You have already started building value. Now it is time to turn it into wealth.

A prepared business and an unprepared one sell for very different numbers.

Same revenue. Same industry. Same year. The difference is whether the financials hold up under scrutiny, whether the business runs without the owner, and whether the risks a buyer will find have already been dealt with.

If you have been through Build Value, most of that work is done. If you have not, we will tell you honestly whether to go to market now or spend twelve months getting ready first. Sometimes waiting is worth a great deal of money, and sometimes it is not.

The same team, now with a brokerage attached.

When you are ready to transact, execution runs through Sunbelt Business Brokers of Metropolitan Chicago, our brokerage partner. Same people, same preparation, with the machinery of a transaction behind it.

1. Valuation. Confirm the number you have been working toward, with a written opinion of value.

2. Confidential Marketing. Taken to market as a blind profile. Industry, region and financial range only. Employees, customers and competitors learn nothing until you decide they should.

3. Buyer Screening. Financial capacity verified and NDAs signed before anyone reaches you.

4. Negotiate and Close. Structure, diligence, financing and transition, through to a close that holds.

Most owners meet their broker a few months before the sale.

By then the number is largely fixed. Whatever was going to depress the price has already depressed it, and there is no time left to change it.

The advantage of working with us on the advisory side first is that the people who prepared the business are the people who take it to market. Nothing is handed over, nothing is re-explained, and nobody discovers a problem in diligence that we have not already seen.