A personal invitation from Murphy Business franchise development.
Is it time to build something of your own?
Could business brokerage be a path worth exploring?
You were invited here because something in your professional background caught our attention, and we thought business brokerage might be a path worth putting on your radar.
If it’s new to you, this is a place to get a better sense of the profession: what business brokers do, why experienced professionals choose this path, the experience that can translate to the work, and what it can look like to build a brokerage practice with Murphy Business Sales.
Why consider business brokerage?
For experienced professionals, what comes next isn’t always about starting over. It can be about finding a different way to use what you already know.
Business brokerage may offer the opportunity to:
- Put your experience to work differently. Business judgment, leadership, problem-solving and relationship skills can all have a place in the work.
- Build something of your own. Business brokerage can provide a path to business ownership while continuing to draw on the skills and experience you’ve developed throughout your career.
- Work directly with business owners. Brokers help people navigate significant business transitions involving their companies, employees and financial futures.
- Develop your own practice. Brokers build relationships, referral networks and, over time, may develop areas of specialization around their experience, interests and market.
- Keep learning. Every business, owner and transaction is different, creating opportunities to work across industries and continually deepen your business knowledge.
For some, it’s the combination that makes business brokerage worth exploring: the opportunity to build something of their own while continuing to use the experience they’ve spent years developing.
What does a business broker do?
Business brokers help business owners and buyers navigate the sale of privately held businesses.
The work can include understanding and valuing a business, preparing it for market, identifying and screening potential buyers, protecting confidentiality, facilitating negotiations, and helping keep a transaction moving toward close.
It’s work that draws on business judgment, relationships, problem-solving and the ability to guide people through a complex process.
Why does the work matter?
For many owners, selling a business is more than a financial transaction. The business may represent decades of work, a significant part of their personal wealth, employees who depend on it, and relationships built throughout the community.
Business brokers help owners prepare for and navigate that transition, while helping qualified buyers evaluate opportunities to become the next owner.
When a healthy business successfully changes hands, the impact can extend beyond the buyer and seller. It may help preserve jobs, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers, and keep established businesses contributing to their local communities.
For brokers, the work brings its own challenges and rewards: helping people navigate an important transition while supporting the continuation of businesses they’ve worked hard to build.
This is an opportunity to build something of your own
Murphy Business brokers in our franchise network are business owners, not employees of Murphy Business Sales.
You’re not exploring a position with Murphy or simply replacing one job with another. You’re considering whether investing in a franchise and building a business of your own is a path you want to pursue.
For some experienced professionals, that means the opportunity to forge a path of their own: deciding how they develop their practice and where they focus their efforts, with the training, resources and network of an established franchise system behind them.
It also means taking on the responsibilities of business ownership: building relationships, creating opportunities, serving clients and developing a practice over time.
Want the fuller picture?
The guide covers the questions people ask most, what the investment looks like, the industry outlook, and how the Murphy Business model works. It is a short read, and it stays between you and the franchise development team.
What experience can translate?
There isn’t one professional background that leads to business brokerage.
Experience in leadership, finance, sales, operations, consulting and business ownership can develop skills relevant to the work: understanding how businesses operate, working through complex information, building trusted relationships, managing long processes, solving problems and negotiating among multiple parties.
You don’t need to come from business brokerage to explore the profession. Brokerage itself can be learned, and Murphy provides training, coaching and ongoing support, along with access to a national network of brokers with experience across industries and transaction types.
Why others chose the business brokerage path
There is no one path into business brokerage.
Meet a few brokers in the Murphy Business franchise network and learn about their professional backgrounds, the work they do today, and the different paths that brought them to business brokerage.
If you decide to explore Murphy Business further
There is time to learn about the opportunity, ask questions, conduct your due diligence, and determine whether there is mutual alignment. Throughout the process, you’re getting to know Murphy Business Sales, and we’re getting to know you. Ultimately, both you and Murphy determine whether moving forward makes sense.
Start with a conversation
The process begins with a two-way conversation. You’ll have an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the work and the Murphy Business model, while we learn more about your background, experience, goals and what you’re looking for in business ownership.
Understand the franchise
If you choose to continue exploring, you’ll receive the Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD), which provides detailed information about the investment, fees, obligations and other aspects of the franchise. The FDD is an important part of your due diligence, and we encourage you to review it carefully, ask questions and consult your own legal and financial advisors.
Talk with people doing the work
As part of your due diligence, you’ll have opportunities to speak with franchise owners in the Murphy Business network about their experiences and perspectives and ask questions about operating the business.
Get to know Murphy
Later in the process, you’ll have an opportunity to meet the Murphy Business home office team, learn more about the people and resources behind the network, and continue the conversation about whether there is a mutual fit.
Get the guide to business brokerage franchise ownership
The guide picks up where this page leaves off: the questions people ask most, what the investment looks like, the industry outlook, and how the Murphy Business model works. Download it and take your time with it.
Your information is kept within the Murphy Business franchise development team and is not shared with your current employer.
Prefer to talk it through first? Pick a time below for a 30-minute conversation with our Franchise Development team. Or hear it from our CEO first at an upcoming information session, about an hour online, with time for questions.
This is an advertisement for the offer and sale of a franchise. This page is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell a franchise. An offer can only be made through the Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD). Results vary and are not guaranteed.
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