📖 7-Step Business Buying Framework

How to Find, Fund & Buy Your First Business Without Spending Your Own Money

Tired of the risk and grind of starting a business from scratch? What if you could buy an existing, profitable business instead—without using your own money?

This eBook gives you a proven 7-step framework to confidently find, evaluate, fund, and acquire businesses. Inside, you’ll learn:

✅ How to define your buying criteria and target the right industries
✅ Where to find quality business deals (beyond public listings)
✅ The key financial numbers that reveal a business’s true value
✅ Creative funding strategies so you don’t need personal capital
✅ The exact due diligence checklist to avoid costly mistakes
✅ Step-by-step guidance to close the deal and scale with confidence

Whether you’re a first-time buyer or an entrepreneur ready to expand, this checklist-style guide gives you the roadmap to acquire businesses the smart way.

⚡ Start your journey to ownership today — download your copy and take the first step toward building wealth through business acquisitions.

7-Step Business Buying Framework

This week on TrendsTalk, Taylor St. Germain from ITR Economics explains the concept of “profitless prosperity”, a future where businesses see revenue growth but shrinking profit margins due to rising costs. While economic growth is expected through 2028, inflation and cost pressures may limit profitability.

How can your business avoid this trap? Taylor outlines strategies for balancing pricing power with productivity and efficiency, and why developing a three-year plan is critical for protecting margins in an inflationary environment.

Profitless Prosperity: Revenue Growth, Margin Pressure

In this talk, Dr. Claude B. Kershner IV explores the hidden dangers of the commodity trap—a cycle that forces entrepreneurs to compete on price, crushes margins, and keeps small businesses from growing. Drawing on the research of Dr. Michael Morris and real-world examples, this session breaks down each element of the trap—no differentiation, low entry barriers, high unit costs, limited capacity, intense competition, labor intensity, and low bargaining power—and shows how they reinforce one another. The discussion then turns to practical solutions: how to create meaningful and sustainable differentiation at the core product, tangible product, augmented product, and communicated product levels. With stories of companies like Enterprise Rent-A-Car, copier firms, bowling alleys, and community entrepreneurs, listeners will learn why competing on price is a dead end and how to become, in Jerry Garcia’s words, “the only ones who do what you do.”

Breaking Out of the Commodity Trap

This week on TrendsTalk, Taylor St. Germain reviews the latest data showing manufacturing’s growth rate accelerating after a tough 2024. While some sectors like heavy-duty trucks, medical equipment, and light vehicle production remain under pressure, the outlook points to recovery in 2025 and broad-based growth by 2026. Will your business be ready to keep up with the pace of expansion?

Positive Manufacturing Outlook for 2026

Discover why 2025 is the ultimate year to launch your online consulting business. In this episode of The Conbun Show, we break down industry shifts, digital adoption, and key strategies that make this the right moment to start your journey. Learn practical tips to stand out, attract clients, and build a profitable consulting brand.

👉 Perfect for aspiring consultants, entrepreneurs, and business professionals ready to take action in 2025.

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Several years ago, it would’ve been difficult to write too much about the strategy of responding to an RFP, i.e., a request for proposal, for physician services. Today, however, with an extreme shortage of physicians, RFPs are not so much a thing.

The Anti-RFP:  Forward and Reverse Auctions for Physician Services

This week on TrendsTalk, Taylor St. Germain from ITR Economics unpacks the latest leading indicators for the US Industrial Economy. While growth is still on the horizon for 2026, several key indicators are moving sideways, signaling a milder rise than previous recovery cycles. What does this mean for capacity planning and business strategy? Tune in to learn why understanding not just the direction but also the amplitude of growth is critical for accurate forecasting and planning.

Mild Industrial Growth Ahead with Sideways Indicators

CEO of KLN Charlie Nelson and Co-founder of Finley’s Kyle Gallus answer the question, "How can mergers and acquisitions happen without a company losing its brand mission and purpose?"

Ethical M&A with Charlie Nelson of KLN and Kyle Gallus of Finley's

This week on TrendsTalk, Taylor St. Germain from ITR Economics breaks down the current labor market conditions and what they mean for your business strategy. With just over one unemployed person per job opening, there’s slight slack in the market, but not for long.

Find out why the next 6 to 9 months may be your best window for hiring before tightening conditions and wage pressures hit hard. Taylor also covers workforce demographics, rising labor costs, and how AI and automation can help offset the people problem.

Slight Slack in the Labor Market Before Tightening Returns

Contracts in healthcare are built like block towers—each deal-point matters. Remove the wrong one, and the entire structure may collapse.

Do You Know What Block Can’t be Pulled From the Deal?

The pet food industry is a constantly evolving landscape of trends and consumer needs. Join Petfood Industry magazine Editor Lindsay Beaton every other Wednesday as she interviews industry experts and covers hot topics affecting the world of pet food. If pet food is your thing and you want to know what’s trending, tune in!
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