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SMB Deal HunterCurated deals in your inbox each week.Big Deal Small BusinessAn operator's essays on buying and running.Chenmark Weekly ThoughtsWeekly essays from a holding company's founders.EBIT CommunityWeekly deal-flow digests and searcher content.The Business InquirerA weekly roundup of small-business M&A.They Got AcquiredCoverage of online-business exits.
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| Big Deal Small Business | FreeFree in full; no paid tier is offered (bigdealsmallbusiness.substack.com, July 2026). | Hearing what ownership actually feels like years after close, from a self-funded buyer still running the company |
| Chenmark Weekly Thoughts | FreeFree; subscribe on the site, full archive open. | A weekly dose of what the holdco path actually feels like, from people a decade in, without a course or community attached |
| EBIT Community | FreemiumPublished now, where it was not: the Pro tier lists at $49 a month against $39 on the page's own offer, or $399 a year, with a free tier beside it and a thirty-day money-back guarantee. It screens to US businesses at $250,000 or more of annual cash flow. | Self-funded searchers who want a steady feed of curated listings in the $1M to $5M range alongside practical financing content, without paying for a platform |
| SMB Deal Hunter | FreemiumNewsletter is free. SMB Deal Hunter+ (vendor upgrade page at app.smbdealhunter.xyz/upgrade): $99/month, or $990/year ("$82.50 / month (billed annually)", "Save $198 per year! Cancel anytime."); annual plan adds one personalized deal review by Helen Guo per quarter (claimed "$2000 value"). Caveat: that upgrade page carries a 2023 footer and may be a legacy offer. Pro program (pro.smbdealhunter.xyz): pricing not published, revealed only via an on-page video and a qualification call; page restricts it to first-time buyers with $50K+ liquid capital and promises to keep working 1:1 for free if you don't acquire in 6–12 months. A separate PRO tier is gated behind a booked call and publishes no price at all: its stated conditions are a first-time buyer with at least $50,000 of liquid capital, ready to start inside thirty days. | First-time self-funded buyers early in their search who want a free, high-volume stream of pre-screened $500k–$5M listings to calibrate their buy box and learn deal-screening patterns. Not for searchers who need exclusive or proprietary deal flow: every listing goes out to a claimed 200,000+ subscribers. |
| The Business Inquirer | FreeFree edition weekly; no paid tier is posted (thebusinessinquirer.substack.com, July 2026). | Staying current on the SMB acquisition conversation in ten minutes a week without living on forums |
| They Got Acquired | FreemiumThe Exit Playbook publishes its price now, on its own subdomain: $999 for twelve self-paced lessons with about six hours of instruction and templates, or $1,299 with an hour of one-to-one strategy. The course names sellers planning to exit between $500,000 and $50 million. The editorial side stays free. | Calibrating how sub-$50M online businesses actually sell: who buys them, at what rough terms, and why, from the seller's side of the table |
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