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For the client

What Kickapoo Consulting Can Do For YOU!

Non-Profit Project Development

  • Understanding why people give to non-profits
  • Co-marketing and cooperative fundraising—let others help you raise money!
  • Selling in the non-profit world...is just like selling in the for-profit-world!
  • Developing for-profit revenue streams to support non-profit operations.

Grant Writing

  • Submission hurdles: how to write those “Tell us about your company/project in 1500 characters” summaries that snap, crackle, and pop!
  • The funding submittal as a sales document—hook ‘em, amaze ‘em, snag ‘em!
  • Grant management—developing an implementation plan that captures additional grants.

Start-Up Business Development

  • Comprehensive three year sales and marketing plan.
  • Milestone evaluation timeline and decision points.
  • Viability evaluation of product/service concept.
  • How to make the start-up investor friendly.
  • Identifying private and venture capital sources.
  • Market entry/market exit strategy to overcome market barriers.
  • Identifying “pull” market mechanisms, such as distributorships, resellers, co-marketing affiliates, and the like.

Business Plan Development

  • Analysis of the sales dynamic of products and services as core to the development of a sales and marketing launch plan with pricing strategy.
  • Market entry sales and marketing plan with marketing communication collaterals.
  • An evaluative matrix to enable six month review of progress and identification of market barriers.
  • Evaluation of the sales channel delivery options (e.g., online e-store or direct sales or business to business or telemarketing or distributorship or tradeshow marketing, or a combination of these).
  • Identification of candidates for a corporate Board of Directors and Advisory BoardNetworking database with profiles and evaluative data concerning potential funding sources, from private funding to Venture Capital sources.

About francis x Kroncke

Business development based on the principle that people make profits.

Francis X. Kroncke's expertise spans a broad range of business development, sales and marketing skills. He served as an executive, strategic planner, product manager, and national sales and marketing director. His management experience encompasses sales and marketing in Cable TV, cellular technology, and litigation support professions. He also directed higher education business development projects for the Chancellor's office of the California Community Colleges system.

For decades he built award winning sales teams. Nationwide, he trained hundreds of highly successful sales reps in a range of sales skills, including direct sales, B2B, seminar presentations, telemarketing, and tradeshow sales.

Additionally, he served corporate start-ups and nonprofit organizations as a fundraiser and project director, notably, for several community service nonprofits. His recent focus is on assisting entrepreneurial start-ups, especially those that leverage high technology to solve agricultural problems, and those developing local food products.

Clients

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the Process

1

Discovery

During the planning process, we meet at the client's location, discuss the issues and desired results, goals and objectives for the client.

2

Building

This is the longest part of the process. At this point we are constructing the best solution to what we learned during discovery. The client's involvement is critical for best results.

3

Application

Integrating what we constructed into the operation of the business can be exciting and frustrating. This is the point where changes and tweaks are made to fine tune the project.

4

Support

Ongoing support is part of delivering satisfaction to the client. When the project ends, Kickapoo Consulting is here.

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