The Los Angeles Metro MBEC provides a number of high-value consulting services to help minority businesses grow and compete. These services include:

Strategic & Business Planning

• Assisting minority businesses with key insights and long-term strategies that will help the firm create a sustainable competitive advantage.

• Creating investor-quality business plans that can be used to attract loans and equity.

• Utilizing the massive and robust information resources of the University of Southern California, our consultants are able to provide a variety of information and reports to our clients.

• We provide company, industry, or general business research drawing information from renowned, subscription-based databases such as Standard & Poors, Dun & Bradstreet, Lexis Nexis, Proquest, Garter, and many others. To subscribe to these resources would cost thousands of dollars a month.

• Using Geographic Information System (G.I.S.) to provide business owners with demographic data tied into street address, zip codes, block groups, and census tracks. The “business maps” that are generated allow businesses to easily identify emerging markets for their products and services by helping them visual relationships not readily apparent from traditional demographic charts and financial data.

For more information, you can email us at consulting@losangelesmbec.org

Student Projects

• Assigning groups of business students from the USC Marshall School of Business to work with select clients.

• These projects fall in the areas of business planning, marketing, change management, and general consulting with a focus on a deliverable to decided at the outset.

For additional information, please email us at studentconsulting@losangelesmbec.org