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		Successfully Start Your Business by Andrew Rogerson Certified Business Intermediary (Business Broker) 184 pages - 8.5" x 11"	Only $29.95 Ebook:
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Successfully Start Your Business
Expert Advice from a Business Broker

If you are thinking about business ownership, there are three options available to you. First, buy an existing business or second, buy the rights to a franchise. These two options are covered in separate guides but your third option is to start your business from scratch and this is the purpose of this guide.

This comprehensive workbook will help you understand the complexities involved and the decisions you have to make when starting your business from scratch. Written by a professional Business Broker with many years of real world business experience, this guide is intended to help you start your business in the shortest poSuccessfully Buy Your Businessssible time and with the lowest risk.

You will learn many important lessons on how to:

• Prepare and create a business plan that blends with a marketing and productivity plan
• Comply with tax and legal matters including your legal entity, business name, tax ID# etc.
• Hire the right professionals to assist with the process
• Avoid potential roadblocks and pitfalls
• Obtain necessary finance
• Conduct research and properly prepare for success
• Determine a startup business that makes sense to you
• Conduct effective negotiations
• Use spreadsheets to determine startup costs, sales forecasts, cash flow projections, break even analysis, balance sheets and other financial tools
• Protect your patents, copyrights, trade marks and other intellectual property
• Create Operations, Employee and Training manuals
• Create a Vision and Mission statement, Confidentiality and Privacy policies

Also includes dozens of worksheets, checklists and charts to help you prepare and track each step of starting your business. Plus, this guide encourages you to make each of your decisions when running your business with the ultimate goal that it is ready to sell if a willing buyer comes along and would like to buy your business.

 

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About the Author:

Andrew Rogerson currently holds the Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation from the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA), the highest designation awarded by the IBBA. Andrew has also earned the Certified Business Broker (CBB) designation from the California Association of Business Brokers. He holds a Certified Machinery and Equipment designation (CMEA) from the National Business and Builders Institute and is a Certified Senior Business Analyst (CSBA) with the Society of Business Analysts. He also holds a Brokers License with the California Department of Real Estate.

As the owner and managing director of a Sacramento office of Murphy Business and Financial Corporation, a franchise based in Clearwater, Florida, Andrew assists his clients with both selling and buying businesses.

Since 1983, Andrew has owned and operated five businesses. At just 27 years old, he bought his first business, an international travel agency. With hard work resulting in increased sales, Andrew sold the travel agency just two years later for 2 1/2 times his original purchase price.

Andrew's next venture involved owning and managing two retail office equipment/furniture stores, followed by a wholesale travel and tourism company based in Los Angeles that had an annual turnover of $10,000,000. More recently, Andrew and his wife Anne owned an executive suites business in Fair Oaks, CA. Anne operated this business while Andrew worked as an outsourced program manager at the Roseville campus of Hewlett Packard. At HP, Andrew managed a team of 42 employees, deploying a new global call center and support team that included Web developers, technical writers and trainers.

Andrew was educated at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, his native country, and recently completed studies in Business Valuation and Appraisals and Business Brokerage. Andrew and Anne have two daughters, Belinda and Catherine and reside in Sacramento, California. Andrew enjoys flying (he is pursuing his pilot's license) and SCUBA diving as well as sports and politics.

Contact Andrew for Assistance with Buying or Selling a Business
Andrew offers a broad range of services including business valuations, transaction analysis, consulting for business sellers and buyers, consulting for buyers considering franchise ownership and appraisals for machinery and equipment.

The combination of Andrew's hands-on experience in the business buying and selling process, his diverse background in a variety of industries and his international business experience makes him an ideal choice for a business intermediary.