The Deal Board podcast is a place for small business owners and entrepreneurs to learn the best way sell a business or buy a business. Business Exit Experts, Andy Cagnetta and Jessica Fialkovich, lead discussions with expert business brokers, M&A professionals, and entrepreneurs that have sold a business or bought a business. Whether you are looking to learn how to sell a business, information on business valuation, or how to buy a business – The Deal Board gives you the behind the scenes of the entire mergers and acquisitions world.
The Deal Board
Getting Ready to Sell
As a business owner, you may wonder what you should do to prepare your business for sale. In this episode, Andrew and Jessica bring three amazing guests who are experts in closing deals, such as Michael Shea, Mitra Sanai, and Jim Tatem; they are displaying the tools and advice you need to increase t...
Read moreBuying a Business
Andrew and Jessica will lay out all the details about buying a business. The process of acquiring a business can bring a lot of frustration since the market is currently dominated by sellers. The advice from the experts in this episode will help set you apart as a buyer competing for deals in the ma...
Read moreHow to Fix & Flip a Business
You have heard of fix and flippers for homes, but what about businesses? Join Andy & Jessica as they explore the ‘fix and flip’ market for small business sales. Three experts join the show to share their insights and strategies into this growing market opportunity.
Benefits of Seller Financing
Andrew and Jessica dive deep into seller financing, which is a loan given by the seller who acts like a bank and is a crucial component in buying a business, to the extent that almost every deal relies on it. Banks, on the other side, want to see the seller invested in the buyers’ success, believi...
Read moreMarketing and Social Media Strategies
Andrew and Jessica, along with two amazing guests, Kerry Cole, Executive director of Becca Cosmetics, and Corey Saban, founder of Videobolt.com, are presenting inexpensive and even no-cost strategies to grow your following in social media and make your business grow and even increase its value. Soci...
Read moreHow World Events Affect Small Business Owners
Andy and Jessica inspired on the latest US government shut down for 34 days decided to dive into the topic of how this large economics events affect business owners. Nowadays the world is all interconnected, through banking, currency exchanges and trade; the internet had brought all the nations toge...
Read moreImmigrating to the U.S.A.
Andrew and Jessica are diving into the topic of immigrant investors in the U.S. They bring the experts to enter into the specific traits of each visa designed for this purpose, the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, the L1 Visa and the most popular E2 visa. This is a great episode for sellers to educa...
Read moreEverything is Bigger in Texas
Texas has always been great for business, but in the last ten years large companies and small business have continued to grow with a net migration of 1.4 million people moving to this amazing state. If Texas would be a stand-alone country it would be the tenth-largest economy in the world. Texas has...
Read moreInternational Markets
In this episode, Andrew and Jessica went around the world and interviewed some of Transworld Business Advisors’ master franchisees from Australia, the UK, South Africa, and France and found some great opportunities for international buyers to educate themselves and find out what is going on on the...
Read moreMergers and Acquisitions
Andrew and Jessica are welcoming expert guests today to talk about M&A deals and their particular features. If your business has reached a million dollars in earnings, you have the chance to be noticed by larger companies. The buyers in the M&A market are very well represented, and building ...
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