Off-Market / The Seven Steps
Step one is the Map. Ten minutes, free. It shows you the rest.
See every place a buyer would knock the price down, in about ten minutes, before you change a thing.
Put a dollar figure on each of those gaps, so you are working from a number instead of a worry.
Turn the claims about your business into evidence a buyer’s diligence team cannot wave away.
Show that the money comes back next year without you holding it up, because repeatable revenue is what gets paid for.
Take yourself out of the daily critical path, so the business is worth as much the day after you leave as the day before.
Lock down the people, customers, and contracts so none of them can walk when ownership changes hands.
Have the deal file, the walk-away number, and the plan ready, so the offer finds you prepared instead of the other way around.