“How come you never told me any of this?” the business owner asked. “How come you never asked?” the broker replied.

At The Affordable Business Partner, we use a modern, practical approach to selling independent businesses—combining the proven fundamentals of traditional brokerage with the structured, system‑driven methods used by successful franchise brands.

We do everything that an advisor, marketer, broker and coach should do.

We know first hand from working with independent business owners that they can contribute so much to the success of their business sale and one of the reasons why we created BizPlanSell.

We developed BizPlanSell over a three‑year period based on:

• 45 years of experience buying, selling, and reselling businesses
• Ownership of a business brokerage service
• Interactions with landlords, lawyers, accountants, lenders, and other brokers
• Our involvement in hundreds of business sales
• The type of help and insight if we were selling our business.

...and from   

What Hundreds of Independent Business Owners Told Us They Wanted 

( And Yes,we actually asked.)

1. Clarity, not jargon
       Because no one wants to Google every second sentence just to keep up.
2. Confidentiality that works
       Translation: “Please don’t let my staff, competitors, or neighbour Doug find out before I’m ready.”
3. A step‑by‑step selling process that a busy business owner can follow
       Preferably with checklists, conversations and reveiws. 
4. A realistic, data‑backed selling price
       Not “what Doug your neighbor or a friend of someone who sold a business in 2007 tells you what your business is worth”
5. Experienced help from someone who has done this more than twice
       Ideally someone who doesn’t panic when inevitable challenges appear
6. Simple,unrestrictive contracts
       The kind you can read without an Advil and a legal dictionary.
7. Lower selling commissions
       Because saving money is the unofficial national sport of small business owners.
8. A proven marketing system
       Not just slapping the business on a website and hoping someone’s bored enough to click.
9. A  chaos manager
       A broker who acts as a buffer, therapist, air‑traffic controller, and paperwork wrangler—simultaneously.
10. Honesty,even when it hurts a little
        “No, your 2005 POS system or the word potential does not increase the valuation.”
11. Buyer quality control, and Screening Process
        Please don't introduce me to… dreamers, competitors who want to know my business, tire‑kickers, or people who ask, “Can I buy it with zero money down?”
12. Deal structure expertise
        Because selling a business shouldn’t feel like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded.
13. A clear roadmap to get to the finish line
        So I know what’s coming, when it’s coming, and how much coffee to prepare.
14. To Meet Someone who knows what I should really know
15. A Straightforward Process that fits with my schedule

BizPlanSell is not theory.
It’s not a marketing slogan. It's what business owners told us they wanted... and then some

It’s a practical, common‑sense selling system built from what works—and from learning where business sales most often go wrong. It is a tool, resource and roadmap that we use when we partner with our business selling clients

What we do and something that we are very proud of.