PTA Spring Newsletter

PTA Spring Newsletter 2015

Paul Terry & Associates (PTA) provides business management consulting and entrepreneurship training to small businesses and entrepreneurship centers.

Paul Terry, principle of PTA, has consulted with hundreds of diverse small business clients. He has taught thousands of emerging and existing small business owners how to start, sustain and grow their businesses.

PTA provides one-on-one services to help business owners and managers address current challenges and assess new opportunities in order to plan for business growth.

Paul specializes in transition management and can help facilitate business partnerships, joint ventures and owner exit plans.

With thirty years of experience designing curricula and teaching classes in business planning and management, Paul can also create customized trainings to fit client requests.

Visit www.paulterry.com for more information about PTA.

Happy Spring!

Your taxes have been filed. Congratulations! Getting through tax time without too much stress requires good record-keeping, careful time management and a great fiscal support team. Solid financial systems are essential for success, both to understand your business' operations and profitability to date, and then to use past performance to project future success and growth.

If you are well prepared, tax time is no big deal. You are ready. AND... now it creates time and bandwidth to push forward new business ideas. Springtime is all about growth and new directions. A great time to explore a different service or product offering or take a new marketing approach. A time for re-invention and transformation!

At PTA, we help our clients and students tackle small business management issues. We work with emerging entrepreneurs during the start-up years as well as experienced business owners with established businesses.

We specialize in helping our clients navigate business transitions, such as facilitating partnerships and helping to match management capacity to business complexity. We often coach business owners through exit plans and on to something new. We help clarify next steps, mitigate risks, and develop clear business action plans. We act as an accountability partner so small business owners can move forward with confidence.

Check out our recent blog posts for inspiration. And if you need assistance with your own business, just call.

Warm wishes,

Paul

Getting into Business

Emerging entrepreneurs can be a different breed. They are passionate about their business ideas and want to get into business ASAP. They are driven by their passion... but it may also blind them to some degree. How do new small business owners get started with their eyes wide open and set themselves up for success right from the start? Read more.

Getting out

No matter how successful we are in business and how much we love our work, we all should think about what will happen to our business when we are no longer actively managing or running it. We may not be able to predict our business' success, our future interests, or the direction of the marketplace, but we can start thinking about our business exit options. Read more.