Time to have it as your own

Nothing could be more rewarding than owning your own business or franchise. To use your business savvy and experience to grow it into a successful enterprise.

But to start, you need to find a business or franchise that has the established roots and room to grow.

view our current business listings
(links to our business brokerage unit)

Our Business Brokerage Unit can help you get it.

We have a complete guide to get you started:
(links to our business brokerage unit)

Business Buying Steps
quick summary plan on what to expect when you decide to buy a business.

Estimate the Business Value
what is the company worth? Get a professional valuation to determine the true value of the business. Lenders will require it to secure the necessary financing.

Get Financing
NACBB has aligned with several small business lenders who are ready to secure the necessary financing to buy and underwrite your necessary business operations.

Find a Broker
Using a broker can help find and pull everything together to facilitate and maximize your value

Grow Your Business
From marketing to finance, NACBB maintains a network of professionals who can help you grow your business.

Why Start a Home Business

According to Newsweek Magazine, "It is anticipated that by the end of the decade, 50% of households in the U.S. alone will be involved in [their own] business."

Why start a home business? Job security is one reason. According to the American Banking Association,

"The large majority of American are 3 to 4 months away from bankruptcy. Many are 30 days away."

Question for you: if you lost your job, what source of income would you turn to?

Starting a Home Business has Many Advantages:

• You have Time Freedom
• You determine Your Own Paycheck ... there are absolutely no income limitations
• You determine Your Own Hours ... no layoffs and no downsizing.
  
  

Of course, it it were that easy, everyone would be quitting their current jobs to start a home business.

True, you do gain Time Freedom, Your Own Paycheck and set Your Own Hours. But like any success story, you will need to work hard for these achievements.

To succeed at any home business, you need to follow these four basic rules:

1. Believe in Your Product or Service:
   First, you need to find and believe in the product and/or service that you are marketing and/or developing
   
   
2. Make an Investment:
   Be prepared to make an initial investment to jump-start your home business
   
   
3. Make a commitment to succeed:
   through goal setting, motivation, and discipline
   
   
4. Develop the skill set to market and sell:
   your home business
   
   more information about these strategies and home business ideas can be found at our Home Business Center:
   www.SayHomeBusiness.com
   
   
   
   Important Note:
   be careful about the type of home business you engage. Avoid Internet ads and emails that promote fast and easy income with limited work. Having a successful home business will require work and personal sacrifice.
   
   Before investing into any business, do some research to determine what will be required to succeed in that business. There are scam artists that are promising you wealth for a meager investment. Be careful! They will take your money and leave you nothing.
   
   Search the interent regarding any business you find interesting to see what information you can get about that business.