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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Ever wondered how a guy goes from owning struggling gyms to cashing out for millions and dominating the M&A game? Enter Gil Valerio—a hustler who took a crisis, flipped it into a marketing empire, and sold BIG! Now, he's on a mission to help digital agencies scale, exit, and cash out like the pros. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing—hacked accounts, cease-and-desist letters, and the brutal lessons of business almost took him down. In this episode, we break it all down: how to turn your business into a sellable asset, why most agency owners are leaving money on the table, and how you can position yourself for a multimillion-dollar payday. If you're in business and not thinking about your exit strategy, you're already behind. Let’s go! 🚀💣
What You'll Learn: How to scale, sell, and cash out their business using M&A strategies that turn small agencies into multi-million-dollar exits.
Highlights:
From Gym Owner to M&A Power Player
The $Million Dollar Exit Playbook
The Franchise That Tried to Shut Him Down
Surviving a Digital Hijack
How to Scale, Sell, and Cash Out
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.limitlesscapital.net/
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instagram.com/officialgillvalerio
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tiktok.com/@gillvalerio?_t=8kq1Lc3quJX&_r=1
https://www.youtube.com/@officialgillvalerio
Gill Valerio started his entrepreneurial journey in the health and wellness industry, launching franchise fitness centers with his wife, Erin. When financial struggles hit, he pivoted into digital marketing—first to save his gyms, then to build Elevate Marketing Solutions, a powerhouse agency specializing in scaling chiropractic and fitness businesses. After growing, scaling, and selling his agency for millions, Gil has now turned his expertise to M&A, roll-ups, and private equity deals, helping agency owners scale, exit, and maximize their business value. With a sharp eye for opportunity and a playbook for turning businesses into high-value assets, he’s proving that the real money isn’t just in building businesses—it’s in selling them. 🚀💰
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0:00.0 | Listen up |
0:01.0 | or run for cover. |
0:06.1 | From the people who have it to the people who need it. |
0:12.1 | The real. |
0:13.8 | Bradley is dropping. |
0:28.6 | What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of dropping bombs. |
0:35.5 | I went to say knowledge, but I'm done with that because I found out there's no suppression on the word bombs. |
0:38.3 | So welcome to dropping bombs, folks, as always, in the studio, I got a real treat for you. |
0:41.9 | Gil Valerio in the house. |
0:44.1 | Yes, sir. |
0:44.9 | Now, Gil, get up on that mic as close as possible so you can sound thunderous. |
0:50.2 | There we go. |
0:51.0 | Folks, if you guys don't know Gil, you're about to. |
0:54.2 | Oh, Gil, Valerio, cashed out of a little biz for the Millies. |
1:00.3 | And now he's like taking it to the next level in the M&A space, |
1:04.1 | but within a specific niche, digital marketing. |
1:07.3 | So let's go over the story. |
1:10.3 | You're back. You're not a digital marketer yet, but right |
1:13.7 | before you fell into it or got into it, let's start there. What were you doing? Yeah, I had, |
1:19.3 | I had three gyms. I had a full-time job and I had a wife with a baby on the way and all of those |
1:27.1 | ventures were pretty mediocre, I would say. |
1:30.0 | So you were like, you owned them, but you weren't making a killing. |
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