Where do you get your deal flow?

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January 20, 2023

by a searcher from University of California, Davis in New York, NY, USA

New self-funded searcher here wondering what your favorite platforms are for SMB deal sourcing?

Free resources I use include Searchfunder, BizBuySell, and Flippa for online businesses.

What are the best free and paid platforms for deal sourcing?

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from University of Kansas in Kansas City Metropolitan Area, USA
A slow, meticulous, but effective way to find off-market deals is to simply google firms that align with your criteria, then use their websites, LinkedIn, Twitter, FB, et cetera to identify the likely owner's name and owner's email address. If you cannot find the email address, then once you know owner's name, you can google their name in combination with the keyword "email" and their domain name redacted For example, google: Jane Smith email redacted This will, 80% of the time deliver the unredacted email address of the owner in the search results. Then just do some good ole' cold outreach.

This process could be used to build a 300+ target list (highly recommend outsourcing this if anywhere near this large), but would be better for more of a rifle approach if you already have companies and/or business owners identified and just need contact info.
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from New York University in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bizbuysell and Flippa are great, but there are more 70 sites that you really should be looking at if you want to get a full sense of what everything that is publicly listed for sale.

At Kumo (withkumo.com) we take 70+ sites and combine them into one platform to save you a ton of time with on-market searching. Over 120K deals are searchable on there from all corners of the internet, updated daily.

Searchfunder members have a discount code for a free month: SEARCHFUNDER30. Let me know if you have any questions!
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