Richard Parker is the founder of Diomo Corporation and author of the series How To Buy A Good Business At A Great Price©  which includes several industry specific programs such as: How To Buy A Good UK Business At A Great Price© and over 100 published articles. 

He has been featured in The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Street.com and was a recent Inc. Magazine  Entrepreneur of the Year nominee.

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 favourite business story).

His fascination with getting others involved in businesses started at this young age when he recruited seven neighbourhood children as paper carriers and then successfully approached the local Sunday paper with the idea of letting them solicit home delivery where there was none previously, and so a career was born.

The businesses have changed in the past 20 plus years but the excitement remains.

Mr. Parker has personally purchased ten businesses during his career and built several others from start up. The information in his programmes are based on real-life, hands on experiences. He has provided consultation to hundreds of business buyers in the UK who have used the original guide with great success. "Developing a specific UK version of our program is a natural product extension for us given the uniqueness of the UK market and the fact that roughly 20% of our clients are based there."

"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. 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 the right business 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 therefore, understanding the process and knowing what to do, 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. If you are serious about being self-employed then learn the right way to do it.

"How To Buy A Good UK Business At A Great Price©" will teach you everything that you need to know!"

Diomo Corporation - The Business Buyer Resource Centre - began in 1990. From humble beginnings, Diomo built its revenue base from zero sales to over $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.

With the advent of the Internet, 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. Currently, Diomo's products are being used in over 80 countries!

The company's mission is very clear:

"To educate potential business buyers about the entire buying process and through our proven techniques to equip them with the skills and tools they'll need to find and buy the right business and negotiate a great price. We stand behind our products with an unconditional guarantee and provide expert advice and flawless after sales support to those who follow our system in order to help them fulfil their dreams of business ownership."

Diomo's programs are geared specifically to those individuals who do not have the benefit of numerous or any previous business purchases. Therefore, they start out lacking the foundation on which to draw upon past experience. Through its step-by-step, easy to follow systems, Diomo's clients understand the approach that they should be taking, they gain clarity of the issues they will be facing and they equip themselves with all of the skills that are necessary to be able to make the right key decisions along the way.

Our UK Advisor

Leigh Nissim, the UK advisor to Richard Parker, is the Chief Operating Officer of Vitesse Media Plc. Vitesse Media publish Business XL (a magazine sent to over 33,000 CEOs of growing businesses) and SmallBusiness.co.uk (the UK’s leading small business advice website). Vitesse also publish the Lloyds TSB Small Business Guide that has sold over 1.5m copies. Before joining Vitesse, Leigh was the CEO of BusinessesForSale.com, the leading UK resource that connects buyers and sellers of businesses. Built from zero revenues, the site quickly became established as the UK’s number one player.