Business Growth Foundational Services
At Budd Consolidated, we're driven to provide our clients with the best possible experience when working with us. When most people think of Coaching or Consultation sessions for entrepreneurship or business development, they usually just picture siting down and talking with someone to get some advice. Budd Consolidated was created to help provide aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners with not just guidance, but tools, skills, and a deeper understanding on how to build success for their business. So simply sitting down for a chat isn't enough. To give every Budd Consolidated client the best possible chance at building their own success, we pair our Coaching/Consultation sessions with other essential services! Keep reading to learn a little more about some of our more common "Growth Essentials" and how they can benefit you and your business!
Business Health Check
Building a business in any field can be extremely complicated. One service that tends to go hand in hand with our Coaching/Consultation services is a simple Business Assessment. In most cases, this session would occur shortly after the Individual Assessment session. Once we've ironed out the fundamentals for you as an individual, its time to move on to making sure that your business has all of its bases covered. This provides you with a snapshot overview of your business as a whole. By providing an easy to digest summary of all of the advantages, assets, challenges, or missing links that your business has on hand, you'll walk away with a much clearer understanding of where to focus your efforts first and how to chart a path forward. This of course can come coupled with continued Coaching/Consultation support or related services to ensure that once you have a better grasp on the needs, assets, and shortcomings of your business, we can create a plan of action!
Individual Assessment
An "individual" assessment is often paired with the first few coaching sessions. This service is often included by default when enrolling in coaching sessions with Budd Consolidated. This is simply because coaching sessions focus on the individual who has booked the session to develop the necessary fundamentals that come with stepping into their new role as an entrepreneur or business owner. Starting and running a small business or becoming an independent contractor requires you to think, act, and move differently than you would when working a 9-5 job. Many people, especially newer entrepreneurs & small business owners struggle with this in the beginning. Not because they're incapable or unfit for their new role. But simply because they've never had someone to "show them the ropes" or coach them through the basics of entrepreneurship.
Website Design & Development
Almost every small business needs a website if they hope to have a shot at being competitive in their respective market. In many cases, a small business doesn't need a website with all the bells and whistles in the early stages of their process. More often than not, they simply need to focus on building some sort of digital or online presence beyond a social media account. Although social media is an extremely helpful marketing tool, it doesn't make up for a web-based platform such as a website, that is completely dedicated to the needs of your business.
Business Plan
It should come as no surprise to anyone that when trying to build anything complex, having some sort of blueprint or plan to follow makes a world of difference. That's exactly what a business plan is. It's a blueprint for the success and direction of your business. Although business plans typically lay out the roadmap for a length of time such as 6 months to 2 years. They can be created or designed for specific undertakings that you or your business may come across such as expanding the number of operational locations or adding a new product to your line. For this reason, a business plan often comes into play once a person has graduated from Coaching to Consultation sessions. We'll work together to build a business plan document that fits the exact immediate, short-term, and possibly even long-term goals to bring your business to higher levels of success!
Image/Branding Coaching
On the front end, it may seem trivial to some when compared to the other assets and essential services that come to mind when considering all of the pieces that make up a successful business. But creating a solid brand and understanding the effect that an positive or negative image can have on your business is one of the most important fundamentals that you need to consider early on. This remains true whether you're an independent content creator, contractor, small business owner, or even someone who has seen the first signs of success and is preparing to expand out beyond their current borders. Branding is more than just a logo, and your image is more than simply how you dress. It's the totality of how you present yourself and your business to the world. Its how you and your employees conduct yourselves when speaking to your customers, clients, or even just the world in general. For any new or aspiring entrepreneur/business owner, brand & image coaching is an essential piece to get a solid grasp on before moving on to bigger and greater things.
Use Of Funds Document
Have you been experiencing a constant case of not having the revenues that your business has generated being available when and where you need them most? Sadly, financial strategy and discipline have been left out of most commonly accessible learning platforms or institutes, and this hold to be even more true when it comes to managing the finances of growing/running a business. This is where a "use of funds" document comes in handy. Think of it as a preset plan of how and where to allocate the revenues that you and you business produce. Thus ensuring that the money goes where its needed so it can serve a designated purpose and the machine that is your business can keep functioning properly so you can build the momentum needed to achieve sustainable success! This is another service that can be included alongside our consultation services and has a wide range of real-world applications that help your business!
Business Infrastructure Design
As your small business continues to grow, you'll find that you literally can't do everything on your own anymore. As the demand for your products or services continue to rise, you'll have less and less time to focus on the other aspects of your business such as customer communications, order fulfillment, sales, and quality assurance. In order to ensure that the continued growth of your business remains as a benefit to you and not a hindrance, you have to establish an infrastructure to which you will build a team into. Although this task can seem quite complicated at first, we'll work together and help you build an infrastructure design for your business that is not only dynamic, but can be systematically implemented at stages which support the immediate, short term, and long term needs of your business.
S.O.P & Other Essential Documents
An additional and important service that can be included in your consultation plan is the creation of essential documents such as an S.O.P. for your business. An S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedures) is an extremely important and often overlooked document or set of documents that many small business owners don't learn about until they have to do damage control and resolve an issue caused by an employee not knowing what to do or attempting to complete a task in the wrong order. Once you've designed an infrastructure for your business, which typically consists of departments and department heads to run said departments, you need to take a closer look at explaining how to run the newly implemented departments for your business. If throughout your consultation session with Budd Consolidated, we find that you could benefit from other essential documents we can easily add them to your plan as well.
Team Training
Every growing business needs a strong team of leaders & employees to see the vision through. Simply having a wire frame for a wonderful and efficient infrastructure for your business and essential documents that lay out simple instructions on how to repeat the proven success process of your business isn't enough. Your team needs to be trained and coached on how to work together. This holds especially true for the leaders of your business. This could apply to board members, managers, or smaller team leaders in your business. Interpersonal communication either for a team or in between departments is absolutely crucial for the continued success of your business. If you choose to add this service into your package with us, we'll set up recurring sessions designed to help train your staff in how to work as a team by improving interpersonal communication skills, providing guidance on effective division of labor, and various other important methods that drive continued success for a budding business.
Presentation Training
Sometimes in order for a business to truly flourish, it needs some extra start up funds. There are a number of ways in which a business owner could pursue to get the necessary funding. One of the most common methods is to pitch the selling of equity in your company or some form of elongated loan process with a private investor. In order to succeed in presenting your business and vision for the future as a solid investment opportunity you have to know how to give a great presentation. More than simple mannerisms as an orator, you need to have an understanding of what the potential investor is going to want to know about your business idea and how you aim to bring it to fruition. By adding this service to your coaching or consultation plan, you'll get direct guidance and direction in not only what to present, but also how to present different aspects of your business to give you the best possible chance at securing your funding.
