5 Things You MUST Consider When Hiring a Business Advisor (Client Facing)

You're business advisor and you want to expand your reach and relevance with business-owning clients. Here's how. Client-Facing Marketing Collateral:5 Things You MUST Consider When Hiring a Business Advisor. You can download and add your logo to this proven white paper. Your clients will understand why YOU are the best pro for helping grow profits and transferable value. Ties in nicely with the Strategic Capacity & Business Value Report we shared last week (link below).

Here is the first section; click the image to download a pdf - and grab an editable copy in the Growth-Drive Online Community. 

The following is a sample from the complete white paper:

Who Should Read This?

Within this document, we discuss the problems faced by business executives who want to hire a business advisor. We focus on the importance of: 

1. Getting help that is 100% tailored to your goals… rather than the advisor’s area of expertise
2. Using a robust methodology for analyzing your company’s capacity to deliver your goals
3. Accurately assessing current operations and business value
4. Delivering a plan with detailed tasks 
5. Making sure you get a maximum ROI for your investment in consulting services

We examine the importance of hiring experts who are additive, as opposed to disruptive, focusing on the range of services offered and time spent improving your company (rather than just analyzing it).  

We then focus on the benefits of getting started at low or no cost, with professionals who can tie the work you do directly to the value of your company.  We help you see how business advisors can help create high performance, high value companies, and give you a guide to hiring the right firm.

This guide is written for all business owners and executives who want to get help turning their company –one area at a time—into a best-in-class operation.  It is especially aimed at CEOs, COOs, CFOs, Presidents, Division Managers, and Boards of Directors –and especially anyone who may need to access capital or implement a succession plan in the next 5 years.  The problems discussed are universal and scale from small to large companies.  In short, this document applies to you.

Is there a problem? Do I need to address this?  

Do any of these statements apply to you?

• You are worried about economic uncertainty and inflation
• You are concerned about attracting and retaining skilled employees in a competitive job market
• You are spending too much time at the office, and you’re asking yourself why you can’t get more of the load off of your desk and reliably into the hands of others?
• You are anxious about achieving your current business objectives and targets
• You are grappling with the need to evolve your business model in response to market shifts and stakeholder expectations
• You are finding it challenging to build a cohesive and inclusive culture - especially for remote or hybrid teams
• You need to stay competitive by investing in new technologies and processes, which can be challenging to manage
• You are challenged by maintaining strong customer relationships and loyalty in a competitive market
• You are concerned about how to continue growing your business and team during periods of economic contraction
• You’re worried about what would happen to the business and your family if you were suddenly unable to work
• Do you wonder how to get back to a place where running your company is fun and rewarding?
• Do you wish you could just push a button and magically get a high-performing company?

So What Can You Do?

• Do nothing. You could plug along, doing the same thing—but expecting different results (sounds insane—and we all know it won’t fix itself—it is just deferring the pain).
• Hire. You could hire additional help—but you may not even know what the REAL issue is (think it is sales—when it may be a lack of leads… or you may not know the right skill set to look for)--so you could hire the wrong person (and create another headache).
• Talk to a typical “We’re a Hammer, You’re a Nail’ consulting firm. You could hire a typical consulting firm with lots of talent and experience that’s more focused on hammering their services into your business than they are on your specific intent. Or you might get great advice, but they don’t know how to help you execute.  Or maybe they can help execute —at a massive, non-competitive cost.
  
  

So…  The big question.  How do you get the help you need, discover the real issues holding you back, either strategic or tactical, quickly, and at an affordable price?

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