Marketing a business for sale by owner or through a broker on the Business Broker Journal Network offers several distinct advantages for you, the seller. Let’s take a look at the benefits of each approach.

How can business brokerages help me to sell my business?
If you are not comfortable tackling the task of selling yourself, a broker could be worth the fees you will pay. The sale of a business should be approached with much more formality than the sale of residence. Using a broker gives you an expert who can help you prepare your business for sale, find a buyer who will pay top dollar, and negotiate the details.

1.) Shouldering the load: Selling your business requires a great deal of time and attention, two things that you may not be able to spare while continuing the daily operational requirements of running your business. Passing selling, negotiating and closing responsibilities on to a business broker will allow you to focus on your business and keep you from being spread too thin.

2.) Confidentiality: When listing a business for sale by owner, the owner reveals that his enterprise is for sale, therefore affecting the relationship with the public and prospective buyers, employees, suppliers and other associates. A good business broker can market a company for sale in such a way that protects the owner’s identity and effectively screen potential buyers to ensure that they are qualified and serious about purchasing.

3.) Close Quicker: With a business broker working full-time on the sale, chances are the transaction will be completed much sooner and for a higher price. To find a business broker in your area, click on Find a Broker.

4.) Buyer Interaction: When business brokerages sell businesses, the owners involved are very rarely able to speak to potential buyers. Being able to speak directly with someone will give you an idea of how badly he wants the business and how he might run it so keep in touch with your broker regularly for updates on all prospect-related conversations.

Should I sell my business myself or work with a Business Broker?
Listing your business for sale by owner is one of the simplest ways to approach a very important business transaction. You’ve invested so much time, sweat and money into your business, and it can be difficult to entrust your entire future to a third party even if trust is very high. Can I really sell my business myself?” you ask. The answer is absolutely! Let’s examine more closely the benefits of selling a business independently.

1.) Cost savings: This is nearly always the primary concern for business owners who decide to sell their own business. The commission on the sale of a large business can be very lucrative for a broker, and take a large chunk of profit away from you. This can be especially dangerous if you are attempting to sell a troubled business. Managing the sale of your own business can keep much-needed money in your pocket.

Posting your business online is an easy and cost efficient way to advertise, and will reach infinitely more interested parties than advertising in print. At Business Broker Journal.com, you can list your business for sale by owner for only $49.95 per month. In addition, premier placement is available for a reasonable fee, giving your business additional exposure on the site. The average business takes between five and eight months to sell, and a online listing can dramatically shorten that statistic.

Whether you sell your business independently or use business brokerages, marketing on the Business Broker Journal network can help you gather the largest number of lucrative offers in the shortest amount of time, ensuring a win-win situation for both you and your buyer.

How much money are you losing by not promoting your business online with one of the most visited sites in the world? Did I mention it was Free!

If you are selling products or services you could be missing out on the single biggest source of new business available without spending a dime.

Regardless of what you sell or offer as a merchant, marketing and advertising your product or services is crucial to your success. You will naturally want to attract as many potential new customers as you can when you promote your business online.

No this isn’t some new fad site that just came out. It’s Craigslist!

Craigslist is ranked number 34 among all websites on the internet for traffic. If you aren’t advertising there you really need to do a reality check. It doesn’t get much better then Free.

Craigslist is a great place to market yourself and your product if you have a definite strategy and stay with it. The key is consistency and adaptability.

Promoting anything online is an art; one that you must learn to adapt to repeatedly as the online markets change and progress. What worked yesterday, last week, or a month ago may bring little or no hits to your website.

That is why having a strategy and staying on top of the ever changing business promotions will put you well ahead of the millions of other merchants just like you struggling to survive in the online world. The first part of your strategy should be to find a creative way to advertise your business. Try targeting cities and areas and post ads to whichever section best matches your product or services.

You must be willing to submit new ads after a few hours or a day to compete with the ordinary people who list the same products or services that you are offering. Every ad should be fresh and engaging. Be aware of the fact that if you post ads to one account more than once every 24 hours your ad will probably get ghosted.

The amount of time spent building the text and HTML or graphics should be well thought out and planned for each venue in promoting your business online. Look to see what the competition is doing and use it for ideas.

Craigslist is a great place to promote a business online if you follow the rules set up to keep people from creating spam or duplicate ads. Don’t post the same ad more than once a week, rotate carefully so as not to draw attention by other users of Craigslist who will notice if you are abusing the rules.

They can be ruthless when finding someone who doesn’t conform and will flag you right off. The power to keep duplicate ads out of Craigslist is in the hands of the users through a system built specifically to flag spam.

Build numerous ads and run them with a rigidness the military would want to mimic. Constantly replacing old ads with fresh ones will keep your business on top of the list. If you use picture ads I suggest that you upload them to a free photo sharing site. You can re-use picture ads if you upload the same picture with different file names.

With Craigslist every new ad is placed on the top while the others are bumped down a notch. This system is in place to your advantage; make sure you’re promoting your business online daily.
The important thing to remember is that whether you are using the Craigslist or other websites to promote your business online, offering a fresh approach to products and services is one key to your success.

Make a daily check list to bring in something unique if not amusing to your online marketing sources. Remember in order to stay in the eye of the cyberspace public you need to constantly change with the moment.

All of us have 24 hrs in a day. It is all upon us how we manage them wisely. A working professional who does something other than his hard core job has to take judicious decisions to make things work for him. Time which is not properly managed will never come back. It is very correctly said “when money is lost nothing is lost but when time is lost everything is lost “. A person who is not a full time trainer and manages his business and job has to do a lot of planning to be successful in both spheres. As a trainer a person needs to make power point presentations, plan the whole speech, choose examples and other icebreaking and role play activities. It really demands a lot of time. It is not a joke. A successful trainer is one who has planned things earlier. If you take things lightly you will not get desired results. We have to surf the net for all stuffs and really do a lot of reading to be ahead of the rest of the masses. While surfing the net for reading or making presentations make it a point to first check all the mails. When you have finished checking and replying all mails. Go through the schedule which you have prepared for training so that you have an idea of how to prioritize things.

Do not chat with anyone while making your power point presentations as it distracts you. If it is really necessary talk to the concerned person and get back to work. Receive only important calls. When you are making your presentation follow a proper symmetry so that things don’t fall out of place. Following a symmetry means knowing which slide should come next. There should be a particular order. Slides should not be placed haphazardly as this shows lack of professionalism. If its a 3hrs training don’t make more than 20 to 25 slides as they are more than enough. You really don’t need to make 40 slides for 3 hrs training program. You have to plan activities and role play too, so 20 – 25 slides are much more than enough. Don’t make lengthy points, keep them short and simple and add appropriate pictures to validate your point further. Once done check your presentation and add custom animation. Keep the custom animation a little professional by choosing the appropriate ones. Once done start revising your presentation and prepare a body by writing down all important points and examples to be discussed during the actual training program. When surfing the net you will find lots and lots of data, don’t get lost in the ocean but find a shore and take what you need and leave the rest. Read what is needed and leave the rest. Don’t waste your time pondering over unnecessary stuffs that will only be wastage of time.

Now your skeleton and body of training program is ready. If you are planning role plays, plan something relevant to the topic. Please avoid deviating from the main topic. Write down all the points which you have decided for role play. Note down all activities which needs to be taken on the training day. Once done you can revise them again and again. Now more than half of your work is done for the training program. Please prepare things in advance don’t wait for the final day to come closer and then start panicking and doing a mess of everything. All training programs we take reflects our professionalism and commitment to our work. Don’t send wrong signals by delivering a messy training program. Remember people will not forget, their memory is sharp and they will never call you again.

We sometimes run short of words. This will not happen if we devote a considerable amount of time reading newspaper and magazines. When ever you get free time make it a habit of catching hold of a magazine and reading through it. Read something. For becoming a successful trainer you should be a voracious reader. Forget who are successful and why. You need to walk your own path and carve a niche in your own sphere. People should remember you and your training program such should be the impact. If you are planning to use video in your presentation choose them wisely. Please don’t cut paste anything. Video should be relevant and thought provoking.

If you want to be recognized try new activities. Don’t repeat things because a person who has attended something before, he is aware of it. You should have new content to enrich every person in the audience. Do not use the same presentation again and again. Either change the pictures or few points so that it looks absolutely new. Impart differently and see the magic happening.