Proprietary Outreach Best Practices

Member resources:

Frequent asked questions:

What is Searchfunder.com?

Searchfunder.com is an online community of searchers, investors, lenders, brokers and other professionals. Over 80% of those involved in searchfunds maintain a Searchfunder account to help them network, hire, and mentor others.

What are the benefits of membership?

In addition to accessing the most active online network of business buyers, Searchfunder licenses research that is simply not cost effective for individuals. Access over 15,000 industry reports and 50,000 transaction financials. You also get monthly credits for contact information for your company sourcing campaign with the option to purchase more at drastically discounted rates. Searchfunder has pre-purchased access from these data providers in order to empower individual buyers and to help searchers level the playing field versus private equity.

Do you have deals?

While we are primarily a buy-side network, we do have hundreds of brokers that regularly post deals to the community.

Can I find an internship on Searchfunder?

Absolutely! We have the industry's largest intern job board. If you are considering a search, the first step is to help another business buyer so you can hit the ground running.

What does it cost?

Searchfunder is a subscription service. We offer flexible monthly, annual and lifetime memberships.

Monthly

$79 / month

Annual

$19 / month

Lifetime

$432 / once

Those who maintain an account with us for over 4 continuous years are permanently added to the community without the need for a membership.

Do I need an MBA to join?

While a large number of our members come from dedicated programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, Chicago Booth, and other top programs, searching is no longer reserved for the elite. With the current abundance of dry powder in private equity, and an increasing number of business owners reaching retirement age, good deals rarely go unfunded.

Post a question, deal, job, etc...

Make a post...

Complete registration to post.

by a professional from Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
in Houston, TX, USA

3yrs ago

Proprietary Outreach Best Practices

Hi Everyone,

Wanted to get some thoughts/feedback on proprietary outreach. It's a numbers game (as far as I understand).

What are your thoughts around what to include in an outreach email?

Do you include something unique about the business? Owner?

Generic emails in a drip marketing campaign (using software like reply.io)?

Or a combination of both?

Thanks in advance for your sharing your thoughts & experience!

Best,
Adam

20 Likes

2,597 Views

reply by a professional 1yr ago
in Boston, MA, USA

Hi everyone, I would love to get your feedback on my new product redacted (we are offering a 3 day free trial and I've been told are already better than Inven, Grata, etc.). Part of our roadmap is to add in reply.io type functionality. I built this tool for ^redacted‌ because we were trying to get more off-market deals on PEmarketplace.

reply by a searcher 1yr ago
from Columbia University in New York, NY, USA

^redacted‌ Keep it short. Everything is about getting the seller on the phone ASAP. I think email becomes a tougher channel every week. There are tons of searchers now and owners with halfway decent businesses are getting overwhelmed. I say this despite the fact that we met our seller via email and proprietary outreach. That said, we were working multiple channels, and I would do even more today.