There is no shortage of advice available to someone starting a business. Books, podcasts, online communities and self-proclaimed experts are everywhere. What is genuinely hard to find is substantive, personalized support that helps a new business owner move forward with confidence.
Tom hears this consistently from people in the early stages of building something. The information exists, but the guidance that accounts for who you are, what you are building and what you specifically need is much harder to come by.
What Useful Support Actually Looks Like
Starting a business involves more moving pieces than most people anticipate. There is the business model itself: how the business will generate revenue, what it will deliver and how it will sustain itself over time. There is the administrative foundation: the accounting, the bookkeeping, the entity structure and the systems that keep things running behind the scenes. And then there are the other professionals a new business owner often needs access to, an insurance broker, an attorney, possibly an industry consultant, depending on the nature of the business.
Finding all of those resources independently, vetting them and figuring out how they fit together is a significant undertaking for someone already managing the demands of launching something new. Having an advisor who can help with the core financial and structural foundation, and connect you with the right people for the other pieces, makes that process considerably more manageable.
The Access Problem
Getting meaningful time with a professional advisor has started to feel a lot like trying to get an appointment with a doctor. Even when you find the right person, actually connecting with them in a substantive way can be difficult.
A lot of professional services have moved in that direction. Human contact has become harder to come by, and the relationship that used to define what it meant to work with an advisor has been replaced, in many cases, by automated systems and self-service portals.
At Dunn CPA Firm, the approach is deliberately different. The goal is to be easy to find, easy to reach and easy to meet with, whether that is over the phone, over Zoom or in person. For a new business owner trying to figure out who to trust and where to start, that kind of accessibility matters more than most people realize until they need it.
A Good Starting Point
If you are thinking about starting a business and are not sure where to begin, a straightforward conversation with someone who can help you assess your situation is often the most useful first step.
Tom offers a free consultation through the firm’s website for exactly this reason. It is an opportunity to talk through what you are considering, get a sense of what the right business model might look like for your situation and understand what kind of support you will need as you move forward. There is no obligation, and it tends to be a more efficient starting point than trying to piece everything together on your own.
The right support is out there. Finding it early makes a meaningful difference in how the first years of a business go.
Well if you’re thinking about starting your own business, I honestly believe the number one thing you should do three times over is book a free consultation with me from my website at tom donecpa.com because we are a unique firm we can help with a holistic approach and get you connect gets you kind of going with the right business model and the right admin support for that third of your business and connect you with other people that can help with the other pieces, the insurance broker piece, maybe the lawyer piece, maybe an industry consultant piece. But yeah three times over, you book debt free consultation with me or let’s just say get help get the help, that supportive help. It’s hard to find.
That supportive help. It’s almost like it’s hard to find a doctor these days even if you’ve got a doctor it’s hard to get an appointment with them.
So I think a lot of professions have just become that way. They’re hard to they’re hard to have human to human contact. They’re hard to get a meeting with.
It’s hard to connect with so that’s why we do everything we can to just be the opposite. We try to be found everywhere you might look and make it really easy to book with us, to meet with us either over the phone or over zoom or in person.
So I think that the challenge is to find the right support when you’re first getting started. So it’s really hard to find.
