Consulting Services

Doug Williams and Associates provides the consulting services that help the small business owner build their business. Our small business consulting services will let you reach your goals.

Business Plan Preparation: If you are trying to obtain financing for a business startup or growing your existing business, it is even more important to have a professionally written business plan. This is a very important document that often serves as the company's first introduction to investors. We can act as your business startup consultant and help you thru the process.

Marketing Plan: Need help on increasing your company’s sales with an effective marketing plan? Let us help. We can do your market analysis including size, segments, growth, competitors, customers, and buying behaviors. We can then assist you in developing good crisp marketing strategies and tactics to reach targeted market, segments, channels and customers.

Website Design: We design and build optimized websites that will be found on the Internet. As business consultants we help market your business on the web. We are much more than just website designers. We design simple 5 page websites in standard HTML up to complex sites with dynamic pages programmed in ASP or PHP. We can create web applications that meet your requirements.

Website Promotion / Search Engine Optimization: Website promotion involves the tuning up of your web pages using search engine optimization or SEO for short and then announcing the presence of your site using search engine submission services. We are SEO experts. We provide affordable package pricing with guaranteed results.

Business Analysis: We can come in and audit your business systems This business analysis will show the strengths and weaknesses within your business. You can do a self-assessment by clicking on Analyze-Your-Business TM. This give an excellent starting point for improving your business operations.

Business Operations Consulting: We help with strategic planning, cash flow planning, cost control, budgeting, product costing, designing an estimating system, management issues, wage and compensation systems, quality systems, ISO9000:2000 implementations, quality improvement programs, new product introduction systems, factory layout, production line layout, process development, inventory management, production planning, MRP/ERP systems, people management systems, merit pay systems, business performance metrics and more.

Lean Manufacturing: How to produce at or below the target cost, meet or exceed quality requirements and produce it just when the customer wants it. Lean Manufacturing is a money saver reduces cycle time and improves customer delivery. We can help with 5S, kanbans, stock to line, line balancing and many other lean manufacturing tools.