Recession-Proof Your Business

With all the media talk that we’re in a down economy, the weakening dollar, mortgage crisis, collapse of financial institutions, your fears are increasing that your business will take a bad turn. What should you do?

Your business isn’t dependent upon the consumer confidence index. First, you just need a few more ideal customers, and second, you should do the same thing you do in a rockin’ economy - target, differentiate and raise your prices.

Here are more tips and strategies to Recession-Proof Your Business.

• Growing Your Business During Recession NEW for 2009 - Now Available As A Workshop
  
  
• Pulling The Switch: How To Steal New Customers In A No Growth Economy NEW!
  
  
• 12 Tactics To Ensure Your Business Does Well During A Slow Economy
  
  
• Exploiting Your Recession - Finding Opportunities Within Decline
  
  
• Five Tips For Growing Your Business Profitably During A Recession
  
  
• Surviving the Recession: Five Ways to Snatch Victory from Defeat

BHU® Growth Assessment Survey 

Do you run a business?
If yes, how well do you know your Best and Highest Use® (BHU)? Do you really know your company’s Best and Highest Use®?

If you:

• Are curious how you stack up compared to other businesses like yours?
• Wonder if you are best positioned for profitable growth as the recovery begins to pick up steam?
• Wish there was a comparison tool validated through decades of use in business industry databases and thousands of respondents to research-based questions?
• Need a cost-effective and time-efficient way to find out and have a business expert interpret your results and confidential concerns and insights with you?

Then the BHU® Growth Assessment is for you.

You have two options:

1. Free* 15 question 5-minute BHU® QuickSurvey or
2. Full comprehensive $500 BHU® Growth Assessment. (Compared to other assessments costing $1,000’s!)

Free* Introductory Offer: BHU® Quicksurvey
The free* introductory BHU® QuickSurvey includes 15 question assessment and a customized mini-report, and is a sample of the comprehensive survey *This free offer is limited to company owners running $1+ million dollar businesses OR employing at least ten people. Companies that have less than $1 million dollars and less than ten employees will receive their scores but not the free mini-report. See sample free mini-report. Click here to start your free BHU® QuickSurvey.

Comprehensive Special $500 Offer
For those wanting a more detailed analysis and comparison now, invest $500 and 20 minutes and take the full comprehensive survey. You’ll see how your company compares to others similar to yours based on thousands of respondents to these research-based questions. For $500, you’ll receive a full report, a sixty-minute analysis of your results and insights from business growth expert Andy Birol. See sample full report.

To Start Your Comprehensive Special BHU® Growth Assessment.

1. Click here to register and pay for the full comprehensive BHU® Growth Assessment. (Select BHU Assessment & Review from drop down box & enter payment information.)
2. Once payment confirmed. Andy will email you a link to the full assessment.
3. Complete the full assessment.
4. Once completed and your results compiled, Andy will contact you to schedule your hour-long executive debrief analysis of your results.
5. Together, you will review your results and gain Andy’s expert insights based on his interpretation of your assessment and his in depth questions to better understand your unique situation

Bonus: You can apply your investment toward any other of Andy Birol’s service within the next 12 months.

Want more information? Contact Andy directly at 440.349.1970 or abirol@andybirol.com.

What's Your Best & Highest Use?

To achieve professional and business growth we are told that if we: follow our passion; find our focus; and have fun that success will follow.

Yet many intelligent and driven executives, consultants or companies are frustrated with this. How can something so simple be so unobtainable and so hard to execute? It is understandable that most people react with avoidance or anger when given simple advice and no way to take it. Personally, the next time I hear "Pursue your dream" coming out of the mouth of a motivational speaker, I am going to chase that speaker out of the room! Read more.

More Articles About Best & Highest Use.

• Finding Your Best & Highest Use, "Entrepreneur Magazine" book excerpt reprint from The 5 Catalysts of Seven Figure Growth
  
  
• I Didn't Know You Do That!
  
  
• If You’re Stale, You’ll Fail: Recharge Your Best And Highest Use!

Small Business Services

With your personal chief business growth strategist, Andy Birol, at your side, you can ensure that your company is operating on full-throttle and prepared for every economic weather condition possible! Not sure if a business growth strategist is right for you? Read Why Hire A Growth Strategist.

Andy Birol’s consulting and coaching services will help you:

• Detect any early stages of company disease that can be cured or forestalled.
• Identify steps that can help you increase your company’s health, well-being and profit.
• Explain unusual or challenging business symptoms that keep your company from health and wealth.
  

Rapid Response Retainer
You and your business are facing conditions no one has seen or predicted before. Customer demands (and receivables) are erratic but ever more costly. RRR provides you with three months of unlimited email, phone call and fax coaching with Andy Birol.
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BGC Growth Assessment
During this recession, have you wondered why some companies are flourishing and others are closing their doors? Why some entrepreneurs are overcoming this down economy and their future seems bright while others are floundering and remain helpless?
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One-Day Company Diagnosis
Andy reviews and researches your company for signs of health and disease by coming to your company and interviewing you and your key executives. This is the perfect fit for those that want an entry-level, low cost trial of Andy's Services. 
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Two-Day Inside-Outside Diagnosis
A company examination that usually starts at the head with Andy interviewing you and your executives and proceeds all the way to the outside with your key customers and vendors. (read more)

Customized Complete Company Examination
You and your business growth strategist, Andy Birol, will complete a systematic assessment customized to your company’s health and wellness. This thorough exam identifies symptoms of disease, areas of preventive business-care and steps to get your company back on the right stage of growth and development. (read more)

Andy’s Antidotes
Andy’s Antidotes defy conventional business thinking and traditional business philosophies. They will help you detox your company of impurities and byproducts accumulated from poor business habits and provide you and your company with healthy business growth nutrients renewing your ability to maintain optimum business success. See the tab titled Company Conundrums and Andy’s Antidotes.

Clients

Andy Birol knows how to keep his clients happy with proven results. As a business development expert, he has provided solutions ranging from marketing and customer retention to relationship products and services.

Client List - See for yourself the growing list of companies that have experienced the overwhelming results of working with Andy Birol and Birol Growth Consulting.

Case Studies - Read successful case studies of Birol Growth Consulting's services, which are formulated to benefit all businesses including the one-person start-up company and large, multi-national public companies.

Results - As an advocate for the small and midsize business owner, Andy has translated twenty years of effective business-to-business management into positive, proven results for his clients.

Testimonials - Many of Andy's clients have successfully implemented Andy's growth strategies and its business development components to grow their own businesses.

Andy Birol is an author, speaker and an entrepreneurial growth consultant, helping owners grow their businesses through his consulting and coaching services.

Need help with business development? A strategic marketing plan? A growth strategy? Put Andy's expertise to work for you - contact Andy today!