I am looking for community guidance on how to best start my search. There is a lot of information out there for free and I feel like I have learned so much already, so I dont feel the need to pay ~$10K for an online course: Acquisition Lab, SMBootcamp, Codie Sanchez's course. Correct me if I am wrong. I feel like I should be taking more action than looking on biz buy sell, like a proprietary search or narrowing my target buy box or maybe networking with brokers, lenders, lawyers, QoE firms, etc. Is there a list that people used successfully out there that I missed in my own search?

Buy box:
Within 30 miles of my house or remote
1M EBIDTA
Home services or Manufacturing


What I have done so far:
Gotten mentally prepared for changing jobs/seeing myself as an owner
Gone to one meet up
Listened to a lot of podcasts
Read buy then build