For electrical contractors

You'd never close a panel without testing it. Don't take a buyer's call without testing your company first.

Buyers with investor money behind them are picking up electrical contractors one market at a time. If you have good foremen, steady service work, and a backlog, you are on their radar. The free Map tests your company the way a buyer would, in 10 plain questions, whether you ever sell or not.

Free. 10 questions, about 10 minutes. No sales call, ever.

They are buying electrical shops and wiring them together.

One investor buys a strong electrical contractor. Then it adds the shop in the next town, and the one after that, and runs them all as one bigger company. They hire people to find owners like you and make the call. If you run a well-known shop with steady work, your name is already on a list. The only question is whether you test out clean when they look.

The free check

In about 10 minutes, you'll see

Where you stand

The Map asks 10 plain questions and puts your company on one of five stages: run, release, prove, attract, command. It shows how far the business can stand on its own without you.

Your weakest spot

The one place a buyer would test first. Maybe the license the company works under is yours alone. Maybe you still price every big bid yourself. Maybe your numbers were kept for taxes, not for a buyer.

What to do next

The part of the book Buyer-Ready that fits your stage. Then, if you want the tools, the Buyer-Ready Kit ($297) to work it through at your own kitchen table, with a Trade Pack written for your trade.

A composite, built from real deals

Gene is a composite from the book Buyer-Ready, built from real owners, with the figures rounded and blended. He ran a mechanical services company in the Northeast. A buyer called him on a Tuesday in March. Six weeks later, over dinner, the number was fourteen million dollars. He shook on it.

Then the buyer's accountants rebuilt his profit from the bank statements up. Their number came in about $410,000 lower than his books. The personal costs he ran through the company were never written down, so most of them counted for nothing. After that and the other cuts, the cash at the wire was $9.8 million.

Electrical contractors are open to the same test. The truck a family member drives. The job you priced low to keep a general contractor happy. The change orders that never got signed. You know what each one was. A buyer only knows what is on paper.