit on Day One
Pepperjam CTO Greg Shepard recently published “Planning Your Exit Should Begin When You Launch,” in Entrepreneur magazine. In this article, Shepard puts forward a variety of thought-provoking ideas including that entrepreneurs should be thinking about partnering early on with...
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Why Do Business Sales Fall Through?
There are myriad reasons why the sale of a business doesn’t close successfully. These multiple causes can be broken down into four categories: those caused by the seller, those caused by the buyer, those that just happen (“acts of...
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Your Company’s Undocumented Value
Business valuations are not one-dimensional. In fact, a good valuation is one that factors in a wide range of variables in order to achieve an accurate result.
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