Published: April 5, 2022, updated: December 10, 2025, Wietze Willem Mulder
You've made the decision to sell a business. Then you are on the eve of the most important deal in your life.
At Brookz, the largest acquisition platform in the Netherlands, we see that all successful business transfers have one thing in common: the entrepreneur worked systematically towards the sale of his business. After all, thorough preparation and planning provides peace of mind, overview and structure.
This sales step-by-step plan will help you: by carefully reviewing all the questions and points of interest in this document and listing them clearly for yourself. This will maximize your chances of successfully selling your business.
For starters, why do you want to sell your business? It seems like a simple question, one that is so overlooked. But putting your motives for transferring the business on paper largely determines how, when and in what way you can sell your business.
The steps:
Step 1 The preparation
Step 2 Getting ready to sell
Step 3 The valuation
Step 4 Sales memorandum
Step 5 Find Buyer(s)
Step 6 Negotiate
Step 7 To the notary
+ a handy checklist'
Roadmap: Sell your business in 7 steps.
Download the roadmap and maximize your chances of successfully selling your business.