Spread the word. Business brokers are trained to sell businesses. And that’s what they do!
The TOP REASON to use a certified business broker to sell your business is that businesses offered through business brokers have a much higher listing-to-closing rate than those offered through realtors or listed directly by business owners.
In general, business brokers successfully close between one out of four and one out of seven listings. Real estate agents close about one out of 20 business listings. For sale by owner (FSBO) businesses close at a lower rate.In Canada, Sunbelt Business Brokers closes 70% of its engagements to sell a business.
Spread the word. Business brokers are trained to sell businesses. And that’s what they do! Click to tweet!
Business brokers sell businesses
Here are the remaining 10 of the top 11 reasons to use a certified business broker to sell your business.
Certified Business Brokers are trained to sell businesses. They are specialists who:
2. Follow a process that works for both buyer and seller and, with dual representation, are obligated to protect both parties.
3. Know the market and have access to a database of active buyers—owner-operators, financial buyers and strategic acquirers—looking for businesses.
4. Save time by prequalifying prospective buyers’ resources and potential for assuming your business, eliminating “tire kickers.”
5. Possess a unique skill set: knowledgeable about valuation principles, financial statement analysis, taxation implications, inventory and goodwill issues, and so on.
6. Are familiar with ways to optimize the value of the business i.e. operational, organizational and financial factors that move the business up the value chain.
7. Understand how to package, position and confidentially market the business for sale; protocols for advertising, disclosing information and handling buyers in order to protect the seller and their business.
8. Apply selling and negotiation skills to find solutions that achieve goals of both buyer and seller.
9. Minimize risk: the lower the perceived risk to a buyer, the more a buyer can afford to pay and the more a seller will receive.
10. Facilitate the due diligence process and the preparation of closing documents, coordinating other service providers required to close the deal: lawyers, accountants, landlords, franchisors, lenders and insurance experts.
Want to work with the best network of licensed business brokers in Canada and around the world? Sunbelt’s business brokers are members of the International Business Brokers Association, the National Equipment and Business Brokers Institute, the International Franchise Association and many more. We have the training and the expertise to do the best for you.It pays to use a business broker! Click to tweet!
