Get Your Business Ready for Sale

/ Pat Robards

A hand holds a "For Sale" sign near a glass door inside a modern office space, hinting at possible business transformation services. The office, featuring wooden flooring and glass walls, has visible workstations in the background, perfectly suited for part-time CFO services in Southeast Queensland.

The market for the sale of business is getting harder each year with Baby Boomers retiring in large numbers. This has created a surplus of businesses for sale which allows the buyers to be selective in where they spend their money.

A ready for sale business that will sell for many times the multiple of profit has the following common qualities.

Customer database that includes not only customers but potential customers as well. The database keeps you in contact with the people you want to do business with.

The relationship with the customer list is very important and reflects the past service you have provided to them.

The business is under management and you strategically run the business. You are not involved in the day to day running of the business. 

The business has an organisational structure that is operated in a systematic way that allows the business to provide a service or product to the highest quality standard.

Everyone involved in the business plays by your rules of the game.

A buyer with money will not want to purchase a business that requires them to come in and do work, supervise or manage the business. They only want to invest and produce a return on that investment.

Sounds easy but it is not simple.

If you want further information contact us and we can show you how to maximise the potential sale price of your business contact me.