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The Metric That Makes or Breaks a Restaurant: Daily Covers
Daily covers are the total number of customers served in a day.
How to Read a Business Broker’s Track Record And What the Numbers Actually Mean
Transaction volume is quantitative. But some of what you need to evaluate in a broker is qualitative — and the fastest way to assess it is to listen to how they talk about your industry.
Why a Broker Who Charges Upfront Fees: It Has Already Told You Something Important
By Michael Shea | Transworld Business Advisors of Tampa Bay When you interview a business broker, you are evaluating their competence, their market reach, their track record, and their personality. Those things matter. But before any of them, there is a structural question that determines whose interests a broker is actually serving: do they […]
The Co-Brokerage Question: One Answer Tells You Everything About Whose Side Your Broker Is On
Follow up with: have you co-broked on closed deals in the past year, and can you give me an example? Asking for a real transaction turns a policy conversation into a track record conversation, and track records are harder to fake.