Clear Choice Enterprises, LLC

The Clear Choice for Selling Your Business, Confidentially!

Pittsburgh Businesses For Sale – About Our Site

Clear Choice Enterprises, LLC are Pittsburgh Business Brokers that have created the www.PittsburghBusinessesForSale.com website to help buyers find the listings they are interested in and to help buyers and sellers understand the process of buying a business or selling a business.

Buyers looking for businesses for sale can check out our listings page. If you don’t see what you want, we can search multiple sources and try to find the business you want to buy. There is no one place to go to find all businesses listed for sale so we search for you. It can take a couple of days but usually we can get some listings to you right away and then follow up with more.

Buyers looking to understand the process of buying a business can learn from our blog articles about the typical process. We also have or will be coming out with articles that discuss the many different things you will need to know and understand during the process.

Sellers can learn about our unique and proven process about selling a business. For many sellers, this can be a difficult process because they have grown the business and have worked it for many years. We take everything into consideration when helping you sell your business. If you are not quite ready yet, we even have long term planning so that you can maximize your proceeds when you are ready to sell.

Please take a look around our site to learn more today.

Questions to Ask Potential Brokers

Below you will find a list of questions you should be asking any broker or agent you might potentially work with. You can see our answers and how we are the Clear Choice.

  1. How do you sell, Confidentially?

    • Clear Choice Enterprises, LLC will never put a sign in front of your business.
    • The marketing material will not have your business name or any information that will let buyers know who you are. In fact, we let you review all marketing so you can be sure what is available for buyers to see.
    • Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality agreements are put into place before buyers ever get any confidential information.
    • Only qualified buyers that could move forward receive confidential information so you can be sure only a select few ever know about your business being sold.

  2. How do you qualify buyers?

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Why Confidentiality Matters

Confidentiality should be as important to the buyer as it is the seller. The reasons are mostly the same for each. Confidentiality is important so that the business stays operating the same as when it is listed. Without confidentiality, there is a chance of losing customers, contracts, and employees.

Some customers have been going to the same businesses for years. This may be because they enjoy the owner and the employees. Sometimes a new store can open up that is closer but the customer still goes to your business. This is the best customer to have because of the loyalty. If this customer finds out that the business is for sale, they just might start going to the more convenient store. They do this because they think the new owner is going to change the atmosphere or not be as friendly as the current owner. Also, if you have long time customers that haven’t shopped around for more cost friendly products or services, they may consider doing this when they find out the business is for sale because they don’t feel a need to be loyal to the new owner. If everything is confidential, then the customer will not find out and the new owner can start to build relationships with the previous owner so that things remain similar. This helps keep current customers which helps the new owner. Continue reading “Why Confidentiality Matters” »

Seller Discretionary Earnings

What are seller discretionary earnings?  Seller discretionary earnings (SDE) is a figure that is used to help value a business using multiples.  It is also called Cashflow.  Seller’s discretionary earnings is defined as net income before the primary owner’s compensation, other discretionary, non-operating, or nonrecurring income or expenses, depreciation, interest, and taxes.  How do you figure it out when you are looking to buy a business?  Well hopefully the business summary has it well explained but if there is no broker or no summary that explains it, how do you figure it out? Continue reading “Seller Discretionary Earnings” »