Evaluating A Business - M-Web's 'My Business' Topics
	A four part guide to selecting and buying businesses.     (Access Restricted Site: iAfrica/MWeb dial-ups only.)

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Diomo Corporation - The Business For Sale Buyer Resource Centre
	The Average Small Business Purchase Involves 36 Critical Questions You Must Ask Every Seller, 200 Individual Points To Investigate, 54 Specific Clauses To Negotiate and 73 Key Issues To Review In Every Business For Sale Listing. Sounds daunting.? And it is.! But this website exists for the sole purpose of providing you with the skills to navigate this minefield. Hundreds of tips, strategies, and inside secrets to help you find the business that is absolutely right for you. Covers the entire buying process!

RECOMMENDED E-BOOKS

Due Diligence - The Complete Due Diligence Checklist and Strategy Guide Download.
	It provides a sensible "nuts 'n bolts" guide to your critical evaluation of any business that you are considering buying. The Guide is affordable at $25 and they offer a full, 'no questions asked' money-back guarantee at anytime. In any event, reading this page will give you serious food for thought!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS from Amazon.com - BUYING A BUSINESS

		How to Buy a Business With Little or No Cash Down This book tells the prospective buyer everything they need to know to successfully find and buy a business. It is written especially for the first-time buyer, but is equally helpful for an experienced buyer. The book teaches simple, powerful, and practical techniques that show step-by-step how to find good businesses for sale, how to contact prospective sellers, how to simply and quickly evaluate businesses, how to negotiate favorable terms, how to finance the business with the least money down, how to negotiate owner financing, how to protect yourself from the unknown when structuring contract terms, how to work with a closing attorney, how to close the deal, and much more.
		How to Make $$$ Buying and Selling Small Businesses : A Turnaround Manual This essential business manual shows how to buy a small business, shape it up, and sell it for a profit. The investor-owner controls her or his own destincy, uses business skills, and pays herself or himself a salary in the process. The book includes tips on assessing value and risk in a small business. There is an entire chapter devoted to quick turnarounds. The author also stresses the importance of having a business plan before buying a company. The book will help the reader sharpen the following abilities: performing evaluations of businesses, evaluating the potential upside and risk, developing an exit and business plan, structuring the purchase deal, and getting out at the right time and price.
		Business Buyer's Kit : Everything You Need to Know to Find, Buy, and Finance a Business for $500,000 or Less Business Buyer's Kit is relevant no matter what your sector of business or where in the world you live. Mistakes in the acquisition process could cost you many times the price of any deal--it could cost you latent lawsuits, negatively shifting trends (that diminish demand, or raise the cost of supply), and ultimately the quality of your life. Whatever you do, don't buy someone else's problems. Approach acquisition in a planned and deliberate manner. Learn techniques to formulate tough questions for both yourself and a seller. Ensure you ask the right people the right questions, and educate yourself about the acquisition process.
		How to Buy a Business : Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Geared to sophisticated entrepreneur who wants to build a career or wealth by owning their own small business, this book tells exactly how to purchase at the right time and for the right price. It shows how things work in the active small business marketplace, covering in detail such subjects as: finding and evaluating candidates for acquisition; financing, negotiating and structuring the deal; dealing with legal and tax implications; handling post-acquisition management issues; and determining the current and fair value.
		Buy Your Own Business: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Purchasing a Business You Can Make a Success A comprehensive field guide that shows how to define goals and map out sure-fire strategies for finding, and ultimately buying, a business that will work for the buyer. Mitchell B. Stern, an expert attorney practicing in the field, covers all you need to know when buying a business: assembling a team of professionals to assist in the deal; negotiations; due diligence; judging worth; creating a business plan; re-starting a business under the buyers new leadership; and making it a success.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS from Amazon.com - SELLING A BUSINESS