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

"This is the most comprehensive and easy to read advice about selling a business I have read; you should read it, " Phil Oliver BSc. FCA. CTA .- Senior Partner -UHY Hacker Young, Chartered Accountants. "Graham's book does exactly what it says on the cover," Dave Riches - Owner - Eastern Scale Company (Now happily retired). "A really good read and packed with valuable ideas," Phillip Sibson - Sales Director - Aquila Business Products Limited. "Graham Watkins delivers solutions to business problems you don't even know exit. The knowledge he shares, in this book, is worth thousands of pounds," Dr. Robert Hughes Jones BSC. MSc. PhD. (Cantab) - Research Director - Schlumberger Cambridge Research Limited. "Exit Strategy, by Graham Watkins, is a well-written, well-thought out self help and how to guide, for selling a business," Alex Dunbar - Technical Search Consultant, Greene Resources. "A good book and well worth the read, he's been there and done it and the book has lots of practical information to help you prepare for a most important decision," Mark Wheatley MBA. Dip. Managing Director, Wheatley Group.

Genres: Business

158 pages, Paperback

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.