Scope of Client Services for First Priority Entrepreneurship Consulting Services (FPECS):

• Make suggestions for the most suitable client business venture(s).
   
• Discuss the basic types of businesses and provide positive and negative aspects for each.
   
• Provide a business start-up check list for newly launched businesses.
   
• Discuss your target market or audience.
   
• Compute an estimate of start-up equipment costs.
   
• Compute an estimate of the clients’ cost for their product or services.
   
• Provide listing of available resources for D/M/WBE certifications, business referrals and future problem solving needs.
   
• Provide a list of informational references for your chosen business venture type.
   
• Review and discuss the clients’ business plan and provide comments.
   
• Discuss the content of the three primary types of business financial statements within the clients’ financial plan.
   
• Assist client in developing a business mission statement.
   
• Discuss patents, copyrights and trademarks.
   
• Discuss the following company structures: sole proprietorship, corporation, limited liability corporation (LLC) and professional corporation (PC).
   
• Discuss the types of business insurance policies.
   
• Provide a listing of items to consider when contemplating a business location. 
   
• Determining when to hire additional staff.  Employee documents to maintain.
   
• Discuss accounting and bookkeeping services and the hiring of these professionals.
   
• Information to include in the company manual.
   
• Company owner and staff time management techniques.
   
• Recommended marketing tools when starting business.
   
• Items to include in the client marketing plan.
   
• Setting pricing and determining methods of payment.
   
• Suggestions to obtain and maintain your customer base.
   
• Discuss when to hire external professionals, consultants, coaches or an advisory board.
   
• Discuss the need for contracts and hiring an attorney to review prime and subcontracts. 
   
• How to obtain and maintain a professional business image.
   
• Provide professional speaker services to corporations, colleges, high schools, non-profits, governmental agencies and religious organizations. 
   
• Provide written commentary and feature stories to magazines, electronic media and newspapers on subjects relative to prioritizing and balancing marriage, family, career and entrepreneurship.
   
• For your convenience, consulting services are billed on an hourly basis.