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Ready to stop improvising and start leading your business with a real plan? Designed to deliver practical tools you can apply immediately, the SBM Boot Camp covers five core business disciplines:  

 

Strategic Planning  |  Leadership  |  Marketing  |  Financial Management  |  Organizational Design

 

Trusted by thousands of business leaders nationwide, the SBM Boot Camp delivers real tools, real strategy, and real results.

 

Now Available ONLINE for only $295!

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For your business to grow, you need to work on it – not just in it.

Invest in Yourself

If you want to keep winning, you need a great coach. A good coaching relationship provides the framework, guidance, expertise, and objectivity required to develop your leadership skills and grow your business.


Broaden Your Skills


Gain the tools necessary to steer your business in the right direction through a proven course attended by 3,000 small business leaders nationwide. Topics include strategic planning, leadership, marketing, financial management and organizational design.

Foster Collaboration

The success of a meeting can often be attributed to the person who's leading it. To bring the most value, meetings must fulfill your goals while saving time, money, and talent.

Expand Your Network

Connect with other small business leaders navigating the same issues and challenges you face each day through sponsored events and introductions.

Why Do You Need A Business Coach?

Your Business
Without Coaching

  • On Your Own
  • Just a Job
  • Narrow Vision
  • Shoot from the Hip
  • Reactive Management
  • Risk Adverse
  • Stressed & Overwhelmed

Your Business
With Coaching

  • Trusted Partner
  • Healthy Growth
  • Objective Point of View
  • Execute Strategic Plan
  • Proactive Management
  • Informed Risk Taker
  • Enjoying Your Business

A Trusted Advisor

Tim received the Vistage Speaker Top Performer Award for 2025, marking his fifth consecutive award. The Top Performer award is an annual recognition of speakers who have presented 25+ engagements, maintained a 4.5+ average score, and have a 95%+ recognition rating in the previous year. 

If you’re looking for a compelling small business speaker or meeting facilitator for your next seminar, conference, or university class, contact tim@smallbusinessmattersonline.co

With over 30 years of experience, Tim Fulton brings a results-based approach to each and every client. Tim has been involved in the field of entrepreneurship for over three decades as a successful business owner, small business counselor, and adjunct university professor.  A Vistage Emeritus, Tim is also a nationally recognized small business coach, advocate, author, and speaker. 

Whether your business has been established for 50 years or 50 days, Small Business Matters is passionate about helping you achieve your goals and mission.

What Matters To Our Clients

"Tim Fulton has been my business coach for 10 years and the SBM Boot Camp is the best business class I have ever attended. If you or someone who works with you is looking for a mini MBA-like class or refresher with tons of applications, this is a great one to consider."
Trace Blackmore
Trace BlackmoreCEO, Blackmore Enterprises
"Tim Fulton’s Small Business Matters Boot Camp is a must-attend for new business owners. The program shifted my style of thinking to an entrepreneur instead of just doing a job. I came away from the conference armed with the tools needed to raise the bar on how I manage my small business."
Sue Cleere
Sue CleereCEO, She's Wired
"Tim has a knack for constructing a cocktail of similarly interested disparate parties, and the interests are inevitably complementary. I always feel that I get more out of Tim’s gatherings than I put in, even if what I get out is an opportunity to help someone else.
Jeff Cunningham
Jeff CunninghamPartner, Parker and Poe
“Just fantastic. I was someone who started a business doing what I loved, not necessarily knowing business. Tim and the Boot Camp helped me focus on the business, turning what I saw as hard and overwhelming into something fun and exciting. This has been an invaluable tool for me which I will refer back to many times in the future. I highly recommend!”
Matthew Boyd
Matthew BoydCEO, Evoke Design

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Every Business Sells or Fails: Building a Business Worth Buying with Eric Krucke

What if the best time to prepare to sell your business is long before you ever decide to sell it?For small business owners, an unexpected acquisition call can feel like a dream come true. But according to M&A expert Eric Krucke, it can also become a dangerous distraction—or reveal problems that could dramatically reduce the value of your business.

In this episode of Small Business Matters, Eric explains why “every business either sells or fails” and why owners should be thinking about cash flow, risk, management, financial systems, and succession long before an exit is on the horizon. He breaks down the “new normal” in the M&A market, where private equity firms and family offices are increasingly looking to acquire small and lower-middle-market businesses.

If you’re growing a business, thinking about your eventual exit, or simply want to make your company more valuable and resilient, this conversation is packed with practical insights you can put to work now.

 

Schedule a FREE 30-minute discovery call with Tim.