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Selling your roofing company? Avoid these costly mistakes
By The Coffee Shops®. Smart preparation can help business owners strengthen their company’s value and achieve a successful sale. For many roofing contractors, building a company represents decades of hard work, long days, risk-taking and sacrifice. When it's finally time to consider an exit, selling the business can become one of the ...
What is your roofing company really worth?
By The Coffee Shops®. The importance of understanding EBITDA when managing your long-term business plan. Taking a step back from your roofing business, whether that’s in preparation of a sale or just to get you a bit closer to eventual retirement, can be complicated. Not only does it involve training and ...
3 ways roofing contractors can increase the value of their business before a sale
By Exit Stage Left Advisors. What buyers look for when evaluating a roofing company. For roofing contractors considering retirement, succession planning or a future sale, one question often takes center stage: What is my company worth? While revenue and profitability play a major role in valuation, buyers are also ...
The roofing business document most owners forget, until it’s too late
By Exit Stage Left Advisors. The best time to create a protective buy-sell agreement is now, not when a crisis is already underway. If you ask yourself, "What happens if I die, become disabled, retire, get divorced or simply want out?" and the answer lives in your head instead of on paper, ...
Should roofers put their kids on payroll?
By Exit Stage Left Advisors. Done correctly, hiring your children can be a smart way to reduce taxes while creating opportunities for your family. If you own a roofing company and have kids, here’s a question worth asking: Should they be on payroll? Here at Exit Stage Left Advisors, we advise that for ...
Too much insurance work? Hear what M&A buyers are quietly saying.
By Exit Stage Left Advisors. The strongest roofing companies today don’t abandon insurance work; they balance it. In a previous RoofersCoffeeShop® article, “Is there a ‘perfect’ revenue mix when selling a roofing company?”, our team at Exit Stage Left Advisors addressed that buyers ultimately don’t care that much about revenue mix versus ...
Considering selling your business? Now might be the time.
By The Coffee Shops™. Increased buyer demand and industry consolidation are creating favorable conditions for roofing company owners considering a sale. In the article “Is now the right time to sell your roofing company?,” Exit Stage Left Advisors outlines why the current market presents a significant opportunity for roofing business ...
Is there a “perfect” revenue mix when selling a roofing company?
By Exit Stage Left Advisors. What buyers actually look for when evaluating your roofing business, and why the answer might surprise you. Roofing owners love to ask this question: “If I’m 60% residential and 40% commercial, will buyers pay more?” Here at Exit Stage Left Advisors, we know the truth: there is no ...
Preparing for sale: Building a roofing business buyers want
By Jenny Yu. A panel of experts outline the key steps to building a scalable, high-value roofing business. As mergers and acquisitions activity continues to accelerate across the roofing industry, contractors are facing a critical question: how do you prepare a business for sale? In a recent Coffee Conversations® ...
Build a Business Buyers Want
Ready to increase the value of your company? This Coffee Conversations® session gives you direct access to the insights contractors and owners need to avoid costly mistakes when it’s time to sell. Watch Heidi J. Ellsworth and a panel of experts as they break down what buyers actually look for, how ...
