Optimise Your Exit Plan: 6 Key Steps to Build and Sell Your Business

The Exit Launchpad™
1 min readFeb 16, 2024

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Optimise Your Exit Plan: 6 Key Steps to Build and Sell Your Business

Deciding to build an exitable business shapes decisions from day one.

But it’s easy to get distracted along the way.

Years can pass just exchanging time for income, rather than achieving an exit event for greater financial freedom.

It’s all too easy to forget ways to accelerate the journey.

If you want to avoid a lifestyle business and build to exit instead, remember:

🟦 Focus on profitability. Buyers want consistent profits and healthy margins.

🟦 Remove yourself. Recruit capable people to grow business without you.

🟦 Diversify customers. Don’t overly rely on a few major accounts.

🟦 Invest in systems. Streamlining enables scalability and business value.

🟦 Grow Recurring Revenue. Predictable cashflow attracts buyers.

🟦 Keep Raising the Bar. Complacency kills competitive edge.

The 24–48 months before exit set everything that follows — including premium valuation…

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The Exit Launchpad™
The Exit Launchpad™

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