Business Development Groups

I host Business Development Groups around the Puget Sound area as a way to spur business growth, create jobs, help entrepreneurs succeed, and foster economic growth. 

A Business Development Group is a weekly meeting of entrepreneurs and business professionals that are dedicated to helping each other succeed using a combination of techniques from manager's meetings, advisory board discussions, mastermind groups, and business consulting.  More

Planning To Succeed

For most business owners, their business is their single largest income producing asset.  Unfortunately, few business owners run their business the same way they run the rest of their life.  The truth is, few business owners have a plan for their business.

That's why I call my consulting services, Planning to Succeed.  Planning to Succeed can include business planning and mentoring, life coaching, financial statement analysis, budgeting or a number of other techniques I use to help business owners succeed.  More

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Business Intellegence

Do you have critical business information located in different silos in your company?  Do you have data in your accounting system, your CRM or e-mail program, and Excel spreadsheets and wish you could get data from each of these sources?

Business Intelligence eliminates silos of information and tribal knowledge from Corporatations.  More

Recent Articles

The Strategic Use of Overhead Allocations

Too many companies misunderstand overhead allocation and fail to use it to its full potential.  They simply apply overhead in a standard GAAP approved method that will satisfy the IRS; the CPA doing your financial statement; and the external reporting requirments.  As management accountants, they fail to see the valuable interal uses of overhead allocation and fail to find the strategic value of  overhead allocations.  More

 Why do Businesses Fail?

According to statistics compiled by the Small Business Administration, 97% of all businesses fail within the 1^st five years.  This is an ominous statistic in any economy, but even more frightening in this current economy that encourages entrepreneurship.  More

A Great Time for Entrepreneurs

The new economy favors entrepreneurs and the innovation that entrepreneurs bring.  We know that the economy has changed.  What worked in the nineties will no longer work.  Nobody has figured out what the new economy will look like, however we know that when everything settles down, it's going to be different.  So who's going to figure out what it takes to be successful in the new economy?  It will be the new entrepreneurs. More