Leading Strategist for SMBs Now Has Online Destination with Tips, Techniques, and Strategies to Streamline SMB Operations

Larkspur, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/23/2011 -- Pacific Crest Group (PCG, http://www.pcg-services.com), the consulting firm that helps San Francisco Bay Area businesses optimize their organizational structure and create systems for better efficiency and higher profits, today announced the launch of a new online resource for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Pacific Crest Group has launched a new web portal to provide visitors with best practices, operational insight, and tips and techniques to help them improve their operations with more efficient back office systems.

The Pacific Crest Group has been serving Bay Area businesses with strategic accounting, human resources, and IT services since 2002.

With the new web site, Pacific Crest Group now offers an online resource to share their expertise, showing business owners how to create systems that simplify back office tasks, identify impediments to provide, and reveal new ways to achieve success. As part of the portal, Pacific Crest Group has added:

• A new weblog where resident experts will share their practical advice on how you can improve your business. The web has become a universal resource for small to medium-sized businesses, and through the new blog, PCG outlines new strategies that SMBs can adopt to improve their business performance.

• A new resources section where PCG provides more in-depth white papers and articles that explain how to cope with common business problems, such as measuring employee performance, creating a staff development program, selling your business, creating a mobile workforce, and much more.

• New client success stories that demonstrate best practices in action and shows you how you can improve your operation by example.

• A secure client web portal that allows PCG to quickly and efficiently share sensitive documents and proprietary information with clients.

• A new Pacific Crest Group newsletter, reformatted with new information to help subscribers overcome their business challenges and achieve success, however they define it.

• New ways to connect with the PCG team. Good client service includes being responsive, so PCG is now available through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or directly via e-mail.

As part of the new launch, Pacific Crest Group is offering a free white paper to web visitors to help them improve their operations, "10 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Business." One of the biggest challenges facing entrepreneurs is planning their exit strategy, and this white paper offers 10 ways to improve the value of your business so you can maximize profitability when the time comes.

For more information, visit http://www.pcg-services.com.

About Pacific Crest Group
Pacific Crest Group works with entrepreneurial organizations to help them unleash their potential by eliminating the friction and chaos caused by business processes. Founded by a team of entrepreneurs with expertise in accounting, finance, and billing administration, Pacific Crest Group has built its reputation by identifying organizational needs and opportunities for improvement, and optimizing financial procedures, computer systems, and human resources so clients can focus on their core business. Pacific Crest Group approaches financial and business management like a consulting physician, with an understanding that some problems can be isolated and fixed while others need a more holistic approach. The result is eliminating obstacles such as broken financial processes or cumbersome IT systems so clients can focus on business growth.

The firm is based in Larkspur, California. For more information, visit Pacific Crest Group online at http://www.pcg-services.com.

Contact:
Franka Winchester
Pacific Crest Group
(415) 461-2586
fwinchester@pcg-services.com

Tom Woolf
Woolf Media & Marketing
(415) 259-5638
tomw@woolfmedia.com

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Leading Business Strategist and Legal Expert Explain How Business Owners Can Rethink their Exit Strategy for Maximum Returns

Larkspur, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/15/2010 -- Every entrepreneur needs an exit strategy, and in the current economy it's more difficult than ever to assess the market value of a company and develop a strategy for a secure retirement. In a special business seminar, TJ Van Voorhees, cofounder of Pacific Crest Group (www.pcg-services.com), and Danny Krebs, a partner with San Francisco firm Alliance Counsel LLP (http://www.alliancecounsel.com), will show business owners how to assess and maximize the value of their operation and prepare their business for possible sale. The free breakfast seminar entitled "Buying, Dying, or Selling? 10 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Business" is scheduled for Thursday, November 18, at 8:00 a.m. at the Wood Island Office Complex, 80 East Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Larkspur.

Van Voorhees has been helping Bay Area businesses increase the efficiency and value of their operations for nearly two decades. During the presentation, he will provide insights into how to assess the current value of your business, and how to map that valuation to your personal retirement strategy. Van Voorhees also will review the pros and cons of investment versus strategic purchase for valuation, and offer 10 proven ways to enhance the value of your company. Krebs also will provide insight into the legal elements to consider to make your company attractive to a potential buyer, and how to ensure that a transaction is completed smoothly at an optimal price.

"Entrepreneurs are usually so focused on day-to-day operations that they overlook long-term objectives, especially their endgame," said Van Voorhees. "Preparing your company for sale takes time, years in fact, and it's something every business owner should be thinking about as part of their everyday strategy. In this presentation I want to offer a few simple, easy-to-follow principles that every entrepreneur needs to embrace to ensure a successful sale when the time comes."

For example, Van Voorhees notes that many entrepreneurs tend to be too ingrained in everyday operations, so the business becomes too reliant on the owner.

Creating standalone, independent business processes makes success transferrable. The company also needs to be able to show clean financials, consistent EBITDA, and have clear planning with a specific buyer or exit strategy in mind. Van Voorhees also suggests assembling a SWAT team of experts to assist with exit planning, including financial and insurance experts, estate planners, legal counsel, and other specialists.

To register for the free seminar, "Buying, Dying, or Selling? 10 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Business," contact Cole McGowan, (415) 461-2586, cmcgowan@pcg-services.com.

About Pacific Crest Group
Pacific Crest Group works with small and medium sized organizations to help them unleash their potential by eliminating the friction and chaos caused by business processes. Founded by a team of entrepreneurs with expertise in accounting, finance, and billing administration, Pacific Crest Group has built its reputation by identifying organizational needs and opportunities for improvement, and optimizing financial procedures, computer systems, and human resources so clients can focus on their core business. Pacific Crest Group approaches financial and business management like a consulting physician, with an understanding that some problems can be isolated and fixed while others need a more holistic approach. The result is eliminating obstacles such as broken financial processes or cumbersome IT systems so business owners can focus on their vision and be more successful.

The firm is based in Larkspur, California. For more information, visit Pacific Crest Group online at http:/www.pcg-services.com.

Contact:
Cole McGowan
Pacific Crest Group
(415) 461-2586
cmcgowan@pcg-services.com

Tom Woolf
Woolf Media & Marketing
(415) 259-5638
tomw@woolfmedia.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm