Eight modules, in the order the work actually happens: who you are as a buyer, how to search, how to filter out what cannot suit you, how to investigate the numbers, what to pay, and what to establish before your accountant and lawyer start charging by the hour.
181 lessons across an introduction and eight modules. Each pairs a short video with a written summary.
The order is the point. Each stage is only worth doing on a business that survived the one before it, which is what keeps a search from consuming a year on businesses that were never going to qualify.
What sustainable profitability means, why it decides whether a business survives a change of owner, and how the system was built.
Your business buying profile, and the situation you are actually buying from.
Building your team, and the costs a search runs up before you buy anything.
The search loop — where businesses are found and fed into the basic filters.
Confirming the business is established and sustainably profitable, and confirming the improvement opportunities.
How to determine a value, the factors that affect the valuation, and examining the financial models.
The offer process, and the implications of the offers you make.
Proving the business justifies the offer you have made.
Training and handover, and the departure of the existing owner.
The videos teach the method. These are what you work with while you are applying it to a real business.
The introduction plays here, with no account and nothing to fill in. It sets out what sustainable profitability means and why it decides whether a business survives a change of owner — the idea the rest of the system is built on.
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The course runs to 181 lessons in total. The remainder — the analysis, valuation, offer, due diligence and settlement stages — comes with the full system.
The course is not sold separately. It comes with the tools and the templates, because the method and the working files are the same thing.
One-to-one sessions are available separately for buyers with a specific business in front of them. All prices and sessions.
Smarter Business Buyer is an education platform. Nothing on this website, in the course, in the tools, or in any one-to-one session is financial advice, investment advice, legal advice, or accounting advice. No tool produces a recommendation to buy or not to buy. Every tool produces questions for you to investigate. Decisions about buying a business, borrowing money, or structuring a purchase must be made with your own lawyer, your own accountant, and your own licensed financial adviser.