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Which best describes your interest?
Start a Business
Venture Advisory Services can help you develop a small
business idea and minimize your risk. We help you analytically look at a
business idea to make sure you are giving yourself your best shot at success.
Home-based and family-owned businesses are our specialty!
- Entrepreneurial Assessment. Would you like
an honest assessment of whether you are ready to start a business? If
so, Venture Advisory Services offers an analysis of your qualifications and
personal circumstances, as well as an initial opinion on your compatibility
with your business idea that can help you prepare for successful self
employment. An Entrepreneurial Assessment can be conducted over the
phone or via email for $180. Contact us to learn more.
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Business
Plan Development. Everyone thinking seriously about starting a business
should write a business plan. The process of writing the business plan will
help you cover all the details you need to think about, and a business
plan will be required if you need funding for your business.
We can help you prepare or fine tune a business plan by
providing relevant examples, industry data, assistance with financial
projections, and honest feedback, which is something that a computer
software program or workshop can't provide! The cost for Business Plan
Development usually ranges between $900-$1,800, depending on the industry
and your financing requirements. Contact us for more
information.
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Business Assistance
If you have a
home-based business or a small business which you personally manage, and you
need an objective opinion of your business and its potential, then you
might be interested in a Business Tune-Up.
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Business
Tune Up. Let us grill
you with questions for 2 or more hours, provide us recent income/expense data, and we will have a pretty good idea of how your business operates and where
there may be room for improvement. Rarely is there a simplistic answer to
increasing sales or profitability - that's why we take a comprehensive
approach to come up with a list of specific recommendations in areas
such as marketing, merchandising, operations, and financial management. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Contact us to find out more.
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Vocational Services
Venture Advisory Services works with clients of State and Federal vocational
rehabilitation agencies and community development organizations to assess and
help develop self employment. We tailor our work to the needs of both the
client and the agency. For our fee schedule, click
here.
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Self Employment
Assessment. An in-depth interview, market research, and a written
report that provides a “reality check”
to help determine if an individual's skills, motivation, and business idea
can lead to viable employment. Impact of self employment income on
Social Security and other benefits can be examined. If an assessment
indicates an idea is feasible, we can continue to work with the
individual to develop a business plan. If an idea is not feasible,
our report provides documentation to support this opinion. If you are working with a
client who would benefit from a self employment assessment,
contact us.
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Business Plan Development.
We help clients develop or fine tune a written business
plan that details marketing, logistics, legal and insurance considerations,
financial projections, and funding needs. The goal is to use the process of business
plan development to reduce risk. We make every effort to help develop
a business plan that has a reasonable likelihood of success and that is “packaged” to meet agency funding criteria. If you
are working with a client who needs help developing a business plan,
contact us.
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Business Assistance and Monitoring. Once a business is operating, individualized assistance and
monitoring can be provided in areas such as marketing and record keeping and
can greatly increase the likelihood of successful plan closure.
The early months of business start up are critical. If your are working with a client who has a business that needs help,
contact us.
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Self Employment Workshops.
"Survival with Self Employment", a half-day workshop
for people interested in self employment and wanting to replace or augment a fixed income, is offered
on a quarterly basis at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washington,
and can be presented to any group upon request. We also provide customized workshops to groups of
clients and training workshops to counselors on a variety of self employment topics, including
Family-Supported Self Employment for People with Developmental Disabilities.
If you would be interested in having a client attend a workshop or
scheduling a workshop tailored for your organization,
contact us.
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