One of the things I enjoy most when consulting with a business owner or executive is the discovery process. With the right questions, it’s possible to drill down quickly and pick some of the key issues the client is wrestling with. The discovery process determines ways to overcome what’s holding their company back. Some typical issues are: staffing, expansion, finances, potential partners and leads. It’s great when you have a few issues because you can select the most important ones.…
Business Consulting Strategies
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Case Study – Retail and Impacts of Covid-19
Asset Consulting has been involved with a number of retail clients over the years. The impacts felt from Covid-19 have been difficult, to be sure. In many cases, the initial downside from this pandemic caused retail to all but shut down operations. Like most of us, retail businesses had no idea this would go on so long. It appeared initially that if we were able to weather a couple of months, things would turn around.
As it turned out of …
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What To look For in a Business Consultant
There are different Business Consulting styles to consider today. Some are more experienced in certain aspects of business and some are more generalists. At Asset Business Consulting, we focus on entrepreneurs, retail owners, franchisees and corporations.
Here are things to think about when hiring a Business Consultant:
- Make sure there is a shared mindset with your needs – the consultant should be able to empathize with your business goals in order to get the best results.
- A Business Consultant should
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Best Business Practices
Jointly, StudioIMI and Asset Business Consulting have been dynamic businesses since 2003. We started this company in Kelowna, migrated it to Victoria in 2010 and ultimately moved offices to Qualicum Beach in 2017 .
The business has been both office-based and home-based since 2003. We love the option of working from home. Our clients are spread out across North America and now we find it makes little sense to have expensive offices when clients were located thousands of miles away. …
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Impact of a Business
At Asset Business Consulting, we get calls from a variety of owners in different business segments. We’ve created Business Plans for technology markets, mining markets, retail, manufacturers, hospitality and automotive. Most Business Plans tend to follow many of the same principles regardless of the market, and the basic approach remain the same.
The Focus:
We are helping owners pull together sales strategies, product portfolios, financials, personnel as well as marketing which covers: social media strategies, websites, brochures, SEO, PPC and …
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Business Plans and Mentors
Have you owned your business for a while? If you have, you likely have a business associate, a friend or a family member that you share information with about your business.
I have two good friends who allow me to share ideas, projects and other business opportunity information. One friend was a VP of Sales for a Property Developer. He worked all around the world, travelling to many countries just the same as I did working for Intel. He is …
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Business Plan Financials
It may be difficult for owners to share their company’s financial information. If the business has been run as a sole proprietorship and the owner(s) keep the information very private, this is often the case. It is as personal as a person’s net worth, investment strategies and expenses.
I started my first company in 1997 and was very proud of my small successes and wanted to share this with friends and business associates. We’ll discuss “Mentors” in a future article …
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Business Plan Consulting
Asset Consulting has been providing business plan consulting for a variety of businesses. This includes: mining, technology, retail, automotive, associations, service providers and distribution companies. The reasons can be both simple and complex. A company may be expanding, recovering from a major setback and need to take a fresh look at their business modelling. Smart CEOs realize that an outside consultant who can take a different perspective, is more likely able to provide an objective look to get the business …
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Finding Target Clients
Asset Business Consulting has experience working with entrepreneurs in many different markets. We have put together campaigns for the hospitality industry, stratas, publishing, retail, non-profits, technology companies, real estate, transportation, artists, agriculture, education, newcomer organizations, telecom and others.
Over the past twenty years, we helped 300+ clients with branding, marketing, sales and the launch of new businesses. Concepts continue to evolve regularly. In fact, we’ve been contracted to run various technical assets of every type: website design, social media, …
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Strata Web Sites – Part 2
We addressed some of the high level issues of Strata Properties recently. Included in the blog were the advantages to strata owners when they were selling their units with a strata website in place. We also covered the benefits of having strata documentation in one place.
In this blog we want to cover several other aspects:
- A Calendar to track important dates for owners and executives:
This is something that can be very helpful because there are important things to