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Welcome to another insightful two-part interview with business-buying expert, Art Hamel. In these audios, Art concentrates on how you can buy a business with investor money. This isn’t something that he just thought up. All of the content you are about to hear is based on Art’s actual experience for over twenty-five years.

You’ll hear questions and Answers from my students about buying businesses.

When you buy a business using investor money, there are some great advantages. First of all, you pay for your business entirely by cash! That gives you an advantage over other buyers. The other important aspect is that most investors don’t expect you to pay them some kind of a return every month or quarter. They will ride with you for five years or more until they expect their return. That means that you get to use all of that investor money for the entire investment term!

You will also hear Art’s opinions on business brokers and how to know a good one, how to value a business, buying businesses which fit into a consumer buying cycle such as businesses that fit well with baby boomers, how to protect yourself from overpaying for a business, and much, much more!

Near the end of this Q & A session you’ll hear Art’s anecdotes about how he got into the seminar business in the early 1970’s, how he started teaching marketing and business buying sessions that were both IRS and IBM approved, and how his one-hour infomercial on a shopping network made him such a recognized personality wherever he went.

BONUS! I have added an audio clip on how you can qualify to work with Art to buy a business with investor financing. Art has about fifty years of business experience and more than twenty-five years of business-buying and seminar experience. His track record is so great that people (buyers, sellers and investors) listen to him!

Art can help to make sure that your homework is done. He can insure that everything is in place and that all of the paperwork is completed to a status of excellence. He can insure that you have a “million dollar” business plan to present – one that will leave no stone unturned for any investor.

He discusses how his fee structure works and what investors really want out of the deal. He tells you what he requires from you to develop the business plan, what types of businesses that investors like to invest in, and those types of business that they don’t like to invest in.

In short, working with Art Hamel personally to buy your business takes the guesswork out of what you need and what needs to be done. With his track record of success, you are almost guaranteed success.

For more information, go to http://www.hardtofindseminars.com.

Arthur B. Hamel has bought over 200 businesses in the past 50 years, and is a well-known author, consultant, investor, business owner, and dynamic lecturer who has shared the stage with such business greats as Robert Allen of “No Money Down” fame. For the past 20 years Art has taught thousands of people around the world — even so-called “little guys” with no formal education or money — how to quickly and easily buy large, multi-million dollar businesses with no credit, banks or prior business experience. He has recently decided to share his unique business-buying secrets and tactics free of charge at: http://arthurhamel.com

If you’re looking for a resource that can both finance and assist you with a business you buy then this interview is for you!

Listen as I talk with Christine Kaine, the founder of Business Angels, Pty Ltd in Melbourne Australia, about Business Anglels or “Angel Investors”.

Angel Investors are people looking for businesses they can both invest their money in AND help successfully run. And Christine’s company acts as a sort of business “dating service” — setting up Angel Investors with people who need financing.

Some of the little-known secrets contained in this exciting interview include:

√  How to get all the money you need for your business without paying a penny in interest or even having to pay it back!

√  When it can actually be more profitable to buy only 50% of a business — instead of buying it outright.

√  Why it’s so easy to get investor money for your business now than at any other time in history.

√  The dirty little secrets of venture capitalist financing…and why you should avoid it like the plague!

√  Why getting government or SBA financing can actually hurt your business.

√  And more!

This short, fascinating interview is sure to open your mind to a whole new way of doing business!
For more information, go to http://www.hardtofindseminars.com/Art_Hamel_Interview.htm.

Arthur B. Hamel has bought over 200 businesses in the past 50 years, and is a well-known author, consultant, investor, business owner, and dynamic lecturer who has shared the stage with such business greats as Robert Allen of “No Money Down” fame. For the past 20 years Art has taught thousands of people around the world — even so-called “little guys” with no formal education or money — how to quickly and easily buy large, multi-million dollar businesses with no credit, banks or prior business experience. He has recently decided to share his unique business-buying secrets and tactics free of charge at: http://arthurhamel.com

After revealing my last interview with Vanish Patel to my joint venture magic buyers, I received an overwhelming response to hear more interviews with Vanish. Yes, it had been three years since we last chatted and we both thought that it was time to catch up on what we’ve been doing over the past three years. This audio is packed with some great content about joint ventures, investing, and some innovative marketing ideas using current technology.

In this recording, Vanish gives us brief history of his education and how he lived in the US for several years before returning to the UK. Vanish gives some sage advice about applying systems that you’ve learned to your own environment and that everything is based on your own personality and experiences. The bottom line is that you need to find out what will work for you when dealing with a prospective client. This applies to both the US and the UK. The evaluation of ideas and researching those ideas for their potential is the same on both sides of “The Pond.”

Vanish explains that the differences between selling to an American versus selling to an Englishman become apparent with the need of sometimes translating business terms.

We next talk about Angel Investing and the interviews about Angel Investing that are available on my web site. Vanish is actually very familiar with the UK-based corporation that I talked to. It’s an educational interview that you should listen to if you haven’t done so already.

Vanish tells of his recent experiences investing in new businesses with a lot of potential to help them grow and prepare them for being on the stock market. You’ll enjoy his success story of a small company that he invested a few years ago that is doing quite well and growing by leaps and bounds.

With success there is almost always a failure. Vanish tells how he became involved with a gentleman who was creating a free distribution real estate directory where other types of home-related business could also advertise. It sounded like a great plan, but this was basically a one-man operation. Because there was no team, this business could only be successful in one local geographic area and could not be take on the whole UK. Vanish advises that your investment should be made in a business that has a team.

Also, look for limiting factors that a business may have and not realize at first. Vanish gives the example of a pizza restaurant that sends out thousands of leaflets in a city only to find that people won’t travel for more than fifteen minutes to get a pizza! This really narrows the restaurant’s ability to significantly grow. Look at the marketing consulting business as another example. A limiting factor here is that there are only so many hours in the day for you to do your own marketing as well as work with your clients.

Learn how Angel Investing can be to find a local business investing club. With business investing clubs, you join and the club finds the best investment opportunities that will be presented to club members.

Learn what businesses to avoid like the plague and why. Learn what makes a business ripe for buying.

Pay close attention to the last part of the interview where Vanish talks about his new practice of text messaging.

I hope that you find this interview with Vanish as educational and enjoyable as I did. Let’s hope that he and I don’t wait another three years to talk again.

For more information, go to http://www.hardtofindseminars.com/Joint-Venture-Magic.htm.