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Free guide The Ultimate Seller's Checklist V2 Strategy Advisors logo
Most popular · 10 steps

The Ultimate Seller's Checklist

A step-by-step guide to preparing your business for sale, from deciding you're ready to handing over the keys.

  • Four questions to decide if you're truly ready to sell
  • The five factors that drive your valuation, and the financial documents buyers will want
  • How to make the business less owner-dependent and clean up legal and compliance issues
  • What buyers check in due diligence, and the three types of buyers to consider
  • Deal terms beyond price: payment structure, earnouts, your transition period and taxes
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Free guide 5 Steps to Prepare Your Business for Sale V2 Strategy Advisors logo
Preparation · 5 steps

5 Steps to Prepare Your Business for Sale

A practical guide to the groundwork that makes your company buyer-ready before you ever go to market.

  • Step 1: Clean up your books, with three years of statements that match your tax returns
  • Step 2: Document your operations so the business doesn't depend on you
  • Step 3: Tell the story behind your numbers, including one-time costs and key metrics
  • Step 4: Build a team that can run the company and stay after the sale
  • Step 5: Organize your sale materials, from a data room to a company overview
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Free guide What's Your Business Worth? V2 Strategy Advisors logo
Valuation · 6 chapters

What's Your Business Worth?

A home services owner's guide to understanding and maximizing business valuation.

  • What buyers are really buying: profitability, predictability, transferability and growth
  • The three types of buyers, and how EBITDA and market multiples set your price
  • The drivers that raise your value, and the red flags that lower it
  • The documents and questions to expect in a valuation
  • Three quick wins to raise your value, and when to get a professional valuation
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