Services Offered
BottomLine has closed transactions from $50,000 to $15 million, of all types and sizes: online, single & multiple locations, and both franchises & independents.
We’re well versed across industries: automotive, beauty, construction, restaurants & food service, wholesale & distribution, manufacturing, retail, laundromats, e-commerce, technology, professional & personal services, commercial real estate, medical & health care, transportation … you name it, and BottomLine has successfully represented one for sale.
Business Owners:
Your business was a huge financial, emotional, and physical investment: BottomLine will help you get your hard-earned value. We can value the business and determine its fair market value in today’s market conditions. We represent the businesses for sale by:
• Preparing marketing materials – We’ll highlight the business’s strengths and opportunities for growth.
• Marketing - confidentially advertise to a wide range of qualified buyers. Our techniques get substantial local, national, and international response.
• Prequalifying Buyers - We vet each buyer before presenting them to you.
Buyers:
When you take your first steps of entrepreneurship, you’ll want an experienced guide.
• Guide you through the process of investigating and purchasing a business.
• Arm you for the best chance of third party approvals: landlords, franchisors, and financing.
• Guide you through escrow: getting any required approvals and licensing (esp. ABC for our food Buyers!).
We facilitate the Purchase Process from start to finish:
• Facilitate offer negotiation
• Expedite due diligence
• Manage escrow to completion!
• Negotiate with landlords and franchisors
• Facilitate financing with SBA, conventional, and other funding
Commercial Real Estate:
Own both the real estate and the business? BottomLine can help! Bundling the commercial property and the business for sale brings added value to the transaction and attracts the highest caliber of Buyers.
We serve Southern California: Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
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About
I bring a powerful insider-outsider perspective to my business brokerage clients, with 25+ years of combined experience in brokerage, retirement planning, and small business ownership.
I wake up each morning excited to tackle the challenges of business brokerage, navigating the many moving parts of the sales process: bringing a business to market, chasing down leads, securing offers, and negotiating the roadblocks of due diligence and escrow. I fiercely make deals happen, along with the occasional armchair psychiatry to soothe the emotional damage caused to small business owners by pandemic lockdowns ... no extra charge! One day I’m reviving my client’s suspended entity with the Franchise Tax Board, and the next I’m negotiating a 37% discount with a Landlord on a past due lease balance or negotiating lease concessions for my Buyer. On some deals, the endgame is to give struggling companies fresh starts in more capable hands. But my favorite deals are the ones where I help business owners retire into their golden years after paying their 30+ year dues.
It’s always been about serving people, even during my 13 year run as a restaurateur. Our portfolio of restaurants served $25+ million of experiences across 5 restaurants occupying 9,500 square feet. That’s a mind-boggling amount of menu planning, payroll management, COGS cost control and meeting health department and ABC regulations. I guess you could say I work extremely well under pressure!
All the first-hand experience I picked up in financial planning and small business ownership supports my clients today. I parlay that expertise into listening and understanding my Seller's stories, analyzing their company financials to determine fair market value, and matching qualified Buyers to business opportunities that furthers their evil master plan.
When I’m not working deals, I spend time teaching my son the strange ways of the world. I’m an avid BMX rider, serious home improvement weekender, and outdoorsman. And as often as possible, I take refuge at our family hideaway in Big Bear.
If you've read this far down the webpage, you already have a great feel for the powerhouse services that BottomLine provides, so I won't bore you further.
If you're looking to sell a business, call, find me on BottomLine ( https://www.blbrokers.com/our-team/robert-marshall ), or connect on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbiewmarshall/) !
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