Niche Market Exit Planning Tips
Selling a Bathroom Accessories Wholesale and Manufacturers Business
You've learned a lot during your tenure as a bathroom accessories wholesale and manufacturers business owner. Before you walk away, you have one more challenge to overcome: A successful and profitable business sale.
Selling a bathroom accessories wholesale and manufacturers business? You'll need to be prepared to address a variety of challenges that are common in the business-for-sale marketplace.
They require careful planning and an intentional strategy that emphasizes your bathroom accessories wholesale and manufacturers business's strengths and meets the needs of the marketplace. But for business sellers, the process begins with having the right mental attitude.
How to Identify Prospective Buyers
Whether you know it or not, prospective buyers for your bathroom accessories wholesale and manufacturers business are all around you. In fact, there is a good chance you already know several individuals or companies that might be interested in buying your business for a decent price. We frequently see qualified buyers emerge from the seller's network of business and personal acquaintances. In other cases, sellers take a proactive approach to finding likely buyers and contacting them directly. Competitors may seem like natural prospects and they are. The downside is that they won't pay top dollar and will probably absorb your company into their own.
Valuation Methods
Professional appraisers can use three methods to determine the value ofa bathroom accessories wholesale and manufacturers business: The income method, the asset method and the market method. The income method determines value based on the amount of income the business is expected to generate. The asset method, on the other hand, is based on the value of tangible and non-tangible assets (e.g. brands and trademarks). In many sales, the most accurate valuation comes from the market method which determines value based on the recent sales of similar businesses. A good appraiser will often use multiple valuation methods to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Sellers should take note of the fact that all three valuation methods reward businesses that takes steps to increase assets and income.
Tips for Working with A Business Broker
Business brokers are professional business sellers. Brokerage is particularly common in the bathroom accessories wholesale and manufacturers business-for-sale market, where aggressive selling strategies are the norm. However, your broker will still expect you to materially participate in the sale of your business. Successfully brokered sales are based on solid relationships between brokers and sellers as well as the strict execution of a common selling strategy.
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