Are you thinking about buying or selling a business?

Then you will be wanting the right answers to questions such as:

How much is your business worth or how much should you pay for a business?
How do you get the best price for your business?
How do you prepare your business for sale?
Is the business right for you?
What are the best exit strategy options are available to you?

Buying or selling a business is a complex process and it pays to make sure you have all the answers. A business is meant to be an asset that secures your wealth and provides the lifestyle you want.

So you NEED to be ready for one of the most important transactions of your life.

Is your business ready to get the best price you deserve?

Selling a business is not as simple as putting up the "For Sale" sign and hoping for the phone to ring.

In order to get the best price and the best outcome you must understand:

1. Why would someone else part with their money?
2. Why is your business a better buy than the next one up for sale?

To do this you need to be ready - you need to know:

Who would want to buy your business and why.
The range of values that your financial figures will justify.
The opportunities that another buyer can implement to grow the business.
The process involved in buying or selling.
The exit strategy alternatives available to you.

Do you want to reap the benefits of your hard work? Do you want to achieve the financial profits you really deserve? Do you want to make sure the most important transaction of your business life is successful?

Then you need to be ready to buy or sell - on your terms.

What is Sale Ready and how does it work?

Sale Ready gives you the answers you need to make sure you profit from making the right business decisions.

Sale Ready is a suite of structured analysis tools and information that we can deliver as half-day onsite workshops or as consulting assignments. You can select one or more workshops depending on your situation and needs, or we can do the work for you and provide you with the answers you need.

The best preparation is having the right knowledge about your business AND what this knowledge means to buyers and sellers. So all our consulting projects are based on helping you to understand:

What your business is worth to others.
How to increase the price of your business.
How to buy or sell a business.
How your business can survive without you.

6 reasons why you need Sale Ready:

Sale Ready gives you the confidence to make sure you profit from one of the biggest decisions of your life - buying or selling a business.

Sale Ready will help you to:

Increase the sale price of your business.
Make your business more attractive to a buyer.
Identify and implement innovative ways you can exit your business.
Have the confidence that you are making the right buy or sell decision.
Reduce the risk of giving away heaps of value when you sell your business.
Challenge your existing business strategy and identify ways you can increase the value of your business.

What do our clients say?

The Sale Ready programs have helped many business owners to improve the financial outcome of the sale process:

"We sold the business to a local business operator for twice the value originally estimated - and we had never realised that business would have been interested in us till after completing the Sale Ready program".
"We would have accepted our first offer that undervalued the business by a factor of 10 - now we are growing the business and preparing for a better sale outcome".
"A quick check on the business I was buying helped me work out the highest offer I should make".
"We valued the business a lot less than what we should have - and I was about to give away 25% of the business to a new partner for half the value I ended up getting".

Sale Ready also gives most clients confidence in their decision making and what they must do to increase the value of the business:

"After completing the SaleReady program we had a clear understanding of not only what our business was worth now, but also the strategy on how to achieve the value we really wanted. In a short space of time we had clear revenue and profit targets to support our target value. The layout and structure of the material makes it easy to understand the value of our business"
"We now have the confidence to discuss partner exit strategies proactively rather than wait for someone to announce they are leaving and make unrealistic demands."
"Without the Sale Ready valuation the banks never would have approved the loan to buy the business. The process really opened up the opportunities in the acquisition."
"Sale Ready helped me keep the end in mind throughout the whole business-planning process, to ensure that decisions made along the way align with a realistic exit strategy".

What can you do next?

Discover more detail about each of our workshops:

Your Value Now - a fast, cost-effective, informative assessment of your current business value.
Understanding Value - a detailed assessment of the range of your business values.
Creating Value - uncover the hidden value that you can create in your business.
Realising Value - learn the exit strategies available to you and who would buy your business.
Acquiring Value - make sure the business you buy creates the value you need.
Succession Ready - develop a plan for your business to continue once you have left.

Do you want to:

Increase the value of your business - whether you are buying or selling?
Feel confident you have made the right decisions?
Answer your questions about buying or selling?

Then follow this link to make a free no-obligation enquiry about how we can help you achieve the best outcome.