Burke Franklin

You’ve been using my software, reading my blog, watching my videos…

I’ve been helping entrepreneurs and business owners for more than 40 years — mostly through our Business Power Tools software apps and templates, and through my blogs and my book, Business Black Belt, but now I’m making myself available to you.

Profit from my unique experience & perspective

We’ll keep it simple and easy to try on for size…
I’m happy to give you 30 minutes free to see if and where I can help you:

• Answer questions and give feedback on your business plan
  — Things others aren’t aware of that may cause doubts
• Jump-Start Your Business Plan
• Strategize about funding and investors
• Give you feedback on your investor presentation — Things investors may not tell you
• Review your financial model — a reality check before pitching your numbers
• Support your financing strategy and help prep you to speak with investors
• Talk about your marketing and selling strategy
• Discuss your business — Things you may not want to share with anyone else
• Personal issues, management advice, even difficult conversations
• Talk you off the ledge if you’re having a bad day or a catastrophic business issue!
• Or any place you feel stuck — like you just can’t get here from there…

We can cover a lot of ground in a half-hour.

I can coach you myself and/or I can refer you to one of our many
coaches or consultants who are better suited to handle a specific issue or project.

If you want to continue working together, we can make a new deal.
We can also create blocks of time and/or schedule regular weekly or monthly meetings.

I work with three types of people:

1. Some are self-motivated and prefer to work through the material on their own.
2. Others enjoy learning within a group, getting feedback, having accountability, and extra support.
3. Then there are those who want personalized support, faster progress, or maybe done-for-them.

Which one best describes you?

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Let’s add my strengths & experience to yours

(If you haven’t taken the Gallup Clifton Strengths Assessment, I highly recommend that you do.)

Here are my top 5 strengths and how I can support you:

1. Connectedness – I help others see connections and purpose in everyday life and sense every event is somehow the consequence of a series of actions, reactions, or lack of actions.
2. Strategic – Faced with any given scenario, I can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues, and create alternative ways to proceed.
3. Futuristic – inspired by the future and what could be, I energize others with their visions of the future to give them new perspectives on familiar challenges.
4. Relator – I connect deeply with the right people and find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.
5. Intellection – I help people grasp elaborate and complicated ideas, processes, theories, or rules and help them stop and think in new ways. Why The Sharper Image catalog promoted me to copywriter.

Whether it’s business strategy or your mindset, we’ll figure it out…

I can quickly get to the root of the issue and point out some alternatives that may work well for you. So if there’s something you need to deal with (a customer, employee, financial situation, management issue, or yourself) and there’s no one else you can talk to about it…

I work with three types of people:

1. Some are self-motivated and prefer to work through the material on their own.
2. Others enjoy learning within a group, getting feedback, having accountability, and extra support.
3. Then there are those who want personalized support, faster progress, or maybe done-for-them.

Which one best describes you?