B u s i n e s s M a n a g e m e n t / By Jac o b O r o s z / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Three Steps to
Selling Your Sign Shop
The key to selling your sign shop is a thorough plan.
W
hat will you do when it is time to sell your business? Are you about to stop
What many sign professionals mistakenly believe
reading because you are not consid-
is that it will be easy to sell the business when the
ering selling your shop? Less than 85 percent of business owners have a plan in place for when the time comes to exit their busi-
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nesses. Stay with me, and you will see why you should be thinking about the sale of your business now. The reality is, one way or another, you will eventually exit your business. The most common signshop.com
way business owners exit is through a sale.
time comes. However statistics show that over 80 percent of businesses on the market ultimately do not sell. The key to selling your sign shop—and receiving top dollar for it—lies in executing an intelligent, thorough plan, which involves three concrete steps: prepare, advertise, and close the deal. May 2015 // Sign Builder Illustrated
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