- Estimate your business value
- Understand your exit options
- Request a formal valuation
- Finalize & execute your exit plan

Recent Insights for Business Sellers from BizBuySell
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Steps to Sell Your Small Business
If you're just getting started, this guide will walk you through the sales process.
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How Much Will It Cost to Sell Your Business?
It's reasonable to assume selling expenses to be about 15% of the sale price. Here's why.
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How Long Does it Take to Sell a Business?
We dive into median days on market data to understand why some businesses sell faster or slower than others.
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How to Sell Your Business Quickly
If you are in a hurry to sell, you can expedite the process but you may have to accept a lower price or less than stellar terms.
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How to Sell Your Business Without a Broker
Can you sell your business without a broker? Of course, but be ready to manage the risks and understand the process you will need to manage.
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Selling Your Business to a Private Equity Group
Private equity groups acquire businesses to complement other businesses they own, or to enter new industries. Here’s what to expect if your business becomes an acquisition target.
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How to Sell Your Restaurant
This guide will walk you through the process of selling a restaurant - from valuation, through exit planning, to closing the deal.
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How to Sell Your Manufacturing Business
Get insights into manufacturing business valuation metrics, learn how to market to the right buyers, and sell your manufacturing business successfully.
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How to Sell Your Retail Business
Our guide to selling your retail business details the process you need to take - from valuation to assembling your team and marketing your business for sale.
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How to Sell Your Construction Business
Our reference guide to selling your construction business provides all the information you need - from valuation and assembling your team to negotiating and closing the deal.
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How to Sell Your Service Business
This guide on how to sell your service business explains the steps you need to take to prepare your business for sale. From valuation to planning your exit and closing the deal.
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How to Sell Your Automotive Business
Learn how to sell your automotive business in this guide from BizBuySell. Follow all the steps you need to take to value, prepare, market, and sell your business.
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How to Sell Your Transportation Business
The BizBuySell guide to selling your transportation business. Get market data and learn the steps involved in planning your exit to successfully sell your business.
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How to Sell Your E-Commerce Business
This guide on how to value and sell your e-commerce or online business walks business owners through the steps they’ll need to take when preparing to value and sell their business.
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How to Sell Your Healthcare Business
Learn how to sell your healthcare business in this guide from BizBuySell. Follow all the steps you need to take to Value, prepare, market, and sell your business.
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How to Sell Your Beauty and Personal Care Business
This guide on how to value and sell your beauty or personal care business walks business owners through the steps they’ll need to take when preparing to exit their business.
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How to Sell Your Education or Childcare Business
Step-by-step, this guide assists business owners in the education or childcare sector on valuing and selling their business, helping them prepare for a successful exit.
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How to Sell Your Financial Services Business
For business owners in the financial services industry and considering an exit strategy, this guide offers a roadmap to guide you through the process—from valuation and exit planning to marketing the business for sale and closing the deal.
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How to Sell Your Pet Services Business
This guide on how to sell your pet services business walks business owners through the steps they’ll need to take to sell their business, from valuation and marketing the sale to negotiatin and closing the deal.
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How to Sell Your Entertainment and Recreation Business
For business owners in the entertainment and recreation sector looking to sell their business, this guide offers a roadmap to guide you through the process—from valuation and exit planning to marketing the business for sale and closing the deal.
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Common-Size Your Quarterly Financials to Track Your Business’s Health
Common-Size your quarterly financial statements to keep track of your business's health.
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When To Sell Your Business
Every business owner will exit at some point. Our guide to recognize the signs that it might be time to start preparing for the sale of your business.
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How Can Business Sellers Pre-Qualify their Business for an SBA Loan (or Lender)?
Business owners who are planning their exit can apply to get their business listing pre-qualified for an SBA loan. If approved, the pre-qualification gives them a significant advantage.
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Your Business May Be Worth More If You Stop Working So Hard
Did you know that the owner's involvement in a business affects its value? A semi-absentee business is more valuable than an owner operated business; the less an owner directly works the more a buyer will pay, all else being equal.
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Retaining Key Employees Is Critical to Selling Your Business
From a seller's perspective, key employees benefit your business, but they can also hijack your exit strategy. When critical roles and proprietary business knowledge are concentrated in a few individuals, this poses a business risk to potential buyers.
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7 Key Elements for Creating a Business for Sale Listing
Publishing a business-for-sale listing with these 7 keys elements can increase your chances of selling your business.
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Opportunities in Buying and Selling Closed Businesses
Opportunities for business buyers and sellers look different during a pandemic, but they are still present. Here are the benefits to buying or selling a closed business.
