Sell Your Business Without Losing Your Shirt
Prepare to Sell Your Business on Great Terms with Less Stress
In his forthcoming book, Rex Cattanach shares a time-tested process for selling your privately-owned business on great terms.
This book will reveal: Why Many Businesses are Undervalued, Surprising Ways You Can Increase Value Before You Sell, The Heart of Great Deals,
How to Negotiate a Sale on Great Terms, Working with Advisors and Brokers
Welcome to Keats Group
Business owners immerse themselves in every day tasks essential to starting and running a small business. As owners, I suspect you are involved in almost every type of business function out there? Selling, negotiating, producing products or services, managing people, operating equipment and keeping the books.
What most owners haven't done is sell a business.
Even if you have, many business sales are approached without the benefit of a great process that, if followed, improves the financial terms, timing and risk of selling a company. I found the biggest mistake most owners make in the beginning is not acquainting yourselves with how to position your business for sale on better terms. This preparation might be several weeks or a year in duration, depending on your personal circumstances and your business size and type. But learning about your options will pay dividends.
Business Owners Need a Process
Business sales are very situational and an excellent process can not make a poor performing business sell for a great price. But there are many techniques and tasks that, if applied, will: 1: improve your sales and profit before you sell; 2: lessen or eliminate weaknesses in your business to insulate you from selling too low or not being able to sell at all (the fate of most small businesses); and 3: improve the transferability of business operations to the buyer, who will pay a premium for these operating systems.
This website illustrates our commitment to innovation in the practice of business sales and lower middle market mergers and acquisitions ('M&A'). If you would like to learn more about the process of selling your business or how to increase business value in preparation for selling, please contact Rex Cattanach at 651-773-8400 in confidence to schedule a free 30-minute telephone consultation.
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We've developed a highly regarded curriculum-based exit planning program to help you prepare to sell for more money and to quality people who can grow your company. The program is designed to provide immediate return on investment by improving sales and profit, and to increase your company valuation.
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The information available here is the product of more than 200 business sales, valuations and mergers-acquisitions led by our partners, plus contributions from experts in business valuation, business process improvement, negotiations and investor acquisitions. Visit this site often; new information is posted continuously. Keats Group values quality clients and companies. We know if we lead with information and solutions, you will consider hiring us to help you sell your business, engage in pre-sale business positioning or acquire a quality company.
To our knowledge, Keats Group LLC is the first business intermediary broker to display our Statement of Business Ethics.
INBUSINESS® is a bi-weekly publication written for small business owners and their advisors.
It features expert advice for valuing, selling or buying a privately-owned business or professional practice, and for positioning your business to sell on great terms with less risk.
INBUSINESS® is written in an easy-to-read style and presents some of the most forward-thinking ideas in business by successful entrepreneurs.
Our goal is to be among the most recognized, respected sources for continuous learning in small and lower middle-market business sales.
