My first experience with consulting was when I hired a consultant for my small family business. We’ll call him Bob, because that was actually his name. Bob helped me a lot. As a semi-retired banker, he worked with me for about $500 a month (this was over a decade ago, so don’t draw any conclusions […]
A blinding flash of the obvious Read Post »
Dealing with Small Business Situations that Get Complicated Because You’re Too Big and Too Small at the Same Time. This is a rough draft describing an issue that has come up a few times in my consulting practice at Nectar Bridge. Country Time Lemonade made the USA Today this summer with an offer to pay
The Lemonade Stand Problem Read Post »
In a previous post I left an issue hanging, and true to form left it hanging about a month (maybe more).* I meant to just hyperlink it, but WP does this trick now where you get a whole block preview of it, like this: And to quote myself on that issue to save you from
The Free Consulting Problem, Part II Read Post »
I well remember when a guy I was working with started talking about doing promotional videos with his cell phone and wound up with thousands of dollars of cameras, tripods, lights, microphones, lenses… I’m trying to avoid doing that. I have, however, decided I needed to be doing videos to promote Nectar Bridge, and also
Playing with Premiere Pro Read Post »
Ironically*, I hope to provide consulting to a consultant soon about a pricing issue. I recently also talked with a friend about a business practice that in my opinion was costing them money with little effect. After discussing it about an hour, initially with an eye toward improving the process, my sage advice could be
The Free Consulting Problem Read Post »