Buy a business with an advisor by your side
We aren't brokers. We're business-buying experts.
A business broker’s goal is to make a quick transaction and move on. Our goal is to help you find the best business for you.
Here’s how we can help.
With our Partners program, we’ll be your full-service advisor, literally becoming your business partner in your new venture.
We also offer one-off services, setting you up with a comprehensive business search, listing reviews, and your own customized step-by-step guide to buying a business.
Talk with us to find the right service for you.
Owner Actions Partners
A full partnership for buying and owning a business
Want to buy a business with us? We work alongside owners to find, vet, buy, and run profitable businesses throughout the United States, taking a small equity stake in the company (usually 10-15%). Through this program, we’ll be with you every step of the way, providing you with our time, resources, and knowledge. We only make money if you make money.
Owner Actions Partners
A full partnership for buying and owning a business
Want to buy a business with us? We work alongside owners to find, vet, buy, and run profitable businesses throughout the United States, taking a small equity stake in the company (usually 10-15%). Through this program, we’ll be with you every step of the way, providing you with our time, resources, and knowledge. We only make money if you make money.
With your input, we’ll scrape the web for listings that meet your criteria. Our team will evaluate each listing that makes it though the initial screen and share only the businesses we think are viable options.
Once interesting opportunities come on our radar, we’ll evaluate them together, reviewing the financials, making projections, stress testing for various scenarios. Then, we’ll assess the management structure and make sure the business fits your goals.
As partners, we’ll work through the financing process together, exploring various loan options, seller financing, and more. We’ll also help you understand the cost of the capital you choose to use and how it’ll impact your new business’s cash flow.
Every deal requires due diligence, and we’ll be at your side to support you. We can help you find an accountant and attorney to work through the process, or you can rely on your own team of pros. As partners, we’ll work through the entire process together.
This is the best part: We’ll be there for you after the close. With over 500 partnerships with business services providers, we’ll help you manage your finances, find new customers, manage HR policies, and more. We even have a team of developers that can help automate parts of your new business.
When the time comes, we’ll also support you through the sale. With the Owner Actions team at your side, you can avoid paying commissions as high as 12% to a broker that will put ZERO effort in marketing your business. We know what buyers are looking for and how to market to them. As your partner, we will help find a buyer and, because we have been with you the whole way, we have knowledge of your business that no business broker can match.
Check out these pay-as-you-go services
1-on-1 strategy session
It all starts with a strategy. Spend an hour with us, firming up your goals, explaining your skills and interests, narrowing down your target location, and exploring the involvement you want to have in your business. We can help you map out the steps you can take to buy your first—or next—business.
This service is available for $200/hour.
Business search services
Need a coach to help you find businesses within your area, industry, or budget? No problem. Fill out our form, and we’ll set you up with a search. Then, we’ll sort through hundreds of listings we find through sell sites, social groups, and our personal network and ping you when we see something worth looking into.
Check out this service, now available at $100/month.
Business listing reviews
Want to dive deeper into one of the listings? We’ll take you through the numbers, coach you through the questions you should ask, and even sign the NDA with you to take a deep dive into the ins-and-outs of the business you’re considering. We’ll even connect you with an accountant and a small business attorney to take on the due diligence that’s needed to make a smart investment.
Access our pro review service, starting at $500*.
(*) This is the rate charged to review businesses with professionally prepared books and well-kept records. Rates increase for owner-generated books and bookkeeping cleanup so we can devote time to confirming a business’s financials and making a thorough assessment.
Business plans for lenders and investors
Whether you’re looking for investors, applying for a loan or grant, or firming up the direction you’ll take your new business, a high-quality business plan is a must. This is not the time to cut corners.
Want it done right? Team up with Owner Actions.
We’ll put our pro knowledge to work to compile key information, put it into a lender or investor-ready format, and deliver a business plan you can be proud of.
Connections to lenders
What about loan options? We can help here, too. We don’t want to see your savings accounts or get your log-ins. Just hit us up with your credit score, max down payment, and target funding amount. We’ll make the calls to some of our favorite small business lenders.
This service is free, because you’re a reader. You got this far down the page, and we like you for it.
Free down payment calculator
Want help figuring out how much of a business you can afford to buy? Try our free calculator. This tool can help you see, at a glance, the down payment you can put together and the total purchase price it would enable you to afford with an SBA loan.
A full, step-by-step guide to buying a business
Check out this free, step-by-step guide to building a business. Answer a few questions, and we’ll customize it to match your specific goals.
Who's this guy, anyway?
That’s Mark, one of the co-founders of Owner Actions. He’s owned and co-owned multiple small businesses across industries, managed the investment portfolios of ultra-high net worth clients, and counseled owners through the buying, scaling, and selling processes. As a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) with nearly two decades of experience in investments, small business strategy, and financial planning, Mark is the industry’s go-to for analyzing business investments.
Questions we're often asked:
It can be a lot more affordable to buy a business than you might think. Provided you can cover at least 5% of the purchase price of a business, you could explore business loans, seller financing, and investor financing, and other options to make up the difference.
You may be at an advantage. If you’re open-minded about the type of business you want to purchase, you can explore more options and choose the ones that are the best use of your time and capital.
Recommendations, no. But we will help you find businesses that seem to be the best opportunities, given your search criteria.
Any business can fail. Economic factors change, consumer preferences changes, and performance slips are some of the many reasons a business that appears to be profitable today can fail to live up to your expectations. Thorough due diligence should help you spot many of the risks a business is up against so you can form plans for how to mitigate them or move on to other options.
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