Question for WAHM's

[JodiM]

If you were going to sell your business...
would you sell it piece by piece, or as a whole?


I think in order to save my pitiful relationship with dh, I may have to sell my business
My problem now is deciding if I want to save my relationship :

[Sandra Dee]

[flminivanmama]

Have you gone to counseling?


in answer to the question - I think I'd ebay all my merchandise....

[Knittin' in the Shade]

I think it would depend on what kind of biz I had and how well it was doing, if it had a good, solid reputation, yk? Persoanlly, if I were to sell LTK, I would do it all together, the site, the name, the yarns, the patterns, all of it, because I've worked very hard to build a good reputation and I think that is a commodity that people would pay for, yk? But if I had a business that was young, and a lot of stock, I would probably sell the stock on e-bay because then the biz name and domain wouldn't be worth much, yk?

That stinks that your biz is coming between you and DH. It's so tough to run a home biz, and I know quite a lot of mamas who had to stop because they just did not get the support from hubby

[detergentdiva]

that really stinks but I would sell my business in a heartbeat if it were coming between the marriage.
But even saying that is robably the business that is being blamed for other problems that are not being addressed

What I would do if I were in YOUR position with a store front selling other stuff is what Andrea said. Just sell the inventory on ebay but keep the domain and anything that is your designs. Give the business up for now. Because you are not making a product that is your mainstay it would be fairly easy to jump back in if you decide at a later time to do so. But if you have sold the domain and artwork then you will have to start from scratch, unless that is what you would want.

If it were me and my business and I were having to sell for my family I would sell it all together and I would not auction anything.

[Sandra Dee]

That's a great idea, Linda.

If you can dump the stock, recover some of your monies, etc...maybe it would be a little less tense?

You can still keep your art/domain, etc. and come back to it in the future, if you want, that way. You could even just scale back the products you carry, if you still wanted to sell a couple things and it is less time consuming that way.

again!

[tippytoes26]

*LOL*.. I hope you were being kind of flip about the marriage thing.. i feel the same way. My husband works outside the home but he still MAKES time to spend with me and Baylee. I work in the home and feel like I still NEVER have time for them. It's not so much that I'm using the business as an excuse for us not getting along.. it's that we never have the chance to get along because I'm always so busy and the resentment builds.. his and mine.

If I were you, I'd offer it to my email list and see if anyone wanted to make an offer for the whole biz. Even if you aren't making your own producst, it's HARD to get a business up and running with a good reputation, enough stock, a website etc etc.. and that's worth something and you should be compensated for more than just your stock.

I hope when it's all said and done you feel like a huge weight has been lifted. There's a time for owning your own business.. and more and more, I'm beginning to think that when you babies are babies, maybe it's not the perfect time unless that's the only way you can stay home with them.. ya know?

My marriage isn't in jepoardy because of my business (my husband is very sopportive of me fulfilling my need to feel like I'm useful and creative and appreciated) .. but I think it would be a whole lot healthier without it. Heck, you know it's bad when you tell your husband you don't have time for nookie right now.. you've got to get orders packaged to go to the PO tomorrow so things don't snowball the next day. *LOL*.. yeah.. that's it.. when I finally sell my business, I'll just tell everyone I'm not getting enough nookie so I've GOT to do it.

Amber

[Rebecca]

Wow, I don't have any suggestions at all. I haven't even thought about this, but had to post because Amber cracked me up! My site is closed to custom orders right now because it's prime baby-making time! Woohoo!! I should have told him this way back when I was on the pill just to get more nookie myself! LOL!!!

Really though, I think both Jeff and I would go nuts if I didn't do this. I felt so useless before I got this hobby, and he's proud of what I've done with it. His friends at work wish their wives had something to occupy them like ASBT does for me (so they wouldn't bug the hubbies LOL!). DH likes to relax with his laptop infront of the tv at night when ds is sleeping. I'm sewing and happy. A couple nights a week I get sick of it all and hang with him in front of the discovery channel (walking with cavemen is on this week!).

Gosh, I hope you can get it resolved. I'd feel like I was selling my firstborn if I had to stop doing this, and I'd be so bored and lonely without all my new customer friends to yap with and boost my ego when I get nice feedback. I'm sad for you, unless this is something you'd like to do to have more time for yourself... I never get anything done around here in clutterville. I would like to have more freshly baked yummies around, but my hips really could do without, I guess... Besides, doing this for me, is better than me thinking I have free time and can now get chickens and a goat, or whatever. Trying to make this new babe (or not) is taking up enough time!

[jeca]

Oh Jodi I'm so sorry it has to be like that. Maybe before you think about selling your business you should really evaluate your feelings towards your DH.It would be so sad for you to sell tyour business tha in a few months find out your relationship is truly not workinga nd you've given up your lively hood to boot, KWIM.

That said I think i've visited Blessubaby before cloth diapering and such, right? I really don't have a solid suggestion but if I thought there was a chance that I would get to resume it later(even only doing half of what I'm doing know) I would try to hold onto it(or at least soem of it) Maybe you can set aside a small supply for you to continue with and sell the rest. That way you weouldn't lose te entire site, I don't know, wish I could help more.