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FROM THE DESK OF THE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXPERT

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sO...You’re a Business Consultant, What Exactly Do You Do?

More often than not, Business Consultants have difficulty in explaining what they do for a living.  To better facilitate answering this question, the Business Consultant should always answer from the vantage point of being in the Client's shoes.  When addressing this query,  prior to engaging a potential Client to give any sort of consultant advice or small business help; simply ask yourself why companies (small businesses and the like) would hire a Business Consultant as an expert at all?  Wouldn't it be logical for the small business to just solve their own problems?  This notion is easier said than done, as we've found during our small business market research.

I CAN SOLVE MY OWN PROBLEMS, THANKS. 

First. An Extra Pair of (Capable) Hands, Never Hurt.
Problems that Small Business Owners need solving are really important. However, it is not often that Small Business Owners have the time, resources or energy to focus on every single one of them and resolve them...in a timely manner. Small Businesses still have to focus on quality execution methods and their day-to-day operations.  Having the adequate external small business help,   functioning as key component, is similar to what a Business Consultant can provide. This allows execution of adequate things on their behalf,which completely makes sense in the grand scheme of things. Hiring new employees to fill these gaps, may not be in the budget and therefore doesn’t always make sense for the business owner. Whether this scenario is adaptive to a long term or short term project, identifying key resources in an expeditious manner can be a detriment to the small businesses’ successful execution of such project.  Once the team is in place; maintaining and managing that same talent in-house will pose an additional layer of potentially problematic areas that distract from the end result.
For example, our business consulting group has a core competency of utilizing existing metrics relative to your industry to propel your profitability. No “gut feeling” business consulting here. It is all based on analysis, data trends and metrics. In house expertise of this kind would typically be called a business and sales analyst expert.
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NO "GUT FEELING" BUSINESS CONSULTING HERE. 

Therefore, a capable small business consulting group would serve an entrepreneur, small business or a corporation as a temporary, highly skilled, full-time employee of the company. Generally speaking, it is often more business savvy, economical and efficient to use a small business consultant,  than to experience the extreme learning curve of hiring someone new. A Business Consultant is constantly switching tasks and often posses a natural aptitude of instinct and adaptability. Saying this, Business Consultants are often, we’re used to the fast learning curve, and on-boarding to project, task and challenge is easier. Small Businesses consultants are available as a convenience factor to entrepreneurs, small businesses and companies. Showing that it is not a requirement for small businesses pull their employees away from their actual jobs, in order to achieve desired success of a sudden nectar matter expert consultant.

SAVVY, ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT WAY TO DO BUSINESS. 

Second. All Small Businesses Constantly Need an Objective Look.  This is typically referred to, in many industries as a “Cold Eyes Review”.   As I understand that this terminology is not similar to “shop talk” at your favorite beauty salon, barber or with your local bartender. Often times similar to how you would turn to friends and family for their opinions, during a difficult time in your social, professional or entrepreneurial life.  Small Business frequently need this level of expert input also, especially when making tough decisions. Often times, these same Business Owners have an idea on how to solve the problem they are facing but want to make sure that what they’re thinking is correct. Business Owners often also believe that they are so close to the challenge that they’re missing the obvious answer.  So, they often  turn to business consultants to come in, evaluate and provide input. But this isn’t just any input. Business Consultants work with many different companies, many different industries, and solve many different problems.  It is likely that the Business Consultant has worked through this problem in the past with another small business. Therefore, they can really provide a unique and valid perspective to solve the issue at hand. Usually based on what the Business Consultant has seen work for other small businesses.  This sentiment works well for vice versa, the things that don’t work also make the list of Business Consultant expertise.  The Business Consultants’ expertise and experience will bring new and innovative ideas to the evaluation of the problematic area.   

SOLVE THE ISSUE AT HAND. 

Majority of instances bring small business challenges to the forefront that clients did not see during their own evaluation,typically due to the “rose colored” glasses syndrome. The small businesses’ typically do not have access to a highly specialized skill set in their own resource pool. Outsourcing via a Business Consultant is an attractive opportunity to counteract the lack of adequate resources.  Therefore,employing a business consulting firm, will give the small business owner direct access to a group of professionals that have skills ranging from business strategies, to finance, cyber security  information technology (IT) consulting and more. These highly specialized people would not only be expensive to hire for small businesses separately, but the company might not have enough work to keep said employees busy year round. Business Consultants are here to offset the downtime and gaps in demand, allowing Business Owners to bring in skill sets on demand, as needed.

business strategy with business consultants.

Third. Dirty Work Without the Dirty Hands.  Small Business typically work on controversial tasks or projects that incorporate an insane level of difficulty for them to make decisions or take the necessary actions.  Specifically when it is difficult to pose a helpful resource without getting wrapped up in the emotions or politics, of the business at hand. Your small business can bring in a business consultants to do some of the controversial, restructuring and emotion-based work. This third party cold eyes approach has its beneficial vantage points in the eyes of a small business.
Proper and effective utilization of a consultant’s expertise can propel any small business, entrepreneurs and companies in beneficial and magnanimous ways. Consultants are natural born problem solvers where they take pride in continuously finding resolution into small business related complex situations. These resolutions, in turn, rear an open communication of business growth and progress.