Premium Self-Help Book and System | More Than 40,000 Copies Sold | 35% Net Margins | Low Multiple | Low Workload

  • REVENUE

    $7,434,858

  • INCOME

    $2,721,732

  • MULTIPLE

    2.52x

Asking Price: $6,870,000

Reading Time: 2 minutes

This business has sold over 40,000 copies of a single title through its Shopify storefront, with an average order value of approximately $160. It has done this with one advertising channel and one operator working roughly 4 hours per day. Net profit margins average around 35%.

The flagship title of this brand occupies a category position no comparable title holds. Conventional self-help books deliver concepts and just assume the reader will implement them, but this system rewires the reader through structured daily protocols. This architecture, combined with premium pricing, has produced a customer base that is psychologically literate, deeply engaged, and willing to do the work. The proof is in the numbers. The book maintains a low refund rate of 0.4%, and the 54,000-subscriber email list boasts a 50% open rate.

This business has not yet been scaled, and a buyer with experience in direct response, PPC, and email marketing (or with the right team in place) inherits a proven acquisition engine with multiple growth levers.

The Meta advertising budget has never been tested above $15,000 per day. Television, YouTube, TikTok, podcast sponsorships, and Google prospecting are entirely unactivated. A Spanish hardcover edition is fully translated and print-ready. Other languages should be explored. Catalog expansion offers the most fundamental way to scale, deployed against an existing reader base at near-zero acquisition cost. Three additional titles are already in various stages of development.

The seller is experienced in launching brands, but not in scaling them—and this brand is ready to scale. It needs a new dedicated owner-operator to reach its full potential, and the seller is ready to move on to start his next venture. A new owner will have detailed SOPs and growth potential that can be funded solely by current operating cash flow. The fulfillment operation, an in-house setup with same-day shipping and a 500-order-per-day capacity, is ready for the extra load.

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Brad Wayland

Brad Wayland

Brad Wayland is an entrepreneur who began working in the online space in 2003.  He spent over a decade in the custom printing industry where he bootstrapped a business to millions in sales and over 100 employees.  While honing his SEO skills in the print industry he spent much of his time learning other aspects of the web from traditional ecommerce, to affiliate marketing, to content.  Eventually his love for content businesses led him to being a serial acquirer and he ended up on the buy side 26 times.  A majority of his acquisitions were part of a rollup strategy he was pursuing.  In 2015 he sold his content portfolio to private equity.  Brad has experienced 4 successful exits from businesses he owned and operated.  Brad joined the Quiet Light team in 2017 and has represented more than 80 successful transactions.

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