Where you stand

I want a partner in the business, not a report

If that is you, here is what this situation usually involves, in the order it usually comes up: the things worth checking, what each one is, and where the arithmetic for it lives. None of it says what to do.

1. A plan, a review, a second set of hands, and someone in it for the long haul are different relationships with different prices; the consulting page describes the ones offered here.
2. The worksheet on the business page takes ten minutes and is the whole first conversation.
3. The profit share calculator shows what a share of profit is worth to each side and what has to be defined for it to mean anything.
4. The last twelve months of numbers, even messy, are what a first conversation runs on; messy and real tells more than tidy and imagined.

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