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5 Ways to Help Employees Drive Success With Your Online Business

If you're hoping to one day sell your online business for a profit, you need to achieve success, grow your startup, have a plan for the future at all times and constantly be focused on achieving your goals. Many online businesses begin as startups without any employees, but as businesses grow, the need to hire others to help you keep growing becomes important. Going from being a solo entrepreneur running a small Internet business to being a business owner and a boss can be daunting. This is especially true if you've never been in management before. Many online business owners [...]

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8 Mistakes to Avoid When Selling Your Online Business

For over 20+ years, Acquisitions Direct has been recognized as one of the top internet business brokers.   As the oldest internet brokerage firm on the web today, we’ve sold hundreds of online businesses since inception.  During that time we have seen a large majority of those transactions go very well, however a small percentage have not gone as smoothly as they could have.  While our internet brokerage firm is there to support the buyers and sellers through the sales process, there are a few key areas that sellers can avoid to ensure a smooth transition and prevent a transaction from [...]

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Questions To Ask When Selling Your eCommerce Business

Selling your eCommerce business can be challenging, especially if you are doing it for the first time. To avoid making costly mistakes, it’s advisable to have a clear understanding of the process of selling your eCommerce business from the valuation to the transfer of ownership and training management to run the company after your exit. While the sales process can be complicated, proper implementation of steps can make the deal run as fast as possible. Most business sale listings are closed within 30-120 days, but some might spill over due to certain factors in the deal. Nevertheless, a sale is [...]

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Sell Your Online Business For Millions

You've worked hard to build your business. You found the perfect niche, and then you developed a strategy for growth that's working. While you're making money now, the ultimate payoff will come when you sell the web business. Your company could be the next Internet business selling for a million-plus, but only if you're smart about how you sell that online business. 1. Start Early. The best time to start thinking about selling your business is well before you actually plan to list it. You want your business to be in the best possible financial situation when it comes time [...]

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Sell Your eCommerce Business in 2019

Have you built a profitable eCommerce business that you’ve put your heart and soul into and made the decision to sell it? If so, then congratulations. Building your eCommerce business was difficult, and selling it will be no easy feat either.  In this post, you will learn the various factors to consider to realize the highest value for your eCommerce business. What is your eCommerce Business Worth? Profitable E-commerce businesses are highly valuable. The valuation of these companies can range from a few thousand dollars to 10 figures.  It is largely based on several factors, but most importantly profitability.  The [...]

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Selling Your Online Business? Get Your Documents in Order

Do you want to sell your online business now or in the future? While other reasons may draw buyers to your business at first, the most important factor for every investor is return on investment.  To convince them, you must provide comprehensive, well-organized documentation and professionally-prepared financial records which clearly show the historical performance of your company which justifies your asking price. Proactive preparation of financials will enable you and your broker to determine a fair asking price for your online business and also help you identify any shortcomings or discrepancies in your books The first step towards having an [...]

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2 Huge Mistakes to Avoid When You’re Selling Your Online Business

All entrepreneurs dream of making their business a success. Some do it for pride, some do it to establish a family business to pass on to future generations, but most do it to turn a huge return on investment when the sell their online business.  It’s not as easy as some think to sell an online business.  The reality is that many small online business owners make huge, often costly, mistakes when trying to sell their online business. Even in a good economy, it can be very difficult to sell an online business. Education on the buying and selling process [...]

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Four Important Indicators That Tell You It’s Time Sell Your Online Business

Are you a successful entrepreneur and wonder if it's time to sell your online business? How would you know the time is now or not?  All entrepreneurs are excited to start their online business, but they don’t know when the right time is to get out. After all, it’s a personal decision that is often influenced by several mitigating factors. How do you know if you should sell your online company now or wait? Consider the following four situations to help you make that gut-wrenching determination. Four Key Signs It Is Time You Should Sell Your Online Business   There [...]

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3 Essential Metrics Business Owners Should Know When Selling Their Online Company

Have you built a strong online business, putting your heart and soul into it and made the executive decision to sell it? If so, then congratulations. Building your business from scratch was difficult, selling it will be no easy feat either. In fact, it can be downright tricky! After all, you don’t want to undersell your company and lose money, but asking too much for it can also have a negative impact. If you plan to sell your successful online business, you need to know what your business is worth – what a potential buyer is willing to purchase it [...]

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Tips for Selling Your Online Business When Sales Are Declining

Financial experts will tell you that the absolute best time to sell a business is when sales are at their peak, but in practice, timing the sale of a business can be very hard. You may have expected profitability to remain high for a longer period of time that it has, or your peak may have occurred prematurely at an unexpected time. However it happened, you have found yourself in a state of declining sales, and you just can't wait for things to rebound to sell. So what can you do? It is possible to sell an Internet business when [...]

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Top 5 Reasons Entrepreneurs May Decide to Sell Their Online Businesses

Those who are considering buying a business from an online business owner will often wonder why the owner is selling his or her business if it is a profitable and successful one. That is, of course a fair question. For all of the many reasons than an entrepreneur might begin his or her own online business or purchase one that has already been formed, there are just as many reasons that they might want to consider selling their online business, too. Some of these reasons are more prominent than others, and those reasons can be found below. 1. They Want [...]

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Looking to Sell Your Online Business? Think Like a Buyer

There are many reasons why people decide to start an online business, but for many owners, there is a clear goal of one day selling that Internet-based business for a profit. If you got your online business off the ground with plans to grow it and one day sell the company to recoup what you invested and make a nice return, it's important to keep that eventual sale in mind as you make decisions from day to day. All too often, online business owners end up over estimating how much their companies are worth. It's easy to understand why, of [...]

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