INDEX

1. Facts You Should Know
2. Qualify The Buyer
3. Confidentiality Agreement
4. How To Market The Business
5. Preparing The Offer et-al

FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW

Sunbelt Business Brokers has sold more businesses in Mississippi than all the other firms and individuals combined.

No other firm or individual can get you the WEB presence and exposure equal to Sunbelt's website. Period.

No matter the size of the business, Sunbelt Business Brokers of MS has sold businesses to individuals or through our Merger & Acquisitions process with solid results, using tried and true Sunbelt methods.

We confidentially market businesses, using several vehicles with proven results; USAToday newspaper, Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, INC. Magazine, Bizbuysell, and the vast Sunbeltnetwork website.

Sunbelt been awarded the best brokerage firm and franchise, as well as the #1 business brokerage firm for the past 9 years by Entrepreneur Magazine.

QUALIFY THE BUYER

Think you can save the commissions and sell your business yourself? Do you know how to qualify your buyers? After being asked to show your business's financials, do you feel comfortable doing so? Does this buyer really want to buy your business, or is he simply trying to find out about your business, because he is getting ready to start one just like it and become your competitor.

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT

Do you have a legal and binding form for the buyer to sign that will protect you? After finding out proprietary information from you about your business, who else will he share this information with; your employees, your customers, your competitors?

HOW TO MARKET THE BUSINESS?

In this day and time of high-tech marketing, do you know how to market your business to bring you the most qualified and competent buyer prospects? Gone are the days of running a newspaper ad!

PREPARING THE OFFER, ET-AL.

Do you know how much your business is really worth? If you sell your business to your buyer prospect, are you leaving money on the table, because you sold it too cheap? When you sold the business to your buyer prospect, did you plan ahead for the possibility that you might have to take the business back? Do you know how capable the buyer is of running the business? Did you make a Counter Offer and then lose the buyer? Did you sign the offer, sold the business, only to find that you didn't consider your tax situation and implications? Now what? What happens in terms of having the right paperwork to enforce the contract and the remedies if something goes wrong? Thinking about using your personal attorney? How many businesses has he sold?