Small Business Consulting and Coaching Services

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Small Business Consulting

We spot problems, implement solutions, and achieve goals. Whether you're having trouble attracting and securing leads, or need help optimizing workflows - we can help.

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Small Business Mentor - Changing how small businesses grow.

Data. Data. Data.

Data is at the foundation of every decision we make and every question we ask. We'll work with you to ensure that you have all the data you need to make informed decisions and scale your business.

Already have solid data? We'll help you use that data to scale your business and accomplish your goals.

Achieve Your Goals

Whether you want to open a new location, increase your revenue, or simply automate your processes to spend more time with your family - we have the expertise to help.

We take the time to get to know your business and you to make sure we are helping you meet both your personal and business goals.

Small Business Coaching

We want to help you knock your goals out of the park, but we also want to coach and educate your team along the way.

We believe asking great questions will be the foundation of our success together.

If your team doesn't feel more confident by the time we are done working together - we didn't do a good job.

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What Clients Say

"Small Business Mentor put on a workshop about how to be successful with social media. We got rave reviews and will definitely have them back."

“They helped us develop an entrepreneurship camp for high school students. The students love it and it's been a huge success. Thanks SBM!"

“Most marketing agencies are designed to make you work with them forever. They taught us how to do it on our own and we're on the first page of Google.”

Increase Revenue and Profits

Sometimes increasing your revenue means building a marketing engine. Sometimes it means brainstorming and developing a new product or service. It could also mean optimizing workflows and making the team more efficient. Whatever it is - we can help.

Be More Efficient

One of our favorite things to do is to use data to optimize workflows. How would improving workflows help employee retention and improve your bottom line? We'd love to help you find out.

Find New Business Opportunities

We love helping businesses expand their customer base. Sometimes it means utilizing new marketing channels, and sometimes it means reframing a product or service to a new market. Either way - you may be able to find new business opportunities and increase your revenue.

Define Your Business Goals

Asking the right questions about your goals and how you can accomplish them can mean the difference between success and failure. We'll also coach you up and let you know if you're dreaming too small after taking a look at your data.

Support Your Employees

Supporting your employees doesn't always mean putting more money in their pockets (while that certainly helps). Helping support your employees by making sure they have all the resources they need, streamlined workflows, and you have the proper structure can make a huge difference in employee retention.

Be Data Driven

We love data and want to make sure you know where every customer comes from, how long each of your processes takes, and how to improve customer lifetime value. Data is the foundation of everything we do, and we want to teach you how to use it too.

Accomplish Your Goals

How Small Business Consulting Can Help You

What does a small business growth consultant do?

Small Business Consultants can help small businesses with several things, from actually starting the business to helping them exit. Small Business Consultants usually take the time to get to know your business from the inside out and take data into account before helping you make any decisions.

Small business consultants can be invaluable if you're just starting as they can help you avoid common mistakes and fast-track your success. If you're a seasoned entrepreneur, they can help cover your blind spots and help you scale faster. Small Business Consultants typically have marketing, sales, and management backgrounds.

A diverse background helps them handle a variety of pain points businesses face, from increasing conversions to managing employees.

Sales and Marketing Consulting

Sales and marketing consultants can help you increase revenue and close more deals. They do this by evaluating your current sales and marketing funnels, identifying any potential improvements and leaks, and optimizing workflows.
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Sales Consultants:
A sales consultant will take a close look at your entire sales process under a microscope. Depending on your specific needs, they may evaluate your sales deck and pitch to improve language and clarity. They may suggest critical questions be asked or rewrite your entire sales presentation. They will also look at your follow-up process and close rates.
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Ideally, the sales consultant can dramatically improve your revenue stream with a few tweaks to your current system. However, your sales process and customer management system may need a complete overhaul. Still, a sales consultant should improve your sales cycle dramatically, and the results should pay for themselves.
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Marketing Consulting:
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Like a sales consultant, a marketing consultant will take a close look at your funnel. However, due to the flexibility and broad nature of marketing, they may have more wiggle room with ideas and decision-making.
They'll start with your current marketing strategy and evaluate the data. If they find easy wins, they may make a few quick suggestions. Then they'll take what is working and begin to develop a more comprehensive strategy to get you more customers.
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Their strategy could include digital advertising like google and social media ads, website design, content, and search engine optimization. It could also include offline strategies like direct mail, tv and radio advertising, public relation, channel marketing, and more.
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A marketing consultant will typically do a comprehensive audit of your current strategy, then complete a proposal. Sometimes the marketing consultant can carry out the strategy outlined in the proposal themselves, or they may hire an outside marketing agency.

Project Management

Accomplishing strategic business goals typically requires a lot of project management. If you're trying to accomplish a task you've never done before, or the amount of work that needs to be done seems impossible, hiring a project management consultant may be beneficial for you.

Project management consultants may facilitate meetings, distribute tasks, and recommend third-party software.

Their job is to advise on best practices and ensure your project is seen through completion. For example, your business may be opening a new location and hiring a project management consultant to make sure the project stays on track.

The consultant would work with contractors, allocate tasks, and ensure each team had the appropriate resources.

Data and Reporting

Being able to make data-driven decisions is vital to any business. If you're a startup, the more data you have about your success, the easier it will be to get funding. If you're a small business, accurate and consistent data will help you scale faster and accomplish your goals.

From the moment a customer first interacts with you to how your employees spend their time, there are thousands of data points you can begin to gather and make decisions.

A consultant can help you set up data attribution, track employees' time, and gather vital customer information. A great consultant will work with you to determine what data is most important to your business and help you implement strategies for gathering it.

Strategic planning

Putting together a plan for the next year, five years, or even ten years can be daunting. A consultant can help you break down your goals into an action plan with key milestones. They can also use data and their industry knowledge to make sure your goals are realistic.

Strategic planning isn't just putting your goals down on paper and coming back to them once in a while. The consultant will work with you on hashing out your goals into sub-goals with timelines. That way, whether you want to retire in 5 years or increase your revenue by 5x, you'll know exactly what you'll need to do.

Helping You Start A Business

Starting a business can be intimidating, especially with all of the paperwork, taxes, and initial capital required. An expert can help you with everything from your initial idea to securing your first customers.

The benefit of working with a consultant when starting a business is that they know common mistakes and friction points in the process. They will be able to avoid these to earn more revenue faster.

They also have the experience to know what makes new businesses successful. Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants," and that is the case working with a consultant to start your business.

Helping You Grow Your Business

There are many ways that you can grow a business. It may involve finding customers in new ways or optimizing processes and procedures. From sales and marketing to management and customer success - the list of things that a consultant can help you optimize is infinite.

Consultants are experts at finding easy wins that will immediately help your business. For example, they may find that your sales team isn't closing as many opportunities as they could and improve your sales follow-up process.

Additionally, they can help with things that aren't as straightforward, like developing new products or services to expand into new markets. No matter what the strategy is, a consultant can work with you to determine the most efficient way to reach your goals and then execute.

Helping You Manage Your Business

Managing business people, expenses, taxes, and various projects all at the same time can be challenging. After all, you may have started a business because you had a ton of experience in your field - not necessarily because you were great at doing taxes and managing finances.

Whether you're having trouble retaining employees or you feel like balancing your books is overwhelming, a consultant can help you get back in control.

They can help you identify issues plaguing your business, develop efficient solutions, and get you back to doing what you do best. Sometimes a consultant can recommend software or agencies to manage some of the management work on your behalf. Other times, they may help you consolidate and optimize workflows, so it isn't as much of a burden. In either case - your business will have a stronger foundation.

Scalable Solutions

No matter what a small business consultant is advising you on, their solutions should always be scalable and focused on the long-term success of your business.

Hiring a consultant will not only help you find a few easy wins to improve your business and increase revenue, but it will also help you accomplish your long-term goals as well.

As a result, hiring a consultant is more about strengthening the foundation of your business than it is about accomplishing a single goal. Often consultants are hired to solve one problem and end up helping you in various areas of your business along the journey to a solution.

Grow Your Business

One Way Or The Other - We Can Help

We have been helping small businesses for a long time. We have a long list of resources, contacts, and expertise to make sure that even if we aren't the right fit for you - we can point you in the right direction.
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If you set up a call with us and don't feel that you learned anything - We'll buy you a coffee to make it up to you.

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Small Business Consulting

We have over 10 years of experience turning problems into solutions and helping businesses scale.