Business Buying Strategies Podcast #153

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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.

So this week, my guest is James Gardner – an entrepreneur who started a business with his brother 20 years ago, grew it, expanded into the USA and then sold it, with James retained by the business’s new owners.

Now last year James was one of a dozen or so lucky people to spend the day with me, on a business excursion to Amsterdam, when I was able to advise him one to one about the next steps he should take to acquire his next business.

As you’ll here, his acquisition opportunity came about following a casual, throwaway conversation he had with a business owner in a barber’s shop. Here’s James telling his story.

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #152

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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 want you to meet Michal Bereslavsky, who buys, builds and sells online businesses. As some of you will know, this is anything but my own area of expertise – so I am always interested to learn about business sectors that I don’t personally understand. But Michael’s business is fascinating – he specialises in virtual businesses – usually involving affiliate marketing and selling. As he himself explains, the business may be virtual, but the money is real!

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #151

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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 we hear from another of my dealmaking students – Isaac Smith-Jones.
Isaac is as an experienced online marketing consultant – specialising in generating leads via Facebook. He’d been considering acquiring a business for some time, and my mastermind programme provided just the incentive he needed to get started.
Here’s Isaac talking about his background and explaining why he felt drawn to the idea of buying a business.

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #150

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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 we meet Rob Schut, who after working in the aircraft parts and machinery business for a number of years decided to build for his future by acquiring businesses.

Interestingly, despite Rob’s considerable business experience, he found the negotiation of the price and payment terms for his first acquisition the most challenging part of the process. We’ll hear what he did to overcome his negotiating reticence shortly – but I started by asking Rob what attracted him to acquiring a business in the first place.

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #149

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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 we meet another dealmaker – Teddy Velkov. Now Teddy came to the UK from his native Bulgaria when he was in his twenties – and he knew no one here, and spoke not a word of English at the time.
We’re going to hear how Teddy acquired a series of window cleaning businesses in London – and is now one of the city’s largest. It’s a remarkable story, and I started by asking Teddy about his background.

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #148

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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 we have a really interesting case study – I’d like you to meet Akram Abdullah, who in the space of just eight months acquired a business, fixed it, and then sold it to the manager he had recruited to run it for him.

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #147

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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 we meet Joe Enright, who is on the point of making his first acquisition – a commercial cleaning business – whilst still holding down a full time job. Joe and I talked about his plans for the business, and how the opportunity had come about, but I started by asking Joe to remind me where we had originally met.

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #146

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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.

In our last episode before we take a short summer break, podcast producer Ed Peppitt and I discuss procrastination, and why now is the right time to buy a business.

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #145

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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, podcast producer Ed Peppitt and I discuss the buy and build strategy, and how it has helped to grow our group of children’s day nurseries.

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Business Buying Strategies Podcast #144

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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 I’m conscious that our listeners cover a wide spectrum – ranging from experienced dealmakers at one end, and people who have yet to put their first business acquisition together at the other. This week, I want to focus on the less experienced group – the ones that are new to dealmaking, and who need support to get started. 

Last year I ran a webinar where I answered the three questions that every new dealmaker asks me:

  • How do you go about valuing a business?
  • How do you finance an acquisition?
  • How do you find the experts that will help you get a deal over the line?

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