Featuring the Gap Table (Forbes) and the Misalignment Tax (Fast Company).
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Free. Five emails. 20 minutes a day.

Buyer-Ready in Five Days.

Most owners get ready the day the phone rings. By then the questions already have answers, and they are the buyer's. This is five short emails, one a day. Each one gives you one idea from the book and one working tool. By the end of the week you have five pages in front of you that most owners never write.
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What you'll do

One tool a day. Five pages by Friday.

  • 1The Buyer FileWrite down every buyer who has called or written in the past three years, and the three questions you'll ask the next one.Day 1
  • 2Two-Column Add-Back ScheduleSort your add-backs into the ones you can prove on paper and the ones that live in your head.Day 2
  • 3Dependency InventoryThe vacation test. List what breaks if you're gone for 90 days, and who could hold each piece.Day 3
  • 4The Gap Table™Write the buyer's memo before he does: three rows, each one a place he'd pay less, and what you'll do about it.Day 4
  • 5The Evidence LockOne page about your business. You sign it and date it, so no buyer can shake your own facts.Day 5
How it works

20 minutes, then stop.

The honest part

Nobody finishes getting ready in five days. Not you, not anyone. This is the start.

But the start is the part most owners never make. Five days from now you'll know which of your add-backs would hold up, what still runs through you, and where a buyer would cut. That is more than most owners know the day the phone rings.

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Want to know where you stand first?

The Map is 10 questions. It shows which stage your business is at, so you know which of the five days will hit hardest.

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The tools in the challenge come from the free set at offmarketmethod.com/book.
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