Author Nick: Mike
Name: Mike Daley
Site: http://www.mjdbusinessadvice.com
About Author: During his 32 years of senior executive experience in marketing and sales at Ford Motor Company, Mike Daley was consulting one-on-one with the dealer distribution network in the areas of profit process improvements, finance, sales, marketing, employee satisfaction, training, and customer loyalty. While at Ford, his last twelve years were focused on improving the dealer network in Texas and Oklahoma as the franchise manager; working with potential dealership owners to forecast market potential, developing metrics to forecast their working capital needs, reviewing facility relocation and modernization plans, and focusing their business plan toward achieving specific goals to maximize their ROI.
For the last five years Mike has been consulting, mentoring, and providing business advice to hundreds of potential start-up and existing businesses in a variety of industries. Through Mike’s advice, clients have grown profits, obtained financing, increased sales, developed business plans, reduced costs, and improved customer loyalty. He has developed seminars on how to start a business and another on relationship selling. In addition, he has written articles for business journals and has made presentations at several organizations
Besides his years of practical business experience, Mike’s extensive education, which includes an economics degree from Georgetown University and a MBA from Babson College, as well as, hundreds of various business seminars, provides the foundation for his sound business judgment and expertise in the establishment and growth of entrepreneurial businesses.
You will be working personally with the owner of MJD Business Advice and Mike has a wide ranging network of professionals with specific expertise in a variety of business disciplines that he can engage to support his clients.
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