Selling your company for top dollar starts long before finding a buyer. Learn how to build a saleable business, attract the right buyers, and negotiate a more favorable exit.
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In No B.S. Guide to Selling Your Company for Top Dollar, Dan S. Kennedy and David Melrose challenge the assumption that a company's selling price is determined solely by financial performance and standard valuation formulas. They argue that selling a business is fundamentally a marketing and sales challenge. The book explores how systematic marketing, disciplined sales operations, consistent profitability, and reduced owner dependence can make a company more valuable and attractive to potential buyers.
Drawing on their own business exits and interviews with entrepreneurs, the authors explain how to identify motivated buyers, communicate future growth potential, and position a business beyond its conventional valuation. They also examine negotiation tactics, deal-killers, earn-outs, unfavorable contract terms, and the financial and personal realities of life after selling a company.
Selling your company for top dollar starts long before finding a buyer. Learn how to build a saleable business, attract the right buyers, and negotiate a more favorable exit.
GET THE FULL AUDIOIn No B.S. Guide to Selling Your Company for Top Dollar, Dan S. Kennedy and David Melrose challenge the assumption that a company's selling price is determined solely by financial performance and standard valuation formulas. They argue that selling a business is fundamentally a marketing and sales challenge. The book explores how systematic marketing, disciplined sales operations, consistent profitability, and reduced owner dependence can make a company more valuable and attractive to potential buyers.
Drawing on their own business exits and interviews with entrepreneurs, the authors explain how to identify motivated buyers, communicate future growth potential, and position a business beyond its conventional valuation. They also examine negotiation tactics, deal-killers, earn-outs, unfavorable contract terms, and the financial and personal realities of life after selling a company.
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