Marketing / Growth Businesses for Sale in California.

Whether you're looking at agencies, analytics platforms, CRM services, or sales tools, the businesses worth pursuing are the ones where clients have been on monthly retainers for years and an account team handles everything without the founder in the room.

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Social Media Influencer Marketing Agency

One of the world's first influencer marketing agencies built on 100% proprietary technology with no third-party licenses, deployed across 80 million creators to generate $10M in 2024 revenue with $2.2M EBITDA, all through organic relationships with zero dedicated sales staff.
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Revenue$10M
EBITDA$2.2M

Secure Enterprise Cloud Platform

Secure document management SaaS with 82% margins, 100% recurring subscription revenue, and zero customer acquisition cost through a channel-only sales model.
Price$150K
Revenue$135.2K
SDE$117.1K

AI-Powered Career Navigation Platform

Career navigation SaaS platform with multi-year license contracts serving over half of California's community colleges, maintaining 85% retention and sub-5% churn.
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Revenue$1.2M
EBITDA($5.8K)

AI-Driven Ecommerce Content Optimization

AI-powered content optimization and search solutions for enterprise e-commerce retailers, with 80% recurring revenue and projected $2M revenue and $900k earnings for 2026.
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Revenue$871.4K
SDE$128.5K

Beauty Brand Distributor / Retailer

Exclusive U.S. distribution rights for a skincare brand with 20M+ units sold internationally, approximately 80% gross margins, FDA-registered products, and a semi-passive operating model requiring just 2 to 3 hours per week.
Price$200K
Revenue$200K
EBITDA$40K

Art Sales SaaS / Marketplace

All-in-one art technology platform combining back-end management tools with a social marketplace for visual artists and galleries with under 2% churn and tracking toward $800k in annual recurring revenue.
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Revenue$800K
EBITDA$100K

Design Agency for Nonprofit Organizations

Design agency serving nonprofit organizations with branding, logo design, and marketing campaigns. Revenue rebounded to $606k in 2025 with improving unit economics.
Price$1M
Revenue$606.6K
SDE$68.9K

Digital & Social Marketing Agency

Full-service digital and social marketing agency specializing in music and entertainment with established client base and seven-person team generating stable profitability.
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Revenue$981.6K
EBITDA$200K

Scheduling and Teleconference SaaS Platform

Operating platform for coaches, consultants, and therapists with 100% recurring revenue, 67% year-over-year growth to $500k ARR, and approaching breakeven.
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Revenue$500K
EBITDA$0

Full Service Print Solutions

A 30-year print brokerage with 38% gross margins, a proprietary web-to-print portal that locks in major accounts, and a seasoned sales team with over 20 years of tenure generates recurring B2B revenue without owning a single press.
Price$750K
Revenue$1.9M
SDE$96.9K

AI-Driven Digital Marketing Agency

AI-driven digital marketing agency with monthly recurring revenue from SEO and paid advertising services, generating $364k in 2024 revenue with $187k SDE.
Price$750K
Revenue$353.3K
SDE$155.6K

Salesforce CRM Disaster Recovery Software Platform

Enterprise data management platform with over twenty-five years of continuous operation, $4M+ in recurring subscription and license revenue, and a mature product suite serving regulated financial services, technology, manufacturing, energy, utilities, ecommerce, education, government, and nonprofit sectors.
Price$20M
Revenue$4M
SDE$673K

Custom Print Design Studio

Custom print and graphic design business offering small-format, large-format, and apparel printing alongside photography and branding support, generating 57% SDE margins with three years of consistent revenue performance.
Price$300K
Revenue$184K
SDE$105.8K

Medical Sales Rep Marketplace

Automated marketplace connecting medical sales representatives with healthcare companies, scaling from $460k in 2023 to $1.8M in 2025 with dual revenue streams and built-in matching technology.
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Revenue$1.8M
SDE$209.7K

Web Design & Digital Marketing Agency

Established web design and development agency with over fifteen years of operating history, approximately 280 active customers, and 72% of recent revenue from repeat clients.
Price$255K
Revenue$284K
SDE$85.9K

Media / Entertainment Management Business

Music and film production company generating $7M in revenue with $2.3M in SDE in 2025, delivering artist development, marketing, promotional campaigns, and live events for entertainment clients.
Price-
Revenue$7M
SDE$2.3M

SaaS Company for B2B Marketing Data

B2B SaaS platform delivering advanced prospect discovery and segmentation tools, with annualized revenue reaching $1M in just five months of operation.
Price$10M
Revenue$1M
SDE$200K

Commercial Real Estate Marketing SaaS Company

Commercial real estate marketing platform with 100% recurring subscription revenue, all proprietary software, and SDE margins above 40%.
Price$1M
Revenue$567.2K
SDE$244.3K

Digital Growth Consulting Agency

Consulting and digital creative agency delivering digital transformation and business acceleration services with EBITDA margins consistently above 60% on a four-person team.
Price$3M
Revenue$1.1M
SDE$626.8K
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What to Look For

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Recurring Revenue and Retainer Clients

  • Ask for a breakdown of monthly retainer and subscription revenue versus one-time project fees.
  • The key question: what percentage of this year's revenue came from clients who were also paying last year?
  • Multi-year retainer clients who renew without being chased are worth considerably more than project revenue of the same dollar amount.
  • Look for contracts with defined renewal terms rather than month-to-month arrangements where clients can leave quickly.

Team Independence from the Founder

  • Ask who manages each major client account today and whether that person handles renewals, strategy, and deliverables on their own.
  • Account managers who run client relationships without the founder mean the business transfers with far less disruption than one where the founder is in every room.
  • Find out whether those people plan to stay after the sale, and ask what their compensation looks like relative to what you'd expect to pay them.
  • A useful test: ask the seller to name the last three client renewals and who drove each one.

Client Concentration

  • A business where one client represents 40 percent of revenue carries very different risk than one where no client exceeds 12 percent.
  • Ask for the full client list with revenue, tenure, and which team member manages each account.
  • Long tenure with a concentrated client is better than short tenure, especially when the relationship runs through the account team rather than the founder.
  • Spread matters more than total revenue size when evaluating stability.

Proprietary Technology or Data

  • Analytics firms with proprietary data, CRM companies with their own software, and sales tools with deep integrations carry value beyond billable hours.
  • Ask what the business owns outright and how it contributes to client retention.
  • Proprietary tools make clients stickier because switching requires rebuilding something they've come to rely on — that's a meaningful retention driver.
  • Understand who built the technology and whether that person is still with the company.

Documented Processes and Repeatable Systems

  • Ask to see how a typical client moves through the business from onboarding through monthly reporting.
  • Agencies that run the same reliable process every time are much easier to step into than those where quality depends on the founder's judgment.
  • Documented workflows that cover onboarding through monthly reporting let you evaluate the business quickly and give you confidence things won't fall apart when the founder steps back.
  • Buyers who've looked at a lot of agencies describe finding real documentation as genuinely rare.

Valuation

What Should You Expect to Pay?

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SDE

Owner-managed, project-heavy, few retainer clients

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EBITDA

Retainer-based revenue, independent account team, proprietary tools or data

The spread across this category is driven by how much revenue is recurring and retainer-based, whether the team manages client relationships without the founder, and whether the business has built proprietary technology or data that clients can't easily find elsewhere.

What drives a premium

Monthly retainer and subscription clients with documented multi-year tenure and low churn

Account managers or strategists who run client relationships independently of the founder

Revenue spread across many clients with no single account representing more than 15% of income

Proprietary technology, data, or platform partnerships that add defensibility beyond billable hours

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Marketing / Growth Businesses in California