Exit Strategy: A Practical Guide to Selling Your Business: How to Sell a Company for the Best Price and Ride into the Sunset

by Graham Watkins

If you want a no nonsense "crash course" in how to sell your business for the best possible price you need to hear this book.

I have good news for you.

Selling your business isn't nearly as difficult as you might think.



Do you have a business exit plan in place? Is it comprehensive? Do you know where to find the right "hired guns", and I don't mean cowboys, to help sell your company and protect your interests? Have you searched for and shorlisted the right potential buyers, the ones who will pay the most, for your business? Do you know how your buyer will value the business you are selling? Do you have a negotiating strategy to boost the price the buyer will pay?

These are just a few of the questions answered in Exit Strategy - A Practical Guide to Selling Your Business. This book will show



How to prepare and sell a business in 12 easy stages. How to prospect for and approach the right buyers prepared to pay the highest price for your company. A marketing strategy to protect your confidential information and save your company from fishing expeditions. The right way to find great business advisors and how to structure their terms for your maximum benefit. How to deal with auditors and the pain of due diligence. The principles of the contract and what to tell your lawyer to watch out for. Negotiating tools that will get the best price for your business.

A no-BS guide that shows you what works and what doesn't.

Genres: Business

Audible Audio

First published July 31, 2006

About the author

Hi. I'm Graham Watkins and I have spent the last few years researching welsh legends and myths. It has been a wonderful project and great fun as I explored rugged mountains, mysterious castles, enchanting waterfalls and golden beaches to discover the tales that have been handed down from generation to generation. Wales is a land of mystery and being a Celtic race the Welsh are fantastic story tellers.

Earlier in my life, I was a ships engineer and travelled across the world. When I got married I had a choice; return to sea or stay home with my new bride. I stayed and went into sales. In 1989 I started my own company and it prospered.

I sold the business in 2003 and, with my wife, ran away to a rambling farmhouse high in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. I learnt a lot selling the business and decided to write a book called 'Exit Strategy' explaining how I did it. That's how I started writing. Today, I am a writer, hobby farmer and explorer. It's all been great fun and the story isn't over yet. My latest book 'Birth of a Salesman' has just been published and there are more to follow. Watch out for 'Blood and Dragons - The History of Carmarthenshire and the Gower.'

My current project 'The Iron Masters', is a historical novel, my first, chronicling the life of Nye Vaughn, a farm boy who becomes the most powerful arms manufacturer in the world. His cannons enabled Nelson to win the Battle of Trafalgar and cleared the field of French infantry at Waterloo.

Reviews

[Todd Benschneider · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good topic, good storytelling but seemed like a long book built from a minmal level of experience, but there are so few books on the topic, it is wirth a read

[Eoghan Gill · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very basic.