Your Success is Our Only Business
Whether you are having to turn your business around or just get it back on course, we know the best way to accomplish your goal.
Advertising & Sales Experience: Business Success Center founders Diener and Triplett began by bringing companies and their products and services to market (both new and established). Everything from high tech to no tech. They got press coverage for the smallest of businesses in the Wall Street Journal and New York TImes, took a client successfully to COMDEX, created business alliances and cross marketing opportunities for many of its clients.
Financial & Funding Experience: Having experienced 5 downturns in the economy themselves, Diener and Triplett recognized that they had to have a way for their clients to get control of their expenses and to help them find dollars in creative ways as well as through loans, grants, and investors. For his success in this area, the Small Business Administration named Dan Diener as their five-state regional Financial Services Champion in 2006. And the BSC was named a Certified Technical Advisor by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and became a member of Central Texas Association of Guranteed Government Lenders.
Management & Leadership Experience:
Over the years, BSC has created books, articles, and training on every aspect of management. The goal: to empower owners who may not have had business classes or who found that owning a business and being just a part of management needed better skills and abilities.
Many of our successes have come from "family owned" businesses where working with a significant other or loved one could have sunk the business completely without our support and guidance. One of the programs to come out of this was "Working Together Without Killing Each Other", developed for partners.
Part of management is working with regulations and keeping on top of what is proposed. BSC advises clients and works on their behalf. In recognition of her work, Dr. Triplett was named Texas Small Business
Business Building Experience:
Diener and Triplett bought and grew the Entrepreneurs’ Association to 600 members. For this they were named one of the top 20 associations in Austin by the Austin Business Journal.
They also produced two highly successful trade missions to Ecuador and Japan with those clients who had a global vision and needed support to get there. One of those companies came back with a million dollar contract.
Then they created the OnCourse Business Navigation Matrix™ for those members with the highest potential of success. It identified appropriate priorities in each area of business and for each stage in the life of a business. This became the basis of the BSC Incubator in 2000. Their program was selected to receive one of five national awards for micro enterprise development by the Small Business Administration (SBA).
As clients became more and more successful with different needs, those were incorporated into our current VIP program. To date, we have had over 100 companies participate in the guidance and support programs designed to make businesses more stable, profitable, and transferable. The Austin Business Journal selected the BSC as one of Austin's top 20 Management Consulting firms.
Highlights of what we have done for our Clients:
• Created million dollar product and service companies.
• Increased profits of about 10% or more per quarter,
• Decreased costs of 10%,
• Increased staff and Owner productivity of about 10%,
• Assisted them to secure funding or lines of credit up to $1 million,
• Created equity in the business through the development of business assets
Contact us to request a pdf of our Success Leaders growth profiles. They include a manufacturer of consumer products, high tech product developer, professional service provider, and a retailer.
Awards & Accolades:
The founders, the BSC program and the company have received local, state, national and international awards. We are most proud of the following:
• National 5-Star Program award, US Small Business Administration
• Distinguished Service Award, City of Austin
• Austin Quality Council Award, Level I
• Texas Senate Resolution
• Regional Financial Services Champion, Small Business Administration Region 7
• Hosted 107 countries who sent delegates to the US to learn how to improve the state of small business
• Top 20 Management Consulting firms, Austin Business Journal
• Had our training materials translated into Chinese and used to help grow businesses in developing countries, including several in Africa.
Press Recognition:
We are pleased to have stories about us or our clients in these and other media:
Income Opportunities
Austin American-Statesman
Austin Business Journal
Executive Female
Entrepreneur
Wall Street Journal
NY Times
Venture Forum, Japan
Publically Speaking:
Our expertise has led Diener and Triplett to be frequent speakers and presenters as well as serve on important boards and commissions. Here are a few that we are especially proud to have been associated with:
• Members, Central Texas Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders
• Elected and Appointed Delegates, White House, Congressional Summit on Small Business
• Commission Member, Mayor's Task Force on International Infrastructure
• Board Members, Texas Business Incubator Association
• Choose Austin First and Austin Independent Business Alliance
• Board Member, Responsible Growth for Northcross
• Board Member, Greater Austin International Coalition
• Charter member Business Leadership Council, Governor & President’s Committee on People with Disabilities
• Board Members, Students Involved in Free Enterprise, Texas State University award-winning chapter
• Texas Office of the Comptroller, member economic review board
Speaking Out for Small Business
In addition to being honored as Texas’ first business to be chosen as it Small Business Advocate, the BSC founders have been major presenters on various issues to encourage small business success. Some of these are:
• Nikkei Corporation Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital, Japan
• Speaker on Big Box Ordinance Proposal, Austin, TX (passed in 2007)
• RISE-Austin, (Relationship & Information Series for Entrepreneurs, part of the Center for Entrepreneurial Education)
• City of Austin Small Business Development Program
• Greater Austin Chamber, Austin Hispanic Chamber, and many other local and state trade associations
• Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce
• Louisville KY Chamber of Commerce
• National Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives
• State of Texas Main Street Project
• Texas Office of the Lieutenant Governor
• Women in Technology, Women in Communication, Project Managers International and other professional service groups
• Choose Austin First, Austin Independent Business Alliance and other business groups in Texas
A complete list of current speaking topics and more details on these and other presentations for trade associations is available upon request. |
