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BUYING OR SELLING A BUSINESS
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Buying or Selling a Business: An Overview

Each year, some 700,000 U.S. businesses change ownership. Most are small and mid-sized businesses, like retail stores, beauty salons, quick-print shops, restaurants, tax preparation services, landscapers, electrical contracting firms, and modest manufacturing operations. If you're thinking about buying or selling a business and want to get the best deal possible, expect to do a lot of planning and preparation.

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Eight Key Steps to Selling Your Business
To sell your business, you need help negotiating the deal and creating a sales agreement.

Buying a Business: What You Need to Know
Thinking about purchasing an existing business? Here are some things you should know before you take the plunge.

Ten Good Reasons Not to Buy a Franchise
Thinking about buying a franchise? Here are ten reasons why you should consider investing your time and money elsewhere.

Pricing a Business

  1. Value of tangible business assets.
  2. Value of intangible business assets.
  3. Sale prices of comparable businesses.
  4. Industry formulas.
  5. Market demand.
  6. Your personal needs.
  7. Type of buyer.
  8. Terms of payment.
  9. Appraisals.
  10. Put it all together.

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