Tips to Recruit More Business

Attracting business listings to an online business directory is essential to operating a successful directory. The key to attracting business listings is to create a positive online presence. There are a number of methods one can use to spread the word in the online business community about the benefits of listing their business on your directory. 1. Because businesses need to know why it is beneficial to list their business in your directory, you need to let them know the advantages of adding their listing. Write a series of articles and submit them to a number of article directories throughout the internet. Write about why business directories are a great way for a business to gain exposure such as helping a business improve their search engine rankings and creating name and brand recognition. 2. Because online business directories allows one the flexibility of being creative in how they create categories and subcategories, you can target businesses in your local community by creating a category just for them. The subcategories can be divided into the various types of local businesses such as hotels, restaurants, computer services...etc. Send out emails or letters promoting your local business category of your directory. You can also go to each business and talk to them about the benefits of listing their business in your directory. Carry business cards with you to distribute. 3. Create a free e-book that teaches people how to effectively promote their own business. This e-book can be a 50 or 100 page guide on marketing one's business both online and offline. It should be informative with a many strategies on how a business can reach their targeted customer. joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming joker123-gaming 4. On your business directory, offer free stuff that can benefit a business such as free animations, free website templates, HTML checker, keyword check tool, free spyware scan, website submission tools, Meta tag analyzer, and free back grounds. As well, post articles on your site on tips to promoting a business and how one implements various types of marketing strategies. 5. There are many online business discussion forums and business Blogs where one can post comments. It is important that your comments are relevant to the discussion and Blog post, and not just blatant advertising. Make sure your signature includes your directory URL. As well, post your directory URL to many online classified sites. 6. Make your online directory a niche directory. For instance, if your main website is computers, create an online directory that targets the computer industry. This can include categories that focus on the computer industry. You can create it so that it is for businesses that are related to your own business, but not your direct competition. You can then set up an email campaign to target these businesses for listing in your directory. You have to explain why listing in your directory will benefit their business. Recruiting businesses to your online directory is easy, but takes patience. You have to implement some form of marketing technique every day to spread the word about the benefits of listing with your directory. In no time, you will have a thriving and money making online business directory.

Business Best Practice and the Power

Best practice is the goal of each individual business and will probably be described as looking after matters of ethics and integrity, good customer relations, supporting staff and maintaining good standards of service, accountability and fiscal compliance. Or the description might include positive management styles, high productivity and good economic strategies. Most would agree that best practice is leadership, goal setting, teamwork, maintaining a culture of compliance, supervision, discipline, support, training, accountability and responsibility. What if all of these were the focus of a new way of managing business information that provided everything that was needed to manage the business for success and peace of mind? What if your most precious asset is your business information and what if the success of your business is affected by a lack of order and control over what happens on your business computer network? When you have no control over your business information you have no control over best practice and you might as well forget about it being in control of the business. Best practice is available through an intelligent network that uses Business Information Organization (BIO) to create the kind of framework that allows for everyone in the business to have access to what they need to achieve the outcomes the business needs. You won't have best outcomes unless you have best practice. You won't have best practice if your business information is in a mess. This is not about the way that your computers and peripherals communicate and it is not about any software. It is not about having the newest and the best equipment. It is not about hiring smart consultants and contractors to take over what should be the role of the business. It is about the power of content and the context of that content. To explain this approach to best practice there is the example of a new office goods company. 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It went well for a short while but they suddenly found that they had to hire more people to work in the warehouse running around to different stacks to fill a single order of multiple stock of the same item and when the computer that managed the warehouse was hit with a virus, everything stopped. You would be highly unlikely to have chosen Option 1 but the point is that business information is like stock and you may be unwittingly using that scatter option for your business information. The more information is scattered and the more the content is hidden, the less it is available for the business. If that business information includes policy, training, resources and business knowledge the business can be in dire straits or just not doing what it should be doing. So what if the most important stock of the business was its information content and what if it was no longer hidden and available to achieve the best practice you so desperately want to achieve? Look at your information now. How much do you know about the way it is managed? Where is your policy? How accessible is it and who created it? How often is it reviewed and updated and who does that review? Look at your own information. Do you organize it at all or is everything bundled in my documents, my pictures, my albums? Is everything haphazard or loosely organized because you tell yourself you are the only person who needs to know what is there and where it is? If you create new folders do you think hard about how they are named and sited? Are there times when you can't find anything? Is there time when you waste time and money looking for it? The bad news is that the way that you don't organize your information is exactly the same way that you everyone on your staff can't and won't organize the information they collect or create and store as they work. And the even worse news is that they are quite sure that they are the only ones who should know where it is and what it is. And even worse than that, they think it belongs to them and will delete it without asking anyone whether the business wants to keep it. So how does Option 2 which is about sorting and control sound when it comes to business information and protecting what belongs to the business in a place where it can be seen? If you were able to make policy, training, resources and business knowledge (current and past) available where and when it is needed, you will have what you need for leadership, goal setting, teamwork, a culture of compliance, supervision, discipline, support, training, accountability and responsibility. You will have best practice leading to productivity and business success. Can you claim that this is available to you now? Don't let the IT industry keep dictating Option 1 for your business information content. They have a one-size-fits-all solution to your business information needs and they won't be in your business to see how chaos slows it down and sometimes brings it to a grinding halt. Option 2 is about the Intelligent Network and Business Information Organization (BIO) and it will cost you nothing to set it up. It is time to find out how it works and why it will work in your business. If you do nothing more than creating a network place for information based on what the business is and what it does you will be on a winner.

Should Small Businesses

Many small business fear expansion right now, they fear hiring additional employees, and they are completely worried about the future. Should they be? We know that community banks are worried and there are not a lot of small business loans going on right now. Indeed, as a former franchisor before retirement it is my contention that I wouldn't pour money into a small business right now, much less touch it with a ten-foot pole. Let me explain; Why would you want to start a business where you had to hire people with all the new Obama administration rules, and this latest AFO-CIO appointment to the Department of Labor is scary too, it's going to be really tough on small businesses. Not long ago, I was explaining all this to an acquaintance who was buying an existing business and considering the hiring of a employees to help her in her business and she asked me; "tell me more. My guess is that I would have a couple part-time women." So should my acquaintance start her business and hire two part-time employees? Don't know, no one knows what was in that darn Health Care bill, small business doesn't know, information flow sucks, the Administration hasn't said, it's all vague and NO Small Business Person in their right mind would risk going into business right now knowing they'd hire employees. The President got on TV and made some vague inane speech about how this would help small businesses? No details, none forthcoming, terrible communication job. Terrible - and quite frankly it's completely and absolutely un-acceptable. This group of leaders doesn't know what the heck they are doing. We need a better team, and some common sense behind it. These people have never had to make a payroll in their lives, it ought to be a pre-requisite for public office, how on Earth can anyone believe they can run things without working knowledge of the realities of running a business? Now then, I was reading in some trade journals in various industries all the phase-ins for health care insurance law compliance, it's a mess. Worse, it's going to be an absolute hardship on small business, and medical costs are still rising, and rising, and rising. Over the last decade these costs have outpaced inflation by 10:1 and they just keep going? Hard to say what fuel they are using but we need that for the Space Shuttle - seriously folks, this is a disaster for the business community, and it isn't going to help anyone, only raise costs. blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency blackcatagency And people wonder why jobs are not returning? 75% - plus of our jobs are through small business in America, but the politicians are too busy coddling lobbyists of large corporations to even worry about it. It's all a show, it's all BS, and until things change, I'd be leery of the unknown or future business risk taking. So, you asked me to tell you more? There you have it. Am I the only person in this whole country that gets it? What the hell are they doing? The Small Business Administration director hasn't a clue. My god, this dog and pony show never stops, WTH is going on. And the media hasn't helped, what small businesses are supposed to go pay an attorney and accountant to tell them the new law changes? Sure, pay the professional parasites to tell you about the "new rules" I mean, do these legislators (all lawyers) even hear themselves think? And as the economy expands and gets back to normal, which jobs come back first? Legal jobs of course, what a totally screwed up system. So, the business people have to pay lawyers, accountants just to prepare for the law changes, scared out of their wits they might make a mistake and the big bad government is going to fine them, jail them, put them out of business? How do I know this is how it goes? Because I set up 187 franchises serving some 450 cities, I know exactly how small business works and how business people think. Meanwhile, we have a perceived "small business hater" president who never explained the comments about his "joe the plumber" gaf, and although it was blown out of proportion. That indeed, was a definite psychological hit to small business, one we still haven't gotten over and we must to insure small business confidence, if we truly want those jobs - I am beginning to think they don't by the actions of the Obama Administration, but don't doesn't understand and Obama's PR team there is unfortunately too "unwise" to understand, so they laugh it off, and ramrod some BS health care legislation with a 2800 page health care bill, and then Pelosi is on prime time TV and says; "Well, you'll just have to vote for it to see what's in the bill." You have to be kidding me? Why should small businesses have to contact a lawyer to explain the health care rules? And may I ask with what money are they supposed to pay the $2,000 bill to set it up properly so they don't get fined? Small businesses have been battling this recession for 35-months now, they are barely hanging on. If you own a small business and "Need the Money" well, get in line, every small business does and there is nowhere to borrow it. No one, me included, or any bank would be foolish enough to take the risk to lend money now. And no one knows what this Administration or Congress is going to do next? They are unpredictable, perceived unstoppable and willing to shove any 4,000 page bill down America's throats. And don't you dare argue with me, next could be Cap and Trade, and energy costs will skyrocket and you'll be stuck in a business watching your energy costs go up 45%! How about that? Then you can expect shortages and mandatory "Energy Ultra Efficient" equipment which will be required, above your already efficient units, air-conditioning system, solar panels, computers, along with new lighting, above and beyond what you have. If you don't you will be fined or shut down. If you cannot or do not want the presence of an attorney one will be appointed, if you want to stay in business the SBA will give you loans, GREAT borrow more money, as they destroy your business, go into more debt, is their answer, interesting, that's the problem in the first place, the government is broke, now they want all the businesses to be as broke as they are and pay for all their mistakes in higher costs, taxes, fines, and fees. Enough already! And if you think I am blowing smoke, it could easily happen in the next six to 18-months, and I wouldn't put anything past this Administration or Congress, they are absolutely out of control. Do you think that if your energy costs tripled in your business you could keep your prices at the current level? Of course not, and if you double your prices, 30% of your customers will not come back, and the others will come less often, easily taking at hit of 40-50% in revenues? Well, think it can't happen?

Home Based Business

Everyone loves to make extra income, or an additional income stream, but not everyone takes action to realise their "extra income dreams". However most people know that starting their own businesses, part-time or full time, can lead to realising that dream. That is so true, as confirmed by one of America's top motivational speaker, Jim Rohn who said "Profits are better than wages; wages make you a living and profits make you a fortune". Not many people take the steps to setup their own businesses, for one reason or the other including keeping a busy Full Time Job schedule, and being unsure of a business model that can fit into their current limitations - time and budget. The idea of multiple streams of income is one which many people wish for only if they "had enough spare time" to start their own businesses - part-time or full time, at home or at a commercial location. While starting a business is a dream for many, many people never seem to get around making it a reality, usually because they believe that a business would demand more spare time than they currently have from their full time job. The truth is that many successful entrepreneurs today started from moonlighting from home, until their businesses became big enough to justify their full attention. Starting off part-time is the best way to test the waters of business ownership. An online business model is one of the best part-time business models available for people with limited spare time and budget. An online home business model is one that can be run successfully with only a few consistent hours daily. This model can be adopted by anyone, irrespective of what business they want to go into. Yes, any kind of business - service or product - can be done successfully through the online home business model. Has time and budget constraints prevented you from starting your own business? Are you a nine-to-five person, a stay at home mom or dad or a college student looking for a home business model to generate extra streams of income and also staying on a tight budget? An online home business model may just be the best fit for you. There are lots of business models to choose from today than ever before, because there are now so many different types of businesses. You can start a business full time or part time; at home, online or brick and mortar in a commercial location. However, choosing the right business model would play a huge part in your business success. 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What to Consider Before Starting Your Own Online Home Business - Decide on how much time you can, and want to devote to your business daily. Will you decide to go with a full time business model which means leaving behind whatever it is you are currently doing and devoting all your time to your new business venture? - Decide on how much money you want to put into the business - startup and running cost. - What risks are common with the business you want to go into, and the model you choose to run it? Brainstorm possible ways you can prevent those risks? In conclusion, if time and budget have been your constraints to starting your own home based business, you should consider an Online Home Business Model. The first step to taking action is to learn how to market online for results, on budget time and money. You should also learn to understand the behaviours of online buyers and what makes them buy. When you know these you'll be able to tune your marketing to fit your prospective customers' needs, and you'll find out that they will come running after you with cash in hand, instead of you worrying about how to get customers. Would you like to learn more about starting an online home business and how to attract hordes of customers running after you? Click here for more free business success tips, advice online and how-tos on how you can start and grow a successful online home business. In case you are ready now to setup your own online home business, you may want to get a comprehensive, practical step-by-step report to walk you through the A-Z process for setting up from scratch and daily running your business profitably. Click here to get your free report.

Business Coaching Services

Business coaching services bring many advantages to the female entrepreneur who implements the strategies and understands the benefits. With any havoc that an under performing business can cast to every female entrepreneur there is, the lack of branding, marketing and planning is a big no-no. You are an entrepreneur who wants nothing more than entice more clients and rake in greater success in a business that is a product of your sweat and blood. Business coaching services can help you double, if not triple your business growth within a year or so. Expect to learn 3 of the major business coaching services that no mentor, relative or friend can impart to you as effectively as coaches could. Branding. This encompasses the name, sign, design, term or symbol that is designed to allow the differentiation of goods or services between one business and the next. But don't let this fool you into thinking that branding is about convincing your prospects to choose you over your competition. Rather, a process of getting your target market to see you as the only business that can provide them with their needs and solutions to their problems. A good brand confirms your credibility, delivers your message clearly, connects with your target prospects emotionally, motivates your buyers and cements customer loyalty. It is crucial that female entrepreneurs cultivate a strong personal brand to establish and cement the desired perception that you want your target market to have of you. Only when you do this will you build enduring, highly successful and symbiotic relationships with your target market. More often than not, branding proves to be one of the most challenging processes in any business, hence the need of a good business coach. The challenge remains, "dare to be your own brand". Marketing is one of the most crucial processes that breathes air into your business. It is one of the business coaching services that female entrepreneurs must learn. Marketing is not just about selling; it involves a profound understanding of your key audience and looking for ways to provide the services or products that they demand. It is dynamic and involves several disciplines (i.e. public relations, sales, pricing, distribution and sales. It, therefore, permeates all areas of your enterprise. 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It includes all aspects of managing and effective implementation of the marketing plan. Working with a business coach with a proven system is the best way to plan and implement a strategy that works. Planning. No one should ever start a business without a comprehensive business plan. A business plan serves as your blueprint as it helps you create clearly defined goals, needs, calculated risks and steps that you need to perform to help your business establish a solid footing in the industry. As one of the primary business coaching services, it helps your business go far more smoothly. By planning your business from the ground up, it eliminates risky business maneuvers, undefined and ambiguous business strategies that could thwart the success of your new business. A business coach will help you design a winning business plan that would include specific and important elements such as: the name of your business, a clear and concise description of your business, a business operation plan, how to advertise your business, a complete assessment of your competitors, target market analysis, potential financial expenses and more. All the early strategic planning will help you circumvent possible business failures. These are the big 3 business coaching services that you should expect to avail under a good business coach. Keep in mind that having your own business is not a walk in the park and utmost care and planning is a must.

Why Small Business

Most small business owners would benefit by electing to hire a business consultant, particularly if they are just starting up or if their business is not doing as well they hoped it would. Consultants can help you in many ways, offering the breadth of their experience in business start-ups and management to enable you to get off to the best possible start or to rescue a failing business that nevertheless has good potential. Business Consultant Services When you hire a business consultant you are hiring experience and expertise in a wide range of business elements. They can bring a new perspective to your business in terms of operation analysis, obtaining finance, strategic planning, management consulting and a great deal more. Very few small owners have much business knowledge or acumen, and even fewer contacts in the business world that can help them with good advice. Business consultancy services can offer you these missing ingredients that can not only turn a failing company round into a successful enterprise, but can also build on the success of a successful firm and enable it to even further dominate its market. So your small business need not be failing for you to make the best use of a business consultant - successful businesses also employ them to accelerate what may already be a rapid growth rate. Why Hire a Business Consultant? Have you just started up and are unsure where to go next? Is your business losing money? Do you understand your market but lack some necessary business skills? Is your business growing but you want it to grow faster? Have you reached a point where you need professional help to advance? Have you a need find out more about your customers' needs? If you can identify with any of these situations then a business consultant can help you. Here are some of the benefits hiring a business consultant can offer: Starting up a new business from scratch Maximizing the profitability of your business Locating areas of your business needing specific attention Identifying potential problems and being proactive in resolving them Helping you to formulate strategic and systematic plans to enable your business to grow Making best use of marketing and the USPs of your products or services Helping you find finance to develop your business Providing you with new ideas and strategies you had never thought of yourself A business consultant provides the knowledge and know-how currently missing in your business Although you may believe hiring a business consultant to be expensive, they are more affordable than you might believe. They are very cost effective and what you spend in fees you can make many times over in improvement in efficiency and profitability. There are no doubts that hiring a business consultant can benefit your business, but to make the best use of such as service you should: a) Hire the best you can afford - with good references and an excellent track record, and b) Learn from them: how do they operate, what techniques are they using and what third party services, websites or software do they use. manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato Hiring is fine, but make sure that you learn from them as much as possible. While the major reason why business owners need to hire a business consultant is that they genuinely need help, it doesn't make sense to pay money and fail to learn how to copy their techniques and understand the third party services that they may use. The Gung Ho Approach: Try it and See What Happens! Many entrepreneurs use a gung-ho trial-by-fire approach to improving their business - see what happens and if it works, then great, but if not, then start again. Why? Why try to reinvent the wheel and prove what is already known? By employing the services of a business consultant you can get off to a flying start, have any problems you encountered resolved immediately and get on to making more money as quickly as possible. What you lose in 'learning for yourself' would be better spent on outsourcing your business knowledge and would offer a better return than the cost of learning. So, if you feel that you need a bit more knowledge than you already have, don't wait until you have learned by trial and error, but pay for it and get on with building a successful and profitable business. Conclusion Hiring a business consultant can offer a business many benefits - whether that is a new start-up, a failing business or a successful concern. Every business can improve, and if you believe the financial benefit exceeds the outlay, then it's a no-brainer. So take that burden off your shoulders and pass it on to somebody with the breadth of experience and proven ability to make the changes and improvements that you need to let you sleep easily at night without worry for yourself and your employees. That's why small business owners need to hire a business consultant. To teach them what they don't know!

The Process of Selling Your Business

If you have spent years building a business then you will most likely come to a point where you decide to sell your company to a third party. There are a number of reasons why an entrepreneur makes the decision to part ways with the business that they have dedicated their careers towards creating. For many business people, common reasons for selling a venture include retirement, wanting to move on to another venture, or sickness. As such, you should carefully consider everything that needs to be done when you place your business on the market for sale. Foremost, you are going to want to determine what a buyer is going to be willing to pay you for your venture. For most people, the concept of business valuation is extremely difficult. As such, we strongly recommend that you work closely with a business appraiser that can effectively provide you with an understanding of what your business is worth. When a business valuation expert reviews your company they are going to look at the earnings of the business, the value of the tangible assets on your balance sheet, and what comparable businesses have sold for in the past. Although it is extremely expensive to go through this evaluation, it is an imperative part of the business selling process. After you have determined the free market value of your business, you are going to want to think about how you can market your business for sale. In many instance, it may be in your best interest to hire a business broker that can introduce potential buyers for your company. However, business brokering firms typically charge a fee equal to 10% of the total amount of the sale if they are successful in obtaining a buyer for your business. As such, you may want to review many websites that are on the Internet that will allow you to list your company for sale to the general public. Additionally, prior to listing your business for sale, you should work closely with your CPA and tax attorney to determine the best way to sell your small business. In many instances these professionals will inform you that the best tax strategy will be to sell the assets of the company rather than the stock of the business. However, each business sale transaction is unique. Only a qualified and licensed professional can assist you in making the determination of how the business can be sold to a third party. manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato manausdefato One of the things that you should also incorporate into your thinking as it pertains to selling your business is that you may be required to stay with the business for six months to one year as the new owner transitions after the transaction. Among small businesses, it is a common clause within a sale contract that the previous business owner is available to introduce customers to the new owner. The new owner will also want you to work closely with existing employees so that they can understand how the business will change once you sell the business to a different entrepreneur. Prior to selling your business, you are going to want to have all of the appropriate documentation in place so that a potential buyer can understand your firm very quickly. These documents include the previous three years of tax returns for your business, your business valuation, and other metrics from which a buyer can render a decision as to whether or not to purchase your company. In closing, it is extremely important for you to understand every facet of how to sell your business to a third party. You are going to be required to have a substantial number of business professionals working with you in order to complete this transition including your CPA, an attorney, and a business valuation expect. However, from the sale of your business, you can expect a substantial return on investment if you have developed a highly profitable venture.