Business Strategy
Strategy here means your own numbers, read properly, turned into a small number of decisions you can act on this quarter. Not a plan in a binder. The work starts from what your business actually did, because that is the only evidence either of us has.
Who this is for.
- You are busy all year and cannot see what it earned you.
- You have not raised prices in years and are not sure what would happen if you did.
- Revenue triples in summer and vanishes in November, and every year you handle it from scratch.
- You want to grow and do not know which part of the business to grow.
Exactly what you get.
Where the money is actually made
Revenue and cost broken down far enough to see which work pays and which work is subsidised by the rest of it.
A pricing read
What your current prices leave you after real cost, and what a change would do at your actual volume.
A plan for the season
What the good months have to set aside for the quiet ones, written down before the good months arrive rather than after.
The leaks
Fees, duplicate tools, unbilled work, terms nobody renegotiated. The small recurring things that add up quietly.
Two or three decisions, in order
Not twenty. The short list of things that would change the numbers most, with the reasoning attached so you can disagree with it.
How the work runs.
- 1A conversationWhat you want the business to do for you, and the decision you are closest to making.
- 2The numbers, properlyI work through the actuals. If the books will not support the analysis, I say so before taking the work.
- 3The read, in plain languageWhat the numbers say, what they do not say, and the short list of decisions worth making.
- 4Back to it laterA quarter on, we check what the decisions did. A read nobody revisits was entertainment.
What it costs.
Either a fixed price for the piece of work, or included in a monthly arrangement. Quoted after the first conversation.
There is no hourly billing and no onboarding fee. You will have the number before you commit to anything.
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The finish line is a year-end with nothing to catch up on.
A free call to start. Tell me what is going on and I will tell you honestly whether I can help.
Working with owners anywhere in the United States.