Any business mentor or consultant can tout claims of helping with strategic planning, personnel selection, capitalization or a host of other business "consulting" needs. Thousands of books have been written on each of these topics and one only need to read the best sellers in business literature to gain a good understanding of the theoretical foundations for each. But how many of these consultants have actually "walked the walk?" That is the question.

Illuminor prides itself on the experiences of its leadership and partners. Bob Frank started his first company in 1983—long before the dot com heyday at a time when venture capitalists barely existed and raising money was done by beating on doors. Only exceptional business plans with exceptional leaders were able to get funded. His first company, CORSEARCH, was capitalized with $300,000 and was sold 13 years later for over $20 million. That's after nearly a decade of growth rates greater than 20%. That's leadership. That's experience.

Since then Bob has literally read and evaluated thousands of executive summaries and business plans as a member of the Screening Committee for the Texas Angel Investors. Working with The Capital Network in Austin, Texas he has mentored over 100 companies helping them refine their market strategy, recruit personnel, establish standard operating procedures, convert manufacturing from domestic to Asian sources and raise over $50 million in public and private funding.

Illuminor will be ready to help when you ask. But our goal is to make you independent of us. For each project we undertake we establish, as part of our strategy, an exit route from your business. Illuminor believes we should solve your problems and teach you, if desired, how to manage the solution on a going-forward basis. For instance, we can design and implement a pay-per-click campaign and then turn the management over to your personnel or we can be contracted to provide daily, weekly or monthly reports for your action. We can develop a business plan for your company and disappear or can take the plan and be your "partner" through its implementation. In addition to pay-per-click campaigns and business plan development we can provide assistance in areas such as:

• Market identification, positioning and stratification
• Operations, policies and procedures
• Mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, consolidation and right-sizing
• Investor relations
• Cost containment
• Financing and modeling
• Personnel selection
• Web site creation, optimization and maintenance

An experienced mentor will bring to you the foresight to see and identify issues before they need to be addressed so as to put your company in the most advantageous position. Using an experienced consultant should actually save you both time and money.