ABOUT
Richard Parker and Diomo
Richard Parker is the founder of Diomo Corporation – The Business Buyer Resource Center™ and author of the How To Buy A Good Business At A Great Price© series.
Richard has purchased thirteen of his own businesses and has been an advisor and broker to small business buyers and sellers for over three decades.
He has written and been featured in more than 300 articles on the subject of buying businesses in The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Street.com. He is also a weekly contributor to Forbes Magazine.
Richard was recently nominated for Inc. Magazine’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award.
Born in Canada in 1961, and based in Florida since 1996, Mr. Parker has been a business “junkie” since childhood, owning his first business at 12 and selling it profitably at 13 (this remains his favorite business story).
His fascination with getting others involved in businesses started at this young age when he recruited seven neighborhood children as paper carriers and then successfully approached the local Sunday paper to grant him a master route with the idea of letting them solicit home delivery where there was none previously (sub-contracting the other kids and taking a percentage of their business of course) and so a career was born.
The businesses have changed in the past 30 plus years but the excitement remains.
From Richard Parker
“It has taken a lot of time, effort and some painful experiences to develop the tried and true formulas that immediately identify a good business. More important is recognizing what particular business is ideal for the individual and which types are not. Good businesses run by the wrong people quickly turn sour and that’s why so much of our material is devoted to helping each client buy a business that’s right for them.
I can’t even begin to tell you how much I enjoy what I do for a living. I am very lucky, I can’t wait to start each work day. That’s the beauty of owning a good business; it overtakes you in a way that is so incredible it’s nearly impossible to explain to someone who has never experienced it. That is exactly what we will help you achieve. You will soon understand my enthusiasm after you begin to follow our program and we get to know each other. I am always available to help you. I promise that I will do everything in my power to put you into the business of your dreams.
I have had some wonderful successes and a few dismal failures. It’s amazing what these failures can teach you if you are responsible and mature enough to look at them as learning experiences. From these situations, both good and bad, I have been able to assemble a program that completely eliminates the frustrations and setbacks that all others go through in order to learn the crucial skills they need to find and buy a good business at a great price.
Since most people who begin to look to buy a business have never bought one before nearly everything that they will encounter is new. Buying a business is a serious decision and so understanding the proper steps of the process and what to do at each stage, is unquestionably, the key to success.
The most rewarding aspect of my career is that I am involved in a business that is able to help so many people literally around the world. The greatest satisfaction I get is when one of our clients tells us how their lives have been changed by the techniques they learned through our training programs and the personal advice we provided.”
Diomo Corporation – The Business Buyer Resource Center™
Diomo Corporation – The Business Buyer Resource Center – began in 1990. From humble beginnings, Diomo built its annual revenue to more than $30 million by purchasing several existing businesses and adding them to the Diomo group.
Diomo’s head office has been located in South Florida since 1996 under Florida Corporation # P96000099725. The company began in Canada, with incorporation under The Canada Business Corporation Act by Articles of Incorporation, dated January 11, 1990, corporation number 00256331-2.
The company consolidated its small business-buying consultation business and compiled all of its years of experience and hundreds of small business acquisitions into a home study course allowing its distribution to reach people around the world.
Diomo’s products and consulting services have helped people buy a wide range of businesses in more than 80 countries.
The company’s success is due solely to the effectiveness of its products. Richard Parker, the company’s founder, has always believed any business should only offer products that are of such superior quality that anyone who buys them should have the ability to get all of their money back at any time.
If these programs did not meet the customer’s expectations or if the results achieved were anything less than phenomenal, Diomo would not have been able to survive, let alone thrive, for over a decade.
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“How To Buy A Good Business At A Great Price©️ is the most complete program on buying a business that I have ever read.”
“I would like to take the time to write you a letter to thank you for your course “How to buy a Good Business at a Great Price©️” and what it has done for me. I worked in financial services for over 10 years and was able to save and invest some money. I always wanted to own my own business (traditional) and was seeking knowledge when I happened upon your course. I ordered it and closed on our first business six months later. It was a retail mall based bulk candy store that wasn’t making any money for the absentee owner after two years of operations. After a thorough review of the business using your techniques I was convinced that we could make a profit and add value. By the year-end we had made all of our initial investment back and had a very nice profit – I was hooked! To make a long story short last July I was able to purchase my biggest competitor and increased our revenue by 250% and our profits by a whopping 290% and yes I now know how to buy a good business at a great price©️….thanks to your course! Today my family and I are living the lifestyle that as a child I could not even imagine! Again thank you for your time, knowledge and inspiration. All the best.”
“I was going through old e-mail and found some of our correspondence. I just wanted to say THANK YOU once again. I can attest that you helped me through what could have been a complex transaction. Since purchasing the business we have tripled our volume and our profit has grown 50% annually. I highly recommend you and your service. Thanks again.”
“I read ‘How to buy a good business at a great price©️‘ and it changed my life. That started me and my partners on a road to buying businesses, and since then we have used its principals to buy 10 businesses with 300+ employees and $200M + in annual sales and learned a lot of crazy lessons along the way. Thanks for inspiring us! A couple weeks ago I called up Richard to chat about our journey and to learn about his. It was one of the most enjoyable conversations I’ve ever had and reinforced how much I respect Richard as a business leader. Pick up the program for yourself. It might just change your life too!”
“Thank you so much for a wonderful “how to” guide. I found it to be invaluable. I’m under contract and in the due diligence phase to purchase a pet products company. The lists for due diligence are GREAT! Reading this guide was time & money well spent. My business broker, accountant and lawyer were all impressed with my preparedness and well thought out questions.”
“I’ve found your book to be of tremendous value. You have really performed a service in writing in your straightforward manner. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge!”
“Your course is superb. My only regret is that I had not run across this resource earlier, prior to my last business.”
“Dear Mr. Parker, I finished your course today and I must tell you I think it was worth every penny! I did own a business for 15 years but I learned more from your course than I did in all that time. I am currently negotiating with a hair salon and feel much more equipped to handle it all since I have the course to refer back to. I am not in the habit of writing to every person who sells a product to me but you did such a fine job that I felt I should let you know how I feel. Once again, thank you – the job you did was exceptional.”
“I’ve worked through two-thirds of your course and I have to say that this is the most comprehensive business buying course in existence! I’m thoroughly impressed by the content (and context) and would gladly recommend it to any and all potential business buyers.”
Investing in your course has been fantastic. It is extremely well organized, fast paced, and gets to the bottom line! Your status/encouragement e-mails are also great motivators. Thank you for your guidance with my questions.
I finally bought my first business (My life long dream). It is a Breakfast & Lunch Cafe in Downtown Miami. The ride has been incredible, lots of learning on the go. Your book was awesome. It really gave me an excellent base of knowledge to work with.
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you as well as your staff at Diomo Corp. It’s a real pleasure to do business with honest professional people/company such as yourselves.
“Very impressed with your program, wish I had it years ago it would have made and saved me many thousands of dollars.”
Well, I finally closed on the business. I would not have been able to go through the entire process without your course and your personal guidance. There were many challenges along the way. I just kept reading and rereading your course throughout. Thank you for all of your help.
I can’t thank you enough for your course and your counseling. I purchased an automotive repair business and am doing pretty well with it starting into my second month. The course is right on and taught me a wealth of information about buying a business. Thanks again for sharing your information and helping people like me.
I am writing to let you know how much I got from your program. I bought Superior Windows & Doors and felt it was a diamond in the rough. We have done better every month than the prior owner since we took over. I highly recommend your material to people that even hint that they would like to be business owners. We would not be here without your guidance. Thank you.