ou probably skipped right over that franchise location you saw on BizBuySell, doing $100k in SDE.

Waaay too small, right? And it's a franchise, which maybe isn't so exciting.

Well, maybe there's a possibility there, a playbook, that is exciting and decidedly not small.

And that playbook is, of course, buying that first location as an entreé into the franchise brand with a plan to acquire more — maybe many more.

Brian Beers is an advocate of this playbook, having had lots of success with it himself.

Brian and his brother started acquiring Midas locations in 2016. Today, they own 30 of them that together do $36m a year in revenue.

In this interview we break down how he did it, and we draw out his principles for you to apply in your own path to acquire a business... or, maybe acquire a franchise empire.

Here is Brian Beers: