Services
Strategic Advisory
As a strategic adviser, we help your entire team focus on your unique solution, how it can win in the marketplace, and what the options are for implementing your plans. In many cases our clients need a sounding board for product direction, marketing and sales channels, and they want a deeper understanding of the marketplace they are targeting. In particular, Doug’s clients value his 30+ years of experience and insight working with the accounting profession and other software companies.
M&A Consulting
With a deep understanding of products, vendor strategies and the value of combining forces between organizations, we can introduce your company and product to senior leadership at virtually every company in the accounting software marketplace. We can help both organizations see the potential of working together, as partners or through an acquisition. We can help you weigh the tradeoffs of building your existing company, attracting venture capital, or pursuing a partial or complete sale of your assets. If you decide to sell, we will help you identify, evaluate and pursue buyers, then negotiate the best return for your shareholders, and we stay on your team all the way through closing.
Executive Coaching
We provide executive coaching to CEOs who are looking to improve their strategic thinking and planning. We can be a sounding board for your ideas, and bring ideas of our own for accelerating your personal business success.
Accounting Software Market Strategy
Many of our clients hire us to help build a strategic plan for winning in the accounting software marketplace. We’ll help you think through how to market to the accounting profession, to resellers and VARs, and directly to small businesses. Each product has a different set of unique value propositions for each customer segment, and we can help your team develop a winning plan.
Software Design Consulting
With an extensive background in software design, feature development and product positioning, we can help your executive team develop strategy and execution plans for creating market-winning applications for small business management.
Blockchain Technology Consulting
We believe blockchain technology will revolutionize global commerce, and we continually watch developments in the space while searching for companies with compelling products and business models. From cryptocurrency, to blockchains for accounting records, to smart contracts, we believe we are in the midst of a fundamental shift in the way information is stored, transmitted, secured and consumed.
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Doug’s QuickBooks textbooks, today
Learn QuickBooks Online with QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step
QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step was originally developed by The Sleeter Group, the company Doug Sleeter founded, and is written and edited by Alicia Katz Pollock. Questiva Consultants publishes it today. Chapter 4 is free to read, with no account and no card.