Trying to sell Salon... where to advertise?

[BlackMagic *tree]

Good evening everybody I'm looking for the advice and opinons please.

I own a nail, tanning and beauty salon that I'm trying to sell as my business partner is moving out of the area.

Anyone got any ideas, information or actual experience of where I would be best to advertise it.
I've already got it in the local press and "For Sale" ads posted in the relevant beauty/hair salon wholesalers.

The only "business transfer agent" I know of wants a huge upfront fee with (obviously) no guarantee that it will sell.

Anyone sold a business recently and if so, how and where do you advertise it?

For your information the business in question is a small salon, established 3 1/2 years ago and we are based in a 2 storey shop on the High St. in a busy little market town.
Don't know if it helps with suggestions but the asking price is circa. 15k for business, fixtures and fittings, goodwill and SAV.

Any suggestions very welcome.

[Urban Sports]

ebay

[Albert Bridge]

Audi TT forum

[NiceCupOfTea]

www.mx5oc.co.uk

Seriously - there is a guy on here who facilitates business sales, name escapes me though, sorry

[Frik]

For more useful answers, try here.

[BlackMagic *tree]

Frik said:

For more useful answers, try here.

Good call. Can/should this be moved to there please?

[GavinPearson]

Dalton's Weekly????

[transactor]

daltonsbusiness.com or businessesforsale.com

[Geronimo]

In your last financial year what was your turnover, gross profit and net profit?



And do you do happy endings?

[10 Pence Short]

James Khan said:

Hi, I'm James.

Let me tell you where I am at the moment- I'm just a bit worried that you'll try and do something to my beard. For that reason, I'm afraid I'm out.

[Flintstone]

Geronimo said:

And do you do happy endings?

PH standard response.

[Bushmaster]

The MX-5 forum.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Bushmaster said:

The MX-5 forum.

Keep up at the back, we did that one within 10 minutes of the original post!

[Landlord]

transactor said:

daltonsbusiness.com or businessesforsale.com

Also, is there a trade magazine around? The back of that would be full of them.

srebbe64 (or smiliar) would be a good chap to ask too. Do a member search (and I don't mean rummage around the front of a man's trousers)

Edited by Landlord on Wednesday 10th September 00:21

[NiceCupOfTea]

Ah yes, it was srebbe64 I was referring to in my first post!

[Puff Puff]

Seems to me you've done a pretty good job of advertising it here.
Did you get any offers?

[mark69sheer]

Hi Deborah Meaden here. I have had lots of experience of this sort of thing and let me tell you its not an investible opportunity. I inherited my family hotel chain so I know lots about spending other peoples money and they wouldn't spend it in your salon and for that reason . .I'm out

[CommanderJameson]

Geronimo said:

In your last financial year what was your turnover, gross profit and net profit?
Ah dinnae understand it. Yae dinnae have a business here. Ah'm OOT!

EFA.

[Tuscan Tart]

Get a copy of the Hairdressers Journal, there is a classifieds section at the back that you can either put an ad in directly or call one of the agents that deal in that area.

[minimax]

appoint a commercial agent or handle it yourself, as an agent we advertise in the Estate Agent Clearing House, Daltons Weekly, Shop Property (part of Focus), comproperty and we also do a bit on gumtree but the leads are generally crap

unless you need a quick sale i'd just stick it up on all of those websites and your local B2B classifieds/LOOT etc and see what happens - all except E.A.C.H are open to you as that is a trade only mag

if you want an agent to sell it for you...

HTH