Buy Box Builder
The Buy Box on Its Own
Your criteria as a single paragraph, for the places that will not take a one-page profile: a marketplace alert, a broker's intake form, the first line of an email. The longer version a broker reads is the Buyer Profile Builder.
MY BUY BOX Not stated yet. Name an industry or a geography before sending this. A box open to everything asks the broker to guess what you want.
Test a Listing Against This Box
Inside the box on what is known; still to learn: industry, geography, earnings, price, dealbreakers.
- Industry: unknown. The box names no industries yet.
- Geography: unknown. The box names no geography yet.
- Earnings: unknown. The listing gives no SDE.
- Price: unknown. The listing gives no asking price.
- Dealbreakers: unknown. The box lists no dealbreakers yet.
Where to Set the Alerts
- BizBuySell
The volume board, with saved-search alerts free to buyers.
- Kumo
Aggregates the marketplaces, so one alert covers many boards.
- BizNexus
Vetted broker listings and pre-CIM teasers, behind a membership you apply for.
- Rejigg
Owners it finds before they list anywhere, with broker listings beside them.
- SMB Deal Hunter
Pre-screened deals arriving by email, no setup beyond subscribing.
Once the box reads the way you want it, check whether it has anything in it: Deal Box Depth counts the buyable businesses inside a set of trades and states, says how many change hands a year, and says what widening it would add.