Consulting for Equity: Become a Strategic Partner in Business

Summary

In an introductory video on Consulting for Equity, Chris Moore teaches how you can acquire a stake in someone's business by offering consultation and expertise instead of investing money. He outlines various approaches: solving a major problem in a company, taking over stressful day-to-day roles from a business owner, replicating your proven success in someone else’s business, or connecting companies for mergers and acquisitions. Chris encourages even those lacking experience to develop valuable skills, as business owners prioritize time and stress relief over money. By providing what owners truly want and need, you can partner with them and enjoy the upside.

Takeaways

• 😀 Consulting for Equity allows you to get ownership in a business without investing money, by providing your skills and expertise.
• 👨‍💼 You can help stressed business owners exit day-to-day operations by taking over major roles.
• 🏢 You can solve a major problem in a business using your experience and get equity in return.
• 🤝 You can be the middleman between buyers and sellers and broker deals for equity.
• 😊 Business owners care about time and stress relief, not just money.
• 📈 You can duplicate your successful methods from other businesses you've grown.
• ⏰ If you have time but few skills, you can exchange your time for equity.
• 🔍 People see your successes and want you to replicate that in their business.
• 💡 Real estate investors can use their deal-making abilities for business acquisitions.
• 👍 Earn while you learn skills that pay well, then pursue consulting for equity deals.

Q & A

What is Consulting for Equity?

Consulting for Equity is when you provide your skills and expertise to help grow someone else's business in exchange for equity in that business instead of getting paid as an employee or contractor.

What are some options for doing Consulting for Equity deals?

Options include solving a major problem using your expertise, taking over some day-to-day responsibilities to free up the business owner, duplicating your success from other businesses into their business, or connecting buyers and sellers to broker a deal and taking equity as your fee.

Who can benefit from doing Consulting for Equity deals?

Anyone with useful skills like marketing, team building, operations, etc. can offer their expertise. People with more time than skills can take over responsibilities for stressed owners. Successful entrepreneurs can replicate their system. Connectors can broker deals between buyers and sellers.

Why would business owners want to partner with someone less experienced?

Some owners value gaining time and reducing stress over money. A motivated partner can take over day-to-day work, allowing the owner to pursue other goals.

What do business owners really want?

The key things business owners want that you can provide are: solving core problems, improving systems and processes, increasing profitability, expanding growth opportunities.

What skills should people focus on developing?

High-value skills like digital marketing, sales, negotiations, raising capital, and investing. Skills that allow you to solve core business problems.

Should people work for others while building skills?

Yes, earn while you learn. Use your time resource to invest in developing skills that have high demand rather than taking big financial risks up front.

How can connectors benefit from equity deals?

By using their network and deal-making ability to broker mergers or pair buyers and sellers. Taking equity can be more lucrative than traditional broker/wholesaling fees long term.

How did Carl Allen benefit from an equity deal in the past?

Carl helped merge two marketing companies overseas and took 33% ownership in exchange. He later sold the merged company for a significant profit.

What's the first step to pursue Consulting for Equity deals?

The first step is to identify and deeply understand what business owners in your target area really struggle with and need help to solve. Position your value clearly around those needs.

Outlines

00:00

🎥 Intro to Consulting for Equity

The speaker Chris Moore introduces the concept of Consulting for Equity, where you can work with a business owner as a partner and help grow their business in exchange for equity, rather than just working for them. He explains there are several options for doing these deals, like solving a major problem in the business, taking over day-to-day roles to free up the owner, duplicating your own success in their business, or brokering a transaction between buyers and sellers.

05:00

😊 4 Options for Getting Equity Deals

Chris elaborates on the 4 main options for getting equity in someone else's business: 1) Solve a major problem using your skills and expertise, 2) Take over roles and responsibilities to reduce owner stress, 3) Plug in resources and systems that made you successful, 4) Be a connector between buyers/sellers and broker the deals. He emphasizes that business owners care about time and stress relief too, not just money.

10:03

👍 Is This Applicable to Me?

Chris acknowledges that some people may not think they have the skills for equity deals. He advises investing time in high-value skills that are always in demand. For less experienced people, partnering with a burnt-out owner by taking over their responsibilities can work. The next video will cover why owners would partner with you.

Keywords

💡Consulting for Equity

A method of partnering with a business by providing expertise and skills in exchange for equity or ownership in the company, instead of being paid as an employee or contractor. This allows you to grow wealth through equity rather than just a salary. Chris provides several examples of how to structure these deals.

💡surges of income

Large, concentrated amounts of money that come in at once, as opposed to small amounts of income spread out over time. Chris aims to help people generate these through methods like Consulting for Equity so they can invest and not just cover living expenses.

💡equity

Ownership interest in a company. Consulting for Equity allows you to obtain equity in someone else's business by providing value through your skills and expertise. The equity allows you to share in the upside as the business grows.

💡exit

The process of leaving ownership in a business by selling your equity, ideally for a profit. One goal of obtaining equity via Consulting for Equity is to later exit with a return on investment.

💡net worth

Total assets minus total liabilities. Chris pitches Consulting for Equity as a method for growing your net worth through obtained equity, as opposed to just increasing income.

💡deal origination

The process of sourcing and finding potential Consulting for Equity deals. Chris emphasizes the need to learn deal origination to identify opportunities.

💡day-to-day activities

The regular, administrative tasks involved in running a business. Consulting for Equity can involve taking over these activities from a stressed owner.

💡home runs

Very successful ventures or wins. Chris suggests leveraging proven personal successes to replicate through Consulting for Equity with other businesses.

💡middleman

A broker or intermediary who facilitates deals between two parties. Chris suggests acting as a middleman between buyers and sellers of businesses and taking equity as compensation.

💡acquisitions

Buying ownership in existing companies. The video discusses both Consulting for Equity arrangements as well as traditional acquisitions through leveraged buyouts.

Highlights

Consulting for Equity is when you take what you're already doing and plug it into somebody else's business in lieu of equity

There's a common misconception that business owners only care about money, but many have plenty of money and struggle with time and stress

Taking over day-to-day activities for a burnt out business owner is worth giving up equity to liberate them

Younger people with less developed skills can take over roles for retiring business owners and work as a partner, not just an employee

People who've had big successes can plug in their resources and processes into someone else's business for equity

Connectors can find buyers and sellers, broker deals, and take equity rather than a traditional brokerage fee

Always be earning while you're learning - work for someone while developing skills that are in high demand

Next video covers why owners would partner with you and what they really want

Focus your time investing in yourself, learning skills that pay well no matter the economy

Business acquisitions have options like consulting equity, traditional buyouts, finding buyers and sellers

Taking over roles for stressed owners or connecting companies can be done for equity rather than a fee

If you're young with little experience, always earn while you learn valuable skills

Next video covers what owners want and why they'd partner with you

Let me know your skills, what you do, and any questions in the comments

I'll try to answer every comment below the video

Transcripts

have you ever wondered how you can get

stake or equity in someone's company

without investing a dime of your own

money or maybe you're a consultant and

people are always trying to work with

you but you're almost at your Wit's End

and you don't have any more bandwidth

because you're only one person or maybe

people come to you all the time because

you're brilliant you're great at what

you do and they say hey I want to pick

your brain welcome to the world of

Consulting for Equity where you can work

with someone as their partner and help

take their business to the next level

without having to work for them as a

consultant or an employee beyond your

paycheck it surges of cash that you can

use to grow your net worth and feed your

Investments hi I'm Chris Moore the

intentional investor and my mission is

to work with people like you and

investors business owners digital

marketers and teach you how to tap into

surges of income large amounts of income

all at one time rather than just

increasing your income every year not

talking about the income that's

allocated to your monthly bills and

expenses and cost of living but money

that can be free and open open to invest

money on top of your normal monthly

income and I host a podcast multiple

times a week called the surges of income

podcast where I bring people on just

like you and I talk to them and Mentor

them and help them through their journey

of how they can really get to the next

level become a business owner acquire

businesses take the real estate

investment game to the next level and

learn how to do product launches in Live

Events where they can make surges of

income all at one time outside of their

normal monthly recurring Revenue in this

video series that starts right now

called Consulting for Equity I'm going

to teach you about one of my most

favorite and Powerful ways to become a

business owner to get into the business

acquisition game from plugging in what

you already do every day and what you're

great at into somebody else's business

for equity and a retainer fee on top of

that I've been teaching Consulting for

equity for quite a while and I've done

several of these deals myself so I'm so

excited to teach you all my methods of

how to get these Consulting for Equity

deals how to negotiate them how to find

the right people working on your deal

origination exactly how much Equity

should you ask for and so much more so

tune into this entire video series watch

the whole thing and I promise you'll add

a lot of value to your life

so what is Consulting for Equity well

Consulting for Equity is simple it's

when you take what you're already doing

and what you're really great at and you

plug it into somebody else's business in

lieu of equity instead of working with

them as an employee or a consultant or a

contractor and there's a lot of

different ways to do these Consulting

for Equity deals like option one you can

solve a major problem in someone's

business already using your experience

and your expertise or like option two

when you're helping someone exit the

day-to-day activities maybe for a

business owner who's got a lot of stress

and they're wearing way too many hats in

the business you can take over one of

their major roles and really liberate

that business owner option three is

where you can work with someone who's

looking for you to duplicate the success

you've had in other business but in

their business there's all types of

people out there watching you seeing how

good you are who would love for you to

do the same thing that you've been doing

for somebody else's business but for

theirs option number four you can also

be the middleman between people like

buyers and sellers and you can do deals

by bringing two companies together or

finding a buyer finding a seller putting

them together almost like a wholesale

deal and take equity in the business for

your time and for brokering the

transaction so before we dive into this

too deep remember I'm releasing an

entire video series on this topic so

make sure you go and watch every single

video because I'm going to break down

pretty much a master class that I've

been teaching for quite some time with

Carl Allen in this video series so you

can have all of my best stuff so option

number one to getting equity in

someone's business using Consulting for

Equity is when you go in and you solve a

major problem in their business that is

really worth them giving up equity for

just like I became a partner with Carl

and deal maker there was a major problem

in the business I came in I solved it

and I did it instead of just working for

him as an employee or as a as a

consultant we worked out a deal where I

could go along and grow the business

with them and enjoy the upside and

actually become true Partners so that is

exactly the way that I recommend doing

it if you have certain skill sets like

if you're a business growth specialist

like myself let's say You're really

really good at lead generation let's say

You're great and talented at building

and scaling sales teams or maybe you're

awesome at making companies more lean

and more profitable if you have these

skills you can deploy it on other

people's businesses and find people that

really need your help who value your

expertise and who would love to have you

as a partner not just someone that works

for them there's a common misconception

that a lot of business owners only care

about money and you could not be further

from the truth there a lot of business

owners have plenty of money but what

they're really struggling with is time

and stress the second option for doing

consulting for Equity deals is simply

taking day-to-day activities or taking

an entire role or two rolls away from a

business owner and really liberating

them to be able to go pursue other

things or be able to have some time off

for once and that is definitely worth

some business owners giving you equity

in their business so imagine you're

dealing with somebody who owns a roofing

company somebody who has tons of money

but they're really having a hard time

keeping employees or their middle

management layers and from there they're

working 63 three hour weeks let's say

they're in their 60s there's ways for

you to plug in what you do and your

expertise into their business take an

active full-time role in the business

take one of their roles off their plate

and allow them to actually have some

breathing room and when you do this

correctly and you approach it correctly

you can get them to offer you equity in

the deal which I'll teach you in a

further video how to get people to offer

you Equity but I'm telling you it's not

just about money it's also about time

and relieving stress and in another

video about what do business owners

actually want and how you can give it to

them I'll go over that entire list in

detail this is a great option for

someone to say Chris I don't have a lot

of skills necessarily but I do have a

lot of time a lot of ambition and I

really just don't want to work for

somebody else I'd rather be a business

owner for someone like you number one

you definitely need to go out and learn

a lot of really valuable skills that pay

unbelievable money no matter what the

economy is doing I've talked about this

all the time but you can plug what you

do in and give your best resource which

is the time you have to spend into

somebody else's business and get Equity

so if if you're one of the younger

people out there younger guys or girls

that doesn't have as many developed

skill sets or expertise or reputation

it's a great option for you to go find

somebody who's needing to retire

somebody's near retirement age somebody

who's burnt out and take over some of

their day-to-day responsibilities and

work with them as a partner in tandem

rather than just an employee

option number three some of you out

there have hit some pretty big home runs

and you've had great Awards you've had

great success and this is a great option

for you option number three for

Consulting for Equity is when you can

plug in what you've already done like

your resources your systems your

processes into somebody else's business

that's made you very successful in the

past and people are dying for this for

me I've done quite a few really great

things I have great resources great

people uh I've got all of this already

figured out and when someone says wow

Chris I saw what you did in that

business I'd love for you to come over

and plug that into my business and blow

my business up as well it's a great

option to do Consulting for equity and

like I said in a further video I'll

teach you how to get people to offer you

Equity so it doesn't feel as unnatural

and it's much more organic but it's very

very powerful so when people are

watching you they've seen what you've

been capable of doing they've seen your

home runs they've seen your wins they've

seen your successes it's a great way for

you to just plug in everything you did

to that business into their business and

do it in Lulu uh working for them but

instead just for equity

option number four let's talk to you

Real Estate Investors wholesalers

connectors out there maybe you don't

have a tremendous like uh obvious skill

set like digital marketing or business

growth or negotiations but you're a

great connector you know lots of people

you've got a great Network and you just

have a knack for talking to people well

you can put that strength to work in

Consulting for Equity by helping

businesses maybe merge together find a

buyer find a seller and you can actually

instead of taking a success fee or like

a brokerage fee or a paper flip fee you

can take equity in the business right

you can take business a business B put

them together and take 33 20 10 just for

handling the transaction and that's kind

of wholesaling deals and what's so

powerful is every time you look at a

potential opportunity there's so many

different ways you can work with it just

like if you're in real estate you find a

real estate property as an investment

you're like wow I can buy and hold this

and rent it out I could buy this hold it

and turn it into an Airbnb I could flip

it for a quick profit I could wholesale

a deal I could do subject two and take

over their mortgage payment there's so

many different ways you can do it

business Acquisitions is the same way if

you're going after traditional leveraged

buyout Acquisitions like we teach a deal

maker you may come across some that

would be great fits for Consulting for

Equity you may be meeting people that

have underdeveloped businesses maybe

they aren't ready to retire yet they

don't want to sell but they'd love to be

able to give part of their business away

to have you come in and solve a major

problem or in this case maybe wholesale

and find somebody else like I talked to

someone a couple days ago they're like

Chris I don't necessarily have all these

skills but I told them you are a leader

you're a connector and you have

incredible incredible Talent doing

wholesaling why don't you put that same

power to work and use that magic for

deal origination and business

Acquisitions and you can get a fee or

you can get equity in someone's business

by merging them together I've heard Carl

tell me stories about a deal he did

overseas one time where he took two

different marketing companies he bolted

them together and just for being a part

of the transaction they gave them 33 of

the ownership and then later on he exit

that business us and made quite a bit of

money so many different ways to do

Consulting for equity

you may be thinking Chris I don't know

if this is applicable to me I don't

really have a lot of skills I don't have

a lot of experience uh I really don't

have a lot of anything but do you really

think it's possible for me to do

Consulting for Equity deals and why

would someone like a business owner want

to partner with me specifically

it's a great question and in the next

video we're going to talk about the

reasons why business owners would

partner with you and and really comes

down to what do business owners really

want what's in based off where you are

in life this could definitely be a

possibility for you like I said earlier

if you're someone who's very young just

out of college or maybe even go to

college but you have this gut feeling

that you need to be a business owner

you're so you're supposed to be an

entrepreneur and you don't want to work

for somebody else my biggest advice I

can give you is you always want to earn

while you learn always work for somebody

else while you're really developing your

skill sets and why your biggest resource

you have is not money it's time focus on

spending your time and investing your

time in yourself and learning skill sets

that pay unbelievable money that are in

high demand no matter what the economy

is doing things like digital marketing

High ticket sales negotiations raising

Capital investing things that people can

deploy in their business and they always

need making yourself valuable where you

have enough value to pay you for the

rest of your life and you can write your

own ticket so while you're still getting

started maybe you're not quite ready to

do Consulting correct wheels and that's

fine but go work on your skill sets but

in this next video we're going to talk

about why business owners would actually

want to partner with someone like you as

well as what do business owners really

want that's the big question and I'll

see you in the next video so that was

video one and the Consulting for Equity

training series that I'm gonna bring to

you right here on YouTube and what I'd

like you to do is comment below in this

video and let me know about you what

you're doing what kind of skills you

have and then do you have any burning

questions for me I'll do my best to

answer every single comment but I'll see

you in the next video