The Importance of being "Sale -Ready" 

Being sale ready doesn’t mean you want to sell. It simply means that you have taken the right steps to make your business attractive to prospective buyers. It’s never too early to be sale ready. It creates more options for you. It is a fact that the companies that are already prepared for the owner’s exit attract greater valuations.

What is Your Business End Game

An exit strategy is a plan for wrapping up your involvement in a business. For most people, that means readying the business for a change of owner. Executing a well-thought-out sale ready strategy will increase your sale price.

Outright Sale (walk in / walk out)


Generational change (family succession)


Placing the business under management


Vendor Finance (earn your way out)


What Levers do I pull to Increase my Company Value?

A valuable business is also a sought-after asset, making it more likely that you get an offer to buy your business in a shorter timeframe. This gives you a greater negotiating position when you do eventually decide to sell.

 The first step in getting your business “sale ready” is to use the various tools that can help you understand the current market value of your business and its strengths and weaknesses through the eyes of a buyer. This kind of analysis will help you to identify the perfect buyer profile – that is, the buyer most likely to offer the highest sale price and attractive terms and conditions of sale. Always be objective and conservative when deciding if your business is ready for sale, as many strengths of a business can be enhanced, and weaknesses mitigated, by working through our key drivers and risk mitigation analysis and creating an action plan for implementation. Collaborating with a trusted business adviser will also help. ROIC Business Group will be able to drill down on the eight drivers of company value, highlight the issues and provide you with a detailed report on the state of your business compared to the industry average.

The 8 Key Drivers of Company Value

Financial Performance

Your history of producing revenue and profit & record-keeping.

Growth Potential

Your likelihood to grow your business in the future and at what rate.

Switzerland Structure

How dependent are you on any one employee, client, or supplier.

Valuation See-Saw

Whether your business is a cash soak, or a cash spigot will affect cash flow.

Recurring Revenue

The proportion and quality of automatic, annuity-based revenue.

Monopoly Control

How well differentiated is your business is from the competitors.

Client Satisfaction

The likelihood that your clients will remain with you and also refer you.

Hub & Spoke

How would your business perform if you were unexpectedly absent. 

If your business is not ready for sale when opportunities arise, you will miss out on significant potential benefits and a lower than ideal purchase 

price.

At ROIC Business Group we always advise our clients to begin preparing for the sale of their businesses well in advance of when they want or need to put them on the market. The additional time will allow them to evaluate and fix any weaknesses their companies have, so they will be as attractive to prospective buyers as possible and will generate good offers. How long this preparation process will take varies from company to company. 

Whether you are looking to exit tomorrow or years down the road, use this exit checklist to get started.

  • Increase your Sale Price
    Maximizing the value of your business is an ongoing process that doesn’t happen overnight.  A structured approach focuses on the attributes that potential buyers can identify and quantify.
  • Gain more free time
    Improve efficiency by implementing procedures, delegating responsibility and automating processes can help with everything from payroll to inventory management and workflow, giving you more free time now.
  • Attract more qualified buyers
    Being sale ready doesn’t mean you want to sell. It simply means that you have taken the right steps to make your business attractive to prospective buyers. It’s never too early to be sale ready.
  • Improve the ongoing return. 
    It can reveal issues that many business owners don’t even realize that they have, causing them to miss out on capturing significantly more revenue.

Interested in finding out more?

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