Selling your business is exciting. Stop worrying and start planning. With the proper preparation, you can seamlessly exit your business with confidence.

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There are many reasons why people sell businesses, from cutting your losses to cashing out and growing your wealth. Whatever your reason is, you'll need to understand the art and science of getting your business ready for sale.

One thing that differentiates entrepreneurs from other people is the ability to see opportunities and take them. Opportunities exist in different forms and buying a business is one of the uncommon ones. There are people that erroneously assume that for a business owner to desire to sell, something must be wrong with a particular business.

There are so many small businesses today and they come with many risks. Buying an established business is a better option. For this reason, many entrepreneurs choose to buy an established business instead. There are many advantages to buying an established business and, in many cases, it's a better option than starting one. With an existing business, a the company's financial documents serve as a road-map for optimizing the business moving forward. However, purchasing an existing business gives you a head start. There are different ways to start a business. Many savvy business owners prefer to buy an established business over a startup.

For an entrepreneur thinking about selling their business, it’s important to know the reasons why it’s sellable, and more importantly why it is not. Just recently, SCORE identified 3 main reasons on how not to sell your business:

There are various ways to go about funding the purchase of a business. A strategic option would be to negotiate seller’s financing with the business seller to alleviate the burden of paying full price for the business upfront. In the U.S., about 60-90% of business sales involve seller financing. Before going through with the purchase, you need to thoroughly vet the business. Because owners rarely finance 100% of the purchase price, you might also need to find other sources of funding, such as a bank loan.

It can take a lot of time and effort to develop a business from scratch. This is why people savvy enough to tap into available public and private resources decide to buy an existing business. However, going forward with the purchase is not an easy decision to make. Here are four important questions to ask during the process of buying a business.

Are you thinking of selling your software as a service (SaaS) business? Remember, buyers most often buy SaaS businesses for financial or tactical reasons. Know what they want in an acquisition, and you will be in a better position to undergo the entire process without much difficulty.