Free Buy a Business Starter Kit. The plain English system to find, check, and track your first business purchase.

Buy a cash flowing business that a manager can run, at a Main Street price, with the numbers proven three ways.

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Who it is for

A first time buyer looking at a business priced roughly between $600k and $2M, who wants a business a manager can run, plans to use an SBA loan for part of the price, and wants a process instead of guesses.

The lessons teach the system and live right here on this page. The kit holds the tools you work with, deal by deal: a buy box, a deal tracker board, worksheets, and checklists.

What is inside: the guide in 6 short pages, 15 short audio parts, a transcript under every part, the Deal Desk tracker board, the buy box and the 5 stage check. No jargon.

The free course

15 short lessons. Listen or read.

Every lesson has a written transcript right under the audio.

The five chapters: Start Here and the Word List, Where to Find Businesses for Sale, Money Loans and What Businesses Sell For, How to Check a Business Before You Buy, Your First 90 Days and Finding Brokers.

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Chapter 1

Start Here and the Word List

5 lessons23 min of listening

  1. 1Start Here: The Whole Plan in 2 Minutes2:11
  2. 2Words You Need to Know, Part 12:36
  3. 3Words You Need to Know, Part 23:36
  4. 4The Big Idea and the Word List, Part 16:52
  5. 5The Big Idea and the Word List, Part 27:47

Chapter 2

Where to Find Businesses for Sale

4 lessons24 min of listening

  1. 6Where to Find Businesses for Sale, Part 13:46
  2. 7Two Big Sites Up Close: BizBuySell and Acquire6:16
  3. 8Two More Sites: Empire Flippers and Website Closers6:47
  4. 9Smaller Sites, Atlanta Brokers, and How a Deal Closes7:09

Chapter 3

Money, Loans, and What Businesses Sell For

2 lessons8 min of listening

  1. 10What Businesses Sell For and the New Loan Rules2:25
  2. 11Seller Financing and Warning Signs in a Listing5:22

Chapter 4

How to Check a Business Before You Buy

4 lessons22 min of listening

  1. 12The Best Types of Business for You, Part 17:06
  2. 13The Best Types, Part 2, and Your Buy Box Line by Line4:30
  3. 14How to Check a Business Before You Buy, Part 16:21
  4. 15How to Check a Business, Part 2: Tracking Deals and What We Could Not Prove4:01

Chapter 5: Next steps

Your First 90 Days and Finding Brokers

This chapter is not a lesson. It is your toolbox: the first 90 days checklist, the broker outreach play, and the rules for running the tracker. You will find all of it in the kit.

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The Deal Desk

Run every deal on one board.

Every business you look at gets one row. You work deals on the board, not in your text messages and not in your head. It costs $0 and runs on a free Notion workspace.

Deal tracker board with four columns: Lead, Screened, Broker Call, and Closing. Kill reasons required. No deal sits 14 days without a next step.
Built by a buyer, not a guru. This is the exact system I am running in my own live business search right now. Free, because the learning should be free.

A straight note

This is education from my own search. It is not financial, legal, or tax advice.

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Questions

Quick answers

What does it cost?

Nothing. The kit, the course, and the audio are free, and Notion is free too.

What do I need?

A free Notion account. Open the kit link, duplicate the template into your own workspace, and it is yours to run your deals on.

Is the audio included?

Yes. All 15 parts are right on this site, and every part comes with a written transcript, so you can read instead of listen.

Will it be updated?

Yes. This comes from a live business search that is still running. The course on this site is the newest version, and when the kit improves, the update is noted on this page.

A tool I used

I used Muse to build this kit and course. If you are curious about it, here is the link.

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