Recent content by Robert Down

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    Advice needed: Offer to purchase my business and contacting other interested parties.

    Assuming I have "done a runner" eh! I think you would have been better opting out of responding entirely. I know your type and have done very well by avoiding people with your condescending, belittling attitude. You do yourself no favors, certainly not on a professional level unless your...
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    Advice needed: Offer to purchase my business and contacting other interested parties.

    Blimey I didn't expect this question to turn into a willy waggling bun fight! How unprofessional is that? Here's a few of the comments so far "run away, nowhere near qualified to deal with this, massive pinch of salt, just a meaningless figure, have you a chip or something, bum is still...
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    Advice needed: Offer to purchase my business and contacting other interested parties.

    Thanks for the advice guys, I do believe the offer to be genuine, I know them and they know me, I also know they have had their eye on my business for a long time. Their offer is more about clearing away competition than taking on a new business. My question is more about how to approach other...
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    Advice needed: Offer to purchase my business and contacting other interested parties.

    Hello all, I have an online business that I have run for 20+ years, it is prominent in the industry sector. Over that time others in the same space have expressed their interest in acquiring it if I should ever decide to sell. Now an attractive offer has come in that I am considering. Obviously...
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    How to sell a company to its members

    Hi, I don't plan to offer it as a profit maker in its own right (although it can be), the attraction for the member/owners would be in having a place that they control to market their own profit making businesses, any profit made by the portal would go back in for developement and expansion...
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    How to sell a company to its members

    Hi, I own (as a sole trader) an online portal that serves a big International industry sector. I've run it for 18 years and it's a useful marketing tool for the businesses that use it (currently for free as members), the site is funded by the google advertising that appears on it. I'm looking...