My Business Agency
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Located Ipswich, Suffolk United Kingdom
Advice and news about buying and selling a business
Latest Blog Posts
- If you are thinking of selling your business, should you be listening to your head or your heart? on Oct 13, 2009 in Selling Your Business General
Well the answer is it is important to listen to both. From purely an investment point of view you should hold the business if it generates more pure profit than the investment earnings from the sale proceeds. So if you have a business worth £200,...
- Residential Property Prices Are Increasing! Or Are They? on Oct 9, 2009 in General
The Nationwide House Price Index suggests that residential prices are broadly the same as this time last year, and furthermore that prices rose for the fifth consecutive month. So surely we are about to experience a boom in prices again? However the...
- Business Rates may soon increase hitting business valuations on Oct 2, 2009 in The Economy General
There are many businesses who will be looking to the future with relief that they have survived the recession however they may, in the next financial year, have to face paying higher business rates. Business rates are revalued every 5 years and busin...
- How Can A Seller Best Sell His Business? on Sep 16, 2009 in Selling Your Business
I was speaking to a client yesterday, he told me that we have not been marketing his business properly as he has been advertising his business and has had 4 people respond, although apparently none of these people were interested in buying his busine...
- Have You Underestimated Your Working Capital Needs? on Aug 21, 2009 in Buyers
It is thought that less than half of all start ups have any formal business plan, so it begs the question if they have no business plan, how do they know how much money they will need to run that business? The fact is that they don’t! People starti...
- How “honest” are financial accounts? on Aug 6, 2009 in Selling Your Business Buyers General
Many business owners try to sell their business using smoke and mirrors. Hiding the fact that their business during the recession is not doing as well as it has done in the past. They claim a certain turnover but cannot provide any documentary evide...
- Is the recession ending - should I sell my business now? on Jul 31, 2009 in Selling Your Business The Economy
It is generally accepted that you should sell your business when it is doing well rather than when it is doing badly. Hence business owners during the recession, unless circumstances have forced them to do so, have delayed putting their business on...
