Strategic Consulting &
Digital Communications
We believe small & indie is beautiful
P-Brain Media helps small businesses, nonprofits and solopreneurs develop strategic plans and build systems to achieve success.
How we can help
Consulting Support for Indies and Main Street
P-Brain’s service offerings were developed with the needs of small ventures in focus. We understand the challenges facing small and medium-sized businesses, nonprofits, independent consultants, artists and many others.
Our core areas of expertise include:
P-Brain Media believes in the power of small, local ventures as an engine for sustainable economic development.
We are passionate about serving the needs of small and very small operations, including solo ventures. If you feel you’re too small to hire a business consultant, think again! Getting help to systematize your tiny operation can yield massive results.
P-Brain Media’s mission is to serve the small and very small sector with accessible strategic consulting and business management support. This includes both for-profits and nonprofits.
Small enterprises are essential to healthy communities and we are committed to serving them with affordable professional services.
How we work with clients
Our flexible billing options allow us to customize our services to your needs. We offer retainer and services-upon-request arrangements for qualified clients. Inquire about services.
Retainer
We do a set amount of work for a recurring monthly fee. Our retainer contracts can scale up or down flexibly to accommodate evolving needs.
Services Upon Request
Aka “time and materials billing,” you simply contact us when you need advice or services. We’ll track our time and bill at the end of the month.
Prepaid Sessions
You can purchase and book sessions anytime using Acuity, our online scheduling platform.
Our clients get free access to valuable templates and digital publications, including P-Brain’s Digital Strategy Roadmap.
The road to success is never neat, linear or predictable.
It’s not easy being indie! It takes a special spirit to tackle the many hurdles in self-employment and independent work.
Our strategic consulting services will help you:
P-Brain offers business and nonprofit strategic consulting, specializing in the needs of small ventures. We understand the challenges facing small and medium-sized businesses, nonprofits, independent consultants, artists and many others.
P-Brain’s digital services include building and maintaining websites, managing marketing platforms, creating forms and automations, and more. With reliable web and tech support, you can focus on growing your business or organization!
P-Brain Media builds WordPress websites and integrates other platforms and tools such as email marketing, customer relationship management, productivity, scheduling software, forms and surveys, and more.
If you aren’t sure what tech tools would streamline your business or nonprofit, we can help you figure that out. We won’t overwhelm you with tech-speak and we won’t suggest building a digital presence that’s beyond your resources to maintain.
If you’ve struggled to find help with technology needs for your small operation, we’re here for you.
Every client project starts with learning about how your venture operates — including what works well and what’s janky — and developing digital solutions that meet your needs.
We put all our project proposals in writing and make it clear what participation we’ll need from you to get your website or other project done. We build reviews into our process to ensure we’re on the right track.
We’ll provide clear documentation of the key elements of your website including login credentials and maintenance basics, to help you build your in-house knowledge.
In a world where roughly 80% of small businesses have no employees, it’s disappointing to see disproportionate resources lavished upon the 1-2% that aim to scale. Too often, the world of business consulting is considered to be the domain of Big Business. But small fry need guidance too!
Our background in print media and publishing gives us perspective and strategic insight into how to make both online and offline communications work for your enterprise. We think “information” is the most important part of “information technology.”
STRATEGY
We help clarify goals and plans to reach them, in alignment with your resources and values.
SYSTEMS
We use technology to help streamline systems, not make them more complicated.
SUPPORT
Our documentation and training serve to support your operations and build your internal capacity.
Our Digital Tools & Materials
Our focus is on building with the WordPress platform, which we love because it’s open-source, widely supported, easy for clients to learn, and endlessly extensible. Every site we build is optimized for mobile.
We use the core Gutenberg WordPress block editor and customize themes and plugins to meet the unique needs and goals of each project.
We also use accessible technologies like Google Drive, Zapier and others, both open-source and proprietary, to help our clients achieve their business goals as efficiently as possible.
We know tech can be overwhelming for small operations. We’re here to offer solutions that are simple, functional and beautiful.
We are always interested in finding talented folx to join our team.
Current job openings are listed on our Jobs page. We value community, worker wellness, and democratic management principles, and strive to be an anti-racist, gender-diverse, anti-ableist, neurodiverse workplace. If you feel you’d be a good fit, drop us a line at hiring at pbrainmedia dot com to inquire about employment opportunities.