The truth about selling your agency from someone that’s actually done it

Six months of consecutive losses.

Trenton managed his agency for 15 years, and in year 14, they experienced our worst year ever. They lost hundreds of thousands of pounds, yet Trenton was still able to sell his agency the following year. Today, he is going to share the story of that.

Three key factors enabled me to sell the business; Trenton will walk you through them in this article. Like many of you, Trenton had always dreamed of someday selling the business. It was always there, lingering in his mind—a goal Trenton hoped to achieve eventually. Of course, the daily ups and downs of running a business would often take over, but that dream remained quietly in the background. However, Trenton didn’t take any concrete steps toward making it a reality for a long time.

And now that they’ve sold, Trenton looks back with great pride. And Trenton looks back at some of the specific things that they did, particularly how Trenton, him and the team, pulled themselves out of those horrendous six months. And Trenton feels great pride at so many of the things that they did.

Trenton never once did that while he was running the business. So what selling the business and then leaving has given him is a sense of completion that he never had before. It’s almost like completing that circle.

That part of his life, that journey, is finished. And that’s a wonderful feeling. It’s extremely rewarding for him.

As long as you can overcome your fears. As long as you can have a well-defined niche to your business. And as long as you generally have a well-run business that just adheres to best practices for businesses, you can sell your agency.