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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You Paperback – December 24, 2012
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Most business owners started their company because they wanted more freedom—to work on their own schedules, make the kind of money they deserve, and eventually retire on the fruits of their labor.
Unfortunately, according to John Warrillow, most owners find that stepping out of the picture is extremely difficult because their business relies too heavily on their personal involvement. Without them, their company—no matter how big or profitable—is essentially worthless.
But the good news is that entrepreneurs can take specific steps—no matter what stage a business is in—to create a valuable, sellable company. Warrillow shows exactly what it takes to create a solid business that can thrive long into the future.
- Print length176 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPortfolio
- Publication dateDecember 24, 2012
- Dimensions5.3 x 0.42 x 8 inches
- ISBN-101591845823
- ISBN-13978-1591845829
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—Bo Burlingham, author of Small Giants (from the Foreword)
“There is no tooth fairy for selling a business. It takes planning and a real understanding of what works. I bet you’ll find yourself (like me) recommending this book to your friends who want to sell their businesses one day but don’t understand what that’s going to take.”
—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin
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- Publisher : Portfolio; Reprint edition (December 24, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 176 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1591845823
- ISBN-13 : 978-1591845829
- Item Weight : 5.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.3 x 0.42 x 8 inches
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John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™, a practice management software for business advisors.
His best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and has been translated into 12 languages.
John is the host of Built to Sell Radio, ranked by Forbes as one of the world’s 10 best podcasts for business owners. In 2015, John wrote another best-selling book, The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry. John completes the trilogy with his latest book, The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top.
Prior to founding The Value Builder System™, he started and exited four companies, including one acquired by a public company. He lives with his family in Toronto.
You can follow John’s work by:
- Signing up for free goodies at www.BuiltToSell.com.
- Reading John's blog at www.BuiltToSell.com/blog/
- Following John on Twitter twitter.com/JohnWarrillow
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It uses a fictional story of a design agency owner named Alex who is struggling with various issues and trying to grow his agency. He is mentored by Ted (the voice of wisdom) into changes he needs to make to improve his agency; specialising in one service, having detailed and easy to follow processes for staff to follow, generate recurring revenue, have a business that runs without your daily input etc.
Whilst reading this book I couldn't help but think of 'The E-Myth' book by Michael Gerber (another great book) and this book is like a fictional story of how a business owner who has read 'The E-Myth' might run an agency.
Having worked in design/marketing agencies for over 12 years my only gripe with this book is the author chose logo design as the specialism of choice for 'Alex' as it doesn't work with some of the excellent advice given in the book and this slightly lets the book down. Although I suspect the author is experienced at selling businesses I'm not sure if he's worked in a design agency.
- The book advises specialising in a service that generates recurring revenue (excellent advice) but how often does a client need a new logo? If the author had picked a marketing service that would create monthly recurring revenue this would have been a better choice (i.e. SEO, Facebook Ads, website maintenance plans etc).
- The book advises turning your services into products and putting your prices on your marketing collateral. You wouldn't do this for a 10k logo design service otherwise you’d scare potential clients away. I'm not disputing some companies will pay 10k for a logo, but this would need to be a bespoke service that would be tailored to that particular client and would be hard to ‘productise' for many clients. If you were selling logo designs for £100 a pop, then yes, the author's advice would work fine.
Don't let the logo design issue put you off as the general principles are sound, I just felt the service example could have been better thought out. It's still an easy to read page turner that delivers on the promise of the title and I highly recommend it.

A friend recommended to me and I would highly recommend in return


The book gives a lot of great tips and insight into growing/selling a business. Even if I never end up selling my business, the book gave me lots of very good tips on managing staff, clients and growth of a business.
John's writing is easy to read. I took away a lot of value from this book, far far more than I paid for it!
