Selling a business is no easy business. In fact, more often than we would like, businesses for sale get all the way through escrow…only to fall out right toward the end, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes the reasons are legit; others times they are downright silly. [Read more…]
Negotiation Tactics – Opening Offers and Closing Minds
Many people in business have, in one sense or another, learned negotiation tactics. Some of it may have come by training, but probably much of it by real life experience. A key issue, important to understand in negotiation, is the manner of opening.
The opening offer. [Read more…]
What a “Business for Sale” Really Means
Because there are many types of businesses that exist for many different industries, it stands to reason there are numerous ways of approaching the process to find the value of a business for sale.
There are three main approaches to value, which are: the income approach, the market approach, and the asset approach. There are variations of these approaches, and combinations of them. These variations must be considered because each and every business will be valued individually, and some of these differences can be substantial. [Read more…]
Business Risk and Wisdom
At some point, owners of businesses face the question of business risk. Risk is inherent in almost everything we do in this world in which we live. Those seeking small business advice will do well to consider business risk and its effect, because in addressing our potential to fail we can minimize the likelihood of such failure. [Read more…]
The Pinnacle of Entrepreneurship
There are three primal categories of successful entrepreneurship. They are providing, innovating, and inventing. The foremost, but least common, is inventing.
To be a successful inventor, which is the premier summit of all entrepreneurship, requires these three irrefutable qualities. They are: [Read more…]
