Homes for Heroes and The Alternative Board Provide Benefits to Small Community-Based Businesses

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Dan Crider
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503-287-1361
dan@rdcrider.com

Homes for Heroes and The Alternative Board Provide Benefits to Small Community-Based Businesses

This Joint Effort Benefits Businesses Who Help Workforce Heroes

Portland, Oregon (Grassroots Newswire) April 21, 2011 --Many small community-based business owners are finding it increasingly difficult to run a prosperous business in these new and challenging economic times. The Portland Homes for Heroes affiliate, Dan Crider, knows the challenges faced as one of these community-based business owners. Crider discovered a powerful ally in The Alternative Board or TAB. Crider, who became a TAB member less than a year ago, is seeing positive changes in his business. Through an exciting partnership with TAB, Homes for Heroes is able to offer TAB's coaching services to other business owners who are in turn offering help to the Workforce Heroes that Crider's business serves. According to Crider "this completes a full circle of benefits starting with the workforce hero as they buy or sell a home, to the many companies that provide cost-savings to these heroes and who themselves receive the business success help offered by TAB."

Typically, the costs of hiring consultants who specialize in business assessments and strategy development can be daunting, and these consultants often leave the entrepreneur with an expensive set of recommendations but no assistance to actually implement them. This can lead to expensive and often devastating mistakes.

According to The Wall Street Journal, "...More entrepreneurs are discovering the low cost source of outside expertise - fellow entrepreneurs. While huge corporations can seek boardroom advice and hire consultants, other firms often have to wing it from one crisis to the next." One way for small business owners to get the advice from fellow entrepreneurs is through peer groups, where the same group of owners/presidents meet month after month to help each other make decisions needed to lead their companies to where they want them to be.

In order to deal effectively with the huge range of issues that company owners regularly face, groups should be careful to select members from a variety of fields. "One of the Major benefits is a cross-fertilization of ideas from people who are not in your field," says Allen Fishman, CEO of The Alternative Board (TAB), a Denver-based organizer of peer groups with several operating groups in the Portland area. "Some of the best ideas will come from people who aren't locked into your historical ways of thinking."

By partnering with The Alternative Board of Greater Portland, a membership organization comprised solely of owners of small to medium sized businesses in the Portland area, Homes for Heroes is able to offer supporting members a professional business assessment at no charge and with no financial obligation to The Alternative Board. This is an added benefit of becoming a supporting member of our Homes for Heroes program.

For more information about The Alternative Board or Homes for Heroes please email Dan Crider at dan@rdcrider.com

For more information about Portland Home for Heroes, please call 503-287-1361. Portland Home for Heroes is located at 6636 NE Sandy BLvd.

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