The 10 worst mistakes you can make when selling your privately owned small business by Barry Evans

Thinking about selling your business? You are not alone. CNN Money reports that 35 million baby boomers are expected to retire between 2000 and 2020. If you are approaching retirement or soon will be, chances are you've considered putting your business on the market for one of the following reasons:

* You feel burned out;

* Industry conditions have changed;

* You are facing health issues;

* Your business has matured and plateaued;

* Your business is doing well;

* It's a good market for the sale of a business.

Trials Of An Internet Entrepreneur - A Humorous Beginning by Brian Corbett

It's hard to believe that it all began almost a year ago. Time really does fly when you are consumed by the task at hand or even worse, constantly perplexed. My wife and I thought it might be fun to start an internet store as a side business to my Professional Engineering and Contracting business. After all, I'm somewhat computer literate. How hard or demanding could it possibly be? I figured there must be a cookbook solution somewhere that would define the exact steps that if taken, would catapult us to stardom.

Little did I realize that life on the Internet is quite a bit different than the world of absolute truths that I exist in as an Engineer. Everyone is presented as an expert but few people seem to agree on any given topic. How can perceived reality differ so greatly?