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This article is the final installment of a seven-part series on what business owners need to do once they reach the Last Five Years before exit.

You, as a business owner, must answer five critical questions once you reach five years before your desired exit. These five questions define your exit goals and help shape the plan for how you will achieve those goals. As stated in previous articles in this series, there’s no way to sugar-coat this—answering these five questions must happen as you enter Your Last Five Years. Without clear answers, you will not know the steps needed for your exit planning, and you potentially run out of time to maximize your exit success.

This article is the sixth installment of a seven-part series on what business owners need to do once they reach the Last Five Years before exit.

You, as a business owner, must answer five critical questions once you reach five years before your desired exit. These five questions define your exit goals and help shape the plan for how you will achieve those goals. As stated in previous articles in this series, there’s no way to sugar-coat this—answering these five questions must happen as you enter Your Last Five Years. Without clear answers, you will not know the steps needed for your exit planning, and you potentially run out of time to maximize your exit success.

This article is the fifth installment of a seven-part series on what business owners need to do once they reach the Last Five Years before exit.

You, as a business owner, must answer five critical questions once you reach five years before your desired exit. These five questions define your exit goals and help shape the plan for how you will achieve those goals. As stated in previous articles in this series, there’s no way to sugar-coat this—answering these five questions must happen as you enter Your Last Five Years. Without clear answers, you will not know the steps needed for your exit planning, and you potentially run out of time to maximize your exit success.

You, as a business owner, must answer five critical questions once you reach five years before your desired exit. These five questions define your exit goals and help shape the plan for how you will achieve those goals. As stated in previous articles in this series, there’s no way to sugar-coat this—answering these five questions must happen as you enter Your Last Five Years. Without clear answers, you will not know the steps needed for your exit planning, and you potentially run out of time to maximize your exit success.

This article is the third installment of a seven-part series on what business owners need to do once they reach the Last Five Years before exit.

In Part 1 of this series on Your Last Five Years, we examined why five years is the tipping point when owners must start formally planning their exit. Click here to review that article now.

In Part 2 of this series, we looked at the five questions owners need to answer once they reach the critical five-year tipping point, and explored the first question, which is “What is My Likely Exit Strategy?” Click here to review that article now.