Business Ready For Sale

Send us Fan Mail BUSINESS STRUCTURES & BUSINESS OWNER AGREEMENTS HOSTED BY JOHN DENTON WITH STEVEN BROWN COMMERCIAL LAWYER Here is What You'll Learn In This Episode: Types of business structures - There are many ways to setup the legal structure of your business. Which one is right for you? Understand the pros and cons of the various options. Partnership and buy / sell agreements - What a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I tell my story of selling a registered training business I owned with a partner and how we got it all wrong and failed to sell. Then, with good advice and being better prepared, we were able to sell quickly, easily and got 20% more for the business. When you start the process to sell your business, think of it as being like stepping out onto a ski jump. Once you g...

Send us Fan Mail These short episodes are my education series where I explain various elements of getting a business ready for sale and the sale process itself. This first episode is where I give 3 reasons why you need to be getting your business ready for sale all the time, 3 tips on the things to start working on NOW and all of this in just 3 minutes.  Remember, a business that's ready for...

Send us Fan Mail Another episode in the Business Ready For Sale series, because a business that's ready for sale is well worth keeping. Find more at johndenton.com.au Some years ago when I had a Leadership and Management training business, my business partner and I set a goal to exit the business with equity in three years. To increase the value of our business we needed to increase the profi...

Send us Fan Mail If you are a franchisee then have you thought about how you will exit your franchise? Selling a franchise is more complicated than selling any other business. You need to think about how you are going to exit your franchise BEFORE you get in to it. When you entre into a franchise agreement, you are not buying a business - you are entering into an agreement for a 'term' t...

Send us Fan Mail Every business sale comes down to a negotiation. In fact we are negotiating everyday in all walks of life. In this episode, lawyer Paul D'Angelo of D'Angelo Legal gives us many great tips on how to approach a negotiation so that it becomes an enjoyable and stress free process. Paul talks about dealing with different cultures, keeping the emotion out of it and respecting...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast I am chatting with "The Family Business Guy" - John Broons.  Why and how are family businesses different from any other business? Why are they more complicated to sell or transition to new owners? Listen to my chat with John Broons and you will find out. what assumptions do family members make about ownership? are non family employees treated the same as...

Send us Fan Mail Starting up a new business as a disruptor to an industry and competitor for major incumbent companies is not something that appeals to many of us. Charlie Guningham went from teaching to entrepreneur and business owner and did exactly that. That's just one of the reasons he recently won the award as Western Australian Entrepreneur of the Year at the  WAITTA's INCITE Awar...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I chat with survival expert and facilitator of leadership and team programs, Mike House . In the bush, it could be your life at threat. In life, business and relationships there are survival situations as well. They run for longer and you may not lose your life, however if you are not aware you are in one, you risk getting blindsided. The costs may be financial, re...

Send us Fan Mail There's a saying in the computer industry "garbage in, garbage out". In any business it's critical to know your numbers. Both financial and non financial. However, if the data isn't entered or isn't entered correctly to enable analysis and decision making, then the business can get into trouble. When it comes to selling the business, the data needs to...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I chat with Kelly Meyn of Avior Consulting about Australia's new insolvency laws for small business which came in to affect from January 2021. The new laws help small business to return from what would otherwise be the brink of insolvency. The main benefits for small business are: a new debt restructuring process for businesses with debts up to $1 million allo...

Send us Fan Mail An update interview with Chris Milne, business valuer Jarot Business Valuations   on the effects the COVID pandemic has had on business vales, valuation methods and business sales. This update interview was three and a half months after the first interview conducted when we went in to lockdown. Some of the things will surprise you as it isn't all bad news. What's changed...

Send us Fan Mail Mike House is a survival expert, author, speaker and business coach presented to my Business Owners Taking Action (BOTA) membership group on a WebMeeting.  Mike has a great way of relating all his survival techniques and experience to business. With the advent of the COVID global pandemic Mike discusses ways that business owners can cope and even grow in these unprecedented times....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I am again the interviewee and I am interviewed on Twin Cities Radio 89.7 FM in the northern suburbs of Perth.  he interviewer is John Logan who at the time of this interview is a councillor with the City of Joondalup. John is a big supporter of small and medium businesses and here we discuss tips for business owners to improve their business, make their lives eas...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I have a discussion with Perth based business valuer, Chris Milne from Jarot Business Valuations. Chris has 25 years experience in business valuations, publishes the quarterly Business Values Newsletter, has won awars from the Australian Business brokers Association and is regularly in contact with business brokers in Perth and Australia.  In this discussion we dis...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a great overview of all the areas of a business that need to be worked on to get a business 'ready for sale'. I am interviewed by futurist, author and speaker, Gihan Perera, about turning a business into a saleable asset. We walk through a mindmap of tips and cover many things a business owner can do, and should be doing, to have their business 'read...

Send us Fan Mail The Business Ready For Sale PodCasts are for business owners and aspiring business owners to help them turn their businesses into saleable assets. A business that's ready for sale is well worth keeping. PodCasts include interviews with successful business owners, entrepreneurs, business valuers, business topic experts and sometimes it will just be me with tips and advice.  Th...