Businesses for sale

I joined a Chinese couple, who recently began a retail clothing business, on a buying trip to Los Angeles, where I was to serve as English-language navigator. (I thought it would be fun since I don’t know LA at all and I could take a break from my work.) We hopped in the car in the darkness of Friday’s pre-dawn hours to begin our 550-mile voyage south. After one hour, we were east of where we started and lost. (I get to confess innocence since I don’t drive and therefore am not expected to know the highway systems.) They didn’t bring a map or even plan how to get there. Eventually finding LA, we discovered a cheap parking lot, left the car, and began walking. Then I discovered the true reason why I had been asked to accompany them: they had no idea where to find clothing wholesalers. Walking into a couple of very small clothing stores, they had me ask the merchants if they wholesaled. Most didn’t; those few that did wholesale didn’t have the merchandise the couple needed to buy. After two hours of this executing this successful and obviously well-planned strategy, I was given a lead by a young employee: there might be wholesale clothing warehouses five blocks away. I led the couple onward, saw banners hanging from street lamps reading “Fashion District” and hit pay dirt: blocks of stores offering clothing at wholesale and retail prices.

You already know where I’m going with this. And I know you don’t make these kind of planning errors. In planning to buy your business, hire an expert to guide you who has traveled the road before and can lead you fashionably and directly to the pay dirt district. You’ll find these experts in Acquireo’s business broker directory and in the business directory. If you are an expert yourself, make sure you get your company listed with our Broker Services Division, Brokerlogics.

The odyssey continues with Part 2: Do You Know The Way to San Jose?