A foreword by Jon Davito

In 1931 James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “American Dream” in his book Epic of America. 

He wrote, “The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.”

Adams went on to say, “It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”

Near the mid-century mark of the 1900’s, the American Dream took on a much more materialistic feel than that of Adams’ original definition.  The American Dream of the 1950’s and latter half of the 20th century was to own a home with a white-picket fence, have a car (maybe two), have 2.2 children, a dog, a cat, and a steady job that lasted until retirement.

But what is the American Dream of today?  I believe the American Dream of today is still made up in part of the materialistic definition of the late 20th century which rewarded achievement and prosperity; but also incorporates much of James Truslow Adams original, idealistic postulation of opportunity & higher social order for all regardless of such “fortuitous circumstances” such as birth or position.

The American Dream of today is about opportunity and prosperity.  It contains the principle that all men and women have the inherent and intrinsic right to try and to fail; to pick themselves up and try again.  And the American Dream of today contains the belief that all men and women have the right not only to achieve, but to exceed in any of their chosen endeavors.

So, why am I telling you all of this?  I’m telling you all of this as a prelude to one of the most amazing opportunities you may come across in your lifetime.  I’m telling you this because I believe that what you are about to hear is, without a doubt, one of your best chances to achieve our new definition of the American Dream.

I’m telling you this because there are very few times in one’s life when they are presented with such an opportunity.  And I’m telling you this because I want you to have the ideal of the American Dream at the forefront of your mind when you hear about this opportunity so you can make a clear and informed choice about the path which is being presented to you.

You are about to hear of an offer for occupational freedom and flexibility.  It’s an offer about opportunity and prosperity, an offer for your chance to realize this new American Dream.  So ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, I present to you the American Business Brokers Network: Partnership Program.

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Fire Your Boss Today!

By: Terry Monroe

What would you say if I told you that you could fire your boss today and gain the opportunity to generate a six-figure income over the next 12 months?  I know what you would say; you would say that I’m crazy.  Well I’m here to tell you that I am truly not crazy and yes, you can fire your boss and make a six-figure income.

How can you do this?  You can fire your boss today and receive the opportunity to earn a six-figure income by joining the American Business Brokers Network (ABBN).

The American Business Brokers Network is a group of professional intermediaries and market makers for privately held companies.  And we are looking for people who want to make a difference by helping other people and yet like to make money.

9,500,000 Results

Do me a favor, run a quick Internet search on “become a business broker”.  Go ahead, try it.  I did that recently and one popular search engine returned over 9,500,000 results in 0.23 seconds.  Almost 10 million search results in less that a quarter of a second!  With all that information available on the Internet about business brokers, how can one person possibly sift through all the different companies and select the best opportunity?

Don’t worry; we’ve done the work for you.  We have combed through all the websites and requested all the necessary information to emphatically state that we believe joining the American Business Broker Network offers you the best chance for success when becoming a business broker.

How do we know this?  We surveyed a number of the most common business brokerage companies and training opportunities on the Internet and compared their offer to ours.  The results were astonishing.

For starters, there is not one single business brokerage company or firm out there that will fully disclose the details of their offer up-front.  Most require in depth interview processes or lengthy applications or resumes just so they’ll talk to you.

Not us.  And this is just one reason why ABBN is different.  We don’t believe in secret handshakes or jumping through hoops.  We believe in our system and we believe we can train anyone to follow our principals and become a successful business broker in our network.

We believe in it so much we are wiling to share with you (and anyone else reading this) exactly what we are willing to offer.  This is a major divergence from the “norm” of the industry.  But that’s OK with us because we thrive on doing things in a different manner.  And you can too.

The ABBN Difference

There are several key differences between other business brokerage companies and the American Business Broker Network.  What makes us different?  Well, here are a few examples:

First: our company organization.  Joining the American Business Broker Network is not a franchise opportunity.  And we do not require our business brokers to sign any long term commitments.  We are a network of individual business brokers, united under the American Business Broker brand, who utilize the best technology, tools, and trade practices that the industry has to offer.

Second: our philosophy.  Our objective as an organization is to grow and succeed together as one.  However, we know that organizations are made up of individuals.  And different individuals have different ways of doing things.  It’s this diversity that makes us so strong.  Therefore, we believe that you should control when and how you go about your business.

You decide when you want to work.  You can work from home or have an office, it’s your choice.  You can work alone or grow your organization as large as you like.  We don’t require a dress-code.  Come as you are.  You’re the boss.  There are no industry limitations.  You can be a generalist or you can specialize in a specific area.  Work with large or small businesses.  And finally, you’ll have unlimited selling territory with a protected marketing territory.  We won’t cannibalize your office and put another ABBN broker across the street.

Third: our commitment to technology.  We have made a tremendous effort to advance the use of back-end technology for training, marketing, and listing distribution so our brokers can focus on their front-end tactics…namely the listing and selling of businesses.  Our investment in a solid company backbone is your gain.  We supply the back office so you don’t have to.

Fourth: our commitment to you.  We want to make sure that you succeed.  We will stay in constant contact with you throughout the entire process of listing and selling your businesses for sale.  When you join the American Business Broker Network you’ll have access to our database containing thousands of Buyers and we’ll promote your listings to all of them on your behalf.  You’ll also get all of your Buyer leads delivered directly to you via email instantaneously.  And finally, you will receive a monthly activity report on all your listings so you know exactly what listings may need attention.

An Unprecedented Offer

As I said earlier, scour the Internet for business broker offers and I challenge you to find any company that is willing to lay it all out in plain English.  Not only will we tell you exactly what our offer is, we are confident that you won’t find a better opportunity anywhere else.

When you join the American Business Broker Network, you will receive the following:

• Complete training manuals covering operations, marketing, buyers & sellers, pricing, valuation, closings and all the other facets of what it entails to perform as a business broker.  All available in print or digital format.  You will also have access to online audio and video training sessions
• A personalized website and email address to promote your services and your business listings
• A national website that also promotes you, your services and business opportunities for sale
• Access to all the necessary forms and contracts to complete a business sales transaction you will need as a business broker
• Personalized business cards to promote yourself and your services
• Access to an online proprietary listing service to input and distribute your business listings for sale
• Unparalleled marketing and distribution of your listings
• Open invitation to quarterly live training seminars
• No reporting, no quotas, no minimum sales, and no performance clauses.  In other words, NO BOSS

Oh, and there’s also the money.  I’m sure if you’ve taken the time to read this far you are probably wondering, “How can I make a six-figure annual income.”  Don’t worry; we’ll talk more on that in a minute.  But there was a hidden gem in the list above that I want to expand on for a moment: “Unparalleled marketing and distribution of your listings”

Take Your Listings to the World

There is an old saying that goes, “You need to fish where the fish are.”  We couldn’t agree with that old adage more.  The approach of fishing where the fish are is the motivating factor behind our company building a huge network of corporate owned and third party websites all designed to distribute your listings to Buyers.

First, there are some companies that believe business brokers should have a limit on the number of listings they carry.  We believe our brokers should carry as many listings as they want.  After all, you can’t sell from an empty cart.  The listings are your lifeblood in this game.  Without them, you can’t make a living.

Second, after you sign a listing agreement with a Seller, you will only need to input the listing one time into our proprietary listing system.  After that, we do all the work for you.  The American Business Broker Network is designed to distribute your listings to a minimum of 10 of the most popular business for sale websites exposing your businesses for sale to both national and international Buyers.  And depending on what area or category your business belongs to, your listing may be listed on up to 55 different web sites.

If an individual would attempt to duplicate the system that the American Business Broker Network has built for distributing and marketing business for sale listings; it would cost them in excess of $400 per month just for the 10 businesses for sale website fees alone.  Then there are the additional 55 websites and the countless hours for development and thousands of dollars spent to obtain search engine optimization and placement on the Internet.

So, even if you wanted to duplicate the ABBN system it would cost much more than the initial fee to join ABBN and that would not include the time to implement the system.  Plus the time and money spent to input and maintain the listings.

At ABBN, we want our brokers to do what they do best.  And that is to list and sell businesses.  We don’t want you to sit around and input listing after listing on the Internet.  We want you conversing with Buyers and Sellers and helping them to complete the sale of their businesses.  We want you spending time with customers and clients.  Unless you enjoy computer data entry, researching and studying search engine optimization, dealing with employees and internet marketing we suggest you employ the services and systems created by the American Business Broker Network.

Joining ABBN

To become part of the American Business Broker Network, we require a $4,995 joining fee.  This one-time fee covers all the costs for the manuals, email address, website, forms, training aides, account activations, and business cards; literally everything you need to get started immediately as a business broker.

The American Business Broker Network also charges a monthly maintenance fee of $495.00 for the maintaining of all of the benefits and services mentioned above including the up-keep of your listings, website, and email account.

Finally, the American Business Broker Network will be entitled to 5% of the commissions you receive when you sell a business.  This is only paid when you get paid. In essence we are motivated to help you sell businesses. So, for example, if you receive a $50,000 commission, you will send ABBN 5%, or $2,500.  You keep 95% of what you make!!  That’s absolutely unheard of in this industry in this type of network.

Now, you are probably wondering, “What if I decide I don’t want to pay the $495 a month or 5% fee to ABBN?”  Well, I suppose you really don’t have to.  The $495 a month and 5% commission split are required to stay a member in good standing with the American Business Broker Network, but remember you aren’t contractually bound to stay with us.

You can leave any time you want.  The only obligation you have is to provide the American Business Broker Network with a 30 day written notice of resignation.  We still believe in the value system.  If we are not creating value for you then you should be free to explore other options.  It is the same belief we have with our Buyers and Sellers, and we extend that value system to our brokers.

If you decide you wish to strike out on your own as an independent business broker, you have our blessing.  But we don’t think you will want to.  We believe so much in our system of training, technology, methodologies, marketing, and distribution that we think you will never want to leave the American Business Broker Network.

How Do I Make $100,000 plus?

Ah, the question you’ve been asking all along and the answer you’ve been waiting for.  First, we cannot guarantee anybody will make $100,000.  However, we have now and in the past, many brokers who make over $100,000 annually year after year using our system with many of them doing it in their first year.  And we strongly believe that by following our formula, you can duplicate that success.

You see we know that the American Business Brokers Network system works. We have been using it for years and it has continually provided solid returns for us and our brokers. The only thing we don’t know is if you will work the system?

As a business broker you make money by earning commissions on the successful sale of businesses.  Put quite simply, the more you sell, the more you earn.  The typical business broker will charge anywhere from 6-12% commission on the sale of a business with the industry average being right around 10% or a minimum of $8,000 to $10,000 on the smaller sales.

That means on the sale of a $200,000 business, you could earn up to $20,000 in commission.  And since you get to keep 95% of the commission you bring in, it doesn’t take an advanced mathematics degree to calculate just how fast you can quickly earn over $100,000. Some brokers like to work with small businesses earning the minimum and doing several transactions per year. Other brokers prefer doing fewer transactions, but earn larger commissions on each high-dollar sale. It is truly up to your personal preference.

Oh, by the way, a final sales price of $200,000 is on the low end of the average sale price for a business.  We’ll let you do the figuring from here.

In a Nutshell

So there you have it.  The complete business plan on what it costs to join and become part of the American Business Broker Network.  $4,995 to join, $495 per month to maintain your membership, and 5% of the commission you bring in the door with the right to quit anytime with a 30 day written notice.

We have made it very easy to join the American Business Broker Network; one of the most powerful and fastest growing networks of business brokers today.  But really, the business is all about you.  YOU will determine the failure or success of your business.  Selling businesses is hard work, but very fulfilling and rewarding.

We wish you the best on your journey in life and if you should desire to become part of the American Business Broker Network we look forward to talking with you further.

Yours truly,

Terry H. Monroe, President
American Business Broker Network, Inc.

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P.S. - Over the years, after being involved in literally thousands of business deals you start to get a little cynical and tend to ask yourself, “Is this deal for real? Does this sound to good to be true?”  So to keep things balanced I always ask myself one last question before I enter into a business deal:

“What is my downside and how much can I get hurt if everything goes bad?”

No Risk, Money-Back Guarantee

Earlier I said that we believe in the value system and I meant that.  If we are not providing a value to our Buyers or Sellers or the Broker members of American Business Brokers Network then we should go away.

Therefore we are willing to put our money where our mouth is as they say. If after 30 days of joining American Business Brokers Network you do not think that there is enough value for the $4,995 that you paid to join and be part of American Business Brokers Network, just let us know and we will refund your money with no questions asked. Yes, that is right. No questions asked. 100% money back guarantee if you are not happy with American Business Brokers Network.

So what is your downside? Where else can you get the opportunity to make a six figure income with so little of an investment? The opportunities of such are probably out there, but we know this one works for us.

Don’t wait. If you like to help people and enjoy being a solution minded problem solver and are looking for the opportunity to make money then contact us today to find out more on how you can get started in the business of business brokerage.