The Retiring Owner's Guide to Selling Your Small Business

You Built It. Now Sell It Right.

Selling your business is the largest financial transaction of your life — and most owners go into it without a roadmap. This guide changes that.

Written by Connecticut attorney Natalie J. Real, The Retiring Owner's Complete Guide to Selling Your Business walks you through every stage of the sale process in plain language: how your business is valued, how to prepare it for market, what the tax impact looks like, and how to negotiate and close a deal that protects everything you built.

21 chapters covering: Valuation methods · The step-by-step sale process · Increasing value before you go to market · Asset sale vs. membership interest · The NDA, CIM, and due diligence · Letters of intent · Seller financing · Earnouts · Reps, warranties, and non-competes · Post-sale financial planning · Special considerations for franchise owners

5 practical exhibits: Due diligence checklist · Pre-sale preparation checklist · Deal structure comparison · Deal team worksheet · LOI template

Foundations Edition (Chapters 1–12) available free. Complete Edition — $297.