How Does A Business Owner Create A Competitive Advantage?
By Ken DiPrima
Imagine ten businesses, all providing the same services or products, all selling to the same customers, all drawing from the same labor pool, located on the same street within a half mile stretch. Experience shows that these ten companies will exhibit a wide spectrum of success.
On one end of the spectrum, you’ll find a business which is booming, whose showroom/office/store front is picture perfect, who enjoys the highest level of customer satisfaction, whose profits are greatest, and whose employees are happiest. The community looks to them with civic pride.
On the other end of the spectrum, you’ll find a …
We Have A Music Video Director At CBS!
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Jeff (center) poses with the members of Stryper.
Check out the fan video that Jeff created for Christian metal band, Stryper, as part of a contest to promote one of their new songs, Te Amo. This was his interpretation of a ‘live’ concert video from footage that he personally filmed, recorded, edited/directed.
Jeff’s video was selected as one of the ‘Top Ten Videos’ per Strypers’ panel of judges, won first place for the ‘Live Concert Video’ category via fan voting, and came in second place, overall, in the band’s contest to select a fan created video for …
CBS Reviews: We’re A Better Company
Situation
A client involved in providing products and services for onshore and offshore gas and oil, among other industries, hired Corporate Business Solutions for operational improvements. This client was a bit apprehensive, due to a previous negative experience with another firm, which had taken his money and given nothing in return. “Well, after my consultant had been here for just a short while, I knew that CBS was different. I have learned so much about my business and how to make it a much better company for everyone involved.”
Process
“Our consultant had a great way of listening to people …
CBS Reviews: Prepared For Potential Future Sale
Situation
Corporate Business Solutions was hired for two reasons by this global trade management firm, in existence for 30 years, “our need for better management tools to improve operational performance, in order to position the company for a potential future sale, and secondly, the presentations made by your sales person, business analyst and consulting team convinced me that CBS had the requisite resources and professionalism to handle the job.”
Process
“There was a substantial amount of work performed by our Corporate Business Solutions consultant, addressing many of the challenges that we faced.” This included new systems and procedures related to …
CBS Reviews: A Better Businessman, Thanks To CBS
Situation
“Before Corporate Business Solutions came, I was at a total loss for ways to manage and control the business aspect of my business,” shared this owner of local drug store, which has been serving the community for over 40 years. “All I have ever been trained and educated to do was to be a pharmacist. With hard economic times hitting the medical field, specifically pharmacy, I knew that I had to become a better businessman and learn how to run and manage my company more efficiently.”
Process
The CBS consultant “has been a very good mentor and educator. He …
Opportunity Is What You Make Of It
By Ken DiPrima
As a retired employee, I’d like to share some feelings and attitudes about my experiences working for Corporate Business Solutions (CBS).
CBS, from my perspective, is a company that sells exceptional opportunities for success.
From the very beginning of my long association, the company has always been primarily a fountain of ever-flowing opportunity, both for its clients and for its employees.
CBS clients, owners of small to medium sized businesses, are afforded valuable and essential opportunities through a list of services that includes all of the vital tools which allow companies to prosper. CBS’ expertise within each product offering is …
Bonding Over Baseball!
Once again, the Corporate Business Solutions team was treated to a glorious summer day of baseball—here’s a shout out and a big thank you to President Tyler Burgess! We left business behind and focused on strikes, balls, and homeruns. It was great to reconnect in the informal atmosphere of the ballpark!
Our future’s so bright, we have to wear shades!
Big screen TVs in the clubhouse made certain that
we didn’t miss any of the action while fueling up!
How Lack Of Proper Management Systems Built ‘The Nightmare On Las Vegas Boulevard’
By Tom Ryan
We tell business owners that the best managed companies are “systems dependent” rather than “people dependent.” This is a truism, for both small and large companies. One of the best examples, of why this is true, can be found in the story of the ill-fated Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas.
It’s a tale of how a construction company failed to develop the necessary methods, systems, controls and procedures to ensure the quality of its work, causing a half of a billion dollar mistake—yes, half a billion dollars!
The Harmon Hotel and Residences was meant to be part of MGM’s $9 …
CBS Reviews: We Thought It Was Too Good To Be True
Situation
The client, a provider of services for the Oil industry, was approached by Corporate Business Solutions exactly at their time of need. The owners had just been discussing “how we were ready for a change, an adventure, a sellout, or something different than what we had been doing.”
They had reached a point of being fed up with the headaches, stress and responsibility of owning their business. “We felt like we kept working harder and harder for a lesser and lesser reward. We were lost, not knowing how to make things better.”
It was only a couple days after …
CBS Reviews: Our Business Outgrew Us
Situation
Before Corporate Business Solutions arrived, this commercial construction industry client, in business for over twelve years, was “out of control with our recent growth.”
“Our business outgrew us,” stated the client.
Process
The Corporate Business Solutions consultant “has spent about five weeks here with us. First, let me say that he has been a joy to with to work. He has taught my husband, all our staff, and myself, all so much. He has never made us feel like we should have already known any of it, but he always was encouraging to all of us.”
“He cleaned up …