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Business Broker Survey Confirms Owner Financing On Rise

I recently received the survey results from a major online multiple listing service for businesses for sale. The survey conducted included over 1700 business brokers in the US. The report clearly established some trends I have been reiterating in my blog lately. In particular, the trend towards more owner financing in the deal structure. Because…

Website for Sale Due Diligence

When it comes time to sell your online business venture it is very important to prepare your business presentation and get your documentation organized. Even though a business appears to be attractive in its presentation, many deals will stall and fail to close because of a lack of clear historic documentation of the business financials…

Dropping a Business For Sale listing

Even though we are diligent in screening and reviewing our clients, their business financials and fundamentals prior to engaging them and listing their internet businesses for sale, occasionally we have some website businesses that precipitately descend in their traffic, revenues and other fundamentals during the course of selling their business. Sometimes, as in quarter 4…

Do economic woes equate to a buyers market?

With the news story of the week once again shifting from political pundits discussing “lipstick on a pig” as a reality show diversion to influence silly voters to the cold hard facts that our economy is in worse shape than otherwise expected, voters as well as buyers and sellers of businesses for sale are getting…

Internet businesses, the economy and the election.

The historic day has arrived after 20 months of an intense political race, economic uncertainty and global recession. How does the effect of the election and the apparent recession affect your internet business or the opportunity of buying a website business now? I am personally looking forward to completion of the process and hope that…