If you want to sell your business for 90% or more of your asking price, you cannot afford to “guess” at your systems.
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More Than a Clean Sweep: How to Value Your Cleaning Business Before You Sell
The Tampa Bay area currently benefits from high disposable income and a massive influx of new residents and businesses. A professional business valuation will account for these local market conditions, often adding a “geographic premium” that online calculators might miss.
How to Sell a Trucking Company in Tampa, Florida: A Complete Guide
Buyers are not buying themselves a job — they’re buying a system. Build a layer of management, even if it’s a strong operations manager or dispatcher, who can run the day-to-day without you.
Why Your “Profit” Isn’t Your “Value”: 5 Hard Truths From $1 Billion in Business Closings
Most “online calculators” give you a multiple of your net profit. That’s theory. In reality, we use SDE (Seller’s Discretionary Earnings).
What Happens to Your Tampa Bay Business If You Die Tomorrow? Why Every Owner Needs a Personal Contingency Plan
It’s an uncomfortable question, which is exactly why most owners skip it. But after 21+ years and more than 450 closed transactions in the Tampa Bay and Clearwater markets, I’ve seen what happens when that plan doesn’t exist — and it is never pretty for the family left behind.