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May 29, 2025

How to Use SBA Financing to Buy a Business With Just 5% Down

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May 3, 2025

ESOP Alternatives: A Simpler Way to Transition Ownership

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May 3, 2025

Why Selling to Your Team May Be the Best Retirement Plan

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May 3, 2025

How to Sell Your Business to Your Employees Without an ESOP

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Apr 18, 2025

ESOP Alternative: Step Up Legacy Plan - A Smarter Path to Employee Ownership

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Apr 18, 2025

How to Sell an Engineering Business: A 10-Step Exit Guide for A&E Firm Owners

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Oct 2, 2024

How Banks Value Your Business

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Business Value
May 25, 2023

Why Sellers Need Advisors New

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Feb 3, 2023

Buying the Boss Out

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Business Advisory Services
Business Value
Jan 26, 2023

Business Acquisition Financing

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Business Advisory Services
Business Sales
Jan 23, 2020

Benefits of Using a Business Broker to Sell Your Business

Business Sales
Sep 10, 2019

What You Need to Know About Selling Your Architectural Business

Sell Your Business
Jul 24, 2019

Surveying firm for sale in Florida

Surveying firm for sale in Florida that is the dominate surveyor in their market having provided boundary and topographic surveys from 1/4 to 1600 acres.
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Jul 12, 2019

Learn How to Valuate Your Dental Practice

Sell Your Business
Jun 9, 2019

Sell your dental practice. Sell your medical practice.

We help doctors sell their healthcare practices by valuing the practice, and finding the buyer for your business. We sell a wide range of practices but the most common practices that we sell are dental practices , Dermatology practices, Ophthalmology practices, and Podiatry practices.
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Jun 9, 2019

Sell Your engineering business

We sell engineering businesses. We start by determining the value of you business and then investing a significant amount of time preparing the business for sale.
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Jun 9, 2019

Architectural / structural engineering business for Sale Chicago Area

Architectural / structural engineering business for sale in the Chicago Area. This business idoes inspections for relocation companies, banks and an insurance company. Consistent and predictable cash flow.
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Jun 9, 2019

Dental practice for Sale in Washington DC

General Dental Practice for sale in the Washington DC area. Gross collections exceed $500,000.00 per year.
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Jun 9, 2019

Engineering Business for Sale in New Jersey

Engineering Business for sale that provides all types of engineering disciplines to private and public clients. Some clients date back over 40 years.
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Jun 9, 2019

Engineering Business Sold Testimonial for Allen Business Advisors

Massachusetts engineering business sold testimonial. We sell architectural, engineering, and land surveying businesses.
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Jun 9, 2019

Allen Business Advisors - Who we are, our niche.

We sell architectural, engineering and land surveying businesses and healthcare practices across the nation.
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Jun 9, 2019

Sold my engineering business testimonial

Selling an engineering business involves knowing how to price the business, prepare it for sale and having the network / ability to sell it. John Noonan shares his experience in working with Allen Business Advisors.
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Jun 9, 2019

Sell your dental practice!

We help you value your dental practice, prepare your business for sale, and find a buyer for your practice that works for you and your patients.
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Apr 6, 2017

Elements of a Plan to Sell Your Business to Insiders

Exit Planning
Feb 12, 2017

Keep or Sell Your Business Test

Exit Planning
Feb 3, 2017

6 Reasons Your Business Won’t Sell for What You Want

Business Sales
Jan 29, 2017

Is the Bank With You or Against You?

Business Sales
Jan 29, 2017

Value Drivers? Yes! Between The Owner's Ears? No!

Business Value
Jan 21, 2017

A Race Against Time

Exit Planning
Jan 21, 2017

So You’re Never Leaving…. Got A Plan For That?

Exit Planning
Jan 15, 2017

Former Business Owners Express No Regrets About Selling Out

Business owners are still active after they sell their businesses.
Business Sales
Jan 15, 2017

A Good Year to Avoid Last Year's Mistakes

If you have a goal to sell your business in five years and you do not do anything to prepare for the sale, are you going to sell your business?
Business Sales
Jan 15, 2017

Failure to Plan Has a Price

Exit Planning
Jan 15, 2017

Can You Sell Your Company to an Outside Third Party?

Business Sales
Jan 4, 2017

Why Should You Exit Plan When You Have No Plans To Exit?

Exit Planning
Dec 10, 2016

Family Succession Planning Via Sale To Third Party

Business Sales
Exit Planning
Nov 19, 2016

Business Continuity Solutions for Sole Owners

Because Jim had dreamed of selling his company at 60, he had given little thought to what would happen to his business and his family if something happened to him. So, Engineering Solutions died of an all too common cause—human error and neglect, setting off a chain reaction of ever worsening consequences for Jim’s family and business
Business Continuation
Nov 11, 2016

Biggest Exit Planning Myth

Exit Planning
Nov 11, 2016

Pre-Sale Due Diligence

Business Sales
Nov 11, 2016

Elements of a Plan to Sell to Insiders

Business Sales
Nov 3, 2016

Does Value-Building Equal Exit Planning?

When we talk about building value in the context of Exit Planning, we ask the following questions: 1. What is the company’s current value? 2. What value must the company achieve to enable its owner to reach his or her lifetime income and other Exit Objectives? 3. Which tactics can owners employ to close any gaps between today’s business value and the value they need upon exiting? 4. How can owners transfer business value most efficiently (in terms of taxes and otherwise)?
Business Value
Oct 30, 2016

Why owners want to sell to their employees

Business Sales
Oct 30, 2016

Building Value Is the Win-Win-Win of Exit Planning

Ultimately your success is not determined by how well you ran your business, but by how well the business runs without you. If you cannot be replaced, your business can not be sold to an insider or an outside third party. We Want to fix that!
Business Value
Exit Planning
Sep 9, 2016

The Road to Irrelevance: Transferring Your Responsibilities to Management

Business Continuation
Aug 20, 2016

Time to Figure Out What You Need From the Sale of Your Company

Most owners think they know how much money they will need to “retire” comfortably. Most owners are wrong. Owners start with the less-than-realistic assumption that they will receive all cash at closing for the sale of their companies.
Business Sales
Aug 20, 2016

Think About Transferring Your Company To Insiders

Business Sales
Aug 5, 2016

Navigating the Choppy Waters of a Sale to a Third Party

If there was ever a time to stay focused on your company, its the period during which you negotiate the sale of your business (often six months or more). Any drop in company productivity, sales, or income is like blood in the water and will be subject to the buyer’s scrutiny and has the potential to scuttle even the best deal.
Business Sales
Aug 5, 2016

Value Doesn’t Grow on Trees…..or Does It?­­

You can’t just wait until you are ready to leave your business to find out how much “value” you need or want and how much “value” exists in your business. By then it will be too late.
Business Value
Aug 5, 2016

Equality and Fairness in Transfers to Kids

Business Continuation
Exit Planning
Jun 17, 2016

Business Owners Who Plan Ahead Increase Success

Business Continuation
Business Sales
Jun 17, 2016

The Most Important Exit Goal

Exit Planning
Oct 27, 2015

The Legal Audit

Business Value
Oct 27, 2015

Motivate and Retain Key Employees

Business Continuation
Business Value
Jan 1, 1970

Sell Your Business For Maximum Value NEW

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Jan 1, 1970

5 Types of Buyers for Engineering and Land Surveying Businesses New

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