About me...

Marc L Daniels

Strategic Planning Coach

& Execution Specialist

I Help Entrepreneurs — I have a lifelong passion for helping people, especially entrepreneurs. In 1977 as a college accounting intern I began doing the books for a local Radio Shack dealership. Joe, an entrepreneur had just acquired the store with an SBA loan and had pledged his house as collateral. When I ran a year-out forecast it illustrated that he would be out of business in less than six months. When I told him he did not believe it, he was nearly in tears as he said, "What will I tell my wife, you must be wrong!" I double and triple-checked my forecast... I was not wrong.

It was then with a passion and determination to help save Joe and his Radio Shack dealership (and his house) that I created my first strategic business plan. One that eventually not only saved his regional store but grew in just a few years to a multi-million dollar nationwide company... Computer Discount of America.

Nearly 50 years later helping entrepreneurs strategize, plan, and grow is still my passion!

Passionately helping you grow,

Helping You... Create Strategy, & Execute

Often I ask entrepreneurs "Do you have a plan?"

— the responses I get;

  • "No, I have not had time to put together a formal plan."

  • "Yes, our CFO created an Excel spreadsheet for next year."

  • "We held a goal-setting workshop and set our objectives."

  • "We had a plan last year but we did not achieve it."

"He who fails to plan is failing to plan" — 70% of businesses that have a strategic business plan survive beyond the first five years. I help you create a Strategic business plan to survive and grow.

The forecast is an important planning component but absent a strategy it is simply a wish list. Strategy comes first.

Goal-setting workshops are great team-building exercises, but often they are not aligned with an underlying strategy, and too many goals are set, I work to narrow your focus to just four major projects each quarter that align with your Strategy and drive growth.

You are not alone... Research from Harvard Business shows that 85% of companies fail to execute their strategy. Once your Strategy Business Plan is complete, the hard part starts — Execution. I teach you the tools to encorporate Execution is into the Strategy. Execution is the Strategy

1978

Founder of Computer Discount of America.

E-commerce trailblazer launching online in 1985. Grew to sales of 24 Million.

1991

Strategic Business Plan for Varityper's PrePress Direct & PrePress Solutions. Grew to total sales per year in excess of 50 Million.

1994

Business Plan for Instrumentation Engineering.

6 years later, 2001 it was sold to FLEX for 300 Million.

1997

Strategic Business Plan to Launch GameDealer.com

Which sold to Electronics Boutique in 2000 for 2 Million.

2003

Plan for Diligent, listed on NZX in 2006 and was sold to private equity for 941 Million in 2016. — '2025 Valuation is estimated at 7 Billion.

2013

Strategic Growth Coach and CEO of ResultsBI, helping hundreds of companies plan and grow and increase their valuation by Millions.

Today — Since 2012, my wife MaryBeth and I have been blessed to live on the beautiful island of Martha's Vineyard. She is an accomplished artist and spiritual counselor.

Me... In 1999, I launched Marc L Daniels Consulting. Since then, I have applied my years of learning and wisdom to help entrepreneurs launch or grow their businesses. I'm often referred to as "The Billon Dollar Coach" by having helped so many companies reach and exceed their valaution goals.

I stive to not only create a powerful strategic plan for the companies I serve, but most importantly to help them actually Execute thier plan. Let me be clear: your plan is worthless if NOT executed. Helping drive Execution is paramount to my clients' growth and success!

Why I Can Help You... Execution

I'm not your typical coach using the 1960 strategic planning approaches. My wisdom is based on decades of experiance in many different industries. I use my proven SWaTOL4™ analysis to define four projects each quarter strengthen you company, remove obsticles and to drive growth.

Most importantly I work with your team members and you on the Execution of your strategy.

The plan means nothing without Execution.

And unlike so many other programs I don't push you off to a team member... I work with you!

— Quickly create a Strategic Business Plan for 2025

— Use my SWaTOL4™ analysis to create a growth plan

— Engage your team to create excitement and accountability

— Drive Execution to create a year of growth, quarter after quarter

Let's work together to make 2025 Your Best Year Ever

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