A Company Profile of The Institute for Small Business Empowerment

Posted by The Institute for Small Business Empowerment in Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI on Mar 25, 2009

Company Description
Through a process, The Institute for Small Business Empowerment helps new entrepreneurs think like seasoned mavericks.

The founder of the The Institute for Small Business Empowerment says the primary focus of The Institute for Small Business Empowerment is to encourage and empower individuals seeking to improve their personal quality of life by starting and operating their own small business. The Institute for Small Business Empowerment is defined by its steadfast commitment both to assisting the birth of small businesses and transforming existing small businesses into profitable, pleasurable concerns.

By offering small business coaching tools that any entrepreneur can afford, The Institute for Small Business Empowerment makes high quality business coaching and consulting available to the kid with a lawn mower or the the mom with some new craft idea. Dan Nichols, the founder of the Institute says he recalls the hopeless days, weeks and years he endured as he made various entrepreneurial mistakes. He says he designed his 2 different products, Lemonade Stand Simple - A Strategic Business Planning Guide that uses seven simple steps to tune business ideas into income and an audio book to help entrepreneurs overcome self sabotaging psychology, to be affordable to the masses. "The products I sell save entrepreneurs money and time. I can safely speed a business through that launch curve and save them a ton of money, time and hassle with what I am making available," says Nichols.

Products/Services Offered
Business Coaching via telephone - helping entrepreneurs to see their strengths and coaching them through their weaknesses. Providing ideas and suggestions to improve the odds of a successful business launch and encouraging strategic business planning to stave off obstacles during the time entrepreneurs need all the momentum they can get.

Business Consulting - helping entrepreneurs by actually handling various tasks within the existing or new business -- with emphasis on sales, process, & marketing strategy. The principal, Dan Nichols is often used as board member to help navigate the start of a business. Pointing out blind spots and helping to expose strengths, core competencies.

Strategic Planning Tool/Business Launch Kit - Lemonade Stand Simple - a Seven Step Strategic Business Planning Kit that includes a strategy guide with questions and answers book and the virtual audio coach® to walk any user through the wise process of strategically planning a business.

8 Degrees of Separation - an audio book available as a download to help both seasoned and new entrepreneurs overcome self sabotaging behaviors and mindsets.

Below are a couple pictures of the strategic planning kit - Lemonade Stand Simple. This 180 page strategic planning guide can help any small business organize and plan for growth. Unlike boring and traditional business plans, this was designed to make the process of planning a business quick and painless. The author provides 4 audio cd's he calls the virtual coaching® system and the strategic business planning kit is designed to hold the users hand through the strategic business planning process. The author calls it "painting context" around the art of "making it" as an entrepreneur.

Strategic Business PlanEntrepreneurial Psychology

Management Team
Dan Nichols - Founder

Primary Location
The Institute for Small Business Empowerment
119 N. Edgeworth

ROYAL OAK, MI 48067