Consulting

  1. Marketing & Business Strategists

Our Consulting Specialties

Most business owners, leaders, and key executives feel that their companies could be performing at a more optimal level. That is where we intervene. Our MBA-level consultants here at The Dato Group are highly-skilled at providing general business advisory, marketing consulting, and strategy consulting to companies of various sizes and in a wide variety of industries.
Based on our competency and experience, we can be contracted to provide your organization with market research, business analysis, strategy development, strategic planning, digital marketing & online presence analysis, process improvement, internal & external analysis, sales development, cash flow & inventory management, and recruiting services.

Why Hire TDG Consultants?

Unlike typical marketing & business strategy consulting firms who can only tell you what needs to be done in order to solve an issue, enhance organizational efficiency, or increase profitability, we can often times execute on a plan of action to accomplish your goals. Indeed, our unique combination of having dedicated MBA consultants and providing a full spectrum of web, tech, and digital marketing services can often times bridge much of the gap between where companies are and where they wish to be.

When we can’t offer you a duo consulting + in-house marketing solution, we go above and beyond to advise you, guide you, and connect you with companies who are best suited to fulfill your needs. From the moment you begin working with us, it will be clear that you are in good and very capable hands.

TDG Consulting Snapshot

Our most common project consulting cases...

Start-up Consulting
38%
Process Improvement
23%
Strategic Planning
17%
Formulating The Game Plan

Strategic Planning

When we take on your project as a strategy consultant, it is because we believe in your ability to succeed, and we know that our intervention and strategic planning can be a tool for rapid growth. While our approach will vary slightly from one project to another, the below steps describe our typical discovery process prior to custom developing a strategic plan for success...

1 / Current Situation Analysis

Like a road map, the best path to the destination is revealed when we know the point of departure. During this phase, we address how your business is currently performing, who your competitors are, pricing models, and the market value of your products or services. We get all the basics and then dig a little deeper to gain in-depth insight into the inner workings of your organization.

2 / Interview Key People & HR

It is important that your consultant is familiar with all of the key decision makers and leaders in your organization. We then work with you to define their specific roles and the roles of their subordinates. During this phase, we also analyze human resource needs and identify any opportunities to enhance the organization through additional hiring, staffing modifications, or outsourcing certain responsibilities.

3 / Analyze Strengths, Weaknesses & Opportunities

Every entrepreneurial venture, start-up, or established business has all three of these elements - strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. An in-depth analysis of each within your organization will reveal the necessary to get us going in the right direction. After all, strengths should be used to your advantage, weaknesses need to be properly addressed, and opportunities must be capitalized upon. Our consultants will work closely with you through this phase and get feedback to ensure accuracy.

4 / Core Competencies Analysis

We now assess the internal skillsets and systematic advantages that your team possesses. We place an enormous amount of focus on the values each key person contributes, how your competencies compare to the competition, and where some essential competencies may be lacking. The end result helps us to determine market position and where additional training or expertise may be necessary to realize full potential.

Custom-Tailored

Consulting Relationships

We offer our consulting services either on an ongoing retainer basis or per project basis. In the below, we’ve described each relationship type - including key differences to be taken into consideration.

If you are looking for a go-to business coach, strategist, or advisor who is always available to help you navigate any issue that arises and make key business decisions, hiring us on a retainer basis will likely make the best sense for your organization.

Before working on a retainer, we always start with an initial client discovery process. During this phase, we seek to gain an in-depth understanding of the workings of your company - including key leaders & employees, product and/or service offerings, current market factors, competitors, business challenges, short-term goals, and long-term objectives. Since having this knowledge enables us to properly advise you in nearly any situation, we keep in touch and stay abreast of any changes. Clients who hire us on a retainer basis are guaranteed to have our availability at any time a need arises, as we only take on a limited number of retainers and give priority to these clients.

Our MBA-level consultants are routinely hired to guide and advise business owners, executives, and key decision makers on an as-needed, per project basis. Some of the most typical projects where we intervene include start-up consulting, process improvement, marketing consulting, corporate re-branding, market research, digital marketing analysis, and strategy consulting.

Unlike our Retainer Agreements, our intervention as project consultants is subject to our availability, as we are completely dedicated to successful outcomes and never take on more consulting work than we can reasonably accommodate.

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