Chris KoernerSerial Entrepreneur and Content Creator

How to find and buy any business on the planet #entrepreneurship #startup #business #sidehustles

14 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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Chris Koerner explains practical, relationship-focused strategies for locating and ultimately buying small businesses. He advises collecting owner contact data (e.g., via Outscraper, LinkedIn, Apollo) and then building personal trust through repeated, sincere outreach (letters, calls, gifts) and demonstrating genuine passion for the owner's niche to increase the chance they’ll want to sell.

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You could use Outscraper. You could use LinkedIn. You could use Apollo. But it sounds hairy. Sounds messy. I would get that database and then I would just start brt. Building a relationship of trust with the owners, putting his name out there, sending him a gift basket, sending him a letter, shooting him a text, shooting an email, giving him a call. Hey, this is who I am. This is my story. I had a 9 to 5 job. I hate it. I want to be a business owner like you. I love your business. No one's passionate about custom souvenirs to gift shops but me. You are. I am. You've never met someone, not in the industry that was as passionate about this industry as I am. Right. They will take to him like. Like flies to honey. Right. They will be so flattered that someone cares about their little industry that they will want to sell to him eventually. And it's the law of large numbers. If there's 86 businesses out there that he could potentially buy and none of them want to sell right now.