The Cardin Broker Launch

A real curriculum — not a pep talk.

The Cardin Broker Launch is a structured, eleven-part training that takes you from your first conversation with an owner all the way through closing — and then into building a pipeline that lasts.

Every deal you'll ever work follows the same arc.

The training walks you through all of it — step by step, with scripts, examples, and a team to lean on. Here's the shape of it.

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Training 01

The First Contact

The discovery call: how to open, earn trust fast, and turn a lead into a real conversation.

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Training 02

What a Business Is Worth

The language of value — SDE, EBITDA, multiples — and how to give an owner a confident preliminary range.

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Training 03

Reading the Books

How to read a P&L and find the add-backs that reveal a business's true earning power.

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Training 04

Funding the Deal

How deals actually get paid for: SBA, seller financing, equipment financing, and the capital stack — plus your financing-referral income.

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Training 05

Winning the Engagement

The listing meeting: how a ready owner decides to engage you, and the agreement that begins the deal.

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Training 06

Marketing the Business

The two-pillar marketing package — the Confidential Information Memorandum and the confidential buyer site and video — built for you by our team.

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Training 07

Finding and Qualifying Buyers

How to attract serious buyers, keep the business blind, and vet before you reveal.

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Training 08

Protecting and Closing the Deal

NDAs, deal structure, the protection period, and carrying a transaction across the finish line.

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Training 09

The Cardin Growth Program

Our consulting arm: paid value-building work for owners who aren't ready to sell yet — income now, a bigger sale later.

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Training 10

Choosing Your Path

One pipeline, three paydays — how listings, financing, and the Growth Program work together as your business.

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Training 11

Your First 30 Days and the Pipeline

The rhythm of the work, the three pipeline sources, and how to build income that compounds.

Built to use in the field, not just to read.

Each training comes with a one-page field cheat sheet — the scripts, numbers, and reminders you'll actually use on a call. The program also includes a glossary of the industry's language, valuation formulas, and a CRM, so you're never guessing what to say or do next.

One-page field cheat sheet per module — the scripts, numbers, and reminders you'll actually use on a call.

Industry glossary, valuation formulas, and a CRM, so you're never guessing what to say or do next.

Every call recorded and transcribed automatically.

An AI tool drafts your follow-up; you verify every number, add your judgment, and send within twenty-four hours.

A professional system, on every call.

Every call is recorded and transcribed automatically. An AI tool drafts your follow-up; you verify every number, add your judgment, and send within twenty-four hours. It's how a Cardin broker stays sharp, consistent, and impossible to forget — without living in their inbox.

This is the outline. The interview is where you see inside.

Your interview with Cardin leadership is where you see the complete program, including exactly how brokers get paid and whether this is the right move for you.

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