Axcelus is the world’s only systematic business acceleration program helping entrepreneurs rapidly create faster-growing, profitable, and sustainable businesses for More Profits and More Life. Reliably. Repeatedly. Consistently… Guaranteed!
How can we make such a claim?
Axcelus began life with two questions in mind: "How can we bring affordable and high-quality business growth advice and tactics to a large number of growing entrepreneurs?", and "How can we create a worldwide team of purposeful, versatile and effective business accelerators bringing breakthrough growth - quantum growth - to business owners all over the globe?"
Background
Axcelus: Advanced Business Acceleration for Entrepreneurs, was founded by Paul Lemberg, the man who practically invented the discipline of business coaching back in 1992. Paul has made a life study of business owners and entrepreneurial behavior, and has used his research to successfully help business owners achieve tremendous results. Nothing in the Axcelus system is theoretical or academic; every single aspect of the system has been derived from our work with owners and managers, and every process has been field-tested and proven to be effective. So effective, in fact, that over the years, Paul's personal clients have earned more than $240,000,000 in increased profits and proceeds realized from the sales of their companies.
Paul began his entrepreneurial career co-launching Henco Research International, an international banking software company, in 1981. That company, started with $3,000 of credit card debt, was sold for several million dollars in 1983. Next, he and his original partner co-founded Vertex Business Systems to serve the same industry. That company was later sold to WestDeutche Landesbank in 1988. Paul then spent a number of years working in market research and corporate strategy advising large technology companies like IBM, Anderson Consulting, EDS, Texas Instruments, and others. In 1992 Paul began mentoring and coaching individual professionals and entrepreneurs, transforming the existing discipline known as executive coaching into business coaching .
After working closely with more than a hundred companies in dozens of industries, Paul began thinking about how to be able to bring his structured and systematic approach to business growth to a much wider group of business owners. This is not an easy question to answer - after all it had never been done before.
The Axcelus Model
While there are many consulting companies that offer business advice, most of these take a wild and wooly approach. Consultants and business coaches are on their own to develop and implement their own methodologies. While some of the larger consulting companies offer structured approaches, they tend to serve a much larger-sized clientele, and charge very hefty price tags for their services.
Paul had developed a business growth methodology which consistently increased profits and value for his clients, but was frustrated by being able to help such small numbers of business owners. But now, he started working on a system for high-quality business advice and accountability that would consistently and predictably help business owners rapidly increase their profits, and at the same time reduce their business' dependence on them.
Most consultants make recommendations based on their industry experience and particular expertise. For some clients their experience is a fit, and for others… Well, it just isn't. Which means that some clients get the results they asked for, while others do not.
The Axcelus approach is a structured systematic approach built on proven methods the Axcelus leadership team has used successfully with hundreds of clients.
That system - The Axcelus Advanced Business Acceleration System - is the basis of how we help our clients increase cash flow, generate more leads, close more sales, improve operational control, and generally, have both More Profits and More Life.
The Axcelus Advanced Business Acceleration System
The Axcelus Advanced Business Acceleration System is a complete system for reliably increasing the cash flow, revenues and profits in almost any entrepreneurial business.
Designed to work with business owners and CEOs, the system is comprised of two main parts: a structured set of methods for how to help business owners work through their day to day problems as well as transform their businesses for sustainable quantum growth, and a proven set of Business Acceleration Modules with detailed step by step instructions covering everything from lead generation, sales process, cash flow management, financial control, even staffing, and systemization. Each of these Business Acceleration Modules contains one or more detailed processes which will transform and accelerate your business in its designated area.
Three Tracks for More Profits and More Life
All Axcelus clients begin with a set of core Business Acceleration Modules including Vision and Values, Goal Setting, Financial Control Console, Marketing Messaging, Target Markets, Time and Priority Management, Business Planning, and Game Planning.
Beyond the Core Program, there are three major areas of focus.
Automatic Accountability
These tactics and techniques only have great value if you execute them. So to make sure that happens the program Axcelus system uses a specially designed piece of software we call Axcelus Tracker. Axcelus Tracker keeps track of each of the client's commitments and projects for the week, and helps clients stay focused on the activities that will produce accelerated results. Each week our clients commit to a series of actions and results, and Axcelus consultants help keep clients on track. The web-based Axcelus Tracker makes this easy and keeps an ongoing record of client's actions and progress.
Some examples
Here are some examples of the kind of results we've been able to produce using the Axcelus principles and systems:
Internet Hardware Company
The CEO used the systems to "reinvent" the company, and was able to sell in a private sales to a large software vender, at a substantial multiple just before the dot-com crash!
Investment Banker
This Tax specialist worked with the system to double his income several years in a row, exceeding $1,000,000 personal income.
Music Publisher
This niche publisher used the system to revamp the sales force and entire sales process, as well as develop strategic alliances with major record labels. They also crafted a unique financing strategy, and as a result, the company increased revenue 200% in the first year alone.
Software Company
This software company used the principle's in Axcelus's systems to salvage a dead brand. They created new sales process, including "usage scripting" and superior access tools. Profits zoomed from a net loss to 35% net profits. The company is on track this year for even greater revenue growth, and is now turnkeying the entire operation.
Document Management
This legal document management company used the system to create new sales territories, new marketing alliances, restructure its sales process, and change the whole sales force. Then they reconfigured the entire product development process, resulting in better than 53% revenue gains, and more importantly, doubling operating profits.
Publishing Company
The CEO's goal was to sell his company for $20mm. Using Axcelus principles we structured a reverse merger getting into the public equity markets, and sold the entire business nine months later. PS, the CEO got his $20 million.
Software developer
This management-owned company used the Axcelus system to create an up to date and inspiring company and product vision, plus a completely new growth strategy. They turnkeyed their product development cycle, cutting months off the traditional project, and brought in record profits. The company has grown 3-fold since implementing our business acceleration strategies.
Records Management Company
As a result of the Axcelus strategic reinvention program, overall revenues grew more than double within nine months, resulting in a sale of the company to a public company, for a sum far in excess of the owner's expectations.
Consulting Company
This firm used the Axcelus coaching to create new strategic vision and multi-year implementation plan. Over three years revenues grew forty percent, each year, along with the introduction of several new service lines.
Database Technologies
The CEO and management team used our systems to create new strategic business design, and fresh business plan which raised $2 million.
Financial Planning Company
Using the Axcelus principles, we facilitated a management transition for this family business. As a result of management and marketing changes, the first year's results exceeded prior years within 3 months, and broke all sales records. The following year revenue growth exceeded 40% - WITH NO ADDITIONAL WORK!
Office Products distributor
The owner of this competitor refused to bow to Staples and Office Max. Instead, using Axcelus's marketing systems, they doubled revenues within 5 months by changing marketing mix from advertising to targeted postal mail and email, and instituting a phone follow-up campaigns to revive dead customers.
We've helped a lot of people
All together, we have used our business coaching methods - either directly with coaching clients, or indirectly, with seminar attendees and people who've purchased our home study programs - to help thousands of entrepreneurs with very big companies and much smaller ones, in scores of industries and hundreds of niche markets.
We have helped business owners grow revenues, profits and equity in retail sales of all kinds, financial services (life insurance, property and casualty, securities sales, banking, financial planning, title companies), technology (software, computer hardware, internet services, biotechnology, medical device manufacturing, systems integrators), food services (restaurants, catering, coffee bars, event planning), franchise developers, consulting services, other coaches, multi-level marketing, healthcare (MDs, chiropractors, dentists), training companies, real estate (investors, developers, brokers), publishers, oil-field services, chemical companies, construction, office services, office suppliers. The list goes on and on.
Systemized Business Acceleration
Axcelus' certified consultants are trained in methods of building businesses that are universal. Not generic, but custom-crafted and custom-fitted. We employ a large suite of business development tactics, choosing only the right ones for your exact situation.
Which is better, an expert or a system?
People ask this question all the time, and they wonder if systemized doesn't mean "cookie cutter." They think that having an expert would be so much better.
But in fact, the opposite is true.
Of course, experts are great. But the problem with experts is just this: their expertise is usually in a very narrow, focused area. And they might be great for a specific type of company, but you have to ask if their exact expertise is a perfect match for your business. If it isn't, you're likely to get the wrong advice.
As opposed to an expert who may or may not fit your business, the Axcelus system is systemized - and we think that is a very good thing indeed.
Systemized means consistent, which means you can eliminate the ups and downs, producing positive ever-increasing results month after month and year after year.
Systemized means repeatable, which means you can expand to other locations, or sell your business model as a license, a franchise, or a business in a box.
Systemized means scalable, which means that as you increase your revenue you get to keep a greater share of each additional dollar as profits.
Systemized means duplicable and trainable, which means that you can more easily get the people you need to expand your business, and that your business is not dependent on one or two key people.
Systemized means freedom, which means that because your business is no longer dependant on you, you can take leave to work on other projects, or just go on long vacations, and your business will still prosper. You are no longer tied to it and it is no longer tied to you.
Systemized means work-flowed and documented, which means that our methods and processes can be brought to your business by a variety of coaches, and your business will benefit from a consistent approach, rather than the idiosyncratic approach that most business coaches will be required to bring. It also means that if your business coach should be away on leave, you can always get the help you need.
Systemized means expandable, which means that your Axcelus certified consultant can focus more specialized knowledge on your business issues than any other single coach could, and that no matter what your business challenge, Axcelus has a structured, proven way to address it.
Systemized - because it means consistent, repeatable, scalable, duplicable and trainable, work-flowed and documented and expandable - means that Axcelus consulting can help your business grow faster and more reliably than any other approach available today.
And no, systemized, never means "cookie cutter." In fact, it's just the opposite. "To a man who has only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." Axcelus certified consultants have more tools in their tool bag than anyone else working in the field today, and that means that your solutions are never "cookie cutter" or "off the rack." They are completely custom-tailored to your needs, in a way that only a systemized approach could be. That's why you want systemized consulting.
And then again: our certified consultants are experts - they're experts in making the Axcelus Advanced Business Acceleration System work for you.
Contact us
To find out more about how you and your company can benefit from Axcelus consulting and the Axcelus Advanced Business Acceleration System, contact us, here.
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