Having been an entrepreneur through acquisition for the past three years, I'm comfortable with the deal making and operations aspects of search. I feel less qualified when it comes to the "search" part. Can anyone recommend resources for a coherent and thorough search strategy for deal sourcing. To date, I've found deals through BizBuySell.com and business brokers, but that's the stuff everyone sees...
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We maintain partnerships with database providers that make searching more effective, efficient and affordable along with features that help searchers find deals and investors and vice versa.
Hire and train a VA and manually source deals looking through the following databases:
-reference USA
-D&B Hoovers
-Google maps
-Yelp
-Google search
-industry specific databases (I am in mental health so I use the SAMSHA website. Find out what yours is)
The more fast and "expensive" route is buying lead lists. What I recommend:
-Dataaxle Genie (about 32 cents per lead)
-Exact Data
Hope this helps.