How To Build An Advisory Board To Grow Your Business And Increase Your Profits
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This book was written as a guide for small business owners and entrepreneurs on how to effectively build a strategic advisory board AND extract maximum value from it. Advisory boards are a proven and valuable resource for any business and if utilized correctly, can significantly help grow a business and its profits.
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HOW TO BUILD AN ADVISORY BOARD TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS AND INCREASE YOUR PROFITS
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HOW TO BUILD AN ADVISORY BOARD TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS AND INCREASE YOUR PROFITS
Table of Contents
I. Why Every Entrepreneur and Business Owner Should Read This Book…
1) Our Story
2) What’s In This Book
II. The Power of Many Minds
1) What Is an Advisory Board?
2) Does My Business Need One?
3) But… I’m Just a Startup.
4) But… I Just Have a Small Business
5) Real-Life Advisory Boards at Work
6) The Benefits of an Advisory Board For Your Business
III. THE BUILDING BLOCKS: 10 KEYS to Creating Your Unique Advisory Board
1) The Direction of Your Business
2) Your Boards Purpose
3) Forming Your Board’s Charter
4) Choosing Your Advisory Board Model
5) How Big or How Small?
6) The Brains You Should Bring On Board
7) Creating Structure & Expectations
8) Keep’em Coming and Going
9) How to Compensate?
10) The Invitation Letter
IV. My Board Is Set Up! Now What?
1) Agreements & Non-disclosures
a. Writing Effective Agenda
2) Appointing A Chairperson
3) Announcing The Board
a. Press Release
b. About US
4) Board Communication
5) The First Meeting
a. The Agenda
b. The Topics
V. Planning for Long Term Growth
1) Where To Find Advisors for My Business
2) Writing Persuasive Invitation Letters to Prospect Advisors
CONCLUSION
Chapter I
Why Every Entrepreneur and Business Owner Should Read This Book…
The BoardMyBiz Story
BoardMyBiz began as an idea in January 2009. I was beginning a career transition that would take more than one year to complete as I prepared my exit from my current company where I was a partner and director. I had been part of an entrepreneurs dream, taking an international start up company from three employees with under 500K in revenue, to more than 85 employees worldwide; more than 11 Million in revenue, and with offices in NY, Bermuda, London, Netherlands, Cyprus and Dubai. I accomplished this in less than three years, building the company with the founders from the ground up. Although this may seem like a tremendous achievement on its own, in truth, I was not satisfied with the results. From the beginning, there was friction between the primary founder and me over the strategic