Please Select Which Consulting and Mentoring Option Is Best for You and Your Company
Here’s how to get the essential expertise you need – before it’s too late. Which of my consulting and mentoring services can best help you right here, right now, get you from your current Point A to your desired Point B? Below, you can choose the right number of hours you need of my Standard, Priority and Top Priority Consulting and Mentoring Services.
Individual and Personalized Virtual-Exec Mentoring & Consulting Hourly Mentoring
With my 40 years of achievement, experience and MBA from a top-rated, world-class program, I have the background, credentials and capabilities to help your company fight your own, very specific dragons. Although many offer management consulting services – very few have my four decades of direct, hands-on CEO-level experience of actually conceptualizing, starting, staffing, funding and operating four dozen, multi-industry companies – experiences that can directly benefit the quality and reality of your own business planning.
If you select my individualized management consulting service, I will be the one working with you – with this service, your business will not be delegated to a junior-level staffer with a new MBA.
My own Presidential / Key Executive MBA is seasoned and amplified by 40 years of CEO-level experience. Does it REALLY make sense for you to risk all the time, effort and money you intend on investing in your new venture by choosing a cheaper, less experienced approach for your business planning and mentoring?
Or, does it make much more abundant sense to choose a business planning consultant and mentor who is a proven, successful entrepreneur – someone who has raised over $30 Million from angel investors and venture capitalists? Shouldn’t you choose a proven expert who can both coach you with practical advice and who can genuinely help guide you and your new company past all those dragons and other obstacles that currently stand between your company’s present and the successful future you envision?
I invite you to check out my profile for details on my background, credentials and experience. I have found during my past three decades of consulting with startups and emerging companies that many dragons can be slain with just a few hours of mentoring. Often, it just takes one or two insights and epiphanies to get my clients past those dragons and much farther down their path toward achieving their goals.
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The power of these quick insights is why I offer my clients my hourly Mentoring Service.
Are there other issues, problems or opportunities you would like to brainstorm about your company? Below, you can usually sign up for as little as one hour of mentoring. Once you sign up, we can immediately schedule a teleconference to discuss your dragons and your goals. Of course, we can’t solve every problem, and slay every dragon, in only a few hours – but, together, we might be able to efficiently brainstorm some quick answers for you – and a genuinely implementable action plan – that will get you past these pesky dragons and get you closer to your vision of success. Reserve your brainstorming and mentoring time now.
Limited Availability
One-on-one mentoring and dragon-slaying is probably the most enjoyable part of my Virtual-Exec Service for me. I love the rapid-fire brainstorming and efficient problem solving with my clients – and being able to provide so much pivotal help in such a short period of time. If you, and your own company, could benefit from this individualized service, I offer this mentoring in ten-hour increments of time. 
(My standard billing rate is $250 per hour for Standard Service, $375 per hour for Priority Service and $500 per hour for Top Priority Service. Time billed in quarter-hour billing increments. Please see Queue for a detailed description of the three levels of service.)
However, my availability for one-on-one mentoring can be very limited due to my other client, corporate and personal commitments and time requirements. Hence, some of my mentoring options may be unavailable at any given time.
Reserve Your Time Slot Now!
To reserve your consulting time slot, click Make Payment and choose the level of priority you wish to reserve. Note: Priority and Top Priority Service receive preferential scheduling.
- Ten Hours of 1:1 Consulting and Mentoring – Standard Service: Cost: $2,500.
- Ten Hours of 1:1 Consulting and Mentoring – Priority Service: Cost: $3,750.
- Ten Hours of 1:1 Consulting and Mentoring – Top Priority Service: Cost: $5,000.
Note that each of these service categories has its own Queue. The Top Priority Queue trumps ALL of the work in Priority Queue and the Standard Queue. Likewise, the Priority Queue trumps ALL the work in the Standard Queue.
Often, my workload dictates that the Top Priority Queue and the Priority Queue are filled so often that I cannot get to the Standard Queue in a timely manner. When this happens, I have to make Standard Service unavailable to new clients.
That situation is NOT occurring now and as a consequence, for the near-term, foreseeable future, Standard Service IS currently available to new clients.
Please choose the available Service that best matches your own timeline requirement.
Only a ten-hour retainer, $2,500, is required for us to get started with Standard Service.
Note: My business model is precisely the same as most successful attorneys: I work against a prepaid retainer that is refreshed for an additional ten hours as long as the client continues to want to work with me. No long-term commitment is required.
Scheduling Your Mentoring
Once you prepay the retainer – we will schedule a mutually convenient time so that we can get started right away! Just click the above link and choose the number of hours that best suits your needs.
OTHER PLANNING SERVICES
Fundraising Tactics and Action Plan
One of the many dragons you will face with your fundraising is that you are constrained by both state and federal securities laws as to who you can approach and who you can have as an investor. Generally, this includes the strict prohibition on publicly soliciting investment from the general population. The penalties for this are so onerous that you will not want to even technically, let alone overtly, violate these laws. There are so many dragons lying in wait for you at every turn, you need to ensure you have guidance from someone familiar with this dangerous and complex path. I can offer you support and help on your fundraising tactics and help you develop a securities law-compliant action plan with my ImpleMentor Management Consulting billed at $250 per hour. Click Startup Company Investors for more details.
Investment Web Site for Fundraising
Now that you have your business plan and PPM for raising your capital, how are you going to find and approach investors? As mentioned above, you are constrained by state and federal securities laws for your fundraising. Given those limitations, how many expensive business plans and PPMs do you plan on printing and distributing? Don’t forget to count all the “tire kickers” who may 
end up wasting your time.
There is another solution.
After you complete your Business Plan and PPM, I can take the major moving parts and create a controlled-access set of web pages for your company to highlight your business plan so that prospective investors can gain a sense of your goals and the opportunity without them needing to plow through the whole plan as an expensively printed document. These web pages (about 10-20 separate pages with charts, etc.) are required to be password protected with limited access in order to comply with state and federal securities laws. There are several other securities law issues that are involved in the design and presentation of these pages so don’t try this at home!
This approach allows you to efficiently handle all the “tire kickers” so you can focus on the real prospects it generates. Once the prospect has completed the Questionnaire that will be part of your PPM, you can point them to hidden files on the website for them to download an Acrobat copy of the full Business Plan and/or the Private Placement Memorandum and Subscription Agreement to either read online or to print for themselves, significantly cutting your cost and speeding up the delivery of the documents.
Cost: Only a ten-hour retainer, $2,500, is required for us to get started. My business model is precisely the same as most successful attorneys: I work against a prepaid retainer that is refreshed for an additional ten hours as long as the client continues to want to work with me. No long-term commitment is required.
Click Startup Company Investors for more details.
Business Plan Review
If you already have a business plan, this service will give you an independent review, critique and suggestions for improvement along with minor narrative changes. This review also includes a general review of your business model and operating issues – and helps ensure that your business plan covers more than 150 key questions that will better prepare you for the questions that almost every angel investor, venture capitalist and banker will ask you. The Business Plan Review Service also includes up to one additional hour of ImpleMentor Management Consulting on your business model, operations, implementation and funding.
Cost: Only a ten-hour retainer, $2,500, is required for us to get started. My business model is precisely the same as most successful attorneys: I work against a prepaid retainer that is refreshed for an additional ten hours as long as the client continues to want to work with me. No long-term commitment is required.
On-Site Strategy & Planning
Most plans and planning can be done virtually via email, phone and fax. However, there are many instances when collaborative on-site meetings are the most cost and time-effective approach – especially when your company and management team are already in place. I will meet with you and your management team at your offices or satellite locations for one day, up to 8 hours, to review and refocus your business model, operations, implementation, plan needs, fundraising tactics and strategy and action planning. Cost: $1,000 per hour (double my Top Priority rate) for Continental USA destinations. $1,500 per hour, for destinations outside of the USA.
These rates apply to all my travel time to and from your location and all on-site prep, meeting time and other time for work done while not in meetings, etc. Additional days, or partial days, are charged at the same hourly rate. Travel expenses are extra. All air travel and hotel accommodation are with business-class service.
Likewise, my hourly rate, if you are within 50 miles of my location, is double the hourly rate as defined in our Statement Of Work. These rates apply to all my travel time to and from your location and all on-site prep, meeting time and other time for work done while not in meetings, etc.
Both the fee for all anticipated days and all expected travel expenses are due and payable prior to the meeting and are exclusive of any and all costs and fees associated with the production of any business plan, action plan or performance under any other agreement for services.
After the Plan: ImpleMentor Management Consulting and Virtual Executive Service
CEO RESOURCE’s ImpleMentor Management Consulting and Virtual Exec Services specialize in cost-effectively helping startup organizations, entrepreneurial ventures and new business formations slay the dragons that block the path to the success they envision. Once your plan is completed, I can assist you, either virtually or on-site, with all the steps required for funding and implementation.
And, since we have worked together to develop your plan, I will already understand your business and can be immediately productive. Can you see how it might be helpful to have me continue to work with you on funding and implementation of your plan for a few hours per day?
Cost: Only a ten-hour retainer, $2,500, is required for us to get started. My business model is precisely the same as most successful attorneys: I work against a prepaid retainer that is refreshed for an additional ten hours as long as the client continues to want to work with me. No long-term commitment is required.
Cost-Effective Compound Knowledge, Implementation and Dragon Slaying
I hate seeing companies fail – especially when, with the right timely guidance and mentoring, they would have not only survived – but also thrived. How can my accumulated Compound Knowledge most help your company, right here, right now? What will it cost you, and your organization, in lost revenues and wasted time, by NOT having this kind of broad, senior-level executive experience and expertise on YOUR team right NOW?
With telephone, email and videoconferencing, I can often help slay many of your dragons from afar – minimizing costs and reducing, if not eliminating, travel expenses. Even if you use my Virtual-Exec Service for just a few hours a month, I can likely still make a significant difference in your company’s effectiveness and profitability. With my Virtual-Exec Service, I will help you identify the most dangerous dragons threatening your organization, derive solutions and implement the most necessary actions within mutually agreed guidelines and budgets.
Cost: Only a ten-hour retainer, $2,500, is required for us to get started. My business model is precisely the same as most successful attorneys: I work against a prepaid retainer that is refreshed for an additional ten hours as long as the client continues to want to work with me. No long-term commitment is required.
Ready for Action or Still Have Questions?
Contact me today to discuss how my mentoring and Virtual Executive Service can help you and your company better succeed.
Best wishes for stellar success,
Robert Lee Goodman, MBA
CEO & Chief ImpleMentor
CEO RESOURCE LLC
Note: All prices and terms are subject to change and to my time availability. Priority Service is available at a 50% premium and Top Priority Service is available at a 100% premium over the Standard Rates listed above. Please click Queue / Priority Service for details.