"Starting your own business and running it in a way that is consistent with your personal values can be both the most challenging and the most rewarding choice you can make in your work life."
Claude Whitmyer, co-founder meaningfulWork.com
What Is Good Business Advice?
Good Business Advice helps you start or run a business that takes good care of your employees, provides high quality products and services, and still makes a profit.
With Good Business Advice you:
- make your business "recession proof"
- improve your management skills
- grow and change with the least pain
Good Business Advice can help you:
- expand or sell a successful business
- create better policies and procedures
- develop a business or marketing plan that works
- find promotional methods that are more effective than display advertising
Good Business Advice improves your business with:
- better information handling
- effective time management
- reliable record keeping
- stronger financial controls
- enhanced relationships with suppliers, subcontractors, and employees
Good Business Advice can do all this and help you stay true to your personal values at the same time.
Good Business Advice uses one-to-one tutorial sessions and a hands-on approach to help you find and implement solutions to your marketing, management, and personnel issues. Using personalized attention, a computerized resource referral system, and a network of like-minded consultants, teachers, and advisors, Good Business Advice is unmatched by any consulting firm, small or large.
If you or someone you know wants to own a good business---a business that pays the bills and is good for people and the environment, a business that is not only successful but also gives you more political and ethical freedom, a business that gives you the room to be who you really are---then Good Business Advice can help.
How Has Good Business Advice Been Used?
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- To fill a temporary role as chief operating officer for the Frame of Mind chain of framing stores during a critical growth period, assisting in business plan preparation, raising capital, and documenting and improving sales, personnel, and management systems.
- To help the Alameda County Housing Authority revise an existing job description to attract computer professionals into lower paying social services position.
- To facilitate a meeting between Apple Computer and users' groups from around the country to repair a damaged reputation and build a future working relationship.
- To develop a small business seminar and trade show for Pacific Bell.
- To provide Artventure, a mail-order business selling natural fiber clothing, advice on financial and marketing strategies.
- To consult with Crow Canyon Institute on how to establish a retail store as part of an environmental education program.
- To counsel Hummingbird Associates, a dental practice consulting firm, on the best choices for telecommunication via computer, phone, and FAX.
- To create a training program for faculty, staff, and students in the use of computers at New College of California.
- To design and implement a computerized tracking system for a proactive community relations program at Pacific Bell.
- To brainstorm a start-up mail-order business selling "Simple Living" products with Paradox Enterprises.
- To train middle-managers at Pacific Bell how to telecommute via computer.
- To act as a resource for Taylor Management Associates at a strategic planning conference designed to help The Independent Bankers of Colorado in surviving the "big bank" takeover strategies.
- To consult with Pacific Bell on a seminar about "alternative work options (job sharing, flextime, telecommuting)" following the October '89 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- To teach basic business finance to hundreds of entrepreneurs enrolled in the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center's training programs.
- To advise and counsel hundreds of small and micro businesses, including Accountants, Acupuncturists, Architects, Archivists, Artists, Bodyworkers, Bookkeepers, Consultants, Chiropractors, Dancers, Doctors, Editors, Financial Planners, Floor Finishers, Historians, Lawyers, Mail-Order Companies, Manufacturers, Market Researchers, Martial Arts Instructors, Musicians, Painters, Plumbers, Photographers, Printers, Publishers, Retailers, Stock Brokers, Teachers, Weavers, and Writers on the full spectrum of management and marketing issues..
How Much Does Good Business Advice Cost?
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Fees for Good Business Advice are either project-based or hourly. The hourly rates are based on the size of your organization:
- Less than $5 million gross annual revenues or fewer than 10 employees: $100 an hour
- $5 million to $25 million gross annual revenues or 11 to 150 employees: $200 an hour
- $25 million or more in annual revenues, more than 150 employees: $400 an hour
- Project-based fees: Contingent upon project scope.
If you want to start a new business or improve an existing one, call for an initial 15-minute evaluation over the phone to discuss your needs and determine how Good Business Advice can help. There is no charge if you choose not to make an appointment for further advice.
How Do I Arrange For Good Business Advice?
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For more information, write to us on paper or by email. To schedule an appointment, please call.
meaningfulWork.com
801 Van Ness Avenue, Suite E433
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-648-2667 Office
415-902-2548 Cell
415-502-5416 Fax
claude[at]meaningfulwork[dot]com