How to conduct a Competitors Analysis

1. Getting Ready to Sell Your Business? Selling your business starts with questions. Is your business ready for sale? Would the business attract the right type of buyer? Am I emotionally ready to sell the business? What is the value of my business? What is the process in selling my business?  How do I protect the confidentiality of the sale? Would I receive a fair market value for my business? You and thousands of other potential business sellers struggle with these questions annually when they consider selling their business. Business Hunters can assist you in understanding business exit options, explain to you what is involved in a business sale and most important evaluate your business sale readiness.

2. Intralinks M&A Leaks Report Research conducted with the Cass Business School shows leaked deals on the decline due to regulatory enforcement The number of leaked M&A deals are at a six-year low… while the volume of M&A transactions is at an all-time high.  What factors affect deal leaks, and what forces are at play that suppress them? In new research conducted by Intralinks with the M&A Research Center at Cass Business School, London, we examined over 4,000 transactions globally from 2009 to 2014, looking for unique signals that indicate a leak. The Intralinks M&A Leaks Report sheds light, by region and sector, on the risk and rewards associated with leaking a deal —and how global regulatory enforcement is impacting the number of deal leaks worldwide.

3. TEN QUESTIONS BUYERS SHOULD ASK Inc. recently posted “10 Questions to Ask Before Buying a Business.” The 10 questions are excellent and certainly a prospective buyer should try to get answers to all of them. Below are a few comments based on many years of experience both as a business broker and business owner. If the wife does not want her husband to buy a business, it won’t happen. People get used to a regular paycheck. The idea that there is no paycheck and sometimes there won’t be a paycheck or the amounts of the paycheck month to month will not be the same, is the one thing that many wives cannot live with. The pay one receives owning one’s own business is what’s left at the end of the week. If the wife is not supportive, then the husband better keep looking for a regular “job-job”. If she is supportive, success is almost assured.

4. 62 REASONS FOR BUSINESS SELLERS HIRING BROKERS Access broker or advisor’s database of potential buyers and investors Advertising run and paid by broker Affiliated brokerage or advisory offices may attract more buyers Assistance during escrow closing Background check on potential buyers run by broker or advisor Broker or advisor can confer with seller, legal and tax counsel about terms of sale Broker or advisor understands and can depersonalize negotiations Brokers and advisors enable buyers and sellers to access a broader pool of potential partners

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