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View our highly experienced team of business brokers. The Sunshine Coast's number 1 team in business sales...
CRAIG CAMPBELL
Principal
Craig Campbell is the Principal of Verified Businesses, and offers a vast array of knowledge and skills for anyone selling their business to tap into, as an accomplished business professional who actually walks the talk. Craig’s experience in buying, improving and selling his own small businesses over the past 25 years is invaluable. Successfully running franchises, establishing new businesses and reinventing others has provided him with a unique skill set.
BRETT BARTON
Licensed Business Broker
Brett Barton is a business broker with a difference having personally managed substantial operations on a national and international level. He has also started up and then successfully sold his own business here on the Sunshine Coast. Brett is a true business professional with a thorough understanding of the local economy that has been developed over the last 15 years.
CREINA HOLLAND
Licensed Business Broker
Creina has enjoyed great success as a Business Broker, a Commercial Real Estate Agent and a Residential Real Estate Agent over many years since 1989. She is passionate about Business Broking and therefore focuses her expertise in this specialist niche.
Creina began her career in nursing and after graduating as a General Nurse, she completed Mental Health Nursing. She went on to specialise in working with young people in Psychotherapeutic roles until she was encouraged to join a Sales and Marketing business in Melbourne. Here she found that combining her communication skills with sales and marketing was a great recipe for success and she was rapidly elevated to a Sales Management position.
LAURIE HAYWARD
Licensed Business Broker
Laurie Hayward has a solid business background, and a good understanding of the buying and selling process, having owned, operated and successfully sold a number of quality businesses. Laurie is extremely familiar with all aspects of the retail, hire services, trades and business service industries. Laurie brings a wealth of knowledge and practical experience in business development and presentation for sale, which is certainly an asset for any seller in today’s market.
JOIN US
We are looking for keen, self-motivated people to join our vibrant brokerage team.
We prefer people who are currently working in the Real Estate industry or those with previous real estate experience who hold a current sales person’s license, or full real estate license. We will train you how to become a successful business broker earning well over 6 figures a year! and help you transition across to business broking.
We have a training program with weekly updates, meetings and refreshers, a full Operations Manual on every step you need to take, and we can promise you that if you follow what we have to say, you will be a major financial and personal success in an industry that just keeps growing and growing. Most of the people we’ve trained are still in the business and still love it!
Send us a brief resume by email to craig@verifiedbusinesses.com.au and then let’s get together and talk. The potential for you is enormous, all you need is to take the next step!
ABOUT US
Verified Businesses is positioned as a consistent, open and reliable service provider who gets RESULTS FOR BOTH BUYERS AND SELLERS. We provide a high level of transparency not seen anywhere else within the industry. An example of which, is our communication of ‘HOW’ we established the ask price for each business and ‘WHY’, which is detailed in each information memorandum supplied to both buyers and sellers alike, and can be easily referred to by Accountants and financial advisors.
Verified Businesses was established in 2010. Verified Businesses is totally focused on listing businesses to successfully sell them – not just listing for the sake of listing. In doing so, our objective is to provide all of our clients with the highest levels of service and advice possible. The current principal, Craig Campbell, has worked as a business broker on the Sunshine Coast for the past 9 years, and has an excellent 30-year background in running, owning and selling businesses. Being a proven and highly effective operator in management, marketing and business development.
Craig is a Registered Business Valuer (RBV) and Certified Practicing Business Broker (CPBB), and his team of professionals are a truly unique resource to draw upon when it comes to selling or buying businesses. In fact, at Verified Businesses, we have five highly experienced BUSINESS BROKERS , who have all owned their own businesses, have a background in business management, and are members of the Australian Institute of Business Brokers (AIBB). All are professionally trained to assist buy or sell your business in today’s competitive environment.
Since 2010, Verified Businesses has literally sold hundreds of businesses and has earned the reputation as one of the most reputable Business Brokerages in South East Queensland. This has been achieved through maintaining a high level of professionalism, honesty and integrity. An enviable standard we intend to maintain. This means as a SELLER (see sellers tool kit) or BUYER (see buyers info) you can rely on the Brokers at Verified Businesses telling you exactly how it is, as we will always endeavour to give you a true assessment of a business’s market value and likely selling range, as well as its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats at any given time.
We have an EXISTING database pool of hundreds of potential buyers who we’ve known for years here on the Sunshine Coast. These are people who have bought business after business through us over the years and who are always looking to move up to something new and better. These are often professional business people who already have a high success record. In addition to this, we get enquiries every day from NEW potential buyers who are looking for all sorts of businesses because they’ve already heard of our solid reputation, extensive market coverage, and success rate in selling businesses large and small.
WHATS EXCITING TODAY is there are the hundreds of people from interstate and overseas who want to move to the fast growing and beautiful Sunshine Coast, and who are ready to buy a good business and will pay the right money for it. Many of which have heard about us from people who’ve already moved here and bought businesses, or simply found us on the web through google, as we’re one of the highest rating Business Broking websites on the Sunshine Coast.