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strategic alliance

Seattle based Strategic Alliance Consulting provides network system architecture and application solutions to medium and large scale businesses across the country.

I am providing Strategic Alliance with strategy consulting which includes financial planning, marketing, and organization development.

 

Business Plan and Pitch Deck for Listing Website

BizBoards came to us to create a business plan and pitch deck for their listing website. Their website improves the online marketplace for key business activities by creating a simple affordable one-stop-shop.  As of now, customers are paying large fees to use an unattractive interface to find/advertise work, investments, business sales, and partnerships.  BizBoards streamlines this once-difficult process with a sleek, effective, and powerful solution.

Your Startup Guru prepared a business plan and pitch deck that allowed them to secure financing and attract team members for their launch.

Contact us today for a business plan or pitch deck for your business!

Page One

Today is page one of a 365-page book. What will you write in yours? Whether it is a sentence or paragraphs, each day is an opportunity to write the story of your life. Make it a good one.

Contact us today to get started on the book you have always wanted to write.

Live by the sales projection, die by the sales projection

Creators of the board game The Contender: The Game of Presidential Debate raised $140k on Kickstarter but ended up $40k in debt due to inaccurately predicting future sales.  This caused them to order more games than they could sell and ultimately caused them to go into the red for some time.

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So how do you predict sales?  Forecasting is as much art as it is science, finding a right method that is accurate will greatly enhance the efficiency and profitability of any business:  over-ordering materials, under-allocating resources, etc. all undermine a company’s operations.

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The selection of a method depends on many factors—the context of the forecast, the relevance and availability of historical data, the degree of accuracy desirable, the time period to be forecast, the cost/ benefit (or value) of the forecast to the company, and the time available for making the analysis.

When a company forecasts for a particular product, it must consider the stage of the product’s life cycle for which it is forecasting. The availability of data and the possibility of establishing relationships between the factors depend directly on the maturity of a product, and hence the life-cycle stage is a prime determinant of the forecasting method to be used.

All Your Startup Guru business plans come with projected financial statements.  We use a combination of industry growth data, historical sales data (if the client has any), seasonal adjustments, advertising expenditures, and other factors pertinent to the specific client.

Which method is right for you?  Contact us here and let’s figure out how to plan for your company’s future.

Great Small Business Saturday

Shop Small Saturday - Your Startup Guru

Small Business Saturday saw a record 112 million shoppers this year, setting a new record for the retail event.  This was a 13% increase over last year’s SBS.

Part of this increase is greater awareness with 72 percent of U.S. consumers now know about Small Business Saturday. That’s a slight uptick from the 70 percent in 2015.  Additionally, almost nine in 10 Americans view small businesses favorably, according to a poll conducted on behalf of the Public Affairs Council.

Business Consulting for Shrink Wrap Company

Your Startup Guru provided business consulting for Shrink Wrap Pros, a commercial shrink wrap company based in Ventura, CA. Their customers require cars, boats, helicopters, etc., sealed in a polymer wrap.

Your Startup Guru helped Shrink Wrap Pros expand with their enterprise and CRM software needs, including making the transition from Excel to Access.  We also helped them improve their budgeting by refining their contribution margin calculations.

If you’re in Ventura and need any large items wrapped, give them a call!

Contact us today if you need help with your budgeting needs.

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