Mark Daoust is the founder of Quiet Light Brokerage, an online consultancy which helps owners of online businesses plan a financially successful exit from their businesses. He is the father of 7 kids. Between business and family, his life has ample veer and vroom.
From Mark's Website “In 2007, a year after having sold his first online business, a friend asked Mark if he would be willing to help him sell his web hosting company. During the previous year, Mark was evaluating whether or not to start a consultancy firm to assist owners of profitable websites who wanted to divest of their websites. With the call from this friend, Quiet Light was officially born. Mark retained his friend’s business, put the listing out to market, and within two months had found a buyer at a price that was higher than average web hosting companies were fetching in the marketplace.
Since that first business in 2007, Mark has personally helped dozens of small business owners and entrepreneurs and has also expanded Quiet Light to the team it has today. In building out a team of advisors to help other small business owners, Mark has always emphasized the importance of honesty, working in the client’s best interest (even if that means not working in his own best interest), and thorough preparation of all listings before they are brought to market.
Before Quiet Light Brokerage, Mark founded an online publication and grew it’s subscriber base to 220,000 members. Mark has been a presenter at top conferences and seminars as well as a guest author for numerous publications.”
Mark Daoust Vroom Veer Stories
- Not your typical entrepreneur kid in high school; he was NOT the kid selling candy out of his locker; fun fact spent 5-years in high school w/o getting held back
- Wanted to study the classics and philosophy in college; his parents steered him toward a business degree
- Fell into a job in a web-hosting company; was tagged as one of three college students to open a new branch; took the job with the goal of getting fired
- His first business started making money right away; until his credit card merchant account provider dropped him
- Started a content based business that actually gained some sustainable traction
- Sold his 2nd business for all the wrong reasons; ego, hubris, boredom–but learned a lot about selling a business
- Quietlight was started when one of his former clients and now a friend called him to help him sell his business
- Radical/Reckless honestly is about telling the truth to clients even when it means the company won't make money from that truth
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