OUR MISSION

LBC Consulting's mission is to provide a network of small businesses that are as competitive as large corporations in pricing, but exceed them in customer care, to insure that small businesses get the same fair pricing on all business needs as large corporations, and to promote the continued support of other local small businesses.   Large corporations routinely use their size and numbers to receive discounted prices on the things that all businesses need and then mark them up sometimes almost 30% and resell them to us, small businesses.  LBC believes small businesses should have the same privilege and access to these discounted rates and prices.  We strive to encourage our network members to continue to use local small businesses so that these businesses can then offer more comparable prices to the large corporations, using volume to make up for their smaller mark ups and to promote the business at no cost to them so they may lower their overhead, again allowing for a smaller markup on items and services rendered / sold.

LBC is committed to using the number of businesses in our network to negotiate competitive prices on things that every business needs and can only be found by using an outside larger company.  We believe that investigating these companies and insuring their legitimacy gives the business owners in our network more time to focus more important things, hence saving them valuable time, equaling more revenues.  We also promise to conduct an in person interview with the owners and/or managers of every small business we allow in this network, hence filtering out those who do not care about the success of their neighbors.

Our promise to you as a small business is that we will investigate all companies we refer you to, utilizing all available means to confirm their excellent customer service and exceptional services.

HISTORY

LBC Consulting was founded by Andrew Little, Brian Bushman, and Richard Cummins with Toby Windorf as their managing director in Joplin, MO.  Originally its mission was to shop around for the best companies and most competitive rates for items and services small businesses needed at the request of the business owner.  As our client base increased and we realized the majority of our clients needed the same things, we began to provide what we believed to be a much more valuable service, networking our clients and referring them to each other.  Supported by the nation’s three largest non-profit organizations for self-employed individuals we began by visiting all the of their members and alerting them to the benefits they had been missing from their organizations and showing them new benefits that LBC was able to add because of the dues they had been paying for membership.  We strongly encourage all of our LBC network members to participate with these organizations due to their backing and support of the LBC Small Business Network and the benefits they offer self-employed individuals, but membership is not required to join us in the fight to save small businesses. 

After assessing the above marketing plan we realized we could save small business owners considerable amounts of money and valuable time by providing a marketing plan that was in place when they joined our network.  This plan gave small business owners who could not afford a large advertising budget more advertising at no extra cost and provided those who were spending large amounts a way to lower their cost without reducing the number of potential clients seeing their ads.  After experimenting with this marketing plan we are positive that our newsletters and classified ads alone reach a minimum of 200 small business owners in and out of our network and an uncountable number of the general public, and family members and friends of network members.