Leading online resource BusinessesForSale.com has announced that record numbers of budding entrepreneurs are logging on this summer in search of their ideal venture.
The website, an online marketplace for buying and selling a business, said that the normally quiet summer months have been marked by a sharp increase in interest.
“We are not seeing the usual seasonal quiet period,” said Faye Bulman, manager of BusinessesForSale.com. “Far from it – we have experienced a significant increase in traffic as well as registered business buyers and sellers using the site.”
BusinessesForSale.com said that it received 5.8m page impressions in June this year, an increase of 87% on the same month in 2005. Around 200,000 users are now registered buyers.
A business is sold every three hours and the industries most catching users’ attention have been pubs, restaurants, hotels, internet businesses and sandwich shops.
The website said that its research revealed that over half of users wanted to buy a business to quit the ‘rat race’ and make money for themselves, rather than for their bosses.
In addition, six in ten of the site’s users said they would be willing to relocate in the UK to take up the reins of a business, while 34% would move overseas for the right opportunity.
The site’s database of businesses, also available through Startups.co.uk, currently has over 35,000 opportunities available across the world.
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