Our guide library helps entrepreneurs and business owners navigate the process of selling, buying, and valuing a business. Whether you're preparing to exit, exploring acquisition opportunities, or determining what your business is worth, these resources are designed to support informed, confident decisions.
Our sell-side resources range from general how-tos to industry-specific strategies, with additional insights for buyers and those evaluating business value. For a deeper dive, download our two eBooks: A Guide to Selling a Business and A Guide to Buying a Business.
Explore the full collection to learn how businesses are priced, valued, marketed, and sold across a range of industries.
Guides to Sell, Buy, and Value a Business
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Steps to Sell Your Small Business
Prepare for your exit, set the right price, find buyers, negotiate terms, and finalize the deal.
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Steps to Buying a Small Business
Understand your options, find the right business, make an offer, secure financing, and close the deal.
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How to Value a Business
There are three common ways to value a small, private business, but most often a market-based multiple approach is used to calculate both the seller's asking price and buyers' offers.
Industry-Specific Sell Guides
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Sell Your Restaurant Business
Learn how to get a market value, set the right price, find buyers, and sell your restaurant successfully.
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Sell Your Retail Business
Get insights into retail business valuation multiples, understand what determines a fair price, learn how to get your business in front of the right buyers, and get tips on closing the deal.
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Sell Your Service Business
Learn how to get a market value, set the right price, find buyers, and sell your service business successfully.
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Sell Your Pet Services Business
Get insights into pet services business valuation metrics, learn how to market to the right buyers, and sell your business successfully.
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Sell Your Automotive Business
Get a market value, plan your exit, find buyers, and negotiate the sale of your service shop, gas station, car wash, or other automobile related business.
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Sell Your Beauty and Personal Care Business
Get insights into market values for beauty and personal care businesses, learn how to find buyers, and sell your business effectively.
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Sell Your Manufacturing Business
Get insights into manufacturing business valuation metrics, learn how to market to the right buyers, and sell your manufacturing business successfully.
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Sell Your Education or Childcare Business
Get insights into market values for education and childcare businesses. Learn how to find buyers and successfully sell your business.
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Sell Your Construction Business
Get market data on valuations of construction and building businesses. Learn the steps involved in planning your exit and successfully selling a building or construction business.
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Sell Your Website or E-Commerce Business
Get a benchmark value and understand the steps to exiting your e-commerce or web businesses successfully.
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Sell Your Transportation Business
Our guide on selling your transportation business takes you through all the steps. From determining the fair market value and putting together a team of advisors, to developing an exit strategy, marketing your business sale, and navigating negotiations.
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Sell Your Healthcare Business
Our guide covers the entire healthcare business sale process, from assessing the fair market value and recruiting an advisory team to formulating an exit strategy, marketing the business for sale, and navigating negotiations.
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Sell Your Entertainment and Recreation Business
Get insights into valuing your entertainment and recreation business, finding buyers, and selling your business successfully.
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Sell Your Financial Services Business
Get insights into valuing your financial services business, finding buyers, and selling your business successfully.
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Sell Your Wholesale Business
Get insights into wholesale business valuation metrics, learn how to market to the right buyers, and sell your wholesale and distribution business successfully.
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