Giroud Consulting

11/09/2023

Want to get your strategic plan off your desk and make it a reality?
Most small business owners know that a strategic plan is essential to business success. A plan gives you the roadmap for where you want to go. But, having a plan isn't enough. You need to take action or it will just gather dust. Lou Giroud, of Giroud Consulting, explains how flawless ex*****on in implementing your plan makes all the difference. He provides 5 Steps to move your plan off your desk and into the real world.

10/29/2023

I just saw this quote and had to share it .
“Culture is about how employee’s hearts and stomachs feel on Sunday night about Monday morning “

09/13/2023

09/13/2023

How strong is your company's cash flow position? Your answer can mean the difference between your business failing, struggling or thriving. Lou Giroud, Small Business Consultant with Giroud Consulting, offers 5 tips to improve your cash flow. Tips include having a payment policy for all transactions, securing a deposit and signature on all orders and getting a line of credit before you need it. It's more difficult to obtain a line of credit when you are low on cash. Finally, remember the faster you collect payment for your services or products, the better you can maintain the strong cash flow you need keep your business running successfully.

06/13/2023

As a small business owner, hiring a salesperson is a big decision. Lou Giroud, Small Business Consultant with Giroud Consulting, offers tips to make sure the person you hire is the right fit for your company and customers. His tips include identifying the personality traits that fit your business and customer. Additionally, Lou recommends testing your best candidates using sales aptitude tests and DISC profiles to ensure they are a good fit. Finally, once you have narrowed down the candidates, ask the top candidates to shadow you or a member of your sales team as part of your interview process. At the end of the day, you're looking for a natural born salesperson who has the right personality traits to sell to your customers.

06/09/2023

Love this, so true

You can never stand still. You must move upward toward success—or downward toward failure. The choice is yours alone.

06/09/2023

Do you use Key Performance Indicator's (KPIs) to make decisions for your small business? Lou Giroud, Small Business Consultant at Giroud Consulting, explains why KPIs are so essential for running a small business. As a small business owner, you need a clear picture of your current reality. When set up properly, KPIs show what your performance was in the past, where you are now and how you are trending. For help setting up KPI's, please contact us at: giroudconsulting.com or 215-326-9553. We're happy to help!

06/02/2023

Do you know the true financial health of your business, right now? Too often, business owners wait until the end of a quarter or end of the year to get a clear picture. By then, it could be too late to make
the changes needed to have a successful year.

Here are two actions we recommend to help our consulting clients stay on top of their financials:
1. Reconcile your books on a monthly basis. This allows you to adjust your direction quickly as you spot negative trends or emerging problems.
2. Be precise: Your numbers are only as good as the data you put in. Adjust your financials for depreciation, taxes and accrued or prepaid expenses on a monthly basis.

Knowing how your financial progress is trending is critical to your business success. Next week, we will drill down further and talk about how to use key indicators to do a weekly evaluation of your business performance.

05/23/2023

What are you tolerating in your business? It may a be a customer who's costing you too much money and time, a toxic employee, a salesperson who is not doing the job or a host of other issues.

We often bury the stuff that we're tolerating. It's easier to rationalize that it's not really that bad or you'll deal with it later. Yet those nagging tolerations keep eating away at you and damaging your business.

Instead of just settling for the way things are, it's time to ask these tough questions!
1. What's really not going the way you want?
2. What needs to change?
3. What actions do you need to take to solve the problem?

When you get rid of the things you're tolerating, your business will run better. Equally important, you will feel like a burden has lifted off your shoulders.

05/19/2023

Small business owners now have an even greater reason to rely on Giroud Consulting to solve your business challenges. Cindy Deutsch Giroud is excited to announce that Lou Giroud has joined Giroud Consulting as a Small Business Consultant.
As founder and owner of a successful family business for 47 years, Lou understands the realities of owning a business and making it successful. His experience enables him to quickly evaluate your situation and help you find the best solutions to achieve your goals.
Lou also has years of experience advising small business owners in a variety of industries. From everyday problems to full blown crises, Lou has helped business leaders solve issues, such as hemorrhaging cash, not making a profit, feeling trapped and unhappy with the business, growing sales and solving people problems. He specializes in improving business results, creating high performing sales teams and business exit strategies. Check us out at giroudconsulting.com.