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Phasecorp's 10 Steps to Selling Your Business:

  1. Determine the market value of the business
  2. Prepare the business for sale
  3. Publish business briefings
  4. Market the business
  5. Pre-screen prospective buyers
  6. Facilitate meetings and negotiations
  7. Prepare all necessary agreements
  8. Facilitate due diligence
  9. Close the transaction
  10. Transfer possession

Phasecorp helps business sellers maximize the value of their business. Our Consultants identify hidden business values, build marketing strategies, contact qualified buyers and match business sellers with the right buyers. Our Consultants help business owners in understanding all parts of the transaction and successfully completing the sale.

Sell Your Business
Sell Your Business
Sell Your Business


Phasecorp Business Consulting Group offers:
  • ongoing guidance to sellers during a deal that makes all processes easier.
  • a personal consultation to individuals interested in selling a business. The consultation assesses a seller's needs and goals and determines best-fit opportunities.
  • expertise selling businesses in a variety of industries we serve.
  • an experienced mergers and acquisitions department.
  • the Phasecorp Business Broker Advantage.

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How to Sell a Business

If you are looking for information on how to sell a business, here is a quick summary of the steps that are usually required. Selling a business is a much more involved process than selling real estate. It takes a specific set of skills to properly sell a business to get a fair value. Read more
  Why Selling Your Business

The process of selling your business is usually similar for many people – get your business ready to be sold, talk to a business broker and have them help you find a buyer and complete a transaction. There are, however, many different reasons why someone might consider selling a business. Read more

  Role of Business Brokers

There are many reasons to use a business broker when selling your business. The most basic reason is they are in the business of selling businesses. They will market your business and help to get prospective buyers to look at your deal. Read more



Confidentiality

The confidentiality of the business owner and the prospective buyer is strictly maintained. To obtain a detailed profile of a business listed for review, the prospective buyer must submit a buyer-profile form.

Business profiles do not provide the name or location of the business. In order to obtain this information, a personal or corporate financial statement must be presented. When proof of financial competence to meet the down-payment requirement is provided and a Confidentiality Agreement is signed, all relevant information concerning the business is then placed at the disposal of the buyer. This typically includes financial statements, tax returns, equipment lists, discretionary cash-flow statements, and other documents that may be applicable.

The confidentiality of the business, business owner, and the buyer are all strictly maintained. Business owners or prospective buyers can visit our contact page to request more information.

 

Phasecorp...

... is a professional business brokerage, middle market intermediary and business consulting firm. We provide complete mergers and acquisitions, valuation and management consulting services for privately held companies of both small and medium size.

Using our proprietary methodology, Phaseology, we analyze your company’s various performance matrices. Strategic business planning is a structured process that can help you translate the bigger picture into a set of prioritized strategic action plans with clearly defined accountability, outcomes, and deadlines.

The Financial analysis will review and assess your complete fiscal health. We can help you design, implement and manage budgeting processes. We are able to combine global and local economic research with industry specific information to levy the accuracy and completeness of data on which forecasts are based. We also facilitate workshops to expand the knowledge base of both business owners and their staff. Balance sheets, profit and loss statements and cash flow benchmarks are key indicators in creating and building PROFIT. Maximizing your asset viability and cash flow utilization rates and minimizing unwanted corporate liability are vital in creating your fiscal longevity.

Each of the Operational reviews conducted is unique and client specific. It can be all encompassing or specific to the activities of one department or division. An operational review will provide your organization with a better understanding of the drivers that lead your business success. An objective review of how your business operates and an understanding of how your competitors manage their operations will give you a greater comparable visibility. Providing you a clear guide to your corporate enhancement potential with a comprehensible action plan to ensure that improvements are realized is our utmost priority. Each review encompasses a proven methodology which evaluates operations, business strategies, industry benchmarks, best practice guidelines, and trends using our Phaseology proprietary methodology.

We will review Sales performance to determine and design your future measurable results that focus efforts on increasing you revenues and profits and provide qualified prospects that can be closed. Our recommendations are based on current market data, analysis and our extensive business expertise, allowing our clients to make quick, smart and accurate business decisions. Our goal is to be responsive to our clients - to listen and react immediately when clients need our expertise or assistance.

Our business brokers, consultants and analysts teams use proven methodologies to create a viable fusion of exit strategy planning, business valuation and strategic consulting designed to create and increase the intrinsic value of your business.