Who is Mark Carmichael, anyways?
“Mark Carmichael is the entrepreneur’s M&A advisor.”
Learn how businesses are most effectively sold in today’s world.
Then conduct a winning strategy for your exceptional exit.
The Exit Academy
The Exit Academy is the most comprehensive online video training course dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs, CEOs, shareholders and family-owned businesses around the world to develop, implement and execute the most effective exit strategies for selling their business.
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“I’ve refined this time-tested, proven and best-practice approach to sell your business to the right buyer, for the right price on the best terms, and in the shortest amount of time possible.”
The Exit Academy explains the complete selling your business roadmap™ – and the fundamentals – about how to maximize the probability of your successful exit.
11 ½ hours of powerful insights across 28 lessons.
Gain immediate access to what you need to know for the complete business-selling journey; from deciding if now is the right time to sell, all the way through to successfully closing the deal (and everything in between).
Phases of a successful exit
Sell Your Business Roadmap
Lessons that reveal the hidden rules
Direct contact with Mark & team
Downloads and cheat sheets
Selling your company is often uncharted territory for business owners… and it’s why most fail to maximize their exit strategy.
When it comes to selling your business, the first step you take can profoundly impact the outcome of your efforts.
The road to exit is long and winding. The opportunities to get it wrong are plentiful:
- You can hire the wrong advisors
- You can fail to market in a way that results in maximum impact
- You can start the selling process before you and your company are ready
And that’s just the start. The result? Repeatedly, selling efforts that fail to deliver the anticipated outcome.
Which means you become stressed. You lose focus on your business. Lose enthusiasm. And you encounter problems you never even considered. Desperation enters, and if you're like so many other sellers who've gone before you, you end up accepting a mediocre offer just to escape the very real deal-fatigue.
Or worse, there are no offers at all.
But there is a (much) better way…
A way to avoid the uncertainty and maximize your probability for a successful exit. A way to empower yourself with the knowledge, clarity and confidence to excel at every stage of your exit journey. And to learn from a pro who’s started and exited his own companies – as well as having helped hundreds of other entrepreneurs worldwide to sell theirs.
All so you can:
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Understand the rules of selling your business before you start. And avoid the common mistakes that can derail a successful exit.
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See the expert process from start to finish. And get a bird’s eye view of all the twists and turns you’ll encounter.
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Walk away from the successful sale of your business knowing that you received the best price, on the best terms, from the best buyer. No regrets.
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in The EXIT ACADEMY today
Only $1,225.00 / €997.00
(includes a bespoke exit analysis on your firm worth $6,000 / €5,000! See below.)
Register nowHere’s what you'll discover
in this self-paced course:
✓ Mark’s 5 most important lessons learned
✓ Selling a business in the 21st century
✓ Selling a business in the 21st century (part 2)
✓ The Selling-Your-Business Roadmap™
✓ Is it time to sell?
✓ Preparing yourself and your business for exit
✓ Deal structuring
✓ Business valuation (what your business is really worth)
✓ Developing your deal team
✓ Hiring your M&A Advisor
✓ Hiring your M&A Advisor (part 2)
✓ Creating your internal deal team
✓ Ensuring stakeholder alignment
✓ Kick-off meeting & initial data exchange
✓ Early look marketing
✓ Creating the ultimate information memorandum
✓ Additional insights on the Information memorandum clarifying commentary
✓ Creating the teaser
✓ Creating the supplemental marketing documents
✓ Developing a high-impact international investor outreach list
✓ How the best investor outreach campaigns are conducted
✓ How to advance investor discussions the rightway
✓ Letters of Intent
✓ Due diligence & negotiating
✓ Sale & purchase agreement
✓ Closing
AND ONCE YOU COMPLETE THE COURSE?
Claim your FREE Exit Strategy Analysis
valued at $6,000 / €5,000
Enroll now →The Exit Strategy Analysis (above) is is not a templated, off-the-shelf exercise, but a customized service. Mark and his team will invest real time together with you. They’ll apply their resource and global M&A expertise to develop the foundation of your exit strategy.*
The Exit Academy is like getting all of the questions you had about selling your business – and the ones you didn’t know to ask – answered.
VERNE HARNISH, Author of Scaling Up – Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 2.0 and co-founder of Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO)
Born and raised in New York, and having lived internationally for 25 years, Mark is one of the world’s leading mid-market sell-side practitioners. He’s a serial entrepreneur and speaker on all matters related to selling businesses. He’s also the author of the award-winning book, The Intelligent Exit: The Business Owner’s Guide to A Winning Strategy for Selling Your Company.
Mark is an Oxford University (MBA) graduate. His reputation as an entrepreneur-turned-M&A advisor is one of the features that sets him apart in the M&A world. He’s started and exited 5 of his own businesses, and has advised hundreds of other entrepreneurs worldwide on the sales of theirs.
For the last 15 years, he’s been a Managing Director at STS Capital Partners International, a leading global mid-market M&A advisory firm rooted in the fundamentals of entrepreneurialism. He and his team work with entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses in virtually every sector globally.
Mark’s mission? To make sure every business owner planning to sell their business knows the rules of the game before they start… then ensures the most effective exit strategy possible.
to knowing the rules before I sell my business.
“This course is a must for business owners big and small, as it addresses an issue that most entrepreneurs struggle with or fail all together on: educating themselves before they initiate the process of selling their business. The Exit Academy would have been of enormous benefit to several business owners I’ve come across over the years. Mark’s teachings fill a gap in the marketplace by focusing on what matters most to the seller to ensure the most successful outcome.”
Tim Galpin, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer of Strategy & Innovation, Academic Director of the MBA Program at University of Oxford, best-selling M&A author and a consultant to boards and senior management
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in The EXIT ACADEMY today
The Exit Academy – Your All-Access pass to the complete journey of selling your business.
Includes:
- 28 lessons that reveal the ‘rules’ of selling your business
- 11.5 hours of comprehensive instruction and insights based on over 30 years of experience of starting, buying and selling businesses globally
- Answers to your most pressing questions about the sale of your business from Mark and his team
- 21 info sheets and downloads that include: how to hire the right M&A advisor, the psychology and emotions of selling your business, why so many businesses sell for less than they should, why it’s crucial to establish a competitive bidding environment, what your business is really worth, what to expect in advisor fees and more
And, don’t forget you also get:
A FREE exit strategy development and analysis valued at €5,000 / $6,000USD*
