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Business Consultations
The Business Affair consulting team concentrates on the basic business dilemmas that plague all companies at one time or another. Large or small, business is business. The numbers change, the principals do not. The secret is to, personalize and adapt your business to what the successful guys are doing well, and ignore what they are doing wrong. Business Affair focuses on those things. We understand that business is complicated and challenging. We simplify complicated things.

Infinite Possibilities
Our typical client is not typical. They range from Restaurateurs to Faith Healers. They teach and they lend. They are working out of their den and some have factories on four continents. What they have in common is a desire to explore what they are good at and why certain aspects are difficult. They are often in transition or are considering a fundamental change in the way they do business, with whom or where. Most of all they want to open and aid communication. We help to identify the best and weakest attributes of the company and facilitate a variety of programs to develop action plans we call Path to Profit.

Business Affair Plans, Facilitates, Hosts and Documents Business Retreats.

We are a small company that can turn on a dime. We lecture, train and provide specific business consultations and workshops at our retreat headquarters in Taos, NM, throughout the United States and internationally. Our programs can be delivered a s a lecture or provided as an interactive training in a classroom or workshop environment.
Whether you take advantage of The Infinite Possibilities of a our Business Retreat packages in Taos, or we come to your business, Business Affair's programs are flexible and affordable. We agree a modest price for the total service in advance. There are no hidden charges.

Business Retreats, Taos, NM
We create an intimate, private retreat atmosphere that allows our clients to communicate effectively and openly with each other.
While we employ many of the business consultation tools you have seen before, we combine them and modify our program for each client so that you receive a unique package of consultation subjects and experiences.

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PARTIAL LIST OF PROGRAMS
The programs identified below can be a few hours each or part of a comprehensive analysis of your business.

Vision, SWOT and Creating the Path to Profit - We help identify company or individual Vision using our unique brand of SWOT. In isolation, identifying the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats only gives you the What. A useful tool but with out the How. (Click for more...)

Mass Customization - Creating unique from ordinary. Learn how to everyday products or services and adapt them to fulfill consumers desire to buy and experience the unique. (Click for more...)

The 80/20 Rule - A deceptively simple premise that yield extraordinary productivity and returns. By recognizing what customers or actions in your business and life provide the greatest return and then focusing on those as essential not merely urgent tasks. (Click for more...)

Customer Relationship Management (Click for more...)

Data base creation/management
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Knowing who your customers are and turning contacts into cash. Create and manage your most valuable resource. We call your customers The Crown Jewels of your business. This programs teaches the fundamentals of capturing customer information and turning it into a meaningful and profitable communications.

Negotiation skills - Getting to a profitable "yes" using basic but proven sales and closing techniques. (Click for more...)

Training - Partnering with employees. How to train, what to train and when to do it. This program may include Train-the-Trainer component for those companies wishing to create an in house resource for their training needs. Specifies can include elements of making successful presentations, learning theory and classroom teaching tools. (Click for more...)

Communication skills - The difference between a sending a message and effective communication is more the sum of the words. Communication is the most obvious and least understood issue in the workplace. Get the basic 'etiquettes' and a frame work of how and when to use them. (Click for more...)

Mistake Avoidance - The reason things go on sale - because someone, somewhere made a mistake. This program looks at how mistakes happen and what can be done to reduce them. Particular emphasis is in the apparel industry which is plagued by the 'markdown' (Click for more...)

Team Creation and Building - You can't 'build it' if you don't have it! We help your 'team' identify its strengths and weaknesses and determine how to leverage all the talent, roles and responsibilities into a team that truly is more effective than the sum of its members. (Click for more...)

Entrepreneurial Success - Creating a successful startup and staying that way! How to avoid The Five Entrepreneurial Mistakes raising money and qualifying for capital. How to grow into your business by starting small and thinking big.

Earned Income Strategies for Non Profits
- Coaching non-profits how to think like a business to promote financial stability and independence. Sstrategic retreats that assist non-profits to integrate sound business principles and mission-driven services.
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