You’ve Built Something Great. Now Let’s Break Through the Ceiling.
A Strategy Intensive designed to solve a problem that’s holding you back.
When growth stalls, frustration builds. Our Strategy Intensive helps entrepreneurs clarify, prioritize, and solve their most pressing bottlenecks—so they can move from founder-led chaos to a clear path toward scale. Shift from surviving on hustle to scaling with structure. Get your margins back.
What’s a Strategy Intensive?
If you’re like most business owners in the $1M–$5M range, you’ve hit a point where pure hustle doesn’t scale anymore. You’ve got customers, revenue, a team—and complexity. This is where one blind spot, one breakdown, or one unrefined process can cost you millions in future growth.
The Strategy Intensive is a 1:1 engagement designed to tackle your most critical barrier to growth—whether that’s people, process, or profit. In 2–4 sessions, we dig deep into one high-impact area and build a focused plan to fix it, fast.
Outcomes You Can Expect
Crystal clarity on your most pressing strategic problem.
A clear 90-day roadmap to resolve it
Alignment between marketing, operations, and leadership.
Renewed momentum toward your next growth milestone.
When to Use a Strategy Intensive
This isn’t for startups or side hustles. This is for growing businesses that:
- Are led by founders but need to become leader-driven companies
- Feel the weight of misalignment between departments or priorities
- Have no shortage of opportunity, but unclear execution
- Are preparing for new growth, new markets, or exit readiness
Typical Strategic Problem Areas We Solve:
- Poor lead-to-close conversion
- Leadership misalignment or team conflict
- Operational bottlenecks
- Profit margin leaks
- Team optimization (low level tasks vs high level tasks)
- Marketing that’s not producing ROI
- Scaling without burning out
What You’ll Get
- 90-Minute Strategy Sessions (1–3, depending on depth)
- Root Cause & Opportunity Mapping
- Customized Strategy Audit Report
- One-Page Strategy Map aligned to your top goal
- Follow-Up Summary + Next Steps Plan
Optional Add-On:
Implementation Leadership (via our professional partners in virtual staffing, marketing, financial ops, video, payroll, and more)
Why This Works
Most owners are stuck inside the problem. We guide you through a structured process to define, analyze, and act—using powerful frameworks from our Strategist Toolkit and tools like PAS and Capitaliz to deliver insight, not just advice.
This is a surgical strike, not a subscription.
Meet Your Guide
Corbin Cook – Builder of Practical Growth Systems for Small Business Owners
Corbin Cook helps small business owners find clarity in the middle of complexity. As the founder of SMB Strategy Consultants, he brings together some of the most practical, proven tools in business strategy to create real traction for service-based businesses ready to grow.
At the core of Corbin’s work is a pattern: most business problems aren’t random—they’re repeated, predictable, and solvable. His strength lies in recognizing these patterns quickly and building clear, financial-first strategies that align people, marketing, and money to move the business forward. Whether an owner is stuck at a revenue plateau, drowning in operations, or struggling with cash flow, Corbin helps cut through the noise and focus on what actually works.
The mission behind it all is simple: to equip business owners with systems that create margin, scale with intention, and give them back the freedom they started out to find.
What Our Clients Say About Us
“SMB Strategy Consultants has been a great resource for our company for a number of years. It can be hard to look forward when working in the business day to day. Corbin has the ability keep us all at the 10,000 foot level and brings us insights and discernment that we need to keep our business growing and moving forward with a long range plan. The service he provides our company is exceptional.”
“Corbin brings a unique perspective to growing your business. Not only is he able to quickly understand the nuances of your particular business, but he has been invaluable in introducing me to key people to help me transform and grow my business!”
“Corbin and the SMB strategy jumped in to help with our bookkeeping and give financial guidance during a very tough period for our company.
The onboarding process was seamless and the team very quickly took control of the situation.
What I originally thought would be a short term engagement until we create the capacity in-house, turned into successful two year partnership.
During the term the team managed all our bookkeeping and reporting and also gave guidance on many aspects of our business and strategy.
I would highly recommend Corbin and the SMB team for any Small to Medium sized business looking to outsource their finance function.”
“”Corbin and his team are on it! They have been a great addition to standardize financial reporting and sophisticate our forecasting to make informed decisions for our company. I’d highly recommend them for your company’s accounting needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: How do I know if a Strategy Intensive is right for me?
If your business is between $1M and $5M and you’re hitting a ceiling—whether it's with your team, your profit, or your growth—it’s time for a Strategy Intensive.
Q2: What kinds of problems can we solve in one Intensive?
We tackle one focused issue: from team misalignment to marketing inefficiency, profit leaks, or scaling strategy. We’ll get to the root and build a 90-day plan.
Q3: How many sessions does the Strategy Intensive include?
Typically 1 to 3 deep-dive sessions depending on the complexity of the issue. Each is 90 minutes and highly actionable.
Q4: Will you help implement the strategy?
Yes. While the Intensive is focused on diagnosis and planning, we offer Implementation Leaders who can help execute the plan if needed.
Q5: What if I already have a team?
Even better. We’ll build a plan that aligns with your existing resources and help you lead your team to execution.
Q6: Is this a long-term engagement?
Nope. This is a strategic burst designed for focus and fast traction. Think of it as a tactical unlock, not a subscription.
Ready to Take Your Business To The Next Level?
One Strategic Problem. One Intensive. Massive Impact.