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Your professional network
contains people who want
to exit their business.
Right now. A business broker earns $15,000–$300,000 per transaction facilitating those exits — using relationships they already have. Most first deals come from someone the broker knew before they started.
See what your specific background is worth. Takes 60 seconds.
commission
per transaction
per year
15–35 hrs/week
You built something
most people can't buy.
After 10–20 years in your field, you have something most people spend their entire career trying to acquire: a network of business owners who trust you.
Operators, founders, and directors who have confided in you about their stress, their succession problem, their desire to step back. That trust is worth significantly more than your current income reflects.
Your current role caps your earnings at a salary or commission tied to someone else's product, territory, or fee structure. The conversations you are already having — about exits, transitions, "what do I do next" — are generating zero income for you. Despite being the exact conversations a business broker earns $15,000–$300,000 to facilitate.
What most trusted advisers earn from an owner exit conversation they already had. You gave the advice. You got nothing.
Story 01 below: one conversation with a gym owner who said "I'm exhausted" produced a $28,000 commission in 10 weeks. The broker already knew the owner.
A signed engagement letter. The gap between being consulted and being paid is one signed document and a structured process. Both are teachable in weeks, not years.
In plain language.
Not a franchise. Not cold calling strangers. Not selling anything. You facilitate the single largest financial transaction in a business owner's life — their exit — using relationships they already trust.
A business owner in your network decides they want to exit.
You are the person they call — because you are already in their world and they trust you with a conversation about money. No cold outreach. No prospecting strangers. The seller is already in your contact list.
You manage valuation, packaging, buyers, and the close.
Every tool, template, script, and model is pre-built. You apply a structured process — not create one from scratch. Valuation model. Engagement letter. Buyer outreach. Due diligence checklist. All pre-configured.
When the deal closes, you earn 8–12% of the sale price.
On a $500,000 business: $40,000–$60,000. On a $1.5M business: $120,000–$180,000. Per transaction. No salary cap. No territory fee. No royalty deducted from your commission.
Not what you
need to build.
The unfair advantage in business brokerage is not a sales licence or a financial qualification. It is domain credibility and an existing network in your sector. Here is how that maps to four professional backgrounds.
You spent 15–20 years inside an industry. Your network is full of owners in that sector who already trust your judgment about business.
You can sit with a 58-year-old manufacturing owner and discuss his business in the language he uses — because you came from the same world. That is the unfair advantage no cold-calling broker will ever have in your niche.
"I don't need to explain what EBITDA is. I came from this industry. The trust was already there."
You already close complex, multi-month deals at high ticket sizes. The skill set for business brokerage is identical — the deal is just larger.
You understand commission income, pipeline management, and how to run a six-month relationship to a close. The difference: the commission is entirely yours, and no employer controls your territory or your percentage.
"Ten years closing enterprise software deals. The process is exactly the same. The commission cheque is not."
Your clients already ask "what is my business worth?" and "when should I sell?" You are the most trusted person in the room.
The hardest part of brokerage — being trusted about money — is already solved. The gap between where you are now and being paid to facilitate that exit is a signed engagement letter and a structured process.
"A client asked me the exit question for the third time. I realised I could either refer him somewhere or get paid myself."
You are already the person owners call when they want to do something quietly. The relationships exist. The credibility exists.
You are already inside the exit conversation. The gap between being consulted and being paid is a signed engagement letter. The system gives you the infrastructure — valuation model, buyer network, legal templates — to monetise your advisory role.
"I was the person they called. I just was not the person they paid. That changed."
It is a
demographic fact.
An estimated 12 million Baby Boomer business owners will exit their businesses over the next decade. The majority have no succession plan, no buyer identified, and no adviser helping them navigate the process.
The supply of motivated sellers is structurally guaranteed by demographics — not by market conditions or economic cycles.
Simultaneously, the intermediary market is undersupplied. There are not enough qualified business brokers to handle the volume of exits that are coming. Professionals who enter this space now, with existing networks in aging industries, are positioned at the front of a decade-long supply problem.
In business assets expected to change hands over the next 10 years as Boomer owners exit. The pipeline of motivated sellers is not created by advertising — it is created by biology.
Source: Exit Planning Institute — 2023 State of Owner Readiness Survey
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We use this to calibrate the type of businesses in your professional network — and what buyers typically pay for them.
Think: former colleagues who now own businesses, clients, suppliers, people in your professional circle. Not strangers — people who already know you.
This determines the size of deals you are most likely to access first — and directly sets the commission range in your estimate.
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Based on your network and deal size profile. This assumes 1–2 transactions from your existing relationships — typical for a first-year broker with your background.
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Read the full deal breakdown behind Story 01. A commercial property agent. $28,000 commission in 10 weeks. A relationship she already had. The full mechanics are on the programme page.
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