Work through your business-buying decision with Mark
The Smarter Business Buyer system teaches you to investigate a business like a professional investor. When you want an experienced guide working through your actual situation alongside you, you can work with Mark directly — on your search, your shortlist, or the one opportunity in front of you right now.
Everything starts with a 20-Minute Business Buying Insight Session about where you are.
Buying a business may be the largest financial decision you ever make, and most people only do it once. You do not have to face it alone, and you do not have to teach yourself everything from scratch while a real opportunity is moving. Working one-to-one means the discipline of the full system applied directly to your situation, with someone who has done this for twenty-five years sitting beside you.
This is education and coaching on your process and your decisions. Mark guides the investigation and helps you think clearly; you make the decisions, with your own lawyer, accountant, and licensed financial planner. We make you the capable buyer. We never make the decision for you.
For someone stuck on a specific decision, or wanting a second pair of eyes on one opportunity.
A single focused working session on your specific situation. Before we meet, you send through where you are and what you are weighing up. We then work through it live — whether that is an opportunity you are unsure about, how to set your filters, how to think about a valuation, or what you should be investigating next. You leave with clear next steps and the questions to take to your own accountant and lawyer.
Why it’s worth it: The fastest way to get unstuck and sense-check your thinking before you spend money or make an offer — without committing to a longer engagement.
For someone with one real business in front of them right now that they are serious about.
We coach you through one specific opportunity, from first filtering to forming your own evidence-based view of the business. Together we work through the basic filters, the pre-due-diligence investigation, and your own financial models and valuation in the Analyser for that business, and we help you structure the information requests and questions to put to the owner or broker. We guide the process and the thinking; you reach your own conclusions, and any decision that needs a licensed professional goes to your own accountant, lawyer, or financial planner. You come out with one real deal investigated properly — and able to do it yourself next time.
Why it’s worth it: Confidence that a specific, time-sensitive opportunity has been investigated with full discipline before you make your best buying decision — without anyone making that decision for you.
For a serious first-time buyer who wants an expert guide across the entire journey.
Mark coaching you through the whole journey from the very start — defining your buying profile and search criteria — and through searching, filtering, pre-due-diligence, forming your own valuation, making your own offer, due diligence, and settlement. The complete eight-stage system delivered as guided, one-to-one coaching on your live search, with ongoing sessions and support across the whole journey (which often runs many months) and full access to the system and tools throughout. Decisions that need a licensed professional are always referred to your own advisers.
Why it’s worth it: You never face a stage alone or wonder what to do next. You can act decisively when the right business appears, walk away from the wrong ones without regret, and emerge as a confident owner who understands the business intimately — because you investigated it yourself, with an expert beside you. Against a six- or seven-figure purchase, the cost is cheap insurance against buying the wrong business.
Not sure which fits?
Most people start with a 20-Minute Business Buying Insight Session. Tell Mark about your business-buying situation — where you are, what you are weighing up, and what you are hoping to achieve — and he will help you work out whether working together makes sense, and which option fits.
Everything here is education and coaching. The Smarter Business Buyer system produces investigation prompts and helps you think, never buy or do-not-buy verdicts. Decisions that require a licensed professional — legal, accounting, or financial — are always referred to your own advisers. The goal is to make you the expert on your own decision.
Ready to talk it through?
Education, not advice. Smarter Business Buyer is an educational programme, and a one-to-one session with Mark is business-buying education — we work through the system on your own situation so you can make your best buying decision. It is not regulated financial, investment, legal, tax or credit advice, and not a recommendation about any specific business or any borrowing. Any decision about a purchase, how it is structured, or how it is funded should be made with your own lawyer, accountant and licensed financial planner.