Print this article or save it as a PDF We have worked with many small to mid-sized Bay Area companies over the last decade, from struggling momand-pop shops to fledgling start-ups that are clearly on their way to success and profitability. What we have observed is that in almost all these cases they often start […]
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The success of your company depends on your employees. Each person you hire either raises the probability of achieving your goals or lowers it. The best way to guarantee the growth of your company is to have a solid hiring system in place. Your system needs to be as well planned as launching a new
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Client Challenge: Pacific Crest Group (PCG) is frequently asked to step in to address IT problems that impact office operations. In the case of one of our professional services clients, they needed to revise their networking strategy in order to increase productivity. As a creative team, the company’s staff needed to come together to brainstorm
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The Client Challenge: Pacific Crest Group (PCG) was engaged by a professional services company to help them gain control of their accounting system, including payroll. Over the course of a seven-year client engagement, PCG’s role has evolved from that of bookkeeper to a more strategic consultative role of outsourced CFO and controller, as well as
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Client Challenge: Blue Frog is a $5 million contract screen printing and embroidery company that creates specialty clothing and goods for customers. Founded 10 years ago, the company has consistently demonstrated sales growth above the industry average and continued to grow until there were more than 90 people on the payroll, although their profits remained
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Client Challenge: After four years, the receptionist decided to leave her job at a very busy office. She was not a stellar employee, and her manager had begun to catalog some performance issues before she left the practice. Six months after she left, the same employee contacted the company hoping to be rehired into another
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Client Challenge: There are many times when a company finds itself with an urgent need to hire a key employee. Their current staff may be overextended, a new client or project may require new talent, or a key employee leaves unexpectedly and a critical hole in the organization needs to be filled quickly. This is
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Client Challenge: A small, successful accounting firm established some ambitious goals for growth. The company owners had always been involved in the service delivery, operations, and management of the company, but realized that if they were going to have the time and energy to spearhead growth initiatives, they would need to remove themselves from those
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Client Challenge: A small, family-owned company decided to provide a generous maternity leave benefit to a key employee who had been with the company for some time. The company only has five employees, and they had no formal employee handbook, only detailed offer letters and a few randomly written “policies,” but nothing addressing maternity leave.
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New Billing Processes Create New Freedom and New Profits for Professional Services Company Client Challenge: Pacific Crest Group (PCG) was approached by a branding/design firm to help them straighten out their bookkeeping. As we continued to consult with them, it became clear that accounting wasn’t their only challenge. Billing, accounts receivable, invoicing, and payroll were
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Situation Client is a 60 year old company in San Francisco with sales over the past 2 years approximating $2.4 million annually. The Company is a distributor of refrigeration case cabinets primarily to supermarkets and similar businesses that have a need to display cold foods. At the present time Whole Foods Market represents approximately 80%
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Bay Area Oncology Clinic with Falling Profits Helping a Bay Area Oncology Clinic Recover its Profits… We do a lot of work helping area medical practices refine their business operations to regain their profits. Increasingly, medical offices are feeling the squeeze of the changing economic climate. Increases in operating costs are not being offset by
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