Consulting
Robert Skrob’s Consulting and
Coaching Services
For business owners looking for a plan of action, detailed strategies and the contacts necessary to get those implemented, a day of consulting with Robert Skrob.
For centuries, even the best sailors depended on lighthouses to aide their navigation. These land-based beacons confirmed their captain’s navigation calculations. Other times, they helped disorientated vessels find their way.
Each of us needs an independent perspective to help find opportunities, identify mental stumbling blocks, and chip away at the worthless rock in order to identify the diamonds in our businesses. With Robert Skrob, you will receive an expert opinion for your business needs.
As a business owner, marketing expert and administrative expert, Robert will help you build a great lifestyle business for yourself. Also, because Robert has been tested and licensed as a Certified Public Accountant, you have a profound financial and business issues advisor at your disposal. In fact, Robert’s wide range of experience benefits you in many ways.
Your Marketing Consultant – You know those businesses that have multiple marketing campaigns which all generate customers for them? Even when one marketing system stops working, they have others that can take up the slack. That’s the kind of structure I help business owners create during our consulting sessions. You need a simple system, that you can implement fast, to help you launch your business quickly. Then, you need multiple systems to give your business long term stability. I’ll help you build both.
Your Business Tools Consultant – Do you know people who bounce from one marketing tool to another? They love direct mail for a while; then, they switch to email. Next, they try a bunch of search engine optimization; then, they get all excited about social networking. While each of those tools has its place, none of them are effective alone. Allow me to help you create a plan that makes using multiple tools easy. You should be using tools such as email, blogs, Internet video, lead generation websites, and member sites, among other things, to create new customer generation systems. Each of these may only generate a few new customers a month. However, they are “set it and forget it” tools.
Your Business Systems Consultant – A lot of business owners discover effective marketing tools and quickly become overwhelmed when they start getting new business. They can’t keep up with the new customers and the marketing lags. Then, when they finish with the clients, there aren’t new clients to replace them. Or, they work too many hours and never seem to catch-up. Telling you that you need to create systems is rarely good enough. You need examples, and you need coaching. I’ve created systems that allow me to work at home every morning. I can leave the office for a week of business trips or vacation and my employees are fine. They know what to do, and clients are taken care of. You should have an ultimate lifestyle business too.
Your Implementation Consultant – How many times have you had the best intentions but never got around to getting a new project finished? You promise yourself you’ll create a new marketing program or start a new business; yet, it never happens. I’ve been there and still struggle with that. However, I’ve learned how to plan projects so they are easier to implement. I have a Rolodex of delegation resources and I’ve structured my time for maximum productivity. It was slow in the beginning, but now I complete new projects in days instead of months - I’ll show you how.
Your Business Re-invention Consultant – I’ve created 9 new businesses for myself in the last 2 years. Some of them proved to be a waste of time. Others turned into successful money-generators for me. If you are trying to find the best recipe for success, learn from my mistakes. I can help you conceive of a business idea that you’ll be excited about creating - one that provides you with leverage.
Your Leverage Consultant – In 2004, I realized that although I built my company so my clients pay me 2-3 times more than my competitors, I had an hours-for-dollars business. I was a consultant billing time on an hourly basis. At that point, I dedicated myself to creating businesses that allowed me to work once and collect money from a lot of different people. Allow me to help you leverage your business so you can transcend hours-for-dollars and create wealth.
New Client Relationships
All new client relationships begin with a one day consultation. This consultation allows us to explore your business goals and lay out a plan for you to achieve those goals.
The Two-Day Skrob Strategic Business Direction and Implementation Consultation – $ 7,225*
• Two days gives us the opportunity to discuss the market, create a plan and develop an offer on the first day. Then the second day can be devoted to creating detailed marketing plans.
• Pre-meeting research and preparatory processes.
• Consultation focuses on creating business leverage allowing you to work once and get paid many times.
• Includes marketing, business tools, systems and management to help you re-invent your business and create the lifestyle you desire.
• In-person, two full day meeting with Robert Skrob.
• Audio recording of meeting.
• Day will include marketing campaign and tool examples with permission to retool and use.
• Day will include connections with valuable network of contacts and vendor resources.
• Customized action plan written and sent within two weeks as a result of the consultation.
• Two follow-up 30-minute conference calls to answer questions and help with the implementation of your plan.
• Held in Tallahassee, Florida. The investment for consultations outside Tallahassee is $8,975.00 plus first class airfare.
* Members of the Information Marketing Association receive a 20% discount ($1,445), two-day consultation fee is $5,780.00. Visit www.Info-Marketing.org for membership information.
The One-Day Skrob Business
Speed Implementation Consultation – $ 4,725*
• Pre-meeting research and preparatory processes.
• In-person, full day meeting with Robert Skrob.
• Perfect for business owners who have developed businesses and simply need an outside opinion, some marketing strategies and decision clarity.
• Audio recording of meeting.
• Day will include marketing campaign and tool examples with permission to retool and use.
• Day will include connections with valuable network of contacts and vendor resources.
• Customized action plan written and sent within two weeks as a result of the consultation.
• Follow-up 30-minute Conference call.
• Held in Tallahassee, Florida. The investment for consultations outside Tallahassee is $5,975.00 plus first class airfare.
* Members of the Information Marketing Association receive a 20% discount ($945), one-day consultation fee is $3,780.00. Visit www.Info-Marketing.org for membership information.
2) Marketing Implementation Tele-conference – $ 1,250
(2 hours)
• Pre-meeting research and preparatory processes.
• 2-hour Teleconference Consultation.
• Audio recording of meeting.
• While we won’t be able to get into as much detail and planning as we could within a one day consultation, this will give you a solid business direction to follow.
Expected Timeline
If you are accepted as a consulting client you’ll receive 3 to 4 open dates to choose from for your consultation. Typically, those dates are 4 to 12 weeks out, depending on my schedule. Marketing Implementation Tele-conference calls usually can be scheduled within 2 to 8 weeks.
Action Necessary:
To schedule a consultation with me, write me a letter. Your letter should be longer than a page and shorter than two pages outlining your business and what you want to achieve through this consultation. Here are the four questions you need to be sure you answer within your fax.
First: What do you do? (Basically, what does your company do, what problem(s) do you feel it solves, what do you currently sell/want to sell? Please write up for me a short summary of what it is that your company does and what you want it to do, as best as you can explain it.)
Second: Where are you now? (How many clients, prospects? Where are you financially? What is the size of your support team? Write a summary about where you are currently “at” in your business.)
Third: Where do you want to go? (Just give me an idea of what your objective is in the next 12 months and then beyond, especially, what are your profit goals).
And Finally: How are you going to get there? (In the context of marketing, this is where I can really help you. Let me know what you feel is the best way to get there.)
Send your fax to Robert Skrob via facsimile at 850-222-6002. Expect an answer to your fax within 1 week.
Typically, I’ll send you a list of items to prepare and questions to answer to send me to review in advance of our consultation. Also, there will be a separate list of items and questions for you to bring to our discussion. Consulting clients often report at the beginning of our consultation that they already got their money’s worth because of the business thinking and organization they went through to prepare for our discussion. The truth is, it gives both of us the framework we need to make smart business decisions.
Not for Everyone
Before you request consulting, be warned. This consultation is for adults only. If you have hang-ups or are easily offended it’s best you work with someone else. I only accept clients I strongly believe I can be of substantial value to, based on their needs and my relevant experience. I often discover breakthroughs and business opportunities that my clients never imagined were possible. While you’ll get what you came for, most often you’ll also have a huge business opportunity you never anticipated. I am blunt, and I will not spare your feelings if you are holding onto beliefs that aren’t true and are holding you back. Also, there are never any hidden charges or costs.
Today, not Tomorrow
One of the challenges business owners face is implementation. They have a lot of great ideas, but they never get around to getting them down. Thus, they have a lot of guilt and frustration about all of the things they haven’t gotten done.
This is an implementation consultation. It’s designed to give you the outline, tools and resources you need to take action for yourself.
The first step is to take action by completing the two page consulting inquiry. If you were diagnosed with a fatal heart condition and the doctor told you that the only way for you to save your life was to write a two page fax describing your business and outlining your business goals, could you get it done today? Of course, you could.
If you have frustrating business issues and potential revenue sources that aren’t getting explored then today is the day to take action. Write a letter longer than a page and shorter than two pages outlining your business and what you want to achieve through a consultation with me. Fax it to me at 850-222-6002 and expect an answer back within the week.