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  • Here's the novel idea - asking readers what they'd like to read about. So ... :

    what would you like to see in this blog?

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  • There are over 5,500,000 businesses in the United States (with a least one employee). At any given point in time approximately 20% of these businesses are for sale. That's over 1,000,000 companies on the market right now!

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  • Demographic fact: As Baby Boomers age, we see (1) some long-time business owners considering retirement (2) Boomers with discretionary funds willing to buy on-going ventures. ||||| ______________

the 30-second approach to finding out how much your business is worth

Rules-of-thumb have the nasty habit of being used for so long that we start to think they’re more than rough guides, that they are, indeed, shortcuts to avoiding real work. And so it is with a whole lot of ‘back of the envelope’ approaches to figuring out how much a business is worth.
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