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Help You Sell
- Mentoring and Coaching Program    
Designed especially for owners of small and mid-size businesses. 

Save thousand in broker commissions

We can help you maximize the value of your business and then, when the timing is right, Help you Sell your business to the right buyer at the right price. 
Hundreds of business owners from Maine to Florida, over to California
and most points in between have benefited from this program.    

We originally began by providing this service to our local clients. Subsequently we were asked to make the program available nationally to franchisees of one of the country's largest and oldest franchises (we had provided the service to more than thirty of their franchisees in our area). The franchisor recognized our program as a valuable resource for their franchisees. We would help the franchisee Build Value (or create Wealth) while Earning Profits and, when the time was right, help them sell their franchise at an optimum price.  

Common Reasons for taking advantage of our program

  • Been approached by someone offering to buy your company - Ratify the suitor is the type of buyer willing to pay a premium price before revealing too much proprietary information. Learn what and how much information should be revealed before you have an offer. Calculate a fair price and probable terms for your business.  

  • Considering the Sale of your Business - Identify the Buyers willing to pay optimum prices before "going to market," - learn how to sell your business without letting people know it's for sale! 

  • Need to Establish Value for: buy/sell agreements, partnership disputes, estate or divorce settlements, a "buy in" or a "buy out," insurance or tax purposes? 

  • To  Cash In when you decide to CASH OUT  - Learn How to Increase the Value of your Business without necessarily increasing declared profits!

 Program Overview:

  • Determine present value of company and Identify Action Items to increase Company 's Value

  • Identify profile of ideal acquirer (Minimizes marketplace exposure, maintains confidentiality and maximizes value)

  • Perform a Comprehensive Financial and Operational Review to identify areas of opportunity (both financial and non-financial) for increased profits and increased Business Value

  • Research Industry and Marketplace. Ratify opportunities and value using third party resources

  • Action plan is agreed upon and implemented (with or without further input from us).

  • Should you decide to sell your company you can: 

        a) choose to handle the sale efforts entirely on your own, 

        b) sell on your own using Lighthouse Financial as coach, or  

        c) engage the most qualified broker or intermediary in your area to handle the sale.  

In the latter case we will refer you to the brokers/intermediaries best qualified to handle your size and type of business.  We will develop the offering and due diligence documents and work closely with you and the broker/intermediary in effecting a sale.  

A few examples of our successes:

    Þ    A company with a book value of $126,000 and pre-tax earnings of $26,000 sold for $1,350,000.00

    Þ    One family was able to increase the cash value of their company by $4,000,000.00 without increasing earnings or book value    

    Þ    A business that had always lost money and had only $50,000 in assets sold for $495,000.00 in cash

     Þ   A young woman was able increase the value of her small service company by $325,000 less than six months.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it"
                                            Peter F. Drucker

One national seminar producing brokerage company charges $45,000 for only a fraction of the information you gain from our program.  
We like to think our program doesn't cost but rather,  it pays.    

 Want more information? Call 1 508-794-1200

 

                    Main Massachusetts Office                                                                           Affiliate offices throughout New England and 
                Phone ~ Toll Free 888-556-8118  ~  Local 508 794-1200                                                                    in Chicago, Naples, Tampa,
and Miami                   info@LighthouseFinancial-LLC.com                                                                                           Additional affiliates offices under development