Small Business Consulting Associates, Inc. helps small businesses fulfill big dreams by providing:

• Direct management consulting
• Practical management skills development
  
• Proposal development
  
• Business plan development
  
• Sales, advertising and promotion
  
• Market research and sales projections
  
• Financial projections
  
• Business and entrepreneurial training
  
• Economic and business development
  
• Personal computer systems and business
  automation software

Expertise.

Because Small Business Consulting Associates specializes in small businesses, we are not trying to be all things to all people. We offer a service with a goal of making your business profitable, and we have the background and personnel to offer you practical, effective, and budget-minded methods to help your business succeed and grow.

Efficiency.

Because we can concentrate on accomplishing a critical assignment quickly, our clients are able to operate their ongoing business without interruption and diversion.

Economy.

Because we are small business specialists, we have developed management techniques and quantitative and analytical methods that allow us to perform assignments better, faster, and more economical than clients can do on their own.

Satisfaction.

"We've been delighted with the working relationship and results with Ransom Stafford, and are anticipating working together for many more years in the future."

---Director of a neighborhood development program

"If it wasn't for Ransom, I wouldn't be where I am today. I had a great idea. I knew how I could make money, but I didn't have any concept of what to do next. Ransom showed me the way. When I have a problem, I know I can pick up the phone and call Ransom, and he'll know the answer."

---Home-based small business owner

Trust.

We have earned a reputation as a firm you can trust. We guard the confidentiality of all client information. We do not take financial gain or any kind of advantage based on inside information. We will not serve two or more competing clients on sensitive problems without obtaining prior client approvals.

Put Our Expertise to Work for You.

When you work with Small Business Consulting Associates, Inc., you're working with experienced and practical business consultants led by founder and president Ransom S. Stafford.

Ransom Stafford holds an MBA from the University of Saint Thomas and is a member of the National Institute of Management Consultants. But what may matter more to you is Ransom's expertise that comes from practical business experience.

He has had actual retail business experience as co-owner of a 6,500 sq. ft. hardware store, and his
corporate career has included managerial and executive positions in sales and marketing, information systems, and training and development with IBM, Control Data Corporation, The St. Paul Companies and Travelers Express Company.

For more than 12 years, Ransom has been providing professional assistance, management consulting and business plan writing to more than 150 types of businesses throughout the Twin Cities. He is also a consultant and trainer with several local community development agencies and is a national trainer with the Washington, D.C.- based Neighborhood Reinvestment Training Institute. He is also one of a group of experts that the St. Paul Pioneer Press calls upon to provide answers for the Sunday Business Solutions column.

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