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The Listing That Should Never Have Been Listed

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The Integrated Deal Platform: A New Standard for Business Brokers and M&A Advisors

The business brokerage and M&A advisory profession is going through a quiet but significant shift in how deals are packaged, marketed and executed. Buyers now expect a level of presentation that a decade ago would have been reserved for major sell-side mandates. Sellers are more attentive to confidentiality and want to know exactly who has […]

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Putting AI to Work in Your Brokerage

A Practical Guide for Business Brokers Most brokers I talk to are not short on deals. They are short on hours. The listing copy, the buyer follow-ups, the research before a pitch, the notes after every call. That work has to get done, and it eats the time you would rather spend in front of […]

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