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Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Business is excited to announce that our Founder, Mollie Watkins, will be interviewed on Business Talk Radio on December 11, 2019 at 2:50 pm central time (3:50 eastern time). Make sure you tune in to hear an overview of our services, why our company was started, where we are going from here and more...

Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses has started 2020 Strategic Planning with our clients. It’s hard to believe that there are ONLY 24 business days remaining in 2019! This year has flown by at record speed! 2020 will be here in a few days – at least as this pace, that is how it will feel! With year-end quickly approaching, make sure you are working on...

Small businesses have a lot going on with their small business puzzle – puzzle pieces like marketing, recruiting, business planning, sales and revenue growth, sales training, and measurement. Sometimes those puzzle pieces are prioritized – so things that need to be done, but aren’t as important as others, are put on the back burner until a much later date. Small...

Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses works with various types of small businesses in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley. Both areas are great places to run businesses and raise families. Here are a few facts about Northwest Arkansas:

1. “October 2019 Population: 562,600 residents by...

Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses coaches and consults sales people within various industries. As with small business owners, there are core categories or puzzle pieces in the small business puzzle that every business deals with. No matter if the entrepreneur sells oil or insurance, there are opportunities or challenges within marketing, recruiting...

Last week, Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses hosted a “Sales Training Class: Back to the Basics” at the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The sales class was presented by Mollie Watkins, Small Business Consultant, and was focused on self-exploration, activities, and engagement with other attendees. There were no computers or...

Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses is here to help small business owners with their puzzle pieces. Puzzle pieces as in the many things that business owners deal with such as revenue growth, efficiency, effectiveness, business planning, recruiting, marketing, retention, staffing, culture, processes, and sales. Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small...

At Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses, we are excited to announce a Sales Training Class on October 16, 2019 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Fayetteville Chamber located at 21 W Mountain St #300, Fayetteville, AR 72701. The training class will be held in the Chamber's Conference Room. Mollie Watkins, the Founder of Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses, will be presenting...

Business planning doesn’t sound glamorous, but to us at Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Business, a Business Plan is a necessity. A business plan is the road map for the business and includes specifics about the company, goals, strategies, tactics, and more. It also details how the business operates, where it wants to be, and how it will get there. A completed business...

Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses’ founder, Mollie Watkins, has a favorite quote by Henry Ford – “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right.” To Mollie, the quote means that small business owners’ thoughts and actions can either drive them to their goals or inhibit them from reaching their goals. Many small business owners don’t realize ...

Lead generation is crucial for small businesses that want to grow their revenue and compensation. This piece of a small business owner’s puzzle can be more challenging for some entrepreneurs. Some think that lead generation (or marketing in general) is an expense and don’t budget money or time for it. Without it, owners focus on retaining the customers they have.

One of the puzzle pieces in a small business owner’s puzzle is running their business. Small Business Owners have only so many hours in the day, so they must prioritize their time to ensure that revenue driving and maintenance tasks are completed. Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses spoke to a small business owner this week that stated that there are five...

One of the puzzle pieces in a small business owner’s puzzle is marketing. From our experiences at Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses, we have noticed that the term “marketing” is usually used in a broad sense to cover all areas of making a sale including attracting, on-boarding, and retaining customers. Some examples of marketing...

Small Businesses are like puzzles - there are a lot of pieces that make up the business and if one or some pieces aren’t fitting correctly, the business may lack effectiveness of efficacy. Many small business owners struggle with staffing. Some have trouble finding staff, others can’t keep them, and others struggle to motivate and engage their team effectively. Here are resources and sample...

Many small business owners have processes setup within their businesses to define how specific tasks within the business are handled. Examples of processes could include how leads are delegated, how service follow-ups are performed, and how lead follow-up is executed. Entrepreneurs will work with the team member (or members, depending on size) that will own...

Effective marketing is integral to small businesses and their long-term success. Each business has different marketing needs based on their product/service, value, pricing, customer, sales cycle, etc. Business owners have different goals too – one may want to be Top in Company or hit the lower level trips another owner may want to earn a specific compensation goal. Some people...

Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses is here to help small businesses with their opportunities. We offer business or management consulting solutions to help small businesses with some of their puzzle pieces - marketing, retention, growth, business planning and business coaching, staffing and culture, and processes. We are located in Northwest AR...

Small businesses must balance many things. At Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses, we view each area that a small business owner must balance as a piece of a larger puzzle. If a small business owner’s opportunity cost of completing a task or set of tasks is too high or if the business owner just doesn’t have the time, drive, or capacity to...

A lead follow-up process is an important part of an organization’s sales process. When referring to sales process, we mean the entire process from initial marketing to converting a lead to a customer – such as marketing tactics used, how many people it will reach, how many people will call you after receiving the marketing, acquisition costs, close rates, sales presentation...

There are a lot of sources of information for starting, running, and marketing a small business – we compiled a list of the sites that were helpful with our small business. Whether you are starting or running a business, here are a few resources for Small Business Owners. The list below has useful info, resources, tools, and templates pertaining to business setup and management... ​

Comprehensive Consulting Solutions for Small Businesses LLC is here to help fellow small business owners with their opportunities, which could include tactics or strategies within business basics, marketing, growth, staffing and culture, retention, and processes. Listed below are questions that may be asked by your Small Business Consultant to identify the...

Processes are very important to a small business' success. They guide how the flow of the business works by identifying what the task is, who will own the task, how it will be measured, when and where it will be completed, and why the task is being completed. Here are various types of processes that are related to the foundational, core areas of small businesses....