Preparing you and your business for a successful exit
Are you relying on your business for your retirement, to pay off your mortgage or to move onto a new opportunity?
Unfortunately, for most business owners this rarely happens!
Planning your exit strategy will maximise your available options and help to secure the highest possible value for your business.
Do not leave planning your exit too late or do no planning at all, if you do this will leave you with only three options:
Creating a successful exit strategy and preparing your business for a profitable sale takes around 5 years. The earlier you start, the better! This will mean both you and the business are ready for exit, allowing you to achieve the best price for your business and make the greatest profits along the way.
Putting in efficient systems, making the business profitable and delivering consistent growth takes time, thought, planning and preparation.
So act now and be prepared.
More Time = More Options.
If you are looking to exit your business in within the next three years, don't worry - we can help with that… All is not lost; we just need to work a little smarter to get everything in place and to work our magic.
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12 Things To Consider Before Selling Your Business
To find out what options are available for selling your business and what you need to consider for your business to be ready to attract the right offers.
Through experience and research, we have developed our unique six-point approach and RAP system to support you in getting your business ready for sale:
Create systems that consistently reproduce the desired results.
Get yourself off the organisational chart and away from the day to day running of the business.
Having a more efficient and growing business will increase your earnings potential.
Not having everyone depend on you will give you the space and time to develop and grow the business.
Looking at key indicators and making changes where necessary.
Ensure your business is not exposed to unnecessary risks.
Ensure your business is not exposed to unnecessary risks.
With this in mind, and by using our unique RAP system, we focus on both the business as well as the business owner to ensure both are ‘exit-ready’.
We start by having an honest conversation about you and your business. We want to fully understand where your business is currently and what your goals are. By looking at both you and your business, we will be able to get a full 360° view of your situation.
During this phase we will look at:
Once we have established our starting and end points, we can then plan the best route to your destination based upon your time scales.
We do this by analysing and implementing strategies for:
This is where the real work begins but also where you will see the greatest changes and benefits.
Whilst constantly reviewing progress and ensuring you and your business are on track, we will start preparations for the sales process. Making preparations beforehand will ensure that everything is in place for a smooth sales process, saving a lot of stress, time and money when fielding questions and providing information to each potential buyer, their accountant and solicitor.
We will address the following areas:
We will support you to recognise where you are right now, ascertain where you want to be, create transferable value and understand the sales process. Working together will help to secure a successful and profitable exit from your business and provide you with the best opportunity to realise your long-term goals.
The Cash Flow Simulator enables you to forecast your profit and cash flow for the next 12 months based upon simulating any changes you may make to your company. This allows you to test what will make the biggest impact to your business before actually taking action and enables you to plan strategically for your company’s development and growth.
As an ex-military Officer, Cliff gained valuable leadership and management skills. He has been trained to adapt and to seek effective solutions in an ever-changing environment. This has formed the backbone of his success in running his own companies for the past 19 years. Throughout this time, he has started, bought, sold, franchised, licensed and systemized several businesses in a variety of sectors.
To learn more about what we do, or to find out how we can help your business grow, send us a message.
12 Things To Consider Before Selling Your Business
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