As business brokers, our founders found it painful to meet far too many owners who worked at their businesses for years and made a decent living as long as they kept working, but are devastated to learn that they will get little or nothing for it when it comes time for them to retire. Nobody wants to be the bearer of that kind of news – but we don’t have to. There is another way.
Most business owners are not planning to sell their businesses tomorrow. All too often, all you hear on this subject is phone calls or emails from business brokerage telemarketers asking them if they are ready to do so. For the 95% who are not, you get annoyed at yet another spam call, but what it should be is a reminder that one day you will have to exit the business. Will you have positioned it to deliver the best value then? And remember that “then” could be tomorrow. There are so many things you can do to make the business more valuable when it sells, and many of them cannot be done at the last minute. Many of those actions can be done at little cost now and will make the business more profitable now. We help you decide which specific steps move your business towards its optimal value at a pace and cost that make sense for you.
We’ve been helping businesses make improvements for over 25 years. Our team has experience in business ownership, business consulting and business brokering. Nobody knows your company as well as you do, but we can tell you where it fits in its industry and how to make it more attractive to a potential buyer. (By the way, that usually makes it more profitable in the short-term too). We can help you take the actions that will increase value vs. just increasing operating costs. If you want to learn more, set up an appointment at a time of your convenience and let’s chat.