Buying a VA Business – Virtual Assistant Franchises
If you are serious about expanding your business, you might look at buying a VA business to expand rapidly. These deals can be an excellent way of expanding your client list, owning a ready-made business, and a shortcut to SEO supremacy… But they can also be extremely duff deals! So whether you are buying a virtual assistant franchise or buying out an individual VA, we’ve got everything you need to know.
Assessing the value of a virtual assistant business
So how do you assess the ACTUAL value of the business? Traditionally, a business valuation would assess:
the bricks and mortar of the company + the stock + an element of “goodwill”
(i.e. the value of the customers and company reputation).
In a virtual assistant business, the bricks and mortar does not exist, the stock is the owner’s time, and the goodwill is somewhat difficult to assess as projects are often short term. Buying a virtual assistant franchise is in fact a whole new genre of business valuation….and there are more than a few people hoping to take advantage of that!
What to look out for when buying a virtual assistant business
We’ve seen a few of the scams play out:
- Overvaluing the business
- Bumping up profitability temporarily
- Franchises which claim you’ve failed the admittance tests but then insist you still pay their fee
- “Clients” who happen to be related to the seller and disappear when the sale goes through
- Websites which aren’t quite what they seem…
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