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Can you envision a future in which your business and your personal life are in an ideal balance? Where you are driven by purpose and passion, and you experience joy in what you do every day? 

Whether you are trying to grow and scale your business for eventual sale, or maintain and fine-tune your business with greater flexibility and freedom, we can help. 

Clarity. Planning. Action. Results.

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Owning a business is hard, but it can be so much easier with fresh insight, an action plan, and the accountability you need to execute and keep going!  Scaleup will meet you where you are with an approach tailored to help you achieve your “dream” business.

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Services

Owning a business is hard, but it can be so much easier with fresh insight, an action plan, and the accountability you need to execute and keep going!  Scaleup will meet you where you are with an approach tailored to help you achieve your “dream” business.

4 Ways to Scaleup

1. Strategic Planning

Transform your passion and ideas into a structured roadmap to success. Define what your business aims to achieve and outline how you'll get there. Your plan is an actionable tool to work toward making your vision a reality.

Small business owners often start a business from a personal passion or a great idea. They start running right out of the gate-- before they even have conceived of how the business should be built. If you are overwhelmed, feeling like things are falling through the cracks or not happening the way you wanted them to, chances are, you need to (re)lay the foundation.

2. Fractional Chief Operating Officer

Maintain consistent business operations, increase efficiency and revenue, and take sidelined initiatives to completion with Fractional COO Services. Effective CEOs need a strong right-hand operator to help turn vision into action, run teams, and keep the CEOs’ time spent where it most impacts the business. Fractional COO Services fill the gap when a full-time COO isn’t a financial possibility. Benefit from a fresh perspective and enable the CEO and teams to maintain their core focus and momentum.

3. Growth Projects

Do you have a project on the back burner that could be a game changer if you had the bandwidth to tackle it? Our project management services provide your organization/business with an experienced lead to manage all aspects of your project from strategy, and initiation to successful completion, enabling you and your team to focus on maintaining smooth and effective operations. Don’t let a lack of internal resources keep you from achieving your goals-- give your bottom line a bump!

4. Business Planning

You have a terrific business idea, but you don’t know where to start to bring it to fruition. Let’s work together to research and validate your business idea, set realistic goals and objectives for achieving it, and develop your operational, financial and marketing plan. Be prepared with everything you need to access the capital necessary to get your business off the ground!

Schedule a consult with Laura to see how Scaleup can help!
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Schedule a consult with Laura to see how Scaleup can help!
free consult call

About Us

Hi! I am Laura Richards, certified Director of Operations, and mover of needles. I am passionate about the business success of my clients, and so inspired by the work they do and the lives they impact every day. Having worked as a Marketing Executive in Fortune 500 companies, and as a multi-unit restaurant owner (and chief toilet bowl cleaner), I know that owning a small business is hard, and it can be lonely.

You don’t have to do it alone. Scaleup and our skilled, outsourced partners “get it”. We will help you systematize and streamline your business operations to free you up to do more of what you love, be that work or play.  We are dedicated to helping you gain clarity, direction, and a plan to create the business and life you envision.

Hi! I am Laura Richards, certified Director of Operations, and mover of needles. I am passionate about the business success of my clients, and so inspired by the work they do and the lives they impact every day. Having worked as a Marketing Executive in Fortune 500 companies, and as a multi-unit restaurant owner (and chief toilet bowl cleaner), I know that owning a small business is hard, and it can be lonely.

You don’t have to do it alone. Scaleup and our skilled, outsourced partners “get it”. We will help you systematize and streamline your business operations to free you up to do more of what you love, be that work or play.  We are dedicated to helping you gain clarity, direction, and a plan to create the business and life you envision.

Client Raves

“Laura was instrumental in helping me with the sale of my business. Working with Laura we increased our profitability by eliminating our physical office space, deep diving into our financials and uncovering unbilled time (for which we could collect) and outsourcing our Operations function. Laura worked directly with the business broker to ensure they had what the buyers needed to make the sale. I would highly recommend Laura to business owners who need someone to plan, manage and harness the details that drive a project forward.”
Michael M.Government Contractor
Cyber Security Expert
“Laura not only thinks strategically, but she also initiates the action that get projects completed— corralling people, building consensus, tying down the details and staying on top of tasks. I like working with Laura because I know I can count on her to follow-through and deliver.”
Lee AndersonFestival Director
Annapolis Film Festival
“Laura was a terrific fractional COO helping us accomplish so much in a short time. We put new HR processes in place, hired new talent whose values fit ours, renegotiated our lease and obtained a build-out allowance to help us add takeaway service. Laura’s work on our brand marketing repositioned us from undifferentiated to best in class in our category. We increased core product revenue by 50% in the first six-months with our premium line and online ordering capability. We, and we couldn’t have done it without her.”
Russell BaileyGeneral Manager
Specialty Gourmet Food
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Client Raves

“Laura was instrumental in helping me with the sale of my business. Working with Laura we increased our profitability by eliminating our physical office space, deep diving into our financials and uncovering unbilled time (for which we could collect) and outsourcing our Operations function. Laura worked directly with the business broker to ensure they had what the buyers needed to make the sale. I would highly recommend Laura to business owners who need someone to plan, manage and harness the details that drive a project forward.”
Michael M.Government Contractor
Cyber Security Expert
“Laura not only thinks strategically, but she also initiates the action that get projects completed— corralling people, building consensus, tying down the details and staying on top of tasks. I like working with Laura because I know I can count on her to follow-through and deliver.”
Lee AndersonFestival Director
Annapolis Film Festival
“Laura was a terrific fractional COO helping us accomplish so much in a short time. We put new HR processes in place, hired new talent whose values fit ours, renegotiated our lease and obtained a build-out allowance to help us add takeaway service. Laura’s work on our brand marketing repositioned us from undifferentiated to best in class in our category. We increased core product revenue by 50% in the first six-months with our premium line and online ordering capability. We, and we couldn’t have done it without her.”
Russell BaileyGeneral Manager
Specialty Gourmet Food
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Let’s Connect!

Schedule a consult with Laura to see how Scaleup can help!
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Let’s Connect!

Schedule a consult with Laura to see how Scaleup can help!
free consult call

Your Success is Our Inspiration

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