SFA Strategic Plans utilize our unique process to help you uncover your true value as an organization. We then work with you to define your organizational priorities, financial goals, and action steps that will allow you to achieve those goals. Your Strategic Planning Session includes a SFA advisor who will play the dual role of facilitator and business development advisor to your team. The result is a realistic and clearly defined action plan.

SFA’s feasibility studies are far more detailed and thorough than our competitor's. At this stage we help you uncover incredible opportunities for daytime and evening programs through evaluation and assessment of your plans. SFA feasibility studies include detailed cash flow projections, investor ROI, and the overall likelihood of success. If you are considering opening a facility, it is important to note that banks and investors will want to see your feasibility study and expect more than simple U.S. Census Bureau data or local traffic patterns. We strongly suggest that customers avoid low cost versions of a feasibility analysis, as these cut and paste versions can negatively impact your ability to raise capital or obtain favorable bank lending terms and can result in your having to pay tens of thousands more in finance charges or interest!

Evaluating your financial potential and accurately predicting expenses is critical to your success. SFA offers proven methods to analyze your financial potential and to project future cash flow. Chances are good that over the years, we have completed many budgets and budget reviews for organizations just like yours.

SFA’s real estate site-assessment includes an analysis of more than 30 factors which influence the value and viability of a given location.  This proprietary assessment allows SFA to assist you in narrowing your selections to the best possible site choices. When a location has already been purchased, our existing-site assessment program provides important insight into marketing strategies, alliances, layout and utilization choices, and construction cost containment.

Accurate and comprehensive facility development timelines and project maps are critical to on time delivery at each stage of your construction project. SFA’s timelines typically map as many as 700-1200 individual tasks and projects. From soil testing through facility tour and the grand opening, these pre-opening project maps provide detail and a central accountability calendar.  The knowledge SFA brings to the development of these important resources and the programs we use to document, update, reassign, and control each phase has proven to be tremendously valuable to our clients.

SFA’s marketing and outreach systems produce results over and over again. We develop detailed and prioritized strategies based on your marketing budget. In fact, nearly 20% of our most effective strategies can be implemented with little to no money! We believe in systems, so our marketing strategies are developed as a calendar of action items, events, and administrative tasks. We will also create a detailed process map of your marketing strategy so that you can see and evaluate every step for each of the action items we identify as important to your growth.

Do you have a business plan that includes proven steps to achieve the results you want? Your SFA plan will be realistic, easy to understand, and packed with weekly, monthly and annual action items and techniques that are proven to work for organizations just like yours. SFA Business Plans rely on our proprietary business planning models and our extensive experience with the challenges you face.

Business Plans and Business Development Plans include a combination of market research and analysis, suggestions for curriculum and product development, staff development analysis and plans, projected sales for years 1-3, line item budgets, a time lined marketing strategy, a multiphase organizational development plan, and much more!

We begin these projects with an on-site or in person Strategic Planning and Priorities Session (SPP). This can take place in your offices or at our Tampa Bay location. Our visit with you will be followed by the delivery of your documented plan. In most cases, plans are delivered within 21-30 days of our SPP Session.