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A Smart Way to Grow Your Business: Our Help Pays for Itself!
At Salted Horse Management Group, we help your business turn problems into chances to get better. Our simple way of working gets you real results, and those results help pay for our services.
Why Our Way of Working Guarantees Results
At Salted Horse Management Group, we've created a simple plan to help businesses like yours. Our DATAMA approach comes with one main promise: our help will pay for itself.
This means the benefits we bring you—like saving money, making more sales, or working better—will cover our fees and then some. If your project doesn't pay for itself by the time we agree on, we will make it right or give your money back.
Every step we take is carefully planned to find, put into action, and check the best ways to help your business. These steps bring you quick benefits that really pay off.

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Our Simple Six-Step DATAMA Plan for Your Business
Discovery (Find Out)
We begin by understanding your business, its biggest challenges, your desired achievements, and current market conditions.
Analysis (Figure Out)
We analyze money flow, sales, and daily operations to uncover root causes and develop effective, tailored solutions.
Treatment (Plan It)
We create a tailored, step-by-step plan outlining actions, responsibilities, and integration strategies for your business.
Actions (Do It)
We implement the plan with your team, ensuring a smooth and natural transition for new changes.
Measurements (Check It)
We establish key metrics (KPIs) and custom reports to track progress, identify issues, and adjust strategy for continuous improvement.
Accountability (Keep It Going)
We integrate your organization into our management group, providing ongoing accountability, investor-level monitoring, and executive board oversight to ensure your success.
Our Unique Value Proposition
What sets Salted Horse Management Group apart from other consultancies, brokers and advisors is our unique, comprehensive approach to ensuring small business success. We believe every business, regardless of size, deserves the strategic rigor and dedicated support typically reserved for larger enterprises. Our commitment extends beyond mere advice; we partner with you at every stage, from initial assessment to successful exit.
Big Business Mentality
We treat every client's business with the strategic depth and operational discipline applied to Fortune 500 companies. This includes comprehensive analysis, detailed planning, and professional execution, ensuring your small business operates with the efficiency and foresight of a much larger organization.
Dedicated Executive Team
Your business gains an entire executive team. Our multidisciplinary specialists—Valuation Analyst, Strategist, Consultant, Coach, and Tax Strategist—collaborate to provide holistic expertise, from initial benchmark valuations to tailored strategic advice, covering all critical aspects of your business.
Ongoing Accountability & Monitoring
Through our "Adoption through Accountability" stage, we actively monitor your business's progress and hold employees accountable on a quarterly basis. This rigorous follow-up ensures that implemented strategies stick, performance metrics are met, and your business stays on track for sustained growth and profitability.
Strategic Exit Planning
We specialize in true exit planning, seamlessly partnering small business owners with qualified buyers and investors. Our objective is to maximize your business's sale value, ensure a smooth transition, and secure the optimal outcome for your years of hard work and investment.
This integrated approach ensures that every facet of your business is optimized for growth, efficiency, and ultimately, a successful, high-value exit.
Discovery: Finding the Best Ways to Improve Your Business
The first step, Discovery, is all about truly understanding what matters most to your business. We talk to you and your team, gather all the important facts, and understand your place in the market. This helps us figure out exactly what we'll work on together.
By finding the best chances to boost your profits early, we focus only on problems that will give your business quick, clear results. This means you'll see your business earn more than it costs, right from the start.

Finding Quick Wins Early: Within the first two weeks, we usually find 2-3 things you can do right away to start making money for your business, even as we work on bigger improvements.
Analysis: Figuring Out What Works Best For Your Business
Finding the Real Problem
We look past the obvious problems to find out what's really causing challenges for your business. We use facts and information to see what's truly happening and find new ways to help you succeed.
Estimating What You'll Gain
Our team calculates how different changes could help your business make or save money. For example, "Making this process better could save your business $50,000 each year" or "Reaching more customers could bring in $100,000 in new sales."
Choosing the Best Solutions
We help you pick the best ways to fix problems by showing you how long it will take for each solution to pay for itself. This way, you know exactly what to expect and when your business will see the benefits.
This careful way of looking at things means that every suggestion we give your business comes with clear numbers. You'll see exactly how the project will pay for itself and when.
Putting Plans Into Action: Getting Results For Your Business
In this step, we take what we've learned and turn it into clear, simple steps for your business. This means creating easy-to-follow plans, step-by-step guides for putting them in place, and making sure you have the right people and resources. We also help get your whole team excited and ready for the changes.
85%
Success Rate
Most of our plans (85%) help businesses like yours meet or beat their goals and make money.
3.2x
More Money Back
On average, for every dollar you put in, our clients get back $3.20 from the solutions we help them put in place.
62%
Quick Wins
Many projects (62%) start helping your business make more money or save costs even before everything is fully set up.
We make sure that every step we suggest will pay off for your business. We only focus on ideas that will give you a good return, often finding ways for you to start saving money or earning more even before the whole plan is completely finished.
Actions: Making Things Happen Right Away
This is where your plans really start to happen. Our team gets right in there with you to help make it work. We help your own team work together smoothly, put new things in place, and make small changes along the way so everyone gets used to them easily.
Other helpers might just tell you what to do. But we actually roll up our sleeves and work with your team to make sure the changes really happen and get your business good results.
Get Fast Results
We focus on doing things that will give your business quick results. For example, we help you fix how things are done so you can save money right away, even in the same month.
Manage Changes Smoothly
We make sure new ways of doing things are easy for your team to adopt. This includes special training, clear messages, and getting everyone on board.
Keep Making Things Better
We keep checking, learning, and making small adjustments based on what's working in the real world. This helps us get the best possible outcome for your business.
Measurements: Seeing How Your Business Grows
We believe in a simple idea: "What gets measured gets managed." This means we set up clear ways to check your progress against your specific goals. We want to show you the real value we're adding to your business.
How we track your progress
1
Week 1
We figure out where your business stands now and set up simple ways to track important numbers.
2
Month 1
We'll have our first check-in to see how things are going and how much money you're starting to make back.
3
Month 3
We do a big check-up on your goals, like if you've made your business 20% more efficient.
4
Project End
We'll show you exactly how much money you've saved or earned, and the full value we've brought to your business.
These numbers show you the value we're bringing in real-time. This helps us make quick changes to make sure you get your money's worth. If things aren't going as planned, we change course fast to keep your project profitable.
Making Sure Your Investment Pays Off
The last part of how we work is all about making sure you get the results you paid for. We check everything carefully after the project, write down what worked and what didn't, see how everyone involved did, and suggest ways to keep making things better for your business.
What makes us different is our strong focus on getting you real results. We only get paid more if you see actual success. If our work doesn't bring your business real benefits within the time we agreed on, we'll fix it. This means we'll do more work for free or change our bill so you're happy.

Our Promise to You
We believe in our work and promise this: if we don't get your business the return we promised, we will keep working for free until we do. Or, we'll lower our fees to make it right for you.
Meet Your Team
Our team works closely with you every step of the way. We give your business the special support it needs to succeed and make sure our work helps you earn back your investment.
Your Main Guide (Strategist)
This is your go-to person. They lead the first step, where we get to know your business. They'll create a clear plan to help you make more money. They'll look at your business numbers and give you easy-to-follow ideas, either in person or online.
Your "Get It Done" Expert (Consultant)
This specialist helps put your plan into action, from looking at your numbers to measuring results and making sure we meet our promises. They give you hands-on support and might even work at your business for up to 6 months to make sure everything runs smoothly.
Your Business Value Checker (Valuation Analyst)
During the "looking at your numbers" step, a dedicated expert will check the value of your business. This gives us a starting point. We'll review this business value with your Main Guide after 6, 12, and 18 months to track how much your business has grown.
Salted Horse Management Group Partnership
Because we stand by our results, we become your business partner. SHMG can join your current board or act as your board of directors. This means our success is tied to yours.
Staff Expert (Leadership Coach)
If your business needs it, we might also assign a Leadership Coach. This expert gives special advice to you and your managers. They help you build strong leadership skills for lasting growth and better profits.
Ready to Make Your Business Better, and Have It Pay for Itself?
It Works
Our special way of doing things, called DATAMA, has helped many small businesses turn their problems into chances to grow. It has built-in ways to make sure your business succeeds.
No Risk for You
We promise that our work will pay for itself. This means you only pay us if we get results for your business. You won't have the usual worries about paying for a consultant that doesn't deliver.
We Get It Done
Our team won't just tell you what to do. We'll roll up our sleeves and work right there with you to make sure changes actually happen and bring real results for your business.
At Salted Horse Management Group, we're very sure that we can bring real, valuable improvements to your business. That's why we're willing to tie our pay to your success.
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