Affiliations
NEO Business Advisors maintains membership with the leading associations for networking, education and industry resources for business brokerage.
International Business Brokers Association
The IBBA is the world’s largest professional community of business intermediary specialists. When it comes time to sell or buy a business, choose to work with an experienced IBBA Member who will guide you through every step of the process. Look for the Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation to identify individuals who have met our highest standards for education, ethics and professionalism.
M&A Source
M&A Source is the leading not for profit association for individuals and firms engaged in lower middle market business transactions. The association provides education, benefits, conferences, support programs and networking opportunities, and awards the Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary (M&AMI) designation to qualified advisors.
Ohio Business Brokers Association
The OBBA is a member-based association founded in 1987. It includes individuals who are business brokers, intermediaries, accountants, real estate agents and/or attorneys who provide a service that matches Business Owners with prospective Business Buyers. Business Brokers work as consultants to Business Owners to find Buyers who are ready, willing and able to purchase the ownership of their business.
Northern Ohio Business Brokers Association
NOBBA is a member-based association of business brokers, intermediaries, accountants, real estate agents and/or attorneys who are involved in the business brokerage services to help buyers and sellers of businesses. NOBBA members meet regularly to share information about businesses that are for sale and continuously improve the education of the business broker community.
BizBuySell BrokerWorks
BizBuySell is the Internet’s largest and most heavily trafficked business for sale marketplace, with more business for sale listings, more unique users, and more search activity than any other service. BizBuySell currently has an inventory of over 45,000 businesses for sale, over 90,000 registered buyers, and more than 1.4 million monthly visits. BizBuySell also has one of the largest databases of sale comparables for recently sold businesses and one of the industry’s leading franchise directories.
BizMiner
Bizminer was established in 1990 as an economic development consulting operation. In the course of dozens of major engagements, founder Jonathan Brandow discovered gaps in available industry data that restricted thorough going local and regional analysis. When Jon decided to transition the company to online research in 2002, he based a new entity-Bizminer – on the provision of hard-to-find, granular quality data. In October 2007, Bizminer acquired and rebuilt Bizstats, the internet’s premier free content industry financial research site.
ValuSource
ValuSource has provided a majority of all valuation data and over 90% of all valuation software that is used by thousands of CPAs, valuators and financial professionals worldwide.
Business Reference Guide
For almost three decades, the Business Reference Guide (BRG) has been the leading guide for the pricing of businesses. The BRG provides business transaction professionals with a wealth of up-to-date rules of thumb and essential pricing information on over 600 businesses.