Kenney Conwell

Most small business owners assume government contracts are for established companies with years of history. That assumption is leaving real money on the table.

Here's what most people don't know: there's something called the Simplified Acquisition Procedure — and it was specifically created by the SBA to make it easier for small businesses to win contracts under $250,000.

The purpose of the Small Business Administration is to help small businesses make money. These contracts — up to $250,000 — were made for exactly that.

And here's what that looks like in practice: if you win a service contract under this threshold, even if your business is only six months old, that contract is going to pay directly to your business bank account. With average profit margins around 20% on a $250,000 contract, you're walking with $50,000 in profit.

Your business being young doesn't disqualify you. The simplified acquisitions threshold exists precisely so that new and small businesses can compete.

This is one of the most accessible — and most overlooked — capital and revenue strategies for business owners right now.

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There are two types of buyers in this market right now.

The first type shows up with good intentions, reaches out about deals, and wonders why nobody calls them back. The second type has already done the work before they ever contact a broker.

Here's the reality: brokers evaluate buyers constantly. And it has nothing to do with how much money you say you have. It's about whether you're looking at deals that are realistic for your actual situation — your credit profile, your liquidity, your deal size range.

When someone comes to a broker and says "we're gonna figure out how to get the money" on a $15 million deal — that's someone who just isn't being taken seriously. That's someone who doesn't have a real strategy, and brokers know it immediately.

Being a real buyer means having a real strategy of what you're doing, what you're looking for, and having real capital aligned behind you.

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Inexperienced buyers chase the price.

If they really want the deal, they'll just give the seller their number — no questions asked.

Then the lender comes in, evaluates all the risks, and comes back with a number that doesn't work.

Now you're three months in, the seller's frustrated, and the deal is dead.

A buyer who actually knows what they're doing goes to the seller and says — "I want to get you your $2 million. Here's the issue: because of X, Y, and Z, the most a lender is going to do on this deal is about a million four. We're going to have to make up the difference in either a seller note or an earn-out. I'm telling you this upfront so we don't end up in a bad spot three months from now."

That's price versus terms. And sellers respect that approach. They actually do.

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Most buyers don't realize this is happening until it's already too late.

When you approach a broker the wrong way — you don't just lose that one deal. You get moved to the bottom of the list on every future deal they ever reach out about. That's just what happens.

Brokers get so many inquiries that they have no choice but to filter. They're looking for one thing: who has a high likelihood of closing? Who's easy to work with? Who's going to follow through and not play games?

And here's what most people don't realize — it's not just one broker. This is how the entire industry works.

Knowing this upfront is what separates the buyers who get treated seriously from the ones who never get a callback.

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"I can't find grants for my business."
I hear this all the time. And I always say the same thing:
Right now on GrantWatch.com, there are 11,629 available grants open on the market today.
If you can't find grants, it's not because they don't exist. It's because you don't know where to look or how to search.
Let me show you an example of what a typical grant looks like:
Grant: Colorado Nonprofits Quality of Life Grant Amount: Up to $5,000 Deadline: March 31st, 2026 Eligibility: Must be a 501(c)(3) or tax-exempt organization located in Colorado Ineligible: Non-nonprofits and organizations outside of Colorado
Simple and straightforward. Their total budget for this grant is $250,000.
Here are a few things to keep in mind when searching for grants:
Timing is everything. Deadlines could be Eastern, Central, or local time. A grant writer could get a document with 10 minutes left to spare—as long as it's submitted on time, you're in.
Read the eligibility requirements carefully. Some grants are very specific about location, organization type, and project focus.
Check the total budget. That tells you how much funding is actually available and how competitive it might be.
Grants are out there. There are over 11,000 open right now. You just need to know how to find them.
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Find out how lenders view you before you even apply—so you know exactly how to approach funding 💰

What if I told you it doesn't take money to make money? 👇

Would you believe me?

Is money helpful? Absolutely. But it's not the number one thing.

The number one thing it takes to make money, create wealth, build equity, and get leverage is:

Clarity.
More important than knowledge. More important than information. More important than everything else.

We've got ChatGPT, Claude, the internet—we can get information anywhere. But what good is information if you're not clear about where you're going?

What good is money if you don't have clarity?

Here's how it works:
Clarity → Gives you Confidence
When you're clear about your direction, you can confidently walk in your God-given purpose.

Confidence → Builds Conviction
Now you're walking with that strut. You know exactly where you're going. Every step you take is intentional because you decided where you were going before you got there.
Clarity. Confidence. Conviction.

That's the foundation before the money ever comes.
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What's the difference between a holding company and a management company? 👇

A holding company is for asset protection. It owns real estate, intellectual property, patents, and investments. But there's no revenue coming into your holding company.

Its purpose is strictly liability protection—separating valuable assets from operational business risk.

Here's the key: you do NOT want to use a holding company for funding purposes.

So what should you use instead? A management company.

If you have an older LLC sitting there doing nothing, you can reposition it as your management company and funding entity. It doesn't matter what the name is—you can change the name and industry classification.

That dormant LLC becomes your preferred funding entity because of the established age. Banks want to see time in business.

Here's the structure:
🏛️ Holding Company → Asset protection (owned by a trust)

🏢 Management Company → Funding, legal, and tax purposes (owned by you)

Repurpose that dormant LLC as your management company. That's the entity you leverage for funding. That's where the revenue flows. That's how you file the taxes.

Holding company = protection.

Management company = funding.

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Find out how lenders view you before you even apply—so you know exactly how to approach them

If you think you're just gonna apply for Chase or American Express and automatically get a $50K approval, it's not happening.

Here's what's really going on:

First, banks are being more cautious.

The lending space is tight. Approvals that used to be easy aren't
anymore.

Second, if you don't have the proper data points when you apply, you're getting a reduced or eliminated approval amount.

Third, if you don't have verifiable income to back up what you claim, the bank is going to ask for proof.

Let me break down American Express specifically:

If you say you make $650,000 a year, Amex will say, "Prove it." They'll request bank statements from your business.

If you can't prove it, one of two things happens: that $25K limit you should've gotten drops to $2,000, or you get flat out declined.

Why?

Because your business credit card approval is tied to your highest revolving limit on your personal credit. And if you don't already have an existing strong relationship with American Express, they're going to scrutinize every data point.

There are bad apples out here putting out misinformation—telling people to inflate their income or apply without the proper foundation. Banks are hip to the game. Don't be a casualty of bad advice.

Know your data points. Understand how banks evaluate you.

Then apply from a position of strength.

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Here's why this worked: instead of starting from scratch, he used his funding to purchase an existing online asset that already had customers.

helped with the funding to make it happen.
Let him break down the numbers:

$2,133 in revenue – That's the top line number. All the orders that went out that day. Before anything comes out.

$128 in refunds – From prior inventory that shipped last month. You subtract refunds on the day you process them, not when you sold the product. That $128 comes out of today's revenue.

Transaction fees – This is a digital storefront. Customers pay with debit and credit cards. The merchant pays the interchange fees for those transactions to process bank to bank.

When you spend $1,000 at Walmart, you don't see the merchant fee—but the business is paying it.

$751 in ad spend – After you purchase an asset, you need to drive traffic. You have to spend money on ads to get customers to the store.

So he spent $751 to generate $2,133 on his very first day of owning this business.

He didn't build from scratch.
He didn't wait months for his first sale.
He bought something already producing cash flow, understood his numbers from day one, and reinvested in ads to scale.

This is a perfect example of the difference between debt and leverage.

One keeps you stuck.
The other creates cash flow.

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shared one of the most powerful stories about deploying
capital the right way 👇

Freddy became a millionaire—out of thin air.

Here's how it happened:

Freddy came to , who connected her with . We helped her secure $127,000 in capital and showed her how to liquidate it.

They took that money and rolled it into a business they purchased seller financed.
That means no pledging her house as collateral.
No massive down payment.
No signing over her firstborn.

That business now produces $12,000 per month in cash flow.

And within her first year of owning it, Freddy won a $2.2 million government contract.

Read that again.

This is what happens when you understand how to deploy capital strategically:

You access funding the right way. You buy into something already producing income. You let the business create cash flow. Then you scale into bigger opportunities.

Freddy didn't start from scratch. She leveraged funding, bought smart, and positioned herself for a contract that changed her life.

That's the power of understanding how credit and capital work together.
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