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🎙️How Marc Bought His First Business at 27 And Grew it by 30% in Year One (With Just One Change)

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Helen Guo
October 31, 2025

Hello SMB Deal Hunters!

📣 Quick Announcement: Starting today our Podcast will go out on a weekly basis on Fridays! And as an added bonus, we will be providing an audio-only feed in all places that you listen to your podcasts starting next week.

You all told us how much you loved learning from other business buyers' stories.

So, we decided to upgrade from a bi-weekly to weekly cadence for our subscribers. For the first release in our Friday series, we wanted to start with one of our greatest hits.

Meet Marc Nzojibwami. His story is a roller coaster. We cover…

💡 How he bought a 40 year old print shop and grew EBITDA by 30% in Year One with just one change.

💡 What it was actually like being 27 and walking into a business where employees had been there 25+ years. (Some even commented that Marc was younger than some of their children)

💡How he and his partners searched for 2 years part-time while working full-time (and how he had tried and failed to build 2 startups before buying the print shop)

And some tidbits we’d keep an eye out for…

  • His exact cold calling script that actually got business owners to talk

  • How Marc ran his due diligence process (and the one thing he wish he did differently)

  • What made ABL Imaging stand out to Marc in a space with traditionally low margins

  • What he's doing differently for acquisition number two

COMMUNITY WINS

For those who missed it, we also did an SMB Deal Hunter Pro alumni interview with Deb last week!

Her story is perfect for those of you who just aren’t sure if they have the skills to buy a business.

She went from zero experience to…

  • Buying three children’s playgrounds cash-flowing $481k / year

  • Only paying 5% down to get them

  • And doing it all in 8 months, start to finish.

And when we asked her what was going through her mind when she first started, she had this to say:

"I worked for the man, thought I'd always work for the man. Me doing consulting work out on my own was as far as I ever really thought that would go."

- Deb

And now she owns a $1.3M business. Well worth a listen!

And if you want me and my team to work with you to find, finance, and acquire a million-dollar cash-flowing business in the next 6-12 months, you might be interested in the Pro program.

COMMUNITY PERKS

• Ready to buy and operate a $1M+ business? Get expert help at every step.

• Want to invest passively in SMB acquisitions? Get access to investment opportunities.

• Get a personal introduction to my preferred SBA 7(a) lender, non-SBA lenders, Quality of Earnings providers, or legal counsel

• Raising capital for your deal? I’ll connect you with investors from the SMB Deal Hunter Community.

• Interested in selling your business? I’ll help you connect with buyers from the SMB Deal Hunter Community.

THAT’S A WRAP

Want me to interview you for my podcast? Hit reply.

See you next week with some new deals!

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