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    Business Growth Consulting

    for local service businesses in Vancouver WA and Portland OR

    A standing monthly seat at your table to decide which jobs are worth chasing, which towns are worth the drive, and what to stop doing.

    From $497

    How do I know whether to hire another tech or spend the money on marketing?

    Look at what your calendar is actually full of. If the trucks are booked with low-margin work you took because it was there, another tech buys you more of the same. Sort the jobs by margin and drive time first. That answer usually shows up in the numbers you already have.

    What this actually includes

    This is a recurring monthly session plus a direct line between calls, where we work through your job list, pricing, and coverage area to decide which services and towns deserve more of your trucks.

    This is a monthly working session and the follow-up between sessions. Before the first call we go through what you can hand over: your job list, your service mix, your pricing, the towns you cover, and where your calls come from now.

    Each month we look at a small number of real decisions rather than a broad plan. Which two services deserve more attention. Which town is costing you more in drive time than it returns. Whether the second crew is a hiring problem or a scheduling problem. You leave with a short written summary of what was decided and who is doing what.

    Between sessions you get a direct line for the questions that come up mid-month, the ones where waiting three weeks means the decision gets made by default.

    We also keep the marketing side honest against the plan. If the decision is to push commercial work, the profile, the pages, and the content have to move with it. That coordination is part of the seat. It is not a sales role — nobody here calls your prospects. The audit is free and delivered within 24 hours, so start there.

    Who this is for

    The right owner here is past survival mode with revenue gone flat, especially electrical contractors still doing their own estimating and HVAC owners who haven't yet counted what maintenance agreements are worth to them.

    This is for the owner who is past the survival stage and stuck. Revenue is flat, the phone still rings, and every month looks like the last one. You are making decisions between calls in the truck, which means most of them are not really decisions.

    Electrical contractors hit this at around the eight-employee mark, where the owner is still the estimator, the dispatcher, and the person who bids anything complicated. HVAC companies hit it when maintenance agreements start to matter more than replacement volume and nobody has counted them.

    It is not a substitute for a bookkeeper or a CPA. We do not do your taxes or your books. This is a thinking partner who knows how local service companies actually make money and who has been doing this since 2012.

    How it works

    Once the free audit wraps, a longer first session puts your numbers and constraints on the table, then a fixed monthly meeting produces a written recap and an open list reviewed and updated every 30 days.

    Start with the free audit. It costs nothing and needs no card, and it gives both of us the same picture of what your public record says.

    Then a longer first session to get everything on the table: the numbers, the constraints, and the thing you actually want the business to look like in three years.

    After that, a monthly session on a fixed day, a written recap, and a short list of open items carried forward. Every 30 days the list gets reviewed, closed items come off, and new ones go on. Progress is measured against what got done, not against a promise.

    Serving Vancouver, Portland, and the Pacific Northwest

    We meet with owners in Vancouver WA, Portland OR, Camas, Washougal, Orchards, Hazel Dell, Minnehaha, and Cascade Park, treating a move across the river into Portland as a real licensing and tax decision, not a given.

    We meet with owners across Vancouver WA and Portland OR, plus Camas, Washougal, Orchards, Hazel Dell, Minnehaha, Cascade Park, Ogden, Forest Ridge, Meadow Homes, Vancouver Heights, Evergreen Highlands, and Ellsworth Springs. Crossing the river changes licensing, tax handling, and drive time, so a Portland push is a real decision rather than an obvious one. Operating since 2012 from Vancouver, WA 98664. Parent category: Business Development.

    Want the wider picture first? Start with the Business Development. You can also see the full picture from our marketing agency in Vancouver WA overview.

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