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Preparing to buy or sell a business in Florida is a daunting task. There are many steps to take and it’s not something that can be done without a lot of research. Using an Orlando business broker to help can be a great way to reduce the stress that comes with buying or selling a business.

Why Now Is A Great Time To Buy Or Sell A Business In Florida

With the down-turning economy, it may seem like a terrible time to buy or sell a business in Florida. Nothing could be further from the truth, however. While some businesses are for sale because they weren’t turning a profit, that’s not always the case. Businesses are bought and sold all the time for many reasons, including an owner’s retirement, career change and relocation.

If you’re looking to purchase an established business, now’s a great time to do your research and decide what kind of company you want to own. Are you interested in food? Open a restaurant! Have a passion for helping people feel better about themselves? Open a service-based business like a beauty salon or a fitness center. Love kids? How about a daycare? The possibilities are endless.

How To Buy A Business

After researching your local area and deciding on the type of business you’d like to own, it’s time to talk to one of the many Florida business brokers. These are people specially trained to help with business deals - buying a business isn’t as simple as just writing a check. There are many different steps to go through and Florida business brokers can help every step along with way.

Financing is obviously a big hurdle to jump through. It’s a good idea to have a plan for financing before contacting an Orlando business broker. While they can help with the financing, they’ll need to know your budget before showing your businesses for sale. It doesn’t make sense to look at businesses worth $200,000 if you only have $50,000 to invest.

Once your financing is settled, your Florida business brokers can explain how to buy a business. They’ll meet with you and find out your interests. They can then be on the lookout for Orlando businesses for sale that fit exactly what you’re looking for.

How To Sell A Business

Selling a business involves much more than just putting a “for sale” sign in the window. The process should actually start years before you decide to sell. You’ll need at least 3 years of financial records and will need to make sure you’re paying all employees legally. And just like when selling a home, everything will need to be as clean as possible, inside and out. Florida business brokers will be hesitant to bring in potential clients if the business isn’t in sellable condition. Working with a broker will also get the best price possible and bring in pre-qualified potential buyers.

With the help of one of Florida’s business brokers, buying or selling your business can be a breeze. Your broker will take the anxiety out of the sale. With their assistance, you’ll be on your way to the financial freedom that comes with your own business.

Jon Buschlen is an author for Crowne Atlantic, a group of Florida business brokers. They specialize in helping clients buy and sell businesses in the Orlando area.

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Pick up almost any document on starting a business and you’ll be advised that you should promptly undertake the creation of a business plan. I am a big fan of business planning but here I’ll disagree. A better idea is to complete a feasibility study. A feasibility study and a business plan share a lot in common but the feasibility study is much shorter and can be completed in less time than a full business plan.

The whole point of the feasibility study is to determine if the business concept is feasible. There is no need to go to all of the detail required by a business plan if a general testing of market numbers indicates the idea will not work.

It is alright to use educated guesses for the numbers. You can increase accuracy and detail in the business plan to follow if your initial study indicates it is warranted. A good feasibility study should answer at least the following questions:

• What is the size of the market (units sold)?
• What market share can we expect to gain (% of market)?
• How many will we sell?
• At what price?
• What expenses will we incur?

Try to make a list of the resources you’ll need to operate the business (land, buildings, equipment, training, employees, licenses, permits & fees, inventory, interest, marketing etc.). Do your expenses resemble within reason your consumption of these resources?

Next, Test your plan on a variety of inputs. Generate a worst case, probable and best case number for each input. This will provide you with a minimum threshold below which your idea is not feasible. This will prove immensely valuable if you move on to the business plan stage. When (if) you begin additional research, you’ll focus on the most critical number in the plan. For instance, if you determine you need a market size of at least 30,000 customers meeting a specific demographic to make the plan work and you find out that there are only 20,000 then either find a plan to make it work with 20,000 or stop working the plan.

Now have a knowledgeable third party evaluate your study. Incorporate their suggestions to make your plan more realistic.

After revision, ask yourself if the anticipated profits are worth the risks you will take? Does it make sense to invest your time and money in this manner? If so, move on to the full business plan with a clear insight into where to focus your research.

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Many business owners prefer to start their businesses from home, regardless of the type of business they want to get involved in.

By combining work and domestic life, your outlays are reduced considerably, however there are pros and cons associated with running your business from home:

Pros:

·It is cheap; your costs are low and you don’t have to pay rent.
·You save money on petrol traveling to and from work.
·It is a good way to test your business before expanding and signing a lease.
·You save time, as you don’t have to travel to and from work.
·You set your own schedule; you can work any hour of the day or the night.
·It is appropriate if your customers don’t have to come to you to get your product or service and your business relies on you going to your customers.

Cons:

·It could be extremely isolating and sometimes you may miss out on industry development.
·Many business owners find it extremely difficult to concentrate on their work when they are at home with all the domestic distractions.
·You are unable to rely on the outside world for motivation.

Some tips to consider when working from home:

1. Set aside a room in the house as your office.

2. Start at a set time and finish at a set time.

3. Get dressed in work clothes rather than working in your pyjamas.

4. Ensure your family members or friends understand and appreciate your working schedule and don’t just barge into your office any time. Any family issues should be discussed during morning tea, lunchtime or afternoon tea. Friends should also respect your working hours and not just pop in any time it suits them.

5. Wake up at the same time every day.

6. If customers or suppliers visit you at your home office, always make sure you and your office present well.

You need to be professional and look professional.

7. If possible have a separate entrance to your office and a separate phone line. Nothing is worse than a customer contacting you and a family member answers “hello” rather than “good morning, ABC Business Solutions”.

8. Ensure you have some form of interaction with your industry peers. Take every opportunity to meet with them, talk and listen to them and discuss solutions with them. This can be easily achieved by organizing a monthly breakfast or lunch with a group of like-minded business people.

Copyrights 2006-2008 Lama Kalla

Lama Kalla, is an author, mentor, small business owner, wife and a mother. Lama runs an online business dedicated to helping small business owners succeed in their businesses both offline and online. Join Lama’s Private List at http://www.GlossaryInternetMarketing.com

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Your clients need to trust you. The need for trust is a business principle that is inviolate. Small business leaders can live and die by their reputation. You want to be known as a small business that people can trust. Developing trust in your client relationships is a great way to grow your small business.

Create a situation of trust in everything about your business. Mean what you say and do what you say. There is far too much exaggeration in the world. While you certainly should emphasize the positive aspects of your products, you should never, ever, misrepresent anything about your products.

Let me provide you a quick example. At times I have the need to work with vendors and partners in the growth of my own business. Sometimes, they might not have the perfect skills, experience, or information that we need. Some potential partners will promise everything, even when they have no knowledge or experience. I do not like these people and do the best I can to avoid them. However, I have great respect for the people who can speak to how they can meet my needs and explain what their own weaknesses are.

This demonstrates honesty. I need a partner whom I can trust. I need to be able to rely on them and trust that they will meet their expectations and commitments to my company and me. Adapt this philosophy into your daily business practices.

Focus on building trust in all of your client engagements. Your products should work as advertised. Your policies should be carried out is promised. Agreements should be adhered to.

Trust builds customer loyalty. Building trust with your clients is a powerful strategy to help grow your small business.

Mark Mikelat is a small business success consultant focused on success through the creation of sincere, honest, and genuine personal connections. You can learn more and take advantage of a free strategic analysis at http://www.BuildingAspirations.com/BusinessSuccess.html Also, you can view his books on Amazon.com

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Cities and the organization of manufacturing
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<i>Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 34, No. 1. (January 2004), pp. 71-100.</i><br /><br />This paper provides some recent evidence on the distribution of manufacturing activity across cities in the US. For overall manufacturing, the number of establishments increases more than proportionally with city population, total employment increases in proportion to city population, and the employee size of an establishment is stochastically decreasing as city population increases. While these results are partly driven by the differences in industry composition across cities, for many industries larger cities tend to accommodate more employment through an expansion in the number of establishments, but not necessarily through an increase in average establishment size.

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This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America’s leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. The key example for this analysis is the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor.
Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, 1992.
(based on Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which Chomsky co-wrote with Edward S. Herman)

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