What is the Sounding Board?
The Sounding Board is, well, a … Sounding Board.
Colm O’Brien is a Seasoned Businessman, SME Business Owner, Author and Professional Speaker and once he realized the need, he conceived of and founded The Sounding Board to help other SMEs.
The idea is simple really, a skilled and experienced set of ears to help the Business Owner scale her or his SME.
Who comprises The Sounding Board?
Colm O’Brien is The Sounding Board,
yet at times he may involve a trusted colleague to brainstorm a particular issue.
Who is Colm O’Brien?
With four decades experience, half in the Corporate World, half Building Businesses, Colm is Founder and MD of Carambola – a €9.5m revenue, 150 employees, nationwide business he has built from scratch, consequently Colm has significant experience in areas such as:
Sales – Would you like to CONVERT more of your sales pipeline?
Marketing – Do enough PEOPLE KNOW YOU exist? Want help telling more?
Branding – What does your BRAND DNA say? Does it need attention?
HR – Would you like to take the mystery out of HIRING THE RIGHT PEOPLE?
Finance – Is your business CASH-STRAPPED? Like to explore options?
Banking – Want to learn more about NON-TRADITIONAL FUNDING?
Team Building – Need help getting YOUR TEAM ON THE SAME PAGE?
Operations – Need help providing your PRODUCT/SERVICE PROFITABLY?
Profitability – Turnover is Vanity, PROFIT is Sanity; want more?
Scalability – What if you could DOUBLE your business in 3 years?
Systems Development – Need help delivering CONSISTENCY?
Customer Care – Like to learn how to REDUCE CLIENT ‘CHURN’?
IT – is your business FUTURE-PROOF?
How much will I invest?
Fancy a “Coffee with Colm”? Book a FREE 30-minute call with Colm using this LINK or fill out the form below and you’re off and running.
- The initial phone consultation is FREE with Colm so you can get a feel for each other, to see are you likely compatible. Book a FREE 30-minute call with Colm using this LINK
- Thereafter an initial face to face (or skype) meeting can be booked which will last approx 45 to 60 minutes after which, experience tells us, you will leave lighter within yourself, with a broad strokes road-map towards solving your problem which you can begin to implement immediately. Investment: €97 payable in advance (which will be offset against any further work should that be the desired outcome).
- Following on from that, you may want Colm, in his Sounding Board capacity, to work alongside you to resolve your issue or guide your steps, and if we decide to work together, the fee structure is both unique and fair – it starts at €1,200* for his 90 day intensive ‘Espresso’ program payable in advance in 3 x equal monthly installments.
Fancy a “Coffee with Colm”? Book a FREE 30-minute call with Colm using this LINK or fill out the form below and you’re off and running.
*terms and conditions apply. Initial contract term is for a 3 month term, Jan through Mar, Apr through Jun, Sep through Nov, but can be extended by agreement between the parties should the client wish – fees negotiable beyond the first three months.
What to do next?
Book a FREE 30-minute call with Colm using this LINK.
And using the form below including the optional drop-down menu, choose the area of your business journey that is most problematic for you just now and pop us some bare bones detail.
At the appointed time, call Colm on +353 87 2836215. He’ll be expecting you.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Where did the idea come from?
Colm O’Brien came up with the idea for The Sounding Board when working with a prospective client who asked him, “What exactly do you do?”
He replied, “I’m like your sounding board – you are building your business, you use me as an experienced set of eyes and ears to bounce ideas off so you can test them and then implement them, or not, as the case may be.
I won’t spout text-book theory, but in fact will use my decades of business building experience to offer suggestions along the lines, ‘Based on my understanding of what you told me, if I were you, I would probably do x, y or z.’
“Good response.” she said and hired me!
We’ve been working together ever since.
Fancy a “Coffee with Colm”?
Fill out the form above and I’ll be in touch.
