Mission Statement

The mission of ICON Consulting Services, Inc. (ICS) is to support you in your quest to become that most American of icons – the Entrepreneur. We seek to provide a full range of high quality management consulting services to support you and your company. We offer a full array of products and services, ranging from brand strategy, business planning, and venture capital for start-ups to efficiency analysis, public relations, and business process reengineering for mature companies.

ICS is proud of our commitment to the continuous quality improvement of our products, services, and brand image. While proud of our current high standards of quality with regard to our products and services, we are always soliciting, analyzing, and implementing customer feedback. Our devotion to improvement supports our other primary commitment, customer satisfaction. Ultimately, your satisfaction comes from our successfully understanding and meeting or exceeding your needs. Your satisfaction builds our brand equity. We never lose sight of that.

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The following describes the range of products and services that ICS has to offer:

BRANDWRANGLER

In the BRANDWRANGLER product line, ICS offers all the services necessary to build and promote your brand, including:

· Brand Strategy
· Brand Identity
· Market Analysis
· Customer Profiling
· Graphic Design Consultation
· Logo Development
· Corporate Identity
· Web Identity
· Communications Strategy
· Advertising Campaign Strategy
· Public Relations Strategy and Services
· Traditional Media
· Web-based Media

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GoldStar

Evoking that benevolent and nurturing icon from our childhood – the Teacher - GoldStar is ICS’ line of customer relations training programs. Whether dealing with internal or external customers, ICS is prepared to help you design and implement successful customer attraction, retention, and buy-back programs.

· Customer Relations Training Programs
· 1-day trainings
· Training of Trainers
· Training Evaluation Programs
· Customer Incentive Programs
· New Customer programs
· Customer Retention Programs
· Customer Buy-Back Programs
· Employee Incentive Programs
· Evaluation Program Design
· Incentive Structure Design
· Internal Communications Programs

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KickStart

ICS’ KickStart is an exciting line of products and services designed to assist the entrepreneur in starting up a business. Many times, a creative individual requires a business partner. Through KickStart, an aspiring business owner with a “great idea” can tap into ICS’s knowledge and experience in business and turn that idea into a real company. Designed to quickly get you rolling down the wide open highways of commerce, KickStart walks you through the basics of developing business plans, applying for small business administration loans, and turning your idea into a corporation.

· Small business planning
· Business Plans
· Business Growth Models
· Small Business Financing
· SBA loan coaching and application preparation
· Venture Capital Search
· Asset Acquisition Analysis
· Buy/Lease Analysis
· Small Business Programmatic Planning
· Accounting Systems Planning
· Inventory Systems Planning

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Accelerator

ICS’s Accelerator product line offers you precision analysis of your company’s operations, systems, and programs, with the precision of nuclear science. Accelerator offers you efficiency consulting at its finest. Whether you are trying to cut costs, increase productivity, or improve the quality of your products and services, Accelerator is your first step toward finding the answers you seek. ICS offers specialized subject matter expertise in healthcare as well as generalized expertise in the methodologies that elicit best practices from within your organization. While ICS can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in best practices in service industries, implementing those ideas successfully requires a collaborative and democratic, if you will, process at the grassroots level of your company or organization.

· Systems Efficiency Analysis
· Systems Automation Analysis
· Program Efficiency Analysis
· Industry Best Practices Analysis
· Internal Best Practices Analysis
· Survey Methodology Analysis
· Focus Groups
· Virtual Focus Groups
· Surveys
· On-line Surveys

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Navigator

The government contracting process can be complex and difficult. ICS is proud to offer a lines of services designed specifically to help you reach your goal of becoming a successful government contractor. From writing your proposal for a government contract to evaluating your systems for government compliance to designing and implementing quality management plans, ICS’s Navigator is your source for advice, assistance, and support every step of the way.

· Proposal Writing Services
· Systems Compliance Analysis
· Quality Management Plans

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RocketBooster

RocketBooster is ICS’s venture capital arm. To help you get your business off the ground, RocketBooster seeks out appropriate funding streams for your company. From writing grant applications for funds from non-profit organizations or foundations to seeking out private investors to committing its own venture capital funds, ICS’s RocketBooster can help you get “lift-off”. Rocket Booster works hand-in hand with the KickStart line of products and services.

ICS reserves a very limited amount of capital to invest in start-up companies. To be evaluated for these monies, a company must present ICS with a comprehensive business plan – regardless of whether that plan is prepared by ICS’s KickStart or not.

· Venture Capital Search
· Grant Search and Writing Services
· ICS Investment Services

ICS maintains a hard line between fundraising and development for non-profit organizations. With an eye toward development and the progressive nurturing of a volunteer into a donor and further into a major donor, ICS can help you with your development planning needs.

· Development Program Design
· Major Donor Program Design
· Gala Event Planning

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