Vince Perri

Vince Perri Let’s build a business that’s truly sellable. Built 7-figure brands, closed big exits. Follow for growth, systems & wealth-building strategies.

Business Broker | Exit Advisor | CEPA® | Host of the Vince Perri Podcast
I help entrepreneurs scale smart, sell for top dollar, and exit on their terms—personally, financially, and professionally. Entrepreneur | Business Broker | Exit Planner | Public Adjuster
I help entrepreneurs scale smart, sell for max value & invest in businesses through sweat equity deals.

Most business failures do not happen overnight. They happen slowly, over years, through a combination of the same seven ...
06/19/2026

Most business failures do not happen overnight. They happen slowly, over years, through a combination of the same seven things. The owner becomes the business. Systems never get built. One big client holds too much power. Revenue grows but profit disappears. Nothing is recurring. The team cannot function without constant direction. And nobody ever stops to find out what the business is actually worth until it is time to sell.

By then it is usually too late to fix any of it. I put this together because every one of these is preventable. Not easy, but preventable. The owners who catch this early are the ones who exit on their terms. Which one of these is your business closest to right now?

06/19/2026

The hard truth about the public adjusting industry: it is harder than it has ever been. Carriers are paying less, coverage is shrinking, and claims that used to settle in 60 days are dragging out for years. A lot of firms are running the same playbook they ran five years ago and wondering why it stopped working.

Here is what I know after 16 years in this industry. The opportunity is still there. But the business model has to change. The firms that are going to win are not just chasing claims. They are building systems, creating recurring revenue, and positioning themselves as trusted advisors before disaster ever strikes, not just after.

And if you ever want to sell that firm, buyers exist. Other PA firms are acquiring, and private equity is paying attention. But only if the business runs with less owner dependency, transferable systems, and something recurring underneath the revenue. The industry did not get easier. The operators just have to get smarter.

I have been teaching this for years and I will keep teaching it because most service business owners still have not buil...
06/18/2026

I have been teaching this for years and I will keep teaching it because most service business owners still have not built it. I call it the money tree. The idea is simple: generate enough recurring revenue every month to cover your baseline expenses, and everything above that number is profit you did not have to chase.

Low membership fee, somewhere around $25 a month or $200 a year. Attach something real to it, a free inspection, a free review, a free valuation. Get them into your world and keep them there. Because the people who have already paid you, even a small amount, are going to be your best buyers when you have an upsell ready.

One-off services will always have their place. But without a recurring model underneath it, you are rebuilding from zero every single month. That is no way to build a business. Which of these five steps do you still need to put in place?

06/18/2026

Most service business owners wake up on the first of every month and start from zero. No guaranteed revenue, no floor, just hope that the phone rings enough to cover costs. I have seen this kill businesses that had no reason to fail.

The subscription model fixes this and it is not complicated. A low annual membership, somewhere around $200 a year or $25 a month, gets the client into your ecosystem. You give them something real for it: a free inspection, a free policy review, a free valuation. Something that creates a reason to stay.

Here is what most owners miss. The people who have already paid you something, even a small amount, are the most likely to buy from you again when the timing is right. Your membership list is not just recurring revenue. It is your best upsell audience.

Cover your break-even with subscriptions. Everything after that is real profit.

What would it take for you to add a subscription model to your business this year?

Here is a question I ask every business owner I work with early on. If you disappeared for 30 days, what would happen to...
06/17/2026

Here is a question I ask every business owner I work with early on. If you disappeared for 30 days, what would happen to the business?

Most of them pause. Some of them laugh. A few of them already know the answer and it keeps them up at night.

The five signs on this graphic are not meant to make anyone feel bad. They are meant to make the problem visible. Because most owners have been so deep in the day-to-day that nobody ever showed them the difference between running a business and being the business.

You built something real. The next step is making sure it can stand without you.

Which one of these hits closest to home right now?

06/17/2026

People ask me all the time how I stay consistent when the schedule gets demanding. The honest answer is that I stopped treating these five things as optional a long time ago.

Work out every day. Follow my macros every day. Read every day. Meditate every day. Family first, every day. Not most days. Every day.

Your body is the most important asset you have. If you are not taking care of it, everything else suffers. The business, the decisions, the relationships. All of it runs on the physical and mental state you show up in.

The days I protect these five are always the days I perform at my best. Which one of these do you already have locked in, and which one are you still avoiding?

Here is a conversation I have had more times than I can count. Owner calls me, ready to sell, excited. We run the number...
06/16/2026

Here is a conversation I have had more times than I can count. Owner calls me, ready to sell, excited. We run the numbers. Business is worth $2 million. He needs $3.5 million to retire the way he planned. That gap does not close in a few months. It closes over years of deliberate work, and only if you know what you are building toward.

That is the difference between a business broker and an exit planner. A broker takes what you have today and sells it for the best price the market will give you. An exit planner starts years before that conversation and builds the business into something that actually hits your number.

Most owners do not know the difference until it is too late to do anything about it. New episode just dropped. Breaking down both roles, when you need each one, and the sequencing mistake that costs owners millions at closing.

06/16/2026

I have seen businesses with great revenue and terrible operations. And I will tell you right now, when a buyer walks in and starts looking under the hood, the operations are the first thing that either builds or destroys the valuation.

Vivian Yip spent 20 years in corporate supply chain management. She ran logistics for Apple. When she built her real estate business, she applied that exact same discipline to her operations. Written agreements that saved her from eviction court. Turnover systems that made sure not a single day of inventory expired without a booking. A clear map of every step in her value stream so she could find the weakest link and fix it before it cost her.

Six years in, she will tell you the same thing I tell every business owner I sit across from. Your operation is only as good as its weakest link. Find it before a buyer does.

Full episode link in the comments. What is the weakest link in your operation right now?

06/15/2026

I have seen it happen too many times. A business owner spends months trying to sell, gets a flood of inquiries, and not a single serious buyer in the bunch. Here is what most people do not understand about selling a business. Where you list it determines who shows up.

Empire Flippers is selective. They vet every business before it ever gets published. Financials verified, business model reviewed. Only legitimate, established online businesses make it onto their platform. And because of that, the buyers on the other end are serious people with real capital who know exactly what they are looking for.

The right marketplace does not just find you buyers. It finds you the right buyers. Are you thinking about selling and have no idea where to start?

06/15/2026

I hear it all the time: "I can't leave, the job is too secure." Here is what I know after sitting with hundreds of business owners. Security is the most expensive thing you will ever buy.

Vivian Yip was managing supply chains for millions of iPhones at Apple during a pandemic. Multiple countries, multiple distribution systems, 16 to 18 hour days. She lost her hair in eight weeks from the stress. When the launch was over, she was done. She walked away and bet on herself.

Five months later she made $600,000 on a single real estate deal.

The safe path had cost her more than any risk ever would have. Watch the full conversation and tell me, what is your version of "safe" actually costing you?

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