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Each year, around 1 million businesses' change hands in developed countries estimates a survey. Most of these businesses that change hands are mid-sized like retail stores, photo studios, beauty parlours, hotels, audit firms, small manufacturing units to name a few. If you are planning to buying a business or selling a business and you are targeting one of the best deals, you need to spend a lot of time in planning and preparation.
Selling a business
Irrespective of what kind of business you own - a services company, a neighborhood retail store or home based website development, a store that sells gardening equipment there will be interested buyers out there at least one or two to start with. This will be the case if you are prepared to selling a business with the right price tag. Finding the right buyer in selling a business on a win win situation will require lot of planning, time and effort.
The first step in selling a business is to assess if you are ready to sell. Further steps in selling a business include getting insight into the selling process, preparing yourself and your company for selling, positioning your business for a price tag, looking for potential buyers, negotiating and arriving at the terms and conditions and preparing a sale deed based on the terms and conditions and also other legal documents and closing a deal.
Buying a business
If you are looking for buying a business, you have many factors to consider. The first step towards buying a business is to find out whether is running a business on your own will suit your life style, what are the success factors that you have taken into consideration, the risks involved. If you are buying a business, be prepared for spending long hours and more things to take care of compared to working as an employee. If you succeed, the rewards are yours to enjoy.
While buying a business there are few other factors to consider including find a business that is available for sale, doing some research if the price tag is nominal, finding in-depth the business' history and finance.
Enjoy!
Whether you are selling a business or buying a business, enjoy this phase which will be time consuming but the fruits yielded are worth it. After selling a business or buying a business, it will be a fresh phase of your life.
