Discover a different way to put your experience to work through business ownership.
Is is Time for Something New?
You’ve built knowledge, judgment, relationships, and leadership skills throughout your career. But where you are today may not be where you want to be next.
If you’re looking for greater ownership over your work or a different way to use your experience, business brokerage may be worth exploring.
It’s an opportunity to put your experience to work helping business owners and buyers navigate important business transitions while building a business of your own.
What Does a Business Broker Do?
Business brokers guide business owners and buyers through the process of selling or acquiring privately held businesses.
Their work can include helping owners understand business value, preparing a business for market, identifying and communicating with prospective buyers, maintaining confidentiality, facilitating negotiations, and helping keep a transaction moving toward closing.
It’s a profession that combines business knowledge with relationship building, analysis, communication, and problem-solving.
Is Previous Business Brokerage Experienced Required?
You don’t need a background in business brokerage to bring relevant skills to the profession.
Experience in leadership, sales, finance, operations, consulting, entrepreneurship, and other professional fields can develop capabilities that are valuable in brokerage—including understanding businesses, analyzing information, building trusted relationships, managing complex processes, communicating with decision-makers, and negotiating.
What Training is Needed to Become a Business Broker?
Business brokerage is a specialized profession, and most people don’t enter it already knowing how to value, market, negotiate, and manage the sale of a privately held business.
That’s where training matters.
Murphy Business franchise owners receive initial training designed to introduce the fundamentals of business brokerage, followed by coaching, ongoing education, resources, and support as they build their practices.
You bring your professional experience. We help you learn the business of business brokerage.
What Is It Like to Be a Business Broker with Murphy Business?
There’s no better way to understand the profession than to hear from people doing the work.
Meet two Murphy Business franchise owners and hear about the experience they brought with them, what they had to learn, how they approached building their practices, and what they’ve discovered about the profession along the way.
Why Consider a Franchise Instead of Starting from Scratch?
Building a business of your own doesn’t mean you have to figure everything out on your own.
As a Murphy Business franchise owner, you’re building your own practice with an established business brokerage organization behind you.
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Established Methods & Tools
Access processes, technology, marketing resources, and tools designed specifically for building and operating a business brokerage practice.
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A Recognized Brand
Enter the market as part of an established business brokerage organization rather than building a brand entirely on your own.
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Home Office & Network Support
Tap into support from the Murphy Business home office and a network of experienced business brokerage professionals for knowledge, perspective, and collaboration. -
Training & Development
Learn the fundamentals of business brokerage through initial training, with ongoing education and coaching as you develop your skills.
Could Business Brokerage Be a Fit for What’s Next?
Explore the profession with our free self-assessment guide.
You’ve learned a little about what business brokers do and how Murphy Business supports franchise owners. Take the next step by exploring the opportunity in more detail and considering how it aligns with your experience, interests, and goals.
What you'll learn:
- What business brokers do and the role they play in business transitions.
- Skills and professional experience that can be relevant to business brokerage.
- General investment and financial requirements for a Murphy Business franchise.
- Questions to consider as you determine whether business brokerage and franchise ownership may be a fit for what you want next.
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