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Selling a Citizenship Instruction Business
A good business is about more than dollars and sense. To make your citizenship instruction business what it is today, you've had to fully invest yourself in its success. Now it's time to put that same kind of focus into selling it.
Selling a citizenship instruction business isn't as simple as listing a power tool on eBay. These days, the business-for-sale market is a hostile place for inexperienced and uninformed sellers.
Too often citizenship instruction business owners fail to receive fair market value for their businesses. With the right strategy, your sale doesn't have to end that way.
Negotiation Exit Strategy
Negotiations have a way of dragging on forever. There are countless details that need to be hammered out before a Letter of Intent can be prepared and the process can move on to the due diligence stage. As the seller, you'll be on the front lines of negotiation and will need to know when it's time to bring negotiations to an end. In a citizenship instruction business sale, a stalled negotiation can be an indication that the deal is dead. Since it can be difficult to tell whether the buyer is serious or playing games, it's important to know the lower boundaries of your negotiation strategy and be willing to walk away from the negotiation table, if necessary.
The Best Person to Sell Your Citizenship Instruction Business
As the owner, you are both the best and worst person to sell your citizenship instruction business. Without a doubt, you have the most at stake in the outcome of your sale. That makes you the most passionate advocate for your citizenship instruction business in the business-for-sale marketplace. However, your close connection to your company can also be a drawback. Nearly all sellers have an inflated sense of their company's value. Business brokers and other third-party consultants bring objectivity to the sale process and give you much-needed insight about buyers' mindsets.
Laying the Groundwork
A successful citizenship instruction business sale begins with careful planning. Although you are convinced your business has value in the marketplace, the planning process establishes a framework for communicating its value to prospective buyers. Professional business brokers understand buyers and know how to properly communicate a citizenship instruction business to the marketplace. Specifically, brokers can advise you about the preparation of financial statements and other documents buyers expect to see in a premium citizenship instruction business opportunity.
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