Buy Your First Business in 180 Days Without Using Your Own Money

In fact, the exact opposite. We know that professional people absolutely hate being pitched to. You’d walk out. So, if you want to find out how we can help you buy your first business and hold your hand throughout the process (with all the legal and financial support you need), then stay AFTER we finish the training to find out more. Or just leave at that point – it’s up to you.

A lot less that your lawyer or accountant! Fees range from £12k to £30k depending on how much help you want and for how long. Although there’s no pressure to become a client, you should at least be in a position to do so if you like what you see – and you’ll discover that what we do for you is excellent value for money.

It’s BECAUSE he’s good that he can teach it (you wouldn’t want to learn from someone who didn’t have a track record). Jonathan ‘retired’ aged 50 when he had the chance to cash out and walk away – and since then he has focused on Dealmakers.co.uk and making it the premier place for entrepreneurs to learn dealmaking. Over 70 acquisitions and business sales, to and from private equity and trade – big ones and small ones in all different sectors, some amazing, some not so – he’ll share his experience, warts and all and Jonathan is the first to say he’s not a perfect guru – he’s just someone who learnt from trial and error over 27 years – and can now shortcut your success with a system developed from experience. Tell me the truth: can you buy any business ‘no money down’.

No, you can’t. Not any business. However, you only need one deal to double the size of your existing business or to quite the day job. Remember 100% mortgages from the 2000’s? That’s a parallel with what we do at dealmakers. We combine different types of funding to hit 100% of the price so that you don’t need ‘skin in the game’. It’s a lot more than that though – finding the right deal, negotiating price and terms, navigating all the personal elements of spouses and adult children in the business, getting external finance (if you need it), coordinating all the professionals such as due diligence and legal, negotiating the sale and purchase agreement, planning the first 100 days of ownership then getting it over the line…and we can help you with all that – we’ve done it 1000 times with other people who started just like you, on the FastTrack course.

50% of the people we help have never owned a business and they create some of our most fascinating case studies! We teach you a system that anyone can follow (one of the things we are really good at is breaking down a complex subject into bite-size chunks). 45% of our clients of a business and want to grow faster maybe to reach a critical point that allows them to sell 5% of our clients have bought a business before but typically use their own money (and regretted it) or did it in such a way that they now know left them exposed. They want to upskill and do it better and bigger next time. You don’t need to understand finance or have a business background – this is what the training is for.

Jonathan will show you how to buy bigger businesses which already have a tier of management – you are not expected to work in the business. In fact, buying businesses that are larger with management already in place makes them easier to finance!

Yes, it is a lot of time, but that’s why we don’t waste your time. From the moment you arrive you’ll be welcomed as a guest and by lunchtime on the first day you will know that you made the right decision. When you are in a room full of like-minded people your whole thinking changes… you start thinking bigger… you start thinking of possibilities – this is a time investment that will produce dividends for years to come.

It’s the question everyone asks, and the answer surprises people: most owners don’t sell because the business is failing. They sell because they’re done – retirement with no children who want it, ill health, burnout, a divorce, a fallout between partners, or simply twenty years in and no exit in sight. Those owners care more about a clean handover and their legacy than squeezing the last pound out on day one, which is exactly why deferred terms and vendor finance work. You’re solving a problem the owner already has – and building your business at the same time.

This is one of the biggest misconceptions about buying businesses. Most of the deals we teach people to find are not sitting on business-for-sale websites waiting for you. In fact, we generally prefer to approach suitable business owners directly and find opportunities off market. Jonathan will show you how to decide what type and size of business makes sense for you, how to build a list of potential acquisition targets, how to approach owners, and how to start conversations with people who may never have formally put their business up for sale. And you don’t need to find hundreds of businesses. You need to find one good deal where the numbers work, the owner has a genuine reason to sell, and the terms can be structured in a way that works for both sides. That’s a process — and it’s exactly the process we teach you on FastTrack.

This is one of the biggest misconceptions about buying businesses. Most of the deals we teach people to find are not sitting on business-for-sale websites waiting for you. In fact, we generally prefer to approach suitable business owners directly and find opportunities off market. Jonathan will show you how to decide what type and size of business makes sense for you, how to build a list of potential acquisition targets, how to approach owners, and how to start conversations with people who may never have formally put their business up for sale. And you don’t need to find hundreds of businesses. You need to find one good deal where the numbers work, the owner has a genuine reason to sell, and the terms can be structured in a way that works for both sides. That’s a process — and it’s exactly the process we teach you on FastTrack.