[tonyarkles]

You might want to have a look at the book "Built to Sell" http://www.amazon.com/Built-Sell-Creating-Business-Without/d...

This book talks about one approach to converting an existing business into a more sellable one. Judging by some of the other posts, there's some concern about what you'll get for a sale price. One of the tips in this book is to take a piece of paper and write down your immediate thought on how much money you'd like to get for the business - stick this in an envelope; down the road, once you have been negotiating and are starting to get emotionally attached to the process, open the envelope and see how the current offer compares to what you'd originally thought. That should help bring some perspective to the whole process.