What We Do, and Why It Works Better Together
Our business consulting services cover what a growing Columbia, SC company actually needs: the books, the strategy, the marketing, and the technology — handled by one team instead of four vendors. This page is the map. Each area below goes one level deeper.
Why One Firm Instead of Four Vendors
Most businesses your size already have help — an accountant somewhere, a marketing agency somewhere else, a technology vendor when something breaks, maybe a consultant from a rough season two years ago. Each one works on their piece. None of them sees the whole business, and you’re the one keeping them all informed.
That arrangement costs more than the invoices. Decisions stall while information moves between vendors. The marketing agency doesn’t know which service line actually makes money. The technology vendor builds around a process the consultant just changed. And every handoff runs through you.
We built 8 Furlong Consulting so the people advising your business share one table — and one picture of your business.
Accounting
The financial side of your business — bookkeeping, tax planning, cash flow forecasting, and fractional CFO leadership — delivered under the supervision of a licensed CPA. This is where most clients start — because “I need somebody to handle my books” is usually the first honest sentence in the relationship. If the business grew and the books didn’t, start here.
Explore Accounting →Business Consulting & Coaching
Operations, sales process, exit and succession planning — and executive coaching for the owner carrying all of it, woven into one practice: Paul works on the business and coaches the person running it in the same engagement, from having run companies himself, not just studied them.
Explore Consulting & Coaching →Marketing
Strategy, social media, content, and brand design — planned yearly, executed monthly, and measured against the numbers, because the people running your marketing sit next to the people who know your margins.
Explore Marketing →Information Systems & Technology
Websites wired into your systems, custom software, SEO, and AI and automation that remove repetitive work. Technology chosen for how your business runs — not for what a vendor wanted to sell.
Explore Technology →Start With One. Keep What Works.
There’s no bundle to buy and no minimum footprint. Most engagements begin with Accounting — once we understand your numbers, opportunities in operations, marketing, and technology tend to surface on their own, and you decide which ones are worth pursuing. Some clients use one service for years. Others end up with all four. Both are fine outcomes, because the fee follows the work, not the other way around.
Every engagement, whatever its size, runs on The 8 Furlong Approach: Understand, Prioritize, Solve, Measure, Grow.
Not Sure Which Door Is Yours? That’s What the First Conversation Is For.
Tell us what’s happening in your business. We’ll tell you what we see, which of our services fits — and if none of them do, we’ll say that too.
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