Still Serving Chapin, SC — Now From Irmo
If you’re looking for a business consultant in Chapin, SC, you may already know us. 8 Furlong Consulting started here — the first clients, the first office, the first results — before the firm grew into its offices in Irmo, ten minutes down Broad River Road. The town changed our zip code; it didn’t change who we work with. Chapin and Lake Murray owners still make up a big part of our week, and Paul still lives here.
8 Furlong Consulting · 7825 Broad River Rd, Suite 100, Irmo, SC 29063 · (803) 298-9838
A Firm That Grew Up on the Lake
Chapin is a small-business town: the restaurants along the main strip, the trades that keep lake houses standing, the practices and shops that serve a population growing faster than the roads. It’s also where the idea behind this firm took shape. Owners here didn’t need four separate vendors who’d never met each other; they needed one place where the accounting, the consulting, the marketing, and the technology were handled by people who talked to each other about the same business. That’s what we built, one Chapin client at a time, and it’s the model we’ve carried down the lake to Irmo, Lexington, and Columbia since.
We work the same way here we always have: everything handled in house, by the same people, whether you need one service or all four. Nothing is passed to a subcontractor you never meet.
The Work We Do for Owners Here
What Happened When Our CTO Was the Client
In late 2023, John Harden founded F5 Branding Co. here in Chapin and hired 8 Furlong Consulting as his business consultant. Over the next two years, with Paul across the table, F5 grew from roughly $50,000 to $190,000 in gross sales — nearly quadrupling in its second full year — the kind of result that makes an owner pay attention to how it happened.
John paid enough attention that he joined the firm. He now leads Information Systems & Technology here, and Paul is still his consultant — and, these days, his boss and his mentor. We tell that story on this page because it’s the whole pitch in one paragraph: the firm’s work on a small Chapin business was convincing enough that the owner decided to come do it for other owners.
Come See Us in Irmo, or We’ll Come to You
The office is at 7825 Broad River Rd, Suite 100, Irmo — a straight shot down Broad River Road, about ten minutes from the light in Chapin. Come by Monday through Friday, 9 to 5, or say the word and we’ll meet you at your shop, your restaurant, or your kitchen table, the same way we did when the office was on this side of the lake.
(803) 298-9838 · Info@8FurlongConsulting.com · Also serving Irmo and Lexington.
See how we can impact your business
Chapin is where we learned what owner-led businesses need. If yours has grown past what one person can hold in their head, that’s the conversation we’ve been having here since the beginning.
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