Would You Buy This $600K Traffic Safety Business?

Bill D'Alessandro (0:00)

Hello everyone, welcome back to Acquisitions Anonymous. This is the internet's number one podcast on buying, selling and operating small businesses. And this is a cool episode because just this morning, we crossed two and a half million downloads for Acquisitions Anonymous. So we're celebrating that today on the app. Thank you to all of you who have joined and listened over the past several years and made this podcast such a success. Today we have a cool deal. It is a manufacturer of traffic safety systems. So think those flashing signs that say pedestrians are present, school zone, slow down, you're driving too fast, etc. They sell entirely through government contracts. There are some interesting wrinkles that come with that. We talk about that on the pod, about how you would have to transact this business. It narrows who the right buyer is.

But we talked a little bit about gotchas when you're buying businesses that sell into governments. But it is a really cool business and we concluded that if we met the Venn diagram of possible buyers, we would be interested.

This is a cool one. Thank you for listening. Please enjoy this episode of Acquisitions Anonymous.

Mills Snell (1:01)

Welcome to Acquisitions Anonymous.

Bill D'Alessandro (1:05)

Hello, another episode of Acquisitions Anonymous.

Heather Endresen (1:07)

We don't have 100 percent beers anymore.

Michael Girdley (1:09)

Thumbs downing on just the plus inventory.

Bill D'Alessandro (1:14)

Hey everyone, it's Bill. I want to talk to you about Quiet Light Brokerage. I was so psyched when Quiet Light agreed to sponsor the podcast because I am a customer. I have used Quiet Light to sell three businesses. If I were selling an e-commerce or a SaaS business, I really would not consider anyone else. Like I said, I went back to them three times. I work with three different brokers at Quiet Light, had a great experience all three times. Even on one occasion, they found a buyer for a business that I just didn't know it was even going to be possible to sell. They have pulled rabbits out of their hat several times for me.

They've been in the e-commerce and SaaS business brokering game a very, very long time. They really know what they're doing. They have great reach with both buyers and sellers. The other thing I really love about Quiet Light is all the brokers there are former operators. You can't just show up and go, hey, I'm a lifetime business broker. I want to work at Quiet Light. You have to be a former operator. They all know what it's like to be in the operator chair. If you go to quietlight.com, they have free business valuation calls, which they'll do with you, no obligation. Just tell you what they think about your business, what they think it would be worth, and then what you might need to do to get it ready for market. Those guys over there are great, great SOPs, great systems. I just felt like I was really in really good hands all three times with Quiet Light. So if you're interested in selling your business, especially in e-commerce or SaaS, hop on over to quietlight.com, fill out their onboarding form for a free valuation call, and you can tell them Bill or Acquisitions Anonymous sent you. Friday Acquisitions Anonymous, and today is a special one. I'm going to toot our own horn a little bit. We just got the email literally five minutes before we hopped on record that Acquisitions Anonymous has crossed 2.5 million downloads. So this podcast has been listened to 2.5 million times, which is absolutely wild to me.

So Mills and Heather, thank you for doing it with me. Nick, thank you for sponsoring the pod, for being a friend of the pod. And Girdley's not here to celebrate with us, but also thank you to you, our listeners. I know there's not 2.5 million of you, but some of you probably, thanks to my mom, there's probably a million of those downloads. And everybody else who's listened to the pod, we appreciate you. Thanks for being with us for a couple of years, several years in 2.5 million downloads of AA. It's been pretty cool. Here's to the next 2.5.

And I think the best way to celebrate is by recording another deal. Just keep on doing what we're doing, put one foot in front of another.

We've also got Nick Akers with us today. Nick, thanks for being with us, man. I love it when we have another operator on the pod to review a deal. Can you tell people just a little bit about your background, why you're thinking about small business deals all the time?

Nick Akers (3:55)