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CBS Reviews: Handling Our Growing Pains
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Situation
A general contracting firm, specializing in commercial construction such as restaurant and office build outs, hired Corporate Business Solutions to deal with the repercussions from a rapid growth spurt during the previous year.
“We learned that we could not keep up with our growth, accurately. Not being able to handle the amount of work that we had, properly, made it difficult for me to go out and find work for the future. Many mistakes were being made from every end of the company, making it hard to figure out how they were being made.
As a business owner, …
CBS Consulting Reviews: The Business Is No Longer Run As A One Man Show
Situation
From a modest start as a small oilfield meter repair shop over forty years ago, this energy industry business had grown from an “average of 19 employees to 37 employees, in the past year. I purchased two more buildings and thought that I was ready for expansion. Only, I was a mom and pop shop, running the entire business on my shoulders.
Approximately nine months into this new venture, I found myself over my head. I was losing money due to poor management strategies and lack of basic business principles. I was watching my cash go out and ended …
Corporate Business Solutions Reviews: More Organized & Efficient!
Situation
The owner of a construction contracting firm, specializing in glass installation for residential and commercial customers for over 30 years, engaged Corporate Business Solutions to help the business become better organized.
Process
First, the CBS analyst presented a plan; then, the CBS consultant arrived the next day and started working with the owner and his staff to put that plan into action.
“We have implemented a new computer system and she has trained us on how to handle invoicing, how to save our customers money on sales tax, how to run several reports and how to back-up the …
CBS Consulting Reviews: Implemented The Checks & Balances That We Were Lacking
Situation
An innovative agricultural equipment manufacturing firm with numerous R&D breakthroughs and patents in the industry, operating for over 30 years, looked for Corporate Business Solutions to provide the knowledge to take the business to the next level.
Process
CBS Consulting was able to evaluate the current business plans and activities, management and software infrastructure, and install a dashboard system to allow the owners to gauge the progress being made towards their productivity, marketing and sales goals. Their consultant took “the time to first understand our business, our family issues, and, then, helped to implement the checks and balances that …
CBS Reviews: Turned Weakness Into Strength
Situation
Even before the start of this Corporate Business Solutions engagement, it was necessary for the CBS representative to cross the rifts that had formed between the three owners of this well established (over 40 years) manufacturer of commercial signage. He “held up under hours of uncomfortable dialogue between the owners … until we finally agreed to hire CBS.” The second generation owners direly needed training on how to work together and balance out each other’s strengths and weaknesses as a management team in order to keep the business running.
“As our company was entering the fourth quarter, we found …
Corporate Business Solutions Reviews: Moving Forward With Confidence & Clarity
Situation
A client in the energy industry for over 50 years, operating as a wholesale distributor of petroleum products, hired Corporate Business Solutions to modernize their financial reporting system.
“Here, we pride ourselves on our tedious bookkeeping and accounting reports. Billing statements, bookkeeping, and accounting reports play a vital role in the daily organization of the business. With our growth, however, and that of the competitive market along with newer technologies coming to the market, we found that our company had outdated and inadequate accounting practices.
We needed help!”
Process
Their business consultant “opened our eyes to the reorganization and …
CBS Reviews: Working Together To Develop A Profitable Future
Situation
A home furnishing retailer with three locations, engaged retail Corporate Business Solutions’ services for a turn-around project. After being in business close to 20 years, “from a start-up retail operation to a multi-million dollar company, we are nearly bankrupt and suffer from severe Cash Flow challenges. We also have family and a divorce between the owners, who both still work in the company, which presents its own unusual circumstances. All in all, we do not have the best environment to worth with for a turn around, much less a successful business.”
Process
Their CBS business consultant has “filtered through …
CBS Reviews: We Now Have The Tools To Grow & Evolve
Situation
Corporate Business Solutions was the first experience with business consulting for this plumbing contractor needing to deal with growing pains.
“I feel that it has been a great match for someone at my stage of growth in business. In the last few years, my business has increased significantly, but it has been operating inefficiently for much of that time. We had been putting out fires, but not really moving forward.”
Process
The client worked closely with his CBS consultant and praised his demeanor as “thoughtful, attentive, calm and friendly–even under stressful circumstances and working with difficult people.”
Further, “he …
CBS Reviews: Well Worth The Investment
Situation
A full service distributor of packaging equipment and supplies required Corporate Business Solutions for a software conversion project among other business enhancements.
Process
“We were a little apprehensive at first, before we began, regarding the cost, but as it progressed, we discovered that we really needed a great deal of assistance to improve our business practices.
The biggest help will be the implementation of QuickBooks that will replace our complicated and costly software. Please feel free to warn any of your other clients not to use that software, as it was a royal pain in the behind. You helped …
CBS Reviews: Getting By Was Getting Old
Situation
The owner of a machine shop specializing in custom metal fabrication engaged Corporate Business Solutions to change the way that he ran his business. “I started the company ten years ago, just me, some welding machines and very little money. We were now up to thirteen employees and $1.5m in revenue, but still experiencing cash flow issues. We were ‘getting by,’ but that was getting old, as we were all working too hard to just stay afloat.”
Process
When the CBS consultant came in, “the first thing he did was to remove me from the day-to-day duties of running …