Mary Ann Holloway, from Comprehensive Business Consulting and Training Corp., has been indispensable to my company from day one. She revamped our entire company, beginning with documenting policies and procedures, company-wide job descriptions and an employee handbook. She has met regularly with myself and the Chief Operational Officer to discuss communication strategies and to help ensure that our operations run as consistently and efficiently as possible.

Mary Ann has been an extremely reliable member of our team, and has always followed through all projects to successful completion. Noteworthy about Comprehensive’s services, is that they are not limited by the size of a client’s company. I know that as my company continues to grow, Comprehensive Business Consulting & Training Corp. will be the right company for the job!   
Teresa Ward, President Teresa’s Family Cleaning 
 

We are in the beginning stages of a transformation of American business. As the baby boom generation continues to enter their retirement years, there will be a transfer of business interests unprecedented in the history of the world! Those businesses that are prepared to enter this growing marketplace will be poised to see a great increase in the value of their companies and those owners will secure their futures. Those that ignore the requirements of the marketplace will be left behind. Comprehensive Business Consulting and Training Corp. provides the direction, creativity and capability that small to medium sized businesses need to maximize their value in the marketplace.

Whether you are looking to sell your business today or in the next five years, the sooner you start preparing, the more value you will be able to extract. Whether it is process improvement, cost reduction or the myriad other services provided by Comprehensive, Mary Ann Holloway and her team have the proven track record working with companies to grow their value, while at the same time improving business operations and profits prior to sale. I have worked with Mary Ann on numerous sales transactions, and in each of those cases, the return on her services were well in excess of the investment the companies made in Comprehensive.   
Alan Schatten, President & Founder, The Schatten Group, LLC  
 

On behalf of the entire team here at Ecological, I wanted to write to you today expressing our gratitude for the services you have performed in the past and to assure you that there will be many projects in the future that will require your services.

As a rapidly growing family business with both national and international customers, our growth was far outpacing our infrastructure and the systems that we had used over our Company’s 34 year history. We needed help and you gave it to us. In describing the attributes that I believe most contributed to your successful engagement with us, I would refer to your leadership ability, your organizational skills, your ability to motivate others to action, your results-driven performance, and specifically, your project management experience and attention to detail.

We asked a lot of you and you delivered. Especially noteworthy is your ability to manage numerous concurrent projects, and the scope of the projects you undertook. They included initiatives in the areas of Human Resources, Accounting, Technology and Administration. We now have job descriptions for all our employee categories, which are 48 and counting. Along with the job descriptions, we now have a process to appraise all of our employees on a regular basis as a means of developing and growing our personnel. Your leadership in training our managers and supervisors in this very important task was critical to its overall success. The pay for performance plans you developed have been well received within the organization and ensure that we are compensating people for not only the effort that put in, but also the results they create.

On the accounting side, your development of divisional financial statements has been key to our overall management of the organization. The upgrade of accounting software, which is usually a stressful event for any Company, went smoothly under your direction, and every day we benefit from these new accounting tools and reporting capabilities. Additionally, the overall Administration of the business is more streamlined due to your creation of an overall computer hierarchy for filing of all business documents. We can now consistently and quickly find what we are looking for with a click of the mouse.

Again, thank you for your past help and we look forward to working with you in the future.   
Michael Richter & Barry Richter Ecological Laboratories, Inc  
 

Mary Ann Holloway, of Comprehensive Business Consulting & Training Corp., has been providing business-consulting services to our company since December 2002. She has become a valuable member of our organization, and has proven her ability to streamline and develop processes and procedures, which have dramatically improved our company. Mary Ann has been very successful in motivating our staff and encouraging them to organize task forces and committees to improve our workflow and procedures. She has worked with our accounting, production, purchasing, sales and management staff in many facets of our business and her ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously has been proven many times over. This letter is written without reservation, and I must add that Mary Ann’s honesty and integrity is unquestionable, and I am confident that she will be an asset to any organization. Yours truly ,   Jeffrey Goldstein, CEO, LaMar Lighting
 

As principal owner of multiple small business interests over the past fourteen years, I have had many opportunities to work with strategic partners in an effort to grow my business.  These alliances have covered a wide range of business topics including; Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Human Resources and Finance.  Some of these relationships have met their intended goal, but many did not.  In my mind, falling short of the mark had little to do with the experience or effort of the partner, and everything to do with not taking the time to understand my business.

I began working with Mary An Holloway in 2003. At that time, my industry, digital document imaging and workflow, was just beginning to mature. We needed help both in developing our product and service offerings, as well as measuring the profitability of our outsourced document conversion service center.  Mary Ann was integral in driving both projects to successful outcomes. She developed project plans centered on examining the market, thus helping us focus on the best industries to pursue. In addition, Mary Ann designed and implemented a series of KPI's, Key Performance Indicators, to capture and analyze all of the data necessary to determine the profitability of our Service Center.  We were quickly able to revise our pricing formulas to better cover our costs, while maintaining desirable profit margins.

In the past six years that we have worked together, I have enjoyed working with Mary Ann on several levels. She has an unmatched attention to detail, leaves no questions unasked, and does not work on the clock. She has an extremely high energy level, communicates well both orally and in written form, and most importantly, is able to work with many different personalities, regardless of their stature or rank in the organization.

I recommend Mary Ann to anyone who is not satisfied with standing still in business. In these difficult economic time, the businesses that have the best chance of survival will continue to look at all aspects of their organizations. Increasing efficiency and reducing costs are at least as important, if not more so, than continuing to drive revenue and maintaining market share. I consider the projects that we have worked on with Mary Ann amongst the most successful in our organization's fourteen years.  
Thomas G. Doyle, President, Shoreline Records Management