Resources
Notes from inside the shop.
What we have learned buying, running and handing off service businesses. Short, specific, no hype.
4 min
Questions to ask the owner before the transition period ends
The questions that matter when buying a small service business are the ones nobody puts in the CIM: customers, vendors, pricing, the calendar, the crew. Here are forty, in the order to ask them, and what to do with the answers.
Related: Knowledge and Handoff
6 min
I bought a business with an SBA loan. Now what?
The first 90 days after buying a small service business, in the order the problems actually show up: the seller, the numbers, the crew, the phones. What to do in each one and what to leave alone.
Related: Crew and Field
Tell us about the shop.
Thirty minutes. You describe the business. We tell you what we would fix first and what it costs. No deck.