Join my email list at https://www.DavidCBarnettList.com Learn to make a cash flow and business plan at https://www.BizPlanSchool.com Learn to buy a business https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Learn more at my blog at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: Traits of failing businesses and their owners. Angela wants to know- David, what are the common traits you notice amongst failing business owners? Great question! I summarize the three most common things I’ve seen amongst those who ...
Nov 11, 2020•11 min
Find Mark's podcast here: https://nyafinancialpodcast.com Learn to buy a business: https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Join my email list and learn more at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: Creating your own financial resiliency. Mark Willis, host of Not Your Average Financial Podcast, comes back to discuss whole life insurance policies again. I was so intrigued last time that I went out to learn more and have decided to buy a policy myself. This is a liquidity tool that any entr...
Nov 04, 2020•40 min
Find Jeffrey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker Find Lockdown or Liberty in my Amazon store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/davidbarnett Get on my Small Business email list at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com
Oct 30, 2020•55 min
Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Join my email list at https://www.DavidCBarnettList.com My blog is at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: David and Hugh tackle Small Biz Myths #3 This summer I asked viewers to send in small business myths they wanted me to challenge, tackle or otherwise comment on. I had my assistant and Bishop’s University Business student, Hugh, sort them out and we’ve organized them into three different videos. It’s a lot of fun! T...
Oct 28, 2020•31 min
Find Trevor online at https://www.crow.legal/ Watch the Roll Up Strategy video here: https://youtu.be/i_4_shRzEsQ Learn how to sell your business at https://www.HowToSellMyOwnBusiness.com Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Join the list at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: Converting a business and selling part of it to investors. Trevor Crow has been a recent expert guest for my Business Buyer Adventure group coaching program. Today, Trevor and I disc...
Oct 21, 2020•22 min
Giuseppe's book offer https://ggthefranchiseguide.com/dcb Buy Franchise Warnings at Amazon or at https://www.FranchiseWarnings.com Learn to buy an existing business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Related Article: Fitting the right person with the right franchise. Who is this right for? Who opens a new franchise? Why do they do it? What are some of the things that Giuseppe sees in his work with people trying to get out of the corporate rat race. With over a decade of experience, he sha...
Oct 14, 2020•35 min
Find Zoran's brokerage in Australia-- https://www.xcllusive.com.au/ Learn to buy a business https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Learn to sell a business https://www.HowToSellMyOwnBusiness.com Related Article: Can Business Brokerage be made to work better? Everyone loves to complain about the problems with business brokerage: • Sellers have the wrong expectations. • Brokers have mixed incentives. • Brokerage owners can mislead potential employees. • Starving brokers may act against a client’s ...
Oct 07, 2020•37 min
Learn to buy a business https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Learn small business systems https://www.EasySmallBizSystems.com Learn more and join my list at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: David and Hugh tackle Small Biz Myths #2 This summer I asked viewers to send in small business myths they wanted me to challenge, tackle or otherwise comment on. I had my assistant and Bishop’s University Business student, Hugh, sort them out and we’ve organized them into three different video...
Sep 30, 2020•28 min
Learn to buy a business https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Join my list and learn more at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: ‘Just do a roll up strategy’ I spent some time with a ‘zero-down guru refugee’ a few months ago. They were broke, had no money and had been told that the secret to becoming rich would be a two-step process: 1. Find ‘the right’ deal which could be acquired with no money. 2. Execute a roll up strategy and become an industry consolidator. Great plan. Roll up s...
Sep 23, 2020•7 min
Reach JT at [email protected] Learn to sell your business https://www.HowToSellMyOwnBusiness.com Learn to buy a business https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Join my email list https://www.DavidCBarnettList.com Blog https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article Buying and Selling restoration businesses JT Kraii from www.ExitStrategies360.com works with restoration companies across North America whose owners want to sell. JT gets into the details of how he ended up working in this ...
Sep 16, 2020•26 min
Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Join my list at https://www.DavidCBarnettList.com Learn more at the blog https://www.DavidCBarnett.com related articles: David and Hugh tackle Small Biz Myths #1 This summer I asked viewers to send in small business myths they wanted me to challenge, tackle or otherwise comment on. I had my assistant and Bishop’s University Business student, Hugh, sort them out and we’ve organized them into three different videos. It’s a lot of fu...
Sep 09, 2020•16 min
Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Join my list https://www.DavidCBarnettList.com Learn more on my blog at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: The problem of small strategic acquisitions. Shiraz wants to build a portfolio of small businesses run by managers. His problem is that the numbers just don’t seem to work. So how can we figure out how to acquire a good business at a reasonable price to make a good investment? Is it even possible? Let’s take the q...
Sep 02, 2020•12 min
Read the report yourself here: https://www.ibba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/marketpulse-q2-2020-summary.pdf Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Get on my email list at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related article: Who CARES about the IBBA Q2 2020 report? I’m not trying to be mean. I mean they left out the likely impact of the US CARES Act on the smallbiz marketplace. This week, I take a look at the Q2 2020 IBBA MarketPulse report and look at what seems to be hap...
Aug 26, 2020•23 min
Learn small business systems: https://www.EasySmallBizSystems.com Buy a Business https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Get on my list and learn more at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: Should entrepreneurs be trying to work less and less? This week I respond to a viewer question about whether he should be trying to work less and less over the course of his career of business ownership. Um, Yes. But how do I know this is possible? How do you do it? Why are most small business owner...
Aug 19, 2020•4 min
Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Get on my email list at https://www.DavidCBarnettList.com Learn more at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: The phone company rep, cable guy and gym owner walk into a bar…. Who doesn’t like to make one sale and get paid over and over again? As a young man, I even considered a career in insurance because of two magical words- recurring revenues. Your insurance agent gets paid every year for the insurance policy you bough...
Aug 12, 2020•9 min
Find Rob online here: https://www.evolutioncbs.co.uk/ Learn how to sell your own small business at https://www.HowToSellMyOwnBusiness.com Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Related Article: Rob’s Secret Formula to Sell a lot of Businesses If you’ve been on my YouTube channel for long, you’ll realize that selling a business is hard and most never find a buyer. How is it then that Rob Goddard’s Evolution CBS is so highly recommended in the UK’s middle market? What is...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Learn more and join my list at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: Strategies to help you buy a business in another country Going on vacation is exciting. But what if your travels are more permanent in nature? I’ve worked with people… • Moving to Canada to buy businesses. • People moving from America to more tropical places. • Canadians moving to Europe. All of them suffer the same problems. It’s hard to know what you d...
Jul 29, 2020•11 min
Learn about the coaching program: https://www.BusinessBuyerAdventure.com Find Centurica https://www.Centurica.com Get more info and join my list at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: Due-diligence for online businesses in Covidland. Brian Diener is with Centurica, they’re due-diligence experts for online businesses. I had Brian come to the Business Buyer Advantage group coaching program as July’s guest expert. I wanted to invite him to the main YouTube channel to talk about what they...
Jul 22, 2020•15 min
Learn to buy a business https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Connect with Clinton Lee at https://www.UKBusinessbrokers.com Related Article: Observing the market of Businesses for Sale Clinton Lee has been involved in buying and selling businesses for DECADES. This UK entrepreneur has built a very interesting business for himself in helping mid-market firms choose the right advisors to sell. I caught up with Clinton because he’s started a neat project of gathering and analyzing the changes to t...
Jul 15, 2020•46 min
Find Justin at https://www.FinanciallySimple.com Learn to sell your own small business at https://www.HowToSellMyOwnBusiness.com Get on my list over at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: Retirement Planning for Business Owners Justin has owned and sold several businesses of his own and now helps business owners get ready to retire. It’s not anything like what happens for employees. How do you build a retirement plan around the fact that so few businesses are actually sold? It means w...
Jul 08, 2020•28 min
Learn to buy a business: https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Get my Franchise Book, Franchise Warnings in my Amazon Store: https://www.Amazon.com/shop/davidbarnett Joel's website: https://www.thefranchiseking.com/ Related Article: Spotting Franchise Trouble Joel Libava is known as The Franchise King. How did he earn such a moniker? It’s because of his years ‘in the trenches’ of the franchise industry. This week’s interview was inspired by a YouTube comment asking ‘Dave, how do we tell if a fr...
Jun 24, 2020•38 min
Learn more about buying a business for No money here: http://www.investlocalbook.com/p/buy-business-with-no-money.html Learn to buy a business the right way at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Related Article: The pitfalls of Zero Down get rich quick schemes. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to get a successful business for FREE? Zero-Down Business Buying Guru Carl Allen tried to get onto my YouTube channel. I asked to go through his program first to make sure I liked it. He REFUSED. So, I ...
Jun 17, 2020•40 min
https://www.thewrightlawyer.com/ https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: Bust a deal, face the Wheel! Remember that Mad Max film; Beyond Thunderdome? It may be feeling like the end of the world out there but if who parties need to bust a deal, they still don’t have to face the wheel. This week, I interview Texas small business attorney Shahara Wright about the considerations we need to take when altering a contract. This is happening a lot as a resul...
Jun 10, 2020•20 min
Learn to buy a business: https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com See the appraisal site yourself at https://www.BusinessAndAssetValues.com Sign up for my email list and learn more at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article --------- Using machinery for collateral when borrowing to buy a business. Some people online say it’s easy to use a business’ equipment and other assets to borrow to fund an acquisition. Is this really true? This week I explain the different definitions of value and we’l...
Jun 03, 2020•25 min
Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Get better organized with business systems at https://www.EasySmallBizSystems.com Don't forget to join my email list over at the blog https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article: The cheque is in the mail… Today I’m joined by Stephen King from https://www.growthforce.com/ Stephen has a varied background in business and accounting and works with SMEs on providing services and information to help them run a better business. Today ...
May 27, 2020•30 min
Improve the systems in any business https://www.EasySmallBizSystems.com Learn to buy a business https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Related Article: Riches in the Niches… What’s the difference between a product niche and a market niche? In this video, I explain how not all highly specialized niches are attractive and what to look for if you’re trying to make boatloads of money while dodging competitors. Also, it’s the last video that I made before the barbers closed. All future videos will fe...
May 20, 2020•7 min
Find Richard at https://www.FamilyOffices.com Learn about the Business Buyer Adventure group program at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdventure.com Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Sign up for my list at https://www.DavidCBarnettList.com Related Article... The real ‘Rich Uncle Albert’ Maybe you’ve heard this story before. A business buyer doesn’t have enough cash to do a deal on a great acquisition opportunity and so he needs to go and ask Rich Uncle Albert for help. ...
May 13, 2020•24 min
Learn to buy a business at https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com Learn to sell a business at https://www.HowToSellMyOwnBusiness.com Join my email list and never miss a video at https://www.DavidCBarnettList.com Find more cool stuff on my blog at https://www.DavidCBarnett.com Related Article Zombies coming out of your financial analysis… Any good business buyer will spend time analyzing the financials of the business they are considering. What happens when the cash flow produced by the business ...
May 06, 2020•6 min
Last but not least- Business Broker Paul gives us a real life description of his efforts to sell a landscape maintenance company. https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com https://www.BizPlanSchool.com
May 03, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Jared lives out David’s predictions as though it was a screenplay. Holiday Chat#9 I’ve said a million times- If the seller is asking too much, he’ll scare off buyers and the business will eventually decline. It happened just like that for Jared who benefited by being the buyer of last resort and getting a good deal on this appliance repair business. Cheers https://www.BusinessBuyerAdvantage.com David C Barnett
May 01, 2020•58 min