BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICES

DEVELOPING STRATEGIES
THAT CREATE VALUE

NICHOLS & ASSOCIATES implements proven business strategies, which create value for its clients. Your business can easily be enhanced with strategies designed to propel your business forward.

Some specialty areas include:

• Job Costing Strategies
• Accounting Systems
• Business Plans
• Budgeting
• Profitability Analysis
• Cost Analysis
• Technology Analysis
• Internal Control Analysis
• Employment Related Matters
• and More. . .

We assist you in such areas as strategic management, change management, and tactical implementation. We strive to improve your profitability by lowering expenses, and increasing income. Consulting is also available in such specific areas as management, business planning, financial planning, strategy, vision, mission, tactical implementation, market analysis, marketing planning, products and services planning.

BUSINESS PLANNING, STRATEGY AND TACTICS:
Writing business plans in their entirety; or modular at the business, functional, and individual level. Developing strategies, and tactical plans to achieve the vision and mission of the firm.

STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL PLANNING IMPLEMENTATION:
Managing tactical implementation projects to implement strategy.

CUSTOMIZED PROBLEM SOLVING

FINE TUNING FINANCES:
Diagnose and improve with crucial financial ratios, identify funding sources, reduce insurance costs, programs to avoid cash flow problems, minimize theft, strategies to reduce income tax burden.

STIMULATE AND INVIGORATE HUMAN RESOURCES:
Identify and solve problems using indicators, build a more effective organization, improve staffing procedures, tailor pay plans to company needs, develop and conduct better training programs, improve employee productivity.

REORGANIZE YOUR FACILITY:
Evaluate location and layout, identify and solve problems in production and facility areas, reduce production costs, ideas for cutting warehousing and delivery expenses, revise and update existing internal systems.

STRENGTHEN PRODUCT AND/OR SERVICE MIX:
Identify and resolve product/service area problems, programs for more accurate forecasting, consolidate and improve product lines, creativity techniques for generating new products and services, tighten up inventory control, guides for better purchasing practices.

REFINE AND POLISH PRICING POLICIES:
Identify and resolve problems by using indicators, factors that affect pricing decisions articulated, choosing pricing objectives, price-setting approaches, markup-pricing mastery, applying markdowns and discounts, sales-boosting promotional pricing aids.

ENHANCE ADVERTISING:
Quantify and solve problems, devise a more effective promotional mix, secrets of superior advertising, tips on strengthening message strategies, getting the most for your advertising dollar, increasing sales with these three promotional powerhouses.

REVITALIZE YOUR SELLING ACTIVITIES:
Identify and resolve problems, building a top notch sales team, following the 80-20 rule to double your sales, professional selling secrets, effective strategies for selling by different mediums, how to enhance sales-office strategies.

SALES PROMOTION:
Identify and solve problems, the natural rhythm of the promotional calendar, unusual ways to send sales sky high, secrets of superior displays, techniques for developing better public relations, tips on getting free publicity, market differentiation.

REVAMPING DISTRIBUTION METHODS:
Identifying and solving problems by indicator usage, suggestions for improvements, exploring opportunities and the franchise sector.

CORPORATE AND PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING

SELF-EMPLOYMENT:
Feasibility studies, suitability evaluations, identification of self-employment ideas, small business turn around, business planning, general consulting, problem solving, profitability improvement, marketing/sales plans, expense reduction, income enhancement, tax management, assistance with forms, financial controls, personnel issues, training, project management, new product/service rollout, and public relations.

Allow NICHOLS & ASSOCIATES to provide you with custom tailored solutions for your business needs.