Posts tagged 'business opportunity'

In the beginning you'll take almost any kind of listing to get your business moving but over time you realize the sense in being a little more discriminating. Christina Lazuric, an Orange County business broker warns about listening to your gut before taking on a new listing.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Business Broker Information, Business Broker Issues, How To Sell A Business

Jeff Back, a San Francisco Bay Area business broker specialist who specializes in selling restaurants discusses what he looks for when sizing up a potential restaurant for sale.

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

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

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 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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With the multitude of factors that come into play when deciding the appropriate time to inform your employees that your business is for sale, I do not offer a standard or general answer. When sellers consult me as to my opinion on when it is the right time, I like to review the major issues that will affect the decision.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Deal And Escrow Issues, Selling A Business

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

Times are tough. Our economy has taken the art of buying a business to a whole new level. In our perodic "Answers To Viewers Questions" section of the BizBen Blog we explore answers to the question, "What Are The Better Businesses To Buy In This Economy?" See what our panel of professionals and viewer comments have said to answer this timely question.

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 Categories: Answers To Viewers Questions, Buying A Business

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

Sport Clips California Franchise Opportunity Open House in Orange County January 29th from 1pm to 3pm and 6pm to 8pm.

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 Categories: Franchises For Sale