August 28, 2026
Hey, Ben here.
You subscribed to this newsletter because you want the same thing most of our readers want: to learn how to buy a cash-flowing business.
If you're like most people who start down that road, you may have discovered something frustrating about buying a business: it costs more than you expected, or the one you really want is just out of reach.
Between the down payment, the working capital, and the personal guarantee on an SBA loan, the buy side of a deal takes real money.
One of our members hit that exact wall. Nine months later, he'd earned over $400,000 brokering businesses instead, and had enough capital to buy a much bigger company than he originally planned.
Daniel Talbott joined Acquisition Ace planning to buy a business with about $100K saved.
His first acquisition fell apart.
He had two choices: keep saving... or find a way to get paid participating in deals.
He chose the second option. He started helping retiring owners sell their businesses and collecting a commission at closing.
The plan was never to stop being a buyer, it was to fund the acquisition faster.
In 9 months he brokered two transactions. Those two closings generated over $400,000 in gross commissions, enough to max out the SBA program and buy a $5M business.
He walked in with $100K and a stalled deal. He walked out fully funded, 4x past his original goal.
Here's why brokering works so well as the bridge 👇
Millions of baby boomer business owners are retiring over the next decade, creating one of the largest ownership transfers in history.
Whether you buy businesses or broker them, you're riding the same wave.
As a broker, you get paid on it while you build your war chest (no loan, no personal guarantee).
Every deal you broker makes you a better buyer. You become a paid apprentice, learning how deals get priced, how sellers think, and what kills deals in due diligence, all on someone else's transaction, before you ever risk your own capital.
By the time you're ready to write your own check, you've got the money, the reps, and first look at every deal in your market.
After seeing how effective this path was, Daniel documented exactly how he found the retiring owners, won the listings, marketed the businesses, and got paid at closing.
We decided to teach that system to a small group.
Don't spend the next five years saving to enter the game, spend the next year getting paid to play it.
If you'd rather get paid learning the deal business instead of waiting to enter it, let's talk:
