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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. Hello this is Jonathan Jay – and welcome to episode 186 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast. This week we’re going to talk MONEY – The fact is that when I run one of my training programmes, I get asked about how to negotiate the price of an acquisition more than […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. Hello this is Jonathan Jay – and welcome to episode 185 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast. This week, I talk with author, investor and entrepreneur Graham Rowan – about how I have built the fourth largest chain of children’s day nurseries in the UK in little more than two years. Find […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. Hello this is Jonathan Jay – and welcome to episode 184 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast. This week, we meet another of my mastermind clients, Hari Krishnadasan. Now Hari had actually bought a business a few years ago without realising that growing through acquisition could be a viable business strategy. […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. Hello this is Jonathan Jay – and welcome to episode 183 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast. This week we meet John Richardson, whose expertise is in acquiring coffee retail businesses, and establishing a chain a coffee shops. Find more details of the next Fasttrack programme at: www.thedealmakersacademy.com/FAST Follow or connect […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. Hello this is Jonathan Jay – and welcome to episode 182 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast. Now last week I met up online with Sam Hopps – a dealmaker who has completed his first acquisition, a £280,000 turnover lighting business using just £22 of his own money. And he started […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. Now a couple of weeks ago, I introduced one of my online audiences to two of the most prolific dealmakers I know. You might have heard the name Peter Lidgitt before – because he was on the podcast just a couple of months ago. But since then, during one visit to […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. Back in November last year I introduced you to one of my mastermind students, Kris Bark. At the time, Kris ran a software business that he had started with a business partner several years ago. Having bought out the partner, and after attending my programme, Kris realised that growth by acquisition […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. This week I talk with a legendary jewellery entrepreneur who grew his global business almost entirely through acquisition. Gerald Ratner left school at 16 with no qualifications, and went to work in his father’s jewellery business. In 1984, he took over the business – and after just six years in charge […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. This week I am talking with Michael Girdley, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of US based Dura Software – and last year, Michael completed the acquisition of 6Connex – a technology company specialising in large scale virtual events – a great acquisition that in 2020 was definitely a case of ‘right time […]

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. Now this week we’re going to talk about buying businesses that are exclusively online – and as you may already know, this is not my area of expertise. So I’m going to be talking to Australian dealmaker Jaryd Krause about the specific skills required to acquire an online business. Find more […]