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Deal MulligansTM*

Have you encountered the frustration of losing out on what seemed like the perfect deal? Do your promising acquisition leads grow cold and stale? Have your various attempts to speak with a business Owner been met with silence? What’s your backup plan when you or your portfolio company hit a wall of silence while trying to contact an Owner of a high-interest target company? After repeated unsuccessful efforts, what’s your next step? Do you schedule another call far in the future, archive their file, or simply write them off as a ‘dud’? Any of these scenarios represent a missed opportunity to potentially acquire a desirable platform or add-on. It’s time for Deal Mulligans!

Valufinder’s DEAL MULLIGANS PROGRAM offers a second chance to revive those missed opportunities without any upfront fee, just a success fee if you close on a deal that we revived and introduced to you. Select up to twenty-five of your most interesting ‘duds’ in a single industry, and we will create a focused DealStar prospecting program for them – known as Deal Mulligans—RETAINER FREE. Why let your lost opportunities die in a forgotten file when our Deal Mulligans Program could breathe new life into them with no upfront cost?

Deal Revival

Our Deal Mulligans Program uses components of our highly successful DealStar Acquisition Search Process. This includes utilizing our team of marketing experts and M&A professionals, our rigorous sales processes, and many of the unique and specialized resources of the Valufinder organization. Here’s what we do:

  1. Focused Effort: Since you will provide the names of your chosen targets we won’t have to do any research for potentially hundreds of targets or more. By providing us with the targets’ basic information we can focus on systematically moving them forward from where you stopped. We pick up the baton and apply our proven methods to engage your selected targets.
  2. Targeted Approach: We will create a unique and custom brochure about you and your relevant strategic plans and then personalize it for each target’s Owner, showing them the fit between them and you. After mailing them this brochure our M&A professionals start a polite and persistent phone/email campaign and we continue until we speak to the target’s Owner about you, your goals, and how they can possibly fit with you. We keep you regularly appraised of our progress and contact you as soon as possible with the target’s information when we can arrange an introduction.

Our experience and clients’ success stories show that Valufinder’s DealStar Process significantly increases contact rates, helps close more deals, and better leverages the time and effectiveness of your executive team. Trying to engage raw leads or competitors isn’t always the highest and best use of an executive’s time. Many executives lack the patience, time, disposition, or skills to nurture a cautious Owner into someone considering selling their business. Besides, many potential sellers, while flattered by a call from your management, will be leery of sharing their information with a potential competitor. That’s where we come in.

How We Help

Valufinder’s seasoned M&A professionals are skilled and excel at engaging business Owners in credible, persuasive, and in meaningful conversations. We have the experience, marketing materials, and persistence required to build trust and open lines of communication for an extended, effective outreach program. Our Deal Mulligans Program allows your management to stay focused on their primary responsibilities—running their companies successfully and hitting their numbers – until an Owner is actually ready to have a productive conversation about selling. This creates a valuable opportunity to learn more about each other outside of an auction process and discover if there are reasons to move forward.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

If you have a list of attractive targets you haven’t been able to reach, pick your top 25 Mulligans in the same industry sector. Simply provide us with the names, addresses, and descriptions of up to 25 of your Mulligans. We’ll need copies of any marketing materials you initially used, the name of the person you spoke with or tried to reach, the name of the person who did the contacting, the dates of their efforts, and what happened, if anything, in the last contact. Additionally, let us know why you are interested in these companies or this sector so we can have informed and effective conversations with the Owners.

Only Pay for Closed Transactions

We are very confident in the effectiveness of our DealStar Process, which is why we undertake the Deal Mulligans resurrection effort RETAINER FREE. If we make introductions but you don’t close a deal, there’s no cost to you. If you do acquire a company we introduce to you, our normal success fee applies. Valufinder is fully aligned with your goals: You close a deal; we earn a success fee. No deal, no fee.

To keep you informed, we provide complete transparency with a CRM-generated Prospect Status Report, emailed regularly to you and your team.

If you’re interested in learning more about how we can revive your Deal Mulligans on an exclusive basis or about a full-scale DealStar Acquisition Search, Please Schedule a Short Call. We’re here to answer your questions and provide additional information.

*What is a Mulligan?

A mulligan is a second chance to perform an action, typically after the first attempt went wrong due to bad luck or a blunder. In golf, it’s a well-known term for replaying a stroke even though it’s against the formal rules. Similarly, our Deal Mulligans Program gives you a second chance to engage with those elusive targets.