Client Testimonials | Blumenthal Enterprises Business Strategy Consulting
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Based in Vermont, Northeast United States, and serving clients worldwide
Ace McArleton - New Frameworks
Founder - Co-CEO
“Will’s talents and traits fit really well into what we needed at the time, which was someone who could cut through a lot of the emotional ups and downs of being a business owner and being a startup. ”
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Hi. My name is Ace McArleton, and I am co founder, co CEO of New Frameworks.
Will brought the like compendium of skills and talents that he has collected in his years together, from sort of strategic business development working with startups, Will was able to really advise and help push us along on all those fronts to the point where we were able to have a fully functioning sales and marketing platform and team who now carry forward the work. He was always very amenable to working with us, and always very open and flexible and communicative.
He was really keeping us in the driver's seat and bringing his support to our work and always centering us, and then I think Will's special care for being a part of diverse communities is the other thing that was really a benefit for us in our company.
Our company is women, trans and queer and bipoc owned, and having someone work with us who cares about building and supporting diverse communities in the business sector was just a really big piece for us as well.
Will is tenacious yet gentle. He is sensitive yet focused, intelligent and creative, yeah, very level headed.
Will's talents and traits in that way, fit really well into what we needed at the time, which was someone who could really cut through a lot of the emotional ups and downs of being a business owner and being a startup.
He was really keeping us in the driver's seat and bringing his support to our work and always centering us and our needs and our perspectives as a company.
Nicole Eaton - Verde Technologies
Head of Partnerships
“It was very clear that Will actually cared about our company and our success, and he would do anything to help us get to the point where we wanted to be.”
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I met Will through the ARC program (Academic Research Commercialization). We really got to know each other because we both led technologies and were commercializing them at the same time.
Will helped our team organize our tasks. He came on when we really wanted to scale and grow past just having weekly team meetings. We started as just a very small startup with three people, to having weekly meetings with six plus people in the room.
Basically came to him saying, "we need to have a streamlined process", but we didn't know how to do that, and so he organized our entire process, implemented that, and made sure that it works well for us.
Everything that he did for us was individualized. He did the research prior to giving us a strategy, he's able to tell us how it is.It was very clear that Will actually cared about our company and our success, and he would do anything to help us get to the point where we wanted to be.
Working with Will is very fast and efficient. He always gave us what we needed in a very short amount of time, and it was always very organized. There was no confusion, very streamlined, easy to understand. He was very trustworthy and wanted to deliver a good product and a good solution, and that's what he gave to us.
Blackwell Hird - Blackwell Ink
Startup Founder
“I (now) have an organized idea and business plan that Will has been instrumental in helping me refine every step of the way so that I can bring it forward and attract new members and also financing.
Will is that wonderful light in the dark at the start of any venture that will not only light your path up, he will show you the paths available and help you pick the right one.”
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My name is Blackwell Hird, and I'm attempting to stand up. Blackwell Ink, a physical manufacturer of board and tabletop games in the US.
When I moved back to Vermont, I needed to get out and start networking. It's the one thing I hadn't done before, and when I initially talked about my idea and six or seven heads pivoted to ask me "why" he (Will) was the only one that stayed after the initial interest to dig deeper.
I respond to energy with similar energy, and when we got to talking, he asked questions. I was able to ask him questions, and he treated me like a peer. He introduced me to the concept of starting my own business as not just an idea, but actually possible, and he helped me refine the idea into something that actually was actionable. Not only did he give me the time of day, which is important, he also saw value and asked more questions to help ME understand the value of my idea.
The process of working with Will is much the same as it would be with a good co worker and a really good friend; supportive, challenging and clarifying. He also knows everyone to talk to, which is the best part of that relationship. If you come to him with an idea and he asks you, how would you go about doing this? He tosses the idea back to you, and he'll help you refine it with questions.
There was one point in the development of this process that, through research and mathematics, I determined that it was physically impossible to do, and it was only because Will said, just double check everything and think of things and try and go to places you haven't thought of before. His insistence that there could be a way, but that I had to reframe the problem, and that's Will's superpower is to ask you questions that get you to think differently about problems you encounter.
His slightly less known superpower is to be able to judge your needs, even if you don't necessarily know them. So when Will says, “What can I do? How can I help?” If you tell him, "Well, I need funding" he will take the information you've given him, assess where you are and go, "Well, there's no funding to be had, but if you go through this program, they offer funds" And so we've now taken this through to a point where I've got funding, I've got space that he put me into, a program that was exactly what I needed based on as I had described it to him, on a number of factors that I hadn't realized yet, that he had intuited.
He is that cheerleader. He will get you to a point where you think YOU can do it.
I have a team that's actively working with me, all thanks to Will's connections and judgment based on character and information. I also have an organized idea and business plan that Will has been instrumental in helping me refine every step of the way so that I can bring it forward and attract new members and also funding financing. I know who to go to. I know who to talk to. Will is that wonderful light in the dark at the start of any venture that will not only light your path up, he will show you the paths available and help you pick the right one.
Mike Smiles - Smiles Studios
Startup Founder
“You know that with the tools that he’s provided, you’re working with something that can grow with you, scale with you, and you have a framework that is going to assure you’re going to get a strong value proposition and a strong market fit that is tested in the real world and in the marketplace.”
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Working with Will Jeffries is a delight. He is constantly on the move, and he's asking you to and cheerleading for you to be on the move as well.
Will is full of positive energy, practical application and real world tools. Nothing about what Will is doing is cookie cutter. Every time I work with Will, he is excited for your productivity. He's excited for your changing the world around you. He's excited for the ways that your ideas can hit the ground in a traction methodology, pushing you, like a good weight lifting coach, to take on a little bit more weight than you would normally take on, to press a little bit harder, but like joyfully doing it with you.
You know that with the tools that he's provided, you're working with something that can grow with you, scale with you, and you have a framework that is going to assure you're going to get a strong value proposition and a strong market fit that is tested in the real world and in the marketplace, and that is a combination that is very rare, and I think in Vermont, we're very happy to have him here.
Founding Owner
“Working with Will is an absolute partnership. It’s not just a sideline coach, it’s truly a partnership in your business.
He has this incredible gift of being able to take all of my ideas and synthesize them into a format that makes sense, and it’s taken a huge burden off of me.
Will has been able to really help me know what’s possible in terms of implementing systems and processes to make it so that I’m not going to have to do all the day-to-day.”
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I was kind of stuck in this place of, yeah, I can do it all, but it's not fun anymore, and there's no way I can do more.
Will has been able to really help me see and know what's possible in terms of implementing or setting up and then implementing these systems and processes to actually make it so that I'm not going to have to do all the day to day. I don't even have to manage if I don't want to.
He doesn't have, like, a rigid coaching format, you know? And that's what makes him amazing, too. And he has so many varied skills that we really can sort of shape how to best work together in the best interest of Growing Greater Media, and that's been incredible.
I would say to someone who is thinking about working with Will that it is an absolute partnership. It's not just a coach being, you know, a sideline coach. It's, it's truly a partner in your in your business.
He has this incredible gift of being able to take all of my you know ideas and synthesize them into into a format that makes sense, not only for him, but for me, and that has been incredible, and it's taken a huge burden off of me, because then I don't have to, like forever, try to take all the jumble and make sense of it all and then try and implement it. He takes all that burden out of the equation for me.
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