Posts tagged 'business opportunities'

Just because its time to sell your business does not mean you're throwing in the towel. Many times small business owners are ready to move on to other things; retirement, a new job, a new venture, more time with family, a focus on personal health, or any combination of factors. Bob Hughes a Coachella Valley Business Broker discusses this topic for BizBen.com Blog readers.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, How To Sell A Business, Selling A Business

BizBen searchers looking to buy a business found a Christmas lighting service, a matchmaking company, golf products manufacturer, and several types of restaurants. See what searchers found most interesting on BizBen.com yesterday.

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 Categories: BizBen Top 20, Buying A Business

Hiring a good lawyer is very important because they can have a great amount of input over the success, or lack of success in purchasing a business. Southern California business broker Ron Hottes gives his perspective on utilizing attorneys when buying a small businesses.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Buying A Business, How To Buy A Business, How To Sell A Business,

Most owners of privately owned businesses realize that the value of their business is strongly influenced by the earning power (profitability) of the business. San Diego Area based business intermediary Steve Fitzgerald with Acquisition Services Group discusses this topic.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Deal And Escrow Issues, Small Business Issues

BizBen viewers top search requests on BizBen.com included a Oakland Gas Station/C-Store, a San Diego Car Audio Shop, a Laguna Hills Pizza Parlor, a San Marcos Internet, Wholesaler, a Cypress Arco Am/PM, as some of the more popular California small and mid-sized businesses for sale that were added and reviewed by business buyers, business brokers, agents, intermediaries, and business owners yesterday on BizBen.com.

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 Categories: BizBen Top 20

Peter Siegel, MBA Founder of BizBen and the BizBen Network discusses interpreting reported earnings from sellers through tax returns, financial statements and other means when selling a California small business.

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 Categories: Business Valuation Issues, How To Buy A Business, How To Sell A Business, Selling A Business

Finding the best car wash for sale comes down to understanding your business strengths and the nature of the industry. BizBen.com Founder Peter Siegel with the help of car wash brokers discuss how to find a car wash for sale that will succeed.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Business Buyer Experiences, Business Valuation Issues, Buying A Business, How To Buy A Business, Small Business Issues

In dealing with business sales, often times the Seller or the Buyer will ask about the use of an escrow company. The seller may say, Why can't the buyer just pay me cash or give me a cashier's check? Tawnya Gilreath a Los Angeles County business broker discusses why it's always a good idea to utilize specialized escrow services to close a deal.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Buying A Business, Deal And Escrow Issues, How To Buy A Business, Selling A Business

Most business acquisition financing strategies involve borrowing money to meet the purchase price. But an entirely different approach, equity sharing, is sometimes pursued if borrowed money is not wanted, or is not available to complete the purchase. Peter Siegel, MBA with BizBen.com covers this topic.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Business Purchase Financing, Deal And Escrow Issues, How To Buy A Business, Small Business Financing

Described in various ways, as licensed care homes, assisted living properties and residential care facilities, these enterprises can be very profitable and offer substantial potential for growth as the market for their services expands.

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 Categories: Buying A Business

A great article explaining one of the top reasons business buyers may not get a return phone call from business brokers and agents is because of their approach.

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 Categories: Business Broker Issues, Buying A Business, How To Buy A Business

A 24% increase in the number of small business opportunity sales last month compared to January of 2009 is a hopeful sign of improvement in the California market. There were 1,024 completed transactions in January.

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 Categories: Business For Sale Statistics

A total of 8,999 small California businesses were sold in 2009, as of July 19, with a slowdown, in the most recently completed week. We're watching some interesting movements in business sales figures this year with competing pressures at work. Peter Siegel, Founder of BizBen chats about recent small business sales figures.

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This year’s trend, showing an increase in each month’s number of sales of small and mid-market businesses in California, continues with more completed transactions in May 2009.

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 Categories: Business For Sale Statistics

Ken Oppeltz, business broker in San Diego discusses the changes the SBA has made and is considering for future policy to SBA loans. These policy changes will have a direct impact to financing the purchase of small businesses and action is needed now by all in our industry, small business owners, business buyers, etc to help educate our legislators and SBA officials the negative impact these actions will have.

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 Categories: Business Purchase Financing, Small Business Financing

Declaring that "the present state of the economy demands intensified evaluations of small and mid-market business expenses" -- from leasehold/rent costs to debt service -- before a business can qualify for a sale or financing, Randall Barondess, C.B.B., director of the Thousand Oaks-based Business Brokerage Division of Troop Real Estate, Inc. announces expansion of its services to include such key offerings as financial recasting.

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 Categories: Business Broker Information

310 California businesses were sold by business owners of small businesses, business brokers, & real estate agents for the week of January 12, 2009 and January 18, 2009.

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Chatted with Robyn King a few days ago about ground leases relating to financing issues and how some SBA lenders look at this issue.

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 Categories: Deal And Escrow Issues, Franchises For Sale, Small Business Financing