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Free Video Course: How to Sell Your Business

 

Receive a higher price. Walk away with more cash. Pay less taxes. Avoid common traps. Get prepared for the most important transaction in your life with this free video series on selling your business.  This program is an educational and entertaining series of videos and materials.

How to Sell Your Business

This program:

  1. Give you actionable tips on how to increase the value of your business.
  2. Give you actionable tips on how to fine tune and clean up your business in preparation for a sale.
  3. Increase the odds of a successful exit by giving you the knowledge of what to expect, how to position your company and what traps to avoid.
Number Advanced Subject Description of Learning Module
Secrets of Mergers and Acquisitions View
Secrets of Business Brokerage View
Just give me a number: Quick and Easy Valuation (EBITDA) Learn
1a EBITDA: What, Why and How (larger business) View
1b SDE: Discretionary Earnings. What, Why and How (smaller business) View
2 Earnings adjustments and tax maneuvers: How do you rank? View
3 Risk Factors: Identifying and managing risk such as customer concentration or over-dependence on owner View
4 Valuation Basics - How to estimate value View
Valuation theory and Discounted Cash Flow View
5 Your Estimate of Value: A checklist and overview for how we'll work together on a valuation View
6 Stock Sale vs. Asset Sale, A Visual Example View
Stock Sale vs. Asset Sales, The Details View
Watch if you are a C-Corp View
7 Timing of a sale: When to go to market View
8 Net Working Capital, and how to keep more of it View
9 A preview of due diligence and the data room: What to prepare for View
Tweeners: Help for those between $500K and $1 Million in earnings. View
10 The importance of competition and urgency View
11 Taxes and how to estimate them View
12 When and how to tell your employees View
13 Confidentiality View
14 Assemble a Dream Team of Advisors View
15 Private Equity vs. Strategic Buyers View
16 Private Equity vs. Strategic Buyers: A Case Study View
17 Do you really need an intermediary like an M&A firm? (Selling on your own) View
18 Choosing an M&A firm including industry experts vs. generalist firms View
19 M&A engagement agreements and fee structures View
20 The Critical Management (buyer/seller) Meeting View
21 What should be in an offer / Letter-of-Intent View

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What our Clients Say

“I had no idea how much work was involved in getting a deal done. Graeme and Ney were key to getting the deal to close.” – Mark Stapleton, PowerChem Technologies.

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