We connect owners of $1M to $50M businesses with a senior broker, mostly in trades, manufacturing, distribution, and B2B services. If your business can run without you, he can help you sell it well.
This is an estimate based on what businesses in your industry have been selling for, not a formal valuation, an offer, or financial advice. The right strategic buyer can pay well above a range like this. Your real number depends on your financials, your customer mix, and how well the business runs when you are not in the room. That is the conversation to have with a broker. The brokerage does not handle highly owner-dependent practices like medical or dental.
You can list your business on a public marketplace yourself. In a short while it becomes clear what a broker is actually for. A good one does not wait for inquiries. They already have the buyers.
Built from your financials and businesses like yours that actually sold. It comes with a list of real potential buyers. No cost, no obligation.
A list of thousands of buyers who acquire businesses to fold into their own. They pay more than a public-listing price, sometimes up to 20% more, because your business is worth more inside theirs.
Mailers, emails, and calls out to target buyers. Negotiating several offers against each other, not just fielding whoever shows up. That marketing is paid out of their commission, not your pocket.
A sale can be as private or as public as you want. If you want it confidential, your business goes to market as a profile with no name on it, and a buyer signs an agreement before they learn whose it is. If you do not care who knows, it can be listed openly. Your call, either way.
If you go the confidential route, that is the whole listing. No name, no address, no logo, no customer list.
Your competitors do not have to know. Your customers do not have to know. Your crew does not have to know. A buyer signs a confidentiality agreement before they learn a single identifying detail.
Selling a business is not a fast process, and most sales have the owner stay on for a while after the deal closes. Sometimes that is three months. Sometimes it is two years. So the timeline that matters is not when you want to sell. It is when you want to be done. If that is a few years out, the work starts today.
Most sellers have another two or three working years in them whether they realize it or not. Knowing your number now lets you plan those years instead of getting caught flat.
Private equity firms and search funds are holding record amounts of committed capital, and a growing share of it has been sitting unspent for years. That money is under pressure to get deployed.
More than 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day, and many of them own businesses. The ones who plan ahead sell into a stronger market than the ones who wait until they are burned out.
No secret about it. If you want to sell your business on your own, these are the main marketplaces:
A marketplace listing waits for someone to find it. A broker does the opposite. They already hold a list of thousands of strategic buyers, and they go out to the hundreds who actually fit your business.
Companies that would fold your business into theirs, or expand by buying it, pay above the public price. A strategic buyer can lift your number by as much as 20%.
Yes, a broker costs money. A peer-reviewed study of 3,281 private company sales found that owners who used an adviser sold for 6% to 25% more than owners who went alone, at every deal size.
A broker works several interested buyers at the same time and uses that competition to push your price up. For most owners, this is the first and only time they will ever sell a business.
A broker can tell within a call or two who is a real buyer with real money and who is browsing. On your own you find out months in, after you have handed over your financials.
Mailers, emails, and phone calls out to target buyers, marketing your business to them directly. Those costs come out of their commission, not your pocket.
Built from your financial documents and similar businesses that sold. It includes the public listing price, and a list of strategic buyers they would actually reach out to. All free.
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Answer 5 quick questions. There are no wrong answers. A broker scores them and walks you through the result.
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