Strategic Consulting

Streamline your operations both online and off

Small business and nonprofit management can be overwhelming. P-Brain Media offers support with business strategy guidance and digital services.

P-Brain’s consultants, led by Founding Director Peri Pakroo, are passionate about helping small ventures succeed. We can help clarify your highest value priorities and outline plans to get them done, from refining your business model to systematizing key tasks, hiring staff, untangling bookkeeping, using technology tools, and more.

Peri Pakroo, Director of P-Brain Media

Founding Director and Managing Consultant Peri Pakroo is an award-winning business author and entrepreneur with decades of experience helping businesses and nonprofits thrive. She is the author of several books published by Nolo Press including The Small Business Start-Up Kit, Starting and Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide, and the award-winning The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit. More about Peri.

Peri leads P-Brain’s network of consultants, project partners and community builders who cycle in to help our clients as needed. Our collective expertise in business and nonprofit management runs wide and deep.

Let’s Talk About What You Need!

  • Get one-on-one biz support from an experienced advisor.
  • Talk through your challenges and pursue your goals methodically, with a savvy thought partner.
  • Interested in hiring us by retainer? We can do that.
  • Click “Inquire About Services” below to contact us and request more information.

Ready to book sessions? We offer prepaid options.

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.

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Our core areas of expertise include:

  • Helping you understand your business model and clarifying your income streams
  • Demystifying ownership and legal structures such as LLCs, alternative models such as cooperatives or B Corps, and nonprofit corporations
  • Understanding management and staff roles, and the role of a board in nonprofits
  • Developing systems and processes, including documentation and information management systems
  • Growing and building a staff management structure, including considerations like pay equity and democratic governance
  • Building a simple but solid financial management system
  • Managing your business or nonprofit online with solid digital strategies
  • Creating and implementing communications and marketing plans, both online and off, including SEO strategies, metrics and more
  • Leveling up how your venture manages technology

We believe in transparent pricing.

No one likes surprises, especially with service fees. P-Brain’s transparent billing systems make it clear exactly what you’re paying for.

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. For more information, submit an inquiry.

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.

Working with Peri and other P-Brain consultants will help you build confidence, flexibility and savvy in how you handle whatever is thrown at you.

Our strategic consulting services will help you:

  • Develop an understanding of your venture at a core level, so you can refine your activities and flow with changing conditions
  • Dial in your digital strategy — or create it from scratch
  • Recognize your highest-value activites and tasks, and develop systems to streamline them.
  • Hire and manage with confidence, and build value in your operation.

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We’d love to work with you on the strategic foundations of your business or nonprofit.

Level up your venture with P-Brain’s strategy and communications support