Part One
Norm discovers that getting a substantial offer for your business can actually be a little scary.
Part Two
Norm negotiates what (at the time) seems to be the offer of a lifetime (ha!) -- by refusing to negotiate.
Part Three
Norm confronts a truly challenging question: If I sell my businesses, who exactly will I be?
Part Four
Norm endures the business equivalent of a colonoscopy: due diligence.
Part Five
Norm makes his decision: Despite certain misgivings, he agrees to sell.
Part Six
The doubts begin to set in: Are these guys stalling? Is this deal about to fall apart?
Part Seven
They are stalling, and Norm has just about had it. Can this deal be saved?
Part Eight
Uh, no. The deal cannot be saved. But you won't believe how and why it falls apart.
Part Nine
What Norm learned from his fiasco. For one thing, if he ever gets another chance to sell his businesses, he's not going to write about it until the deal is done.
Part 10
The deal is done.
