Selling a business is more complex than most people realize. At Sunbelt, we understand the issues and we’ll help alleviate much of the anxiety that comes with such an important decision.

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With Sunbelt you can be confident that you’ll get what your business is really worth; we’ll also help you sell it with the least possible disruption, headaches, and risk.

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Three of the top reasons sellers choose Sunbelt:

1. Sunbelt sells more privately owned businesses than any other business broker in the world.

2. We have more highly-trained brokers than any other organization in the world.

3. We have the proprietary processes, resources, and technology to support the successful sale of your business.

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The Services You Need

You’ll find many benefits to working with Sunbelt. Here are some of the ways we help our customers succeed.

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MANAGING CONFIDENTIALITY

For most businesses, confidentiality is a critical factor in a successful sale and maintaining top value. Because of the potentially disastrous consequences, you will likely not want your staff, suppliers, bankers, customers, or competitors to know you’re selling. We use bank-level secure data rooms and we know how to manage confidentiality better than anybody.

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VALUATION

Identifying and presenting the real value of your business to prospective buyers is not easy. In most cases, your financials do not fully reflect the true benefits of ownership. We know how to present the real value of your business to prospective buyers.

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PREPARING FOR SALE

There are long lists of things that must be done in order to prepare your business for sale. We’ll help you prepare to sell, and then manage the process to ensure that you are as ready as possible to hand over the keys to the new owner.

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POSITIONING FOR SUCCESS

Properly positioning your business in the minds of prospective buyers is critical. We’ll ensure that the merits of your business appeal to the right buyers and that they fully understand the real potential of taking over your business.

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MARKETING YOUR BUSINESS

Sunbelt does more advertising and promotion of our businesses for sale than any other company in the business. From our exclusive list of pre-qualified buyer prospects to our mass marketing reach across all major media and strategic industry websites, nobody does a better job of advertising than Sunbelt. Sunbelt advertises your business confidentially on over 200 websites around the world and in multiple languages.

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SCREENING BUYERS

The last thing you want is to be wasting your valuable time with unqualified buyer prospects. We’ll pre-screen every prospect to confirm not only if they really do have the financial capability to buy your business, but we’ll also do our very best to determine whether or not they’re the right potential fit to run it successfully.

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MANAGING THE PROCESS

There will be a seemingly endless number of steps, and countless details that need attending to in the process of selling your business. Each one of them in the right order is critical to a successful outcome. We’ll manage the process, keep things on track, and keep you fully informed every step of the way.

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DEVELOPING CREATIVE SOLUTIONS

Selling a business often requires many rounds of creative problem-solving. Whether it’s structuring the terms of training and coaching or creating the best approach to minimize tax, Sunbelt’s worldwide network of industry specialists and consulting professionals puts creative problem-solving expertise at our fingertips virtually 24 hours a day.

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PROFESSIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

It will take a whole team of experts to sell your business, protect your interests and maximize your bottom line. From lawyers and accountants to tax specialists and wealth planners, we have a team of exceptional professionals that we can recommend.

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ALLOWING YOU TO FOCUS

Staying focused on your current business is what you need to do to keep it in top shape and maximize its sale value. When Sunbelt takes responsibility for selling your business, you can stay focused on the important job of running your business.

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NEGOTIATING THE DEAL

Creating a win-win deal is the best way to sell your business. Thus, understanding your unique needs and objectives, as well as those of your buyer is critical to negotiating the right deal. Sunbelt’s approach to facilitating successful, win-win deals is one of the reasons that we sell more privately owned businesses than any other company in the world.

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DELIVERING RESULTS

The extraordinary part about all of these services is that you pay nothing for them unless we succeed in selling your business for the price and terms that are acceptable to you. Our compensation is 100% success-based.