Russell Brown is author of Strategies for Successfully Buying or Selling a Business and Preparing Your Business for Sale. He is also the developer of the business valuation program, BizPricer. Russell has been a business broker and consultant for many years and has been directly and indirectly involved in all aspects of the buying, selling, and brokering of hundred of operating businesses. His first book, Strategies for Successfully Buying or Selling a Business, has been recommended by Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, and has also been chosen as the 1997 Best Business Book of the Year by the North American Bookdealers Exchange.