Feeling Stuck, Stagnant or Hopeless?

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Running a small business successfully requires the following characteristics through small steps.

Goal Unity

Action

Transparency

Change

Humility

Accountability

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Aggregate of Marginal Gains

What I do

I teach owners how to be a CEO and I train teams clear steps to take leading to positive sustainable habits. Once your staff adapts and continually apply these habits of action, your company will thrive.

What you must do

You and your team must be willing to take small steps (resulting in the aggregate of marginal gains). Most companies have a lottery ticket mentality believing only large events will save or change them.  You and your team must accept the fact that each team member's small steps gets the ball across the goal line.  I refer to this as team unity. Team unity is just okay, however goal unity gets results.

Why this is important

Once your business is organized with strong workflow, you….

1. Can obtain working capital much easier

2. Will have a higher multiple on valuation

3. Will increase employee morale

4. Can attract better talent

5. See reduced workload on the owner/CEO

6. Create a scalable and more profitable business

How I help

After working with one of the largest business consulting firms in the world, I have learned that most business owners face the same challenges. They get stuck in a rut with no clear idea on how to get out. Many have a management team that is either frustrated or unproductive.  All of these challenges must be addressed with a clear cut action plan clearly identifying the short and long term goals. 

Let me be clear….THERE IS NO NORTHERN STAR to guide you. No Savior. No one is coming. Hiring top level management with a proven track record has a 50/50 shot. Action must be taken by YOU and your staff. What action to take is the key to success. That’s what I do. I outline a clear-cut strategy on routines that create value in money and time. Once practiced for a month, these routines turn into habits. These habits become sustainable models which scale, create more profit and help the company adjust to future changes quickly. 

There are 3 areas I focus on…Sales, Operations, Finance. I evaluate each department to identify challenges and opportunities while most importantly the bottlenecks which often is the main source of your pain. From my experience, 90% of employees want to work hard and do the right thing. However most of them are stuck following the leadership of the company. THIS IS NOT A SUSTAINABLE MODEL. Another area is software. While expensive software can provide robust scale and solutions, most small businesses DO NOT need high priced or complex software.

How am I different?

• Many consultants encourage secondary lending sources….I refer to them as ‘predatory’. Don’t do it.
• Many consultants charge $500 - $2500 per hour plus travel. I charge $175 an hour plus travel.
• Most consultants have never owned a business. I have built 6 companies from the ground up. I have been on the edge of divorce, suicide, depression and alcohol addiction. I have cleaned toilets, assembled racking, patched roofs, written databases, assembled Letters of Intent, sold 4 business which involved 100 work weeks, 24/7 stress, employee conflict, payroll worries, on and on. I have been there.
• I work closely with each team to create action plans, not just ideas resulting in hyped motivation. 
• I work at your office every day under contract providing accountability and clear direction with your team.
• I travel to your site for one day and determine if I can help you. If I cannot, I will be honest with you and not create a long term contract costing you a lot of money and time. 

How does it work?

Step 1. Contact me to schedule a FREE phone consultation.

Step 2. I will send you a signed NDA assuring you all information you share will remain confidential.

Step 3. Send me your financials. If you do not have financials, no worries, at least I know where we need to start.

Step 4. We schedule a day 1 visit where I fly to your office and spend 6-8 hours with your and/or mgmt. team. (This cost is $1500 + travel expenses…typically another $1,000)

Step 5. If we decide it’s a good fit,  I will provide an invoice each Friday in the amount of $7,000 plus travel. Typical jobs last 4-6 weeks but you can cancel at any time.  To put this in perspective, when I worked at a large consulting firm, a typical week of billing was $20,000 - 30,000.