Freelancer for offmarket deal sourcing
April 04, 2025
by a searcher from Northeastern University in Miami, FL, USA
Hello all, is it typical for self-searchers find a freelancer to help with deal sourcing? What are typical pricing structures for these? I found one that wants to charge $500 for a regional list based on my criteria and a success fee for every meeting scheduled with owners (another $500 each).
in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
However, the fee structure that you mentioned doesn't look standard. Fixed fee is completely fine, but success fee doesn't make sense if they are just building the email list. If they have more contribution in overall process, which is, they are helping you with not only building a list, setting up email campaigns, writing the email copies, managing the campaigns, and optimizing them for better output, then a success fee on meeting booked make sense, but that too should be with qualified buyer and not for every meeting booked.
So fixed fee for building email list, and success fee for getting you book a meeting, makes sense. This is what we would do.
A percentage based success fee on deal size is given when there is major contribution from the service provider in the whole process and their upfront fees is zero to none, then you give anywhere between 1%-5% of the deal size, and sometimes that has a cap as well and sometimes it is based on Lehman formula.
I hope this helps.
And if you consider working with us for your deal sourcing help, send me a DM at redacted and I would be happy to send you some information about our work.
from INSEAD in San Francisco, CA, USA
The fee structures I've seen range from 100% success-based (rare) to a combo of success + monthly (very common) to only monthly (rare).
Do you want to literally hand it off to someone to do everything? Hit up ^redacted IMO he has a good thing going and if I wasn't doing it myself I'd probably use his services.