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Business plan writing for raising capital or to use as a strategy tool - A professionally written business plan can be the required document an angel, venture capitalist or bank must have to provide needed cash to your business...[Read More]

Recruiting of staff - A core competency of Entrepreneurial Consulting is recruiting of staff. Most small businesses either hire staff on the fly without the use of proper steps and end up with less than ideal staff...[Read More]

Marketing strategizing to grow your business - Do you have a written marketing plan for your business? Are you looking for the edge over your competition? Typical small to medium sized businesses and organizations don’t have the resources to employ a full-time director level marketing person...[Read More]

Operations procedures and organizational efficiency - Would you like to run your business more efficiently, help your existing staff to be more productive or improve employee morale?...[Read More]

Financials reviewing and systems creation to cut costs and grow profits - Our experienced team of financial managers can assist in setting up proper accounting procedures including financial reporting, appropriate monthly analysis and collections policies...[Read More]

Management coaching and 24/7 help - Do you feel overwhelmed by your business at times? Do you feel there is no one you can speak with at your level who understands your challenges?...[Read More]

Human Resource assistance on various matters - In addition to our recruiting and staff structuring, Entrepreneurial Consulting also has other offerings...[Read More]

Project Management - We can handle 1x or repeat projects on an outsourced basis. When we do, we can develop manuals for production of products or events or delivery of services that will allow you to more easily manage your business...[Read More]

Business purchase, sale and funding assistance - Entrepreneurial Consulting can help you with research, analysis and negotiations related to the sale or purchase of a business...[Read More]

Vendor selection and negotiating - Our experienced team of business operators can research and negotiate with vendors be it related to equipment, services, office space, telephony or more...[Read More]

Recruiting of staff [Top]
- A core competency of Entrepreneurial Consulting is recruiting of staff. Most small businesses either hire staff on the fly without the use of proper steps and end up with less than ideal staff or use recruiting firms who often charge 30-35% of the employees’ salary and too often do little more than send over candidates they happen to have in their files. When small businesses do the hiring internally, typically it falls on the CEO who should be focusing on bigger picture items or it is put on the shoulders of an office manager who typically is ill prepared for this important role. Entrepreneurial Consulting brings a new option.

For our clients, we interview existing staff to determine the job summary for the open position, select the best places to list the ad, place the ads and reach other creative channels, determine benchmarks to use to evaluate candidates, screen resumes, conduct phone prescreens, perform in-person interviews at your offices, perform job specific testing, check references, help you choose the candidate, provide insight on compensation package, create offer letters and even create orientation and training schedules for the staff once they are brought in. These vital steps distinguish our offerings and lead to the acquisition of strong staff members - your most important asset. (And we can often also provide interim or part-time COO, CMO or CFO coverage, if needed.)

We recently completed hiring a controller for a client and were able to do so at a fraction of the cost of a typical recruiter.

Marketing strategizing to grow your business [Top]
- Do you have a written marketing plan for your business? Are you looking for the edge over your competition? Typical small to medium sized businesses and organizations don’t have the resources to employ a full-time director level marketing person. We can analyze competitors, help you outsource market surveys and design comprehensive strategic marketing plans that either our associates or your team can execute. They can cover print, direct mail, telemarketing and alternative media such as web, pay-per-click and pay-per-call efforts. Our team and partners also have experience in evaluating and training sales people. We can also suggest pricing strategies to maximize your revenue. We can even work with you to develop suggested alternate markets and revenue streams for your business.

We have worked to develop a direct mail book company’s marketing effort, for example.

Operations procedures and organizational efficiency [Top]
- Would you like to run your business more efficiently, help your existing staff to be more productive or improve employee morale? We offer our Operational Assessment where we come into your company, interview staff, evaluate people’s jobs, meet with management and then suggest a list of action items to improve performance, efficiency, job satisfaction and the likelihood of cohesive companywide meeting of corporate goals. We can help with staff structuring and create job descriptions and department and individual goals. Our team can evaluate steps staff should be taking to accomplish their jobs, create documentation for them and develop training manuals for them and future staff. We can also implement the training if you wish. Once this is done, we can even implement and oversee those areas that you need help with on an interim or on an ongoing basis, if you wish.

For one manufacturing client, we found hidden hours in the days of their office staff which we helped put to use on marketing phone calls.

Financials reviewing and systems creation to cut costs and grow profits [Top]
- Our experienced team of financial managers can assist in setting up proper accounting procedures including financial reporting, appropriate monthly analysis and collections policies. If your business is too small to justify hiring a CFO or if you need help on an interim or extra basis, we can help. We can review financials to suggest cost savings. We can speak with your managers, talk to you about your needs and, with our years of experience, generate ideas to help increase cash flow. We can even create and/or review budgets.

One client brought us in to hire a controller and in the process we helped revamp their internal reporting and cut costs.

Management coaching and 24/7 help [Top]
- Do you feel overwhelmed by your business at times? Do you feel there is no one you can speak with at your level who understands your challenges? We can be available to you anywhere from a set meeting once or twice a month to being available on a near 24/7 basis to discuss an immediate challenge. With the monthly sessions, together we create an agenda and meet for a predetermined amount of time. Those meetings can or can not include other management. During that meeting we come up with ideas, strategies and solutions for various business concerns and questions related to staffing, funding, sales, benefits, marketing, business planning, operations, costs and more. If that is all you want our involvement to be at that time, then just knowing that we are coming back at a set 30 days later to discuss progress, brainstorm, strategize and work with you again is a deadline that can help the CEO stay on track.

Without this kind of input, businesses might not get to certain long term goals. These meetings can also be a springboard for your determining other assignments you want/need outsourced help on to lighten your load. We formulate a plan and determine the steps we each need to take to accomplish your goals. We want to be there for you.

With our near 24/7 instant access, one CEO called late one evening to discuss a need by later that same night for a new hire offer letter to be written and another called to discuss how to handle a high ranked employee who had failed to show for work 5 days in a row.

Human Resource assistance on various matters [Top]
- In addition to our recruiting and staff structuring, Entrepreneurial Consulting also has other offerings. Did you ever wonder how to motivate that key employee? We have been brought in to structure compensation packages and can even work to create and conduct standard performance reviews across part or all of a company. We can also research health insurance or 401k plans to reduce costs or enhance employee satisfaction. Additionally, we can work with staff who you have issues with to resolve their challenges, provide them training and improve their performance and job satisfaction.

We helped one client create an employee handbook to address various general operating concerns.

Project Management [Top]
- We can handle 1x or repeat projects on an outsourced basis. When we do, we can develop manuals for production of products or events or delivery of services that will allow you to more easily manage your business and repeatedly deliver success. When we work with you, we perform a comprehensive needs analysis and assessment and data gathering, we then research, determine, discuss, design and develop programs and solutions that you or you and our team together can implement.

When the Wharton Small Business Development Center called us in to put on a business competition for them, after it was successfully completed, we gave them a detailed step by step manual with exhibits and attachments so that the following year no details would be missed and the project could be handled efficiently and easily.

Business purchase, sale and funding assistance [Top]
- Entrepreneurial Consulting can help you with research, analysis and negotiations related to the sale or purchase of a business on your behalf. We have been involved in multiple sales and can help you determine if the acquisition will be a good fit, see if the prospective acquisition has enough long term growth potential, analyze their market and help negotiate the best terms and price on your behalf. On the sale side, we can also help you get the best possible sale price.

A recent early stage tech company brought us in to help advise them regarding venture capital meetings.

Vendor selection and negotiating [Top]
- Our experienced team of business operators can research and negotiate with vendors be it related to equipment, services, office space, telephony or more. Our team can even handle completions of Requests For Proposals for your business. Additionally, by our providing this service, we can be the “bad guys” and not damage the relationship our client may have directly with the service or product provider with whom they will later have to work.

We were able to save a publishing client $300,000 in printing services during a recent project.

Call (610) 457-9563 arrange an initial complimentary consultation to share with us the needs of your business and to learn how we can help.