About Us
We are one of the 31 million small businesses in the United States. Together, we post over $25 trillion in revenue each year. The SBA reports that businesses with fewer than 500 employees have created 60% to 80% of the net new jobs each year during the last decade. Over half of all Americans are employed in small businesses and we generate for over half of the private gross domestic product. However, over 86% of us earn less than $250,000/year.
All businesses need lawyers, accountants, insurance providers and other professionals for support and advice. Very few of us have corporate staff and many of us start as a company of one person. We start our businesses, build our own support systems and make a living in good times and bad. We also have a high closure rate.
The Experience to Help Your Business Succeed.
Our target businesses earn between $100K and $5 million in revenues. Our clients are in the construction, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, business services, arts and non-profit sectors.
Sharon McNeal started Biz 4 the Rest of Us® in 2004 after over 20 years of corporate experience in the architecture and systems integration of life-critical systems and infrastructures for the space program and the departments of energy and defense. These were systems that had to operate properly and continuously. The Department of Defense calls this feature Continuity of Operations. It is the discipline of understanding possible failure modes and putting alternative features and activities in place to keep operating when something unexpected happens.
We start with the two most common small business failure modes, money and management. Biz 4 the Rest of Us® works with business owners to put processes in place that strengthen these two areas. We then look at the impact of possible unexpected events and the effect they would have on the business.
Sharon holds a BS in mathematics from New Mexico State University and has done graduate work in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. She holds a Microsoft MCP certification in Windows 2000 Server and is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor. She was also awarded several patents for her work in process control systems and infrastructures.