{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The SMB Deal Hunter Podcast","title":"How He Bought a $1M/yr Business With His Wife","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2966,"description":"Want help buying a business? https://smbdealhunter.link/pro-yt\nSubscribe to the SMB Deal Hunter newsletter (260,000+ subscribers): https://join.smbdealhunter.xyz/\nIn this episode, Ronnie breaks down why he walked away from the company he'd run for 18 years to buy one that was finally his own, how he bought a $3.5M flooring company in Charleston without putting his wife or their paid-off home on the loan, and what it took to keep it running when the man who ran everything quit a month after closing.\n◼️ The man who ran the entire company quit one month after closing, and why they now call it the best thing that could have happened\n◼️ Why they spend nothing on marketing and still can't get the phone to stop ringing\n◼️ How they closed their SBA loan one day before the government shutdown froze new SBA lending across the country\n◼️ The imported tile that forced them to rip out a finished backsplash at their own cost, and the rule they made so it never happens again\n◼️ What a longtime flooring rep told Ronnie he was doing that people with 20 years in the trade weren't\nFollow Helen:\nTwitter: https://x.com/HelenGuo_\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-guo-06674523/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Ip8VYvVHcoJHaY9Kig3G0657tlc8W7tE_65VKMhQgKc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZGJh/YTEwNmZhZTcyYWJk/OWU0OGM3MDM2Mzcy/MmUxNy5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}