Consulting, Training, Seminars & Speaking Engagements

In running and growing Above & Beyond, Inc. since 1994, Donna Miller and her team have learned a thing or two about small business success. Maintaining a strategic perspective has allowed us to flourish through challenging economic times, effectively tailor our services, and develop programs that measurably benefit our clients. Most notably, we’ve incorporated the Above & Beyond “giving back” philosophy into our offerings based on our real-life experiences and knowledge.

As you grow your business and plan its evolution, our Strategic Consulting, One-on-One Training, and Seminars and Workshops can help you leverage your time in more meaningful ways. We'll help you to focus on new business development, financial literacy, economies of labor, growing your infrastructure — whatever is crucial to you right here, right now. Not only will we help you focus, but also more importantly, we'll help you maintain that focus. Consider it a form of corporate psychotherapy — minus the couch.

Strategic Consulting is available on a project basis or as a monthly service. As with all our services and programs, we'll tailor it to meet your needs, leverage your time, and fit within your budget and busy calendar.

One-on-One Training is also available. Perhaps you’d like to improve your QuickBooks knowledge, or be able to send out your own Constant Contact newsletter. Or maybe you’re sure “there’s got to be an easier way to do this.” Give us a call so we can schedule an on-site or remote technical skills training session for whatever “this” might be for you.

Seminars & Workshops

One of the keys to success is having the right skills. Another is having focus and knowing where you’re going — in other words, planning. Above & Beyond offers a variety of programs designed to give both tactical and strategic skills to the entrepreneur, professional and small business owner. Check our calendar frequently for upcoming events.

Current Workshop:

Work Smarter Workshop Series (see Events & News)
These workshops are designed to help you roll up your sleeves, gain hands-on knowledge and document your business plans. Join us for one or all of these small group workshop series.

Topics include Business Planning, Financial Literacy, Marketing Essentials, Internet and Social Media Marketing and Leveraging Your Time.

Speaking Engagements

Many local audiences can attest to the versatility and effectiveness of speakers Donna Miller and Janet Neal on a variety of business topics. Here’s just a sampling of the many subjects for which they can provide motivation, instruction and inspiration:

• Business Planning: Your Roadmap to Success
• Financial Literacy
• Are You an Entrepreneur?
• Marketing Essentials:
  •  Defining your target audience – Avoiding marketing schizophrenia
  •  Mission Values Vision – Your benchmark for all you do
  • Elevator Pitch – You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression
  • Developing Your Marketing Plan – An achievable, sustained calendar of activities
  • Circle of Influence – Build it and watch them come
  • Referrals – Create the habit of asking
  • Networking Strategies
  • Customer Relationship Management – Keep it simple, but implement it
  • Newsletters – Sustained messaging with a reader-centric focus
  • MasterMind Peer Advisory Groups – Harness the power
• Leveraging Your Time
  • SMART Goals
  • Effective Delegating
  • Time Management – Maintaining focus & personal accountability
•  Using a Virtual Assistant to Grow your Business
  •  Let Go or Be Dragged — You cannot do it all
  •  Where to Begin the Process of Getting Some Help — Assessing what you do/shouldn’t do, finding the help you need, managing that help
• Outlook as Your CRM
•  Building the Right Team
•  Creating a Sustainable Organization
•  Finding and Using Balance in Your Life
• The Balanced Entrepreneur…It’s Not an Oxymoron
•  Using Social Media – Even When You Don’t Want To

More information on these or other topics, and speaker availability