Let’s skip all the financial jargon that doesn’t apply to most Main Street business owners and quickly determine your business’s value.

After consulting with business buyers for over 25 years I highly encourage them to have a "buying a business checklist", an important tool if they are serious about purchasing a company and not wasting a lot of time looking.

M&A market continues to go from strength to strength. Trade buyers need to make acquisitions to shift their business models and create scale, and private capital is looking for the yields that smaller businesses can provide.