Business advisors can provide valuable assistance to small businesses in a number of areas. They can help with identifying potential growth opportunities, finding financing, developing management systems and more. They can even assist in the sale of a business. Business advisors can be found throughout Texas and can offer virtual or in-person advice to entrepreneurs.
One of the most important services that Texas business advisors provide is helping clients with preparing to sell their business. This can include assessing the value of a business, finding prospective buyers and negotiating the sale. Many business brokers in Texas have a background in either corporate sales or owning their own business. Some are franchises and work with a national network of other offices. Others are independent brokerages with their own local network.
A Dallas based company called Bridgepoint Consulting helps businesses of all sizes grow with a variety of services, including project management, financial operations, IT services, risk and compliance, professional search, transaction advisory services, and turnarounds and restructurings. The firm works with companies in a variety of industries and has helped clients with cash flow problems, turnaround strategies, better business models, bank loans, IRS negotiations, debt restructuring, and image issues. Clients can review case studies from previous projects on the firm’s website.
Another firm that provides business advising services is Solomon Bruce Consulting, LLC in Fort Worth. This team of consultants has more than a decade of experience in helping future entrepreneurs secure funding from the Small Business Administration, banks and venture capitalists. They also help with business planning, market research and analysis, and drafting plans for nonprofits, partnerships and government contracts. The firm’s managing principal is a retired colonel in the US Air Force and has a PhD in Industrial Engineering.
The University of Houston Texas Gulf Coast SBDC Network offers free, one-on-one business advising to entrepreneurs and small business owners. It serves 32 counties in southeast Texas and offers in-person or virtual business advising. The network also hosts low-cost small business training and classes on a wide range of topics.
Those interested in receiving business advising in Houston can visit the McCombs BBA Advising Canvas page to schedule an appointment with an academic advisor. The system will give an estimated wait time and then contact the student when it’s their turn to meet with an advisor. Students can also run an Interactive Degree Audit to see what remaining requirements they have left. Those seeking more immediate assistance should check the calendars of the BBA and CBHP drop-in advising days on campus. It’s a good idea to arrive early because the advising teams’ schedules fill up quickly.
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