Base Camp

Climbing a mountain and growing a business are really not that different. You need to assemble a solid team that you can trust at all times, the planning of the ascent is one of the major keys to victory, and you need experience on the mountains - someone who is not vested in the team’s summit goal, but insuring that the team has qualified, unfettered advice, delivered frankly and with candor. You also need experienced climbers, favorable weather, and a willingness to avail yourself of established routes, taking notes from those who have gone before – successes and failures, and you need to evaluate each for lessons and advice. Finally, you need a bit of luck.

BizSherpa’s goal is to help you achieve your own summit, even if you are unsure what that is. Many times entrepreneurs are so so caught up in reacting to the day-to-day demands of their business, they haven’t taken the time to really plan, innovate, and examine what the end goals are.  It has often been said that most business people fail because they spend far too much time working in their business and not enough time working on their business.  How can you possibly get where you are going if you don’t have a map to point the way? How can you utilize a map if you don’t have a destination? Are there better or alternative routes to reach your destination more quickly or enjoyably?  These are two areas that BizSherpa often addresses within our initial help and advice; The creation of both shorter term strategic sales and marketing plans and a longer term 5 year business plan that spells out significant milestones, the route to hit these marks, and the prices of success or failure. Sometimes luck has its own way of rewarding those who are prepared to receive it.

With an innovative network of business and entrepreneurial Sherpa’s with hundreds of years of business experience spanning multiple disciplines, multiple geography’s and multiple specialties, BizSherpa is uniquely positioned to help you with almost any tactical or strategic need you can imagine. We are not a search firm, yet we place new employees with our clients on a routine basis; we are not a temporary agency, but several of our Sherpa’s have gone on to fill roles with our customers; we are not venture capitalists, but we have resources that can help you develop business plans and connect you with capital resources throughout the world; BizSherpa is obsessed with helping both you and your organization find, map, and scale your own summits, no matter what they might be.

Most often, we initially assist in setting up the sales and marketing methodologies that give an organization the best chance of success. Too often, small companies start with a “superstar” in the sales and marketing role, and take everything that he says as gospel. Once he leaves or doesn’t pan out (and how could he, you hired a performer from a market leader, what does he know about small business selling?) you do the same thing again. Not only is this time consuming and costly, but it gives you no feedback as to what might have been working in the first place. BizSherpa’s philosophy is to help you build the system first, aid in testing, provide feedback to generate incremental improvement, and then hire to fill roles based on your particular businesses needs.

Are you ready for a challenge? Looking to move beyond the points where you always seem to surrender? If the answer to this is yes, you may be ready to take an expeditionary journey with one of our Sherpa’s to see if there is an opportunity to leverage our experience with your solutions to reach heights you have only dreamed of. Are you a fit for BizSherpa? There is only one way to find out. Fill in the information below to receive our complimentary audio CD, The Top Seven Mistakes That Business Owners and Executives Make in Sales and Marketing..."Mistakes that cost them profit, market share and sanity!". Included with this will be a questionnaire that will push you to examine your current limiting factors that will help you to understand where and why you have been failing to reach that next summit. Once you have had a chance to listen to the CD and complete the questionnaire, one of our Sherpa’s will contact you to see if there may be a mutual fit. In addition, you will also receive a one year complimentary subscription to our monthly newsletter, The Pathfinder just for dropping in.

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