Arizona Biz Consultants is a full service intermediary firm specializing in Main Street brokerage and M & A.  Our services include preparation of valuation reports, preparation of offering portfolios, direct marketing through our extensive buyer network, and confidential presentation of your business offer to qualified buyers only.  We will assist in all negotiations and see the transaction through the closing process.  

In addition we provide full service acquisition services to strategic, investment and entrepreneurial buyers.  We will assist you in determining your needs, locating a business to meet your goals, negotiate and close the transaction.

Our Consultants and their biographies:

Dave Long

Dave Long is the Designated Broker of Arizona Biz Consultants and has been directly involved in hundreds of business transfers since 1993. He has owned and sold four successful small businesses in that time span. Dave has been on both the buying and selling sides of business transactions and offers his clients a broad base of "real life" experiences.

He is an active member of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) and the Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA) and has earned the highly respected accreditation of Certified Business Intermediary from the IBBA.

Brian Harron

Brian has been actively involved in the buying, selling and leasing of restaurant businesses since 1980.  He is the author of TIPS ON SELLING A RESTAURANT BUSINESS which he published in 1992, a frequent contributor of restaurant brokerage articles to restaurant and real estate publications and regularly leads workshops on how to buy or sell a restaurant business.

During his career, Brian has been the owner of a restaurant management, operations and consulting company, president of a meat and grocery company, the chief operating officer of the National Restaurant Association, publisher of a news magazine for the restaurant  business, a college professor directing a hotel and restaurant management program and the owner / operator of several restaurants.

Brian is a graduate of The School of Hotel and Restaurant Management at Cornell University and holds a Master's Degree in Education and Marketing from the University of North Dakota.