Information on Buying and Selling A Business

I’m Richard Parker, author of How To Buy A Good Business At A Great Price. I apologize if what I have to say sounds arrogant, but the truth is that it makes absolutely zero difference to my financial situation whether or not you decide to follow our program.

I have been very lucky from the ten businesses I have bought and sold and so my motive for running this company is not financially driven. In fact, I still can't believe that it is so successful. My goal when I launched this business was to simply put all my years of experience buying businesses onto paper.

The night before our website first launched on April 23, 2001, my wife Sarah asked me "how many guides do you think you will sell?" I told her: "If I sell just one, and help that one person either buy a good business or avoid buying the wrong one, it will have been worth all the effort I put into writing the guide."

Had you told me then that seven years later we would help over 20,000 people in 80 plus countries buy businesses, I would have confidently bet you my children's college fund against it. Sarah still reminds me of this story and we are both still amazed. (By the way, our materials are updated at least once a year.)

The reason why I am sharing this background is to demonstrate a simple lesson: when your agenda is strictly to help people, to tell them, not sell them, you can't help but be successful. Whatever business you get into, adopt this philosophy.

I do what I do because I love the business of buying businesses and I get enormous gratification from teaching people to do what I have done and by helping them improve their lives. That's the beauty of being finacially free - you can do what you want without any ulterior motives.

It's Good To Be Exited and It's Good To Be Scared...

The thought of buying your own business can be both exciting and scary. I am sure you will agree it is especially the case in today’s economy. Actually, being both scared and excited are good things – the excitement will keep you motivated, and the worry will force you to go about this logically.

It would be easy for me to claim that you’re going to know as much about all of the intricacies of buying businesses as I do simply by reading our program; but that would be misleading. I’ve been at this game for nearly twenty years, and I still learn something new with every deal.

But, there are a few things that I can definitely promise you....

By simply following the step-by-step information that’s laid out in the program, you will come across as an expert and highly qualified buyer to every business broker, seller and banker. This is a huge advantage.
You will have the know-how to properly value any business and put together creative deal structures.
You will be perfectly clear about what business type is right for you and you will also have all the knowledge you’ll need to negotiate a purchase price and terms that weigh completely in your favor.

You will know exactly how to arrange financing, and you will understand precisely how to conduct the due diligence and uncover the real truth about any business.

Plus, for any situations where you need some help, you will receive unlimited free consulting.

What Our Material Will Not Teach You:

I have no allegiance to buying a business in any specific industry. Your skills must be perfectly matched to the business. You can always learn about a new product or service, but trying to become an expert in a new skill that the businesses needs to be successful is almost impossible.
I do not make any attempts in this course to teach you how to find a cheap business. You will learn how to buy a good business and there is a huge difference between the two.
This course will do everything we say it will but only you can “Pull the Trigger” and complete the purchase. Industry statistics dictate that over 90% of the people who begin the search to buy a business never do. You will understand why this happens and how to avoid their fate. The good news is that 82% of the people who follow our program and use our ongoing consulting buy a business within six months!
How To Buy A Good Business At A Great Price© will not make you financially secure. No guides, CDs, seminars, or individuals can do that for you. Anyone or any website that claims they can, is full of it. However, when you learn how to buy a good business, and you are committed to working on it, you will make money and you are going to really enjoy your work.
My strategies are sometimes unconventional and may conflict with more traditional approaches. The reason for this is simple: they work! Addressing issues from a different perspective will, more often than not, yield better results. If you are open-minded to learning new things, you are going to succeed.

Our Program May Not Be For You

I am also realistic enough to know that not everybody follows through with their plans. Some people want the easy way out, they are simply not willing to ever invest any time to learn how to do something they’ve never done before, regardless of what’s at stake. Those are not the people who follow our program.

So how do you know whether our program and consulting will help you? The only way to find out is to review our materials, test our proven strategies, use our consulting services, and then decide. If our information and support is everything we claim it to be, you’ll soon be the owner of the right business and you will thank the day you landed on our website. If you do not believe that the material is worth infinitely more than you paid, or it does not exceed your expectations in every way, then we will refund your entire purchase price immediately. No questions asked.

I certainly understand you giving a lot of thought before spending your money for our materials. On the other hand, you must admit that the cost of the program is negligible compared to what the potential upside is for you, and for that matter, what the consequences are going to be if you buy the wrong business. I lived through both experiences myself.

Take as long as you want to put this knowledge to work for you. There are no time limits or conditions to our guarantee. By the way, our return rate is less than one-half of one percent.

Of the ten businesses I have owned, this one is by far the greatest. The gratification I get from our customer feedback is just phenomenal. Helping people and making a difference in their lives is really empowering. Make sure you take a few moments to read some of their wonderful stories.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at anytime.

I look forward to working with you.

To YOUR Success!

Richard Parker
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Diomo Corporation - The Business Buyer Resource Center - began in 1990. From humble beginnings, Diomo built its revenue base from zero sales to over $30 million by purchasing several existing businesses and adding them to the Diomo group.

As the company's success in buying small businesses grew, it began to offer buyer advisory services. What began as a sideline grew to enormous proportions and far beyond its expectations.

Diomo's head office has been located in South Florida since 1996 under Florida Corporation # P96000099725. The company began in Canada, with incorporation under The Canada Business Corporation Act by Articles of Incorporation, dated January 11, 1990, corporation number 00256331-2.

With the advent of the Internet, the company consolidated its small business-buying consultation business and compiled all of its years of experience and hundreds of small business acquisitions into a home study course allowing its distribution to reach people around the world. Currently, Diomo's products are being used in over 80 countries!

The company's success is due solely to the effectiveness of its products. Richard Parker, the company's founder, has always believed any business should only offer products that are of such superior quality that anyone who buys them should have the ability to get all of their money back at any time if they're not completely satisfied.

If these programs did not meet the customer's expectations or if the results achieved were anything less than phenomenal, Diomo would not have been able to survive, let alone thrive, for over a decade.

The company's mission is very clear:

"To educate potential business buyers about the entire buying process and through our proven techniques to equip them with the skills and tools they'll need to find and buy the right business and negotiate a great price. We stand behind our products with an unconditional guarantee and provide expert advice and flawless after sales support to those who follow our system in order to help them fulfill their dreams of business ownership."

There are three steps that make up the foundation of the Diomo programs:

Step 1: Teach people what they need to know
Step 2: Explain what to do
Step 3: Demonstrate through examples exactly how to do it

Business buyers are an interesting group. All are eager to be in their own business but most do not realize or anticipate the challenges that they will face. Diomo has always believed that its job is to "open their eyes" to the process and provide them with a proven systematic approach so that they will understand what to do at each stage of this fascinating, yet difficult, process.

Diomo's programs are geared specifically to those individuals who do not have the benefit of numerous or any previous business purchases. Therefore, they start out lacking the foundation on which to draw upon past experience. Through its step-by-step, easy-to-follow systems, Diomo's clients understand the approach that they should be taking, they gain clarity of the issues they will be facing, they equip themselves with all of the skills that are necessary and coupled with our ongoing consulting, they are able to make the right key decisions along the way.