How are you finding deals?

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May 23, 2025

by a professional-advisory in Chișinău, Moldova

How are you finding deals and what challenges do you face in during this process? What platforms do you use with listings of businesses for sale and do they really help you cut the time of search? Talked to a couple of people and they say it takes a lot of time to find the right deal and the process is a bit redundant while available platforms don't really have the high quality listings. Curious to learn about the search experience of people in this community. What are some things you would want improved about the search process?
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in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
^redacted‌ as I am not a searcher myself, I can't do an absolute justice to answer to your questions, but have worked with 15+ searchers so far, and have some sort of experience by which I will share my opinion. There are different ways people find deals, such as: 1. Brokers - Who are actively hunting for deals in market, and share the hot deals with you. 2. On-Market Deals - Doing enquiry listed on Various platforms, more like a broker only but a platform where ready to be sold business are listed. 3. Off-Market Deals - Building their proprietary deal flow by identifying the potential targets and doing an outreach to them. You don't know if they are ready to sell or not, but there is no competition here if you find a business to acquire. 4. Referral - You partner with advisory, accounting firms, etc. who you ask for referral and share some sort of referral fee to them. Every process mentioned above has it's own pros and cons based on the factor of competition, quality, quantity, etc. It does takes a lot of time, from a few months to sometimes over a year as well and is a tiring process as well. If you seek help with your search journey, my team can be of good help to speed up your efforts that would save you some time and a lot of hassle if you were to do it all on your own. You can send me a message at redacted
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