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Networking Essentials  <more>   Career Opportunities < more> Business Valuation Enhancing business value crops up when selling your business or just want to get the best value for your investment. Our small business advisor Chris Rockegie offers tips on how to increase value in your business for sale or long term investment. See business valuation tips. Plan & Prepare No one expects a sudden illness or an untimely death. A wise business owner must be prepared for just such an event and leave his business in a state of highest value for his family. Many times the business owner must sell his business to pay health bills or because of a terminal illness and they can no longer operate the business. Long before this time comes is when structure to enhance the value of the business should be placed in the business for it to survive the owner and still retain it's value. The time to start planning for this is when the business is started or a period well in advance of a potential sale or evaluation.  Chris Rockegie (small business expert)   Tip 1 Keep good records. Reduce uncertainty in a buyers eyes Tip 2 Create and update your business plan. Tip 3 Location, location, location!! Tip 4 Make sure your business doesn't need you. Tip 5 Branding. Not related to livestock.     * When clicking on these links turn off any popup blocking filter to view Search Engine Enhancement Fully 85% of search engine users never look past the first page results. That means if your web site doesn't not show up on the first page there is a higher than 85% chance customers will never find you. Check into our web engine enhancement offerings. If the search engines don't know your web site exists then it doesn't to most people. There are ways to optimize web sites to get your business ahead of your competitors. This is an inexact science but there are definite ways to get a higher standings in the search engines. Ask us how we can help you. This graph represents one of our clients web sites the first few days after we started optimize their web pages and submit to the correct search engines. See how we can help you be found on the internet.more >>   QuickBooks can interact with many applications to save a business owner time which interprets into money. Check out the QuickBooks Solutions Marketplace for software in your industry. If you cant find what you need check with us for a custom application <more...> Mobile Applications   Handheld computers can hold sales and customer data, giving instant information on location. <more...> Handheld application are becoming more important for a growing business to keep up with competition. Sales application to access customer data in the filed is not only a convenience but a necessity. Make sure that your sales people have all the tools and information they need when they face the customer in the field with a customer information on their hand held. © 2004 ATL Technologies, Inc.