More of the right listings, more predictably.

Marketing for business brokers and M&A advisors, run by a former #1-ranked broker.

You get the prospects worth your time: owners with a saleable business who are ready to move, reached before your competitors.

We start with a free Website Review, then run the programs your market rewards. One firm per market, no long-term contracts.
01
Difference

Marketing run the way a broker would run it.

Most agencies serving business brokers are tourists in the brokerage world. When their marketing fails, the cause is rarely the program, it is how the program was run. They get neither right. We are built to get both.
The agency model (competitors)

Generic execution. One program.

They run every program the way they run it for every other vertical: copy that reads generic, loose targeting that doesn't attract the right owners, landing pages that convert poorly. And they pitch the one program they sell before anyone has looked at your market, dismissing the rest because it is all they have.

The practice model (our approach)

Run like a broker. Matched to your market.

When broker marketing fails, the usual cause is poor execution. A former #1-ranked broker can see what a generalist agency cannot: whether the copy speaks to a motivated seller, whether the targeting finds real owners, whether the path converts. We get that right first, then match the programs your market actually rewards, in the order that produces signal fastest.

02
why

Most brokerage marketing
squanders time and capital,
while missing high-ROI opportunities.

A

The feast-or-famine pipeline.

A big deal closes, the broker comes up for air weeks later, and the prospecting pipeline has gone dry. The next listing has to be built from cold. A steady seller-attraction system keeps running while you are heads-down in escrow, so the next listing is already in motion when the current one closes.

b

The squandered capital trap.

Money spent on past marketing, DIY attempts or generic-agency engagements, that produced few qualified listings for the spend. The pain runs two ways: dollars wasted on programs that converted poorly, and time lost on owners whose businesses will not sell, or who will not meet the market on price.

c

The technical burden.

Not enough time or in-house expertise to run operationally complex programs: PPC architecture, cold-email infrastructure, conversion tracking, attribution. Modern marketing technology has gotten hard. In cold email especially, the cost of doing it badly is not just wasted budget. It is damage to your domain that takes months to repair.

d

The vendor noise problem.

Fatigue from generic agencies that treat brokerage as one more vertical, never learn how brokers actually win listings, and run campaigns that miss it. Underneath it, a real worry: outreach done poorly can hurt your standing in a local market you have spent years building.

03
method

How we work.

Value first, then a plan matched to your market. Nothing to buy up front, no contract to sign.
01
Start with value.

A free Website Review: a 20-minute live look at your site, side by side with the best broker and M&A advisor sites in the country, plus one Google Business Profile fix and our Website Playbook to keep. No obligation.

02
Match the programs.

We match the seller-attraction programs your market rewards to your firm, your ideal seller, and what is already working. Not a pre-packaged bundle.

03
Run them in the right order.

We deploy the matched programs in the order that signals fastest, never all at once, and refine against results. Month-to-month.

04
services

What we do.

The online presence that makes you credible, and the programs that bring the right sellers to you. Matched to your market, then run in the order that produces signal fastest.
Online Presence
Website redesign

A site that makes the right sellers trust you, and reach out.

Google Business Profile

Fix the profile owners see before they reach your site.

LinkedIn rebuild

Your profile rebuilt into real credibility, in your voice.

Seller Pipeline
Paid search

Catch sellers the moment they start looking.

Cold email

Reach the owners who would take the call but never start it.

Meta

Find sellers on Facebook and Instagram, where your competitors are not.

Outsourced BDR

Booked conversations with owners open to selling, without the prospecting.

05
the website review

We lead with value.

A free, 20-minute look at your website, live and side by side against the best broker and M&A advisor sites in the country. You see exactly where you stand, with the trust signals and conversion gaps a serious owner notices before they reach out.
You get specific, actionable fixes and our Website Playbook to keep, delivered by the founder, not an agency rep. The findings are real and yours to act on, with or without us. No obligation. If you want to take it further, we can have that conversation right there on the call.

It is built for the owner or whoever runs your firm's marketing, so the fixes land with someone who can act on them.
We review
  • Your site, side by side with the best broker and M&A advisor sites in the country
  • The trust signals and proof a serious owner looks for before reaching out
We deliver
  • Specific fixes you can implement, with your web developer if you like
  • One fix to your Google Business Profile
  • Our Website Playbook, yours to keep
  • In a 20 minute interactive Zoom call
Get My Website Review
06
origin

Built by a former broker.

"Most agencies in this space are marketers who picked brokerage as one of many verticals. The Listing Practice was built the other way — by a broker who came back to the industry from the marketing side, after a decade running marketing programs."

Steve Abdalla owned and operated a VR Business Brokers franchise in Hawaii from 2004 to 2010, where he was named the network's #1 producer across all 110 franchises in 2007 and Most Valuable Intermediary the year before. Before and after the brokerage, he spent more than a decade running marketing programs, most recently doubling revenue and facilitating the acquisition of a B2B data company as its CMO and then General Manager.
  • #1 of 110 VR Business Brokers franchises (2007)
  • Most Valuable Intermediary, VR network of 500+ brokers (2006)
  • Eleven byline articles published in The Pacific Business News
  • Stanford MBA · Former Bain & Company consultant
  • Active CBI recertification (expected late summer 2026)
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tools

Tools you can run on your own

The practice also builds tools brokers run on their own sites. The first is the Exit Readiness Assessment: a short, branded questionnaire that returns a detailed read to the business owner of how ready their business is to sell in a buyer's eyes, and lands a qualified seller lead in your inbox the moment they finish. It carries your firm's brand, captures to your own data, and installs in 15 minutes.

One firm per market.
Month-to-month after setup.

The listings our work generates earn the next month's retainer, not a contract. Most engagements start with a free Website Review.