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What happens after you send it

It goes to a broker, not to a mailing list and not to a call center. Nobody is added to a newsletter and nothing is passed to a third party, and our confidentiality policy sets out what happens to it from there.

1. We read what you sent and check it against what we already know about your sector locally.
2. We call you at the time you asked for. If you did not give one, we email first to agree a time rather than ringing a business line unannounced.
3. If you would rather we used a personal email or a cell number, put that on the form. We follow whatever route you give us and no other.

What the first call covers

Fifteen or twenty minutes, and it is a conversation rather than a pitch. We ask what the business does, roughly what it turns over, how much of it depends on you personally, and what you are hoping the next few years look like.

You get our read on where a business like yours is likely to sit, what a buyer will push back on, and what the process would involve if you went ahead.

There is no listing agreement at the end of it and no obligation to sell. If the honest answer is that now is the wrong time, we say so. If you would rather read the whole process first, how to sell a business in Pittsburgh covers valuation, marketing and diligence end to end.

Who we work with

Most of the businesses we take to market across Pittsburgh and the surrounding counties turn over three million dollars or more. If yours is smaller, put the real figure on the form anyway. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right people for it rather than taking you on and underserving you.

What to have to hand

Nothing is required for a first call, and no financial statements are needed at this stage. It helps if you can speak to four things off the top of your head:

• Roughly what the business turned over last year, and roughly what it made
• What you draw from it personally, and anything it pays for that a new owner would not
• How many people work in it, and what happens day to day if you are away for two weeks
• Whether the lease, the main contracts, or the licenses have anything in them that a change of owner would trigger

If you do not know a number precisely, an approximate one is fine. The call is for working out whether it is worth taking further, not for auditing you. Owners who want the short version first tend to start with what we do or the questions we get asked most.