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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Codie Sanchez Explains Buying Businesses to Stack Twelve Income Streams
- Sanchez says buying businesses beats starting them because acquisitions skip the build-from-zero phase and bring cash flow from day one, citing high startup failure rates.
- She walks through a laundromat case study in which stacking acquisitions such as vending machines, a competitor, a delivery fleet, a soap brand and the real estate created seven income streams from one business.
- She explains seller financing as a win-win in which owners get a higher price, interest income, tax advantages and a faster sale, and she also names SBA loans and investor money as ways to fund deals.
- She frames the coming transfer of small businesses from baby boomers and the risk of corporate consolidation as a chance for ordinary people to become owners.
- She closes with a call to become owners who share equity with others, tying ownership to freedom and to pushing back against the status quo.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasAcquisitions can add income streams without adding customers
In her laundromat example, Sanchez layered vending machines, a competitor, extra machines, a delivery fleet, a soap brand and the real estate onto one business, growing income through acquisition rather than new customer acquisition.
Decentralized income makes a business harder to kill
Sanchez says her business in Argentina became illegal after a regulatory change and she was a one-trick pony, so she now wants multiple income sources that no single actor can shut down.
Seller financing can benefit both buyer and seller
She argues owners can get a higher headline price, interest payments, more flexible tax treatment and a much faster close than the roughly 120 days a bank loan takes.
You don't need a pile of cash to buy a business
Sanchez says you can bring money, experience or sweat, and she names the SBA, seller financing and investor money as funding routes, noting her community has bought $266 million in businesses.
Boring, stale, simple businesses are the target
Her SOWS method favors businesses that are stale, old, weak in competition and simple, in recession-resistant sectors, where owners can raise prices and add technology.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesA nation of owners is impossible to contain because you can't tell unemployable owners what to do.
— Codie Sanchez
the truth those guys know is that it's actually far easier to buy profits than it is to grow them.
— Codie Sanchez
I am here to protect our ability to persevere. I'm here to make sure we survive.
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when everybody else gets weak and soft, that means that those of us that like a little pain are gonna have way more profit.
— Codie Sanchez
I want your business to become really hard to kill.
— Codie Sanchez
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Codie Sanchez
hostInvestor and entrepreneur; host of BigDeal by Codie Sanchez, focused on buying and building cash-flowing small businesses.
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