About Us
Sunbelt Business Brokers assists business owners to sell their business confidentially for maximum return while helping potential business owners to make a wise choice, properly finance their acquisition, and set themselves up for success.
How We Got Started
Help business owners and budding entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. If we can help enough entrepreneurs to achieve their goals we will achieve ours.
The products and services we offer
Recommendations Received (420)
"Top notch. Excellent expeditious service."
"Greg provides excellent guidance and support to small business owners. He brings a lot of..."
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"Greg provides excellent guidance and support to small business owners. He brings a lot of experience and knowledge."
Products & Services
Facilitating a win/win transaction which satisfies the goals of the business owner and the purchaser
Sunbelt is the leading firm in Canada for business appraisal providing accurate and thorough reports based upon the most extensive market research....
Sunbelt Business Brokers assists business owners to prepare their business for sale to achieve maximum value, beginning with a Business Valuation i...
Recommendations Given (246)
"They are great lawyers and do an outstanding job for their clients -also very decent people to..."
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"They are great lawyers and do an outstanding job for their clients -also very decent people to deal with."
"Best training available for Business Brokers. Highly recommend it."
Recent Activity
As a Business Broker I help many people retire by selling their business. Key is to have interests and activities to keep you enjoying life after exiting the business.
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As a Business Broker I help many people retire by selling their business. Key is to have interests and activities to keep you enjoying life after exiting the business.
Like many firms, we have implemented improvements in our digital marketing and our ability to service clients remotely. We have added the ability for clients to digitally sign documents, improved SEO, built a new and improved web site (not live yet), implemented a new and improved CRM (not live...
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Like many firms, we have implemented improvements in our digital marketing and our ability to service clients remotely. We have added the ability for clients to digitally sign documents, improved SEO, built a new and improved web site (not live yet), implemented a new and improved CRM (not live yet), migrated to online training for Business Brokers, increased the frequency of webinars for clients, improved our online recruiting ability and automated the assessments of prospective recruits. All of these improvements have cost money but will serve us for coming years and in the end will pay for themselves many time over.
Recruiting more staff, investing in improved technology, opening more offices.
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Recruiting more staff, investing in improved technology, opening more offices.
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Change is a constant and the shift to a digital market is benefiting some and leaving others behind. The LRT phase 2 will help, the city is growing, employment is high, interest rates are low and most main street businesses are doing well. This will be a good year for the local economy and a good...
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Change is a constant and the shift to a digital market is benefiting some and leaving others behind. The LRT phase 2 will help, the city is growing, employment is high, interest rates are low and most main street businesses are doing well. This will be a good year for the local economy and a good year for Sunbelt as there is an increase in the number of business owners retiring and there is high demand for good businesses.
Compare them with benchmarks. Bizminer is one source of such benchmarks
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Compare them with benchmarks. Bizminer is one source of such benchmarks
Highlight your skills. An employer does not care that you are 74 years old if you can step in and immediately be useful. What they do not want is to start training someone who may retire soon or incur health issues. I am around your age and not the oldest broker at Sunbelt. I am comfortable...
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Highlight your skills. An employer does not care that you are 74 years old if you can step in and immediately be useful. What they do not want is to start training someone who may retire soon or incur health issues. I am around your age and not the oldest broker at Sunbelt. I am comfortable recruiting new brokers in their 50s and 60s as they have many good years left. Once they are in their 70s I would take them on only if they can show me that their skills and experience mean a very short training period. So look for opportunities that you can master very quickly and almost immediately be productive.
There are many types of risk. Some can be mitigated through insurance, some through great customer and supplier relations, some through great systems and process, some through well thought out and well executed hiring and training practices, some through cross training to decrease dependency on...
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There are many types of risk. Some can be mitigated through insurance, some through great customer and supplier relations, some through great systems and process, some through well thought out and well executed hiring and training practices, some through cross training to decrease dependency on individuals, some through good fiscal management to decrease financial risk, some through work place safety training etc. You can not eliminate risk but can reduce your exposure through the right planning and actions. My business is selling businesses on behalf of our clients and we find that most business owners wait to long before engaging us and their businesses suffer as a result. They suffer burn out, health issues, or have lost the passion and are coasting. Businesses do not very often coast up. The result is they do not realize as much when they sell.
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Profit sharing is effective, motivating, and provides a sense of ownership. Much better than creating minority shareholders with all the complications that entails.
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Profit sharing is effective, motivating, and provides a sense of ownership. Much better than creating minority shareholders with all the complications that entails.
Sunbelt Business Brokers provided an opportunity to help people who wanted to become entrepreneurs, help business owners who wanted to exit their business and required a very diverse set of skills including sales, finance, business acumen, coaching, marketing, negotiation, mediation, etc. Having...
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Sunbelt Business Brokers provided an opportunity to help people who wanted to become entrepreneurs, help business owners who wanted to exit their business and required a very diverse set of skills including sales, finance, business acumen, coaching, marketing, negotiation, mediation, etc. Having owned businesses in different industries and having served as chair of the Canadian Institute of Conflict Resolution I was looking for a challenge that would use my experience and skills to make life better for those I served. Business Brokerage looked like a good fit for me. I started with one office however my desire to help more people has led to having more than 30 offices across Canada.
