Affordable growth strategies, websites & more for small businesses

Grow your business with structure, not pressure.

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Pick DIY guidance or hands-on help

Move forward without long-term contracts

Can Cour Collaborative help a small business with no money?

Yes. We specialize in working with small businesses, side hustles, and nonprofits with limited or no funding.

Is my business too small to hire a consultant?

No. Many of our clients are at the idea stage, running a side business, or trying to make a small business sustainable. You don’t need a certain revenue level to work with us. The goal is to help you make grounded decisions early so you don’t limp out the gate.

How much does it cost to hire a small business consultant?

With us, most folks start with a half-hour working session for $45. We don’t require long-term contracts or monthly retainers. If more hands-on help makes sense later, we offer short-term, bespoke project work.

What does Cour Collaborative actually help with?

We help with brand development, pricing decisions, operational bottlenecks, budget questions, hiring readiness, and specialized trainings (such as marketing, tools-use, and content development).

Can Cour Collaborative help me turn a side hustle into a real business?

Yes. We work with side business owners and hobbyists who want to grow things into sustainable income.

Is business consulting the same as coaching?

Not here. This is practical consulting, not mindset coaching. Our focus is on realistic decisions, structure, planning, and hands-on problem solving. There’s no motivational framing or hustle culture. We tell it like it is and if it ain’t broke, we don’t pretend to fix it.

Can Cour Collaborative help with basic tech issues in my business?

Yes. We help small business owners and nonprofits with practical, one-off technical support. This includes things like email migrations, domain and hosting setup, website updates, organizing spreadsheets, and figuring out where things actually live in tools like Shopify or WordPress. This is handled as short-term support, not a long-term IT contract.

Can Cour Collaborative help me understand my WordPress or Shopify site?

Yes. We help people understand how their website is set up, where it’s hosted, how to make basic updates, and how things connect behind the scenes. This includes WordPress and Shopify sites as well as Square, Squarespace, Wix, and more.

Can Cour Collaborative help me use AI in my small business?

Yes. We help small businesses find the right AI tools and learn to use them in effective ways for planning, operations, workflows, documentation, and decision support.

Who is Cour Collaborative not a good fit for?

We’re probably not a fit if you’re looking for full-service marketing or someone to run your business for you long-term. Our focus is on sustainable, scalable growth & management enablement, not bandaid fixes or set-it-and-forget it initiatives.

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Working with Paula was a very enjoyable experience! She helped us build our business from an initial thought to a full-blown reality! We collaborated with Paula to build a website, develop a marketing plan that included SEO optimization, discussed several advertising options, and she even connected us to accountants and other professionals to help with logistics. In addition to the mountain of material deliverables that Paula worked on for us, we really valued her thought partnership and willingness to hop on a call and talk through any roadblocks we were experiencing. Her perspective and empathy for small businesses really shines through in her work, and the advice she shared helped us get off the ground and accelerate towards delivering our actual business work.

CHRIS HESTER, MBA

Paula at Cour Collab is great! I started working with her on my small business about a year ago. She quickly identified areas that were sub optimal regarding my website SEO and my social media presence. Paula came up with a plan to help attack all facets of this and has been such a help and moving forward with my organic rose of the company. I would highly recommend her company for any small business or larger trying to move forward with Marketing strategies.

NISHAL PATEL, DPT

Back in November 2021, I discovered that my business email had been compromised. I was in a panic and didn't know what to do. I found Paula at Cour Collaborative and she helped me review the security for my email. In addition, she helped me redesign my company website and take all the steps with my domain host to ensure that I was protected from something like that happening to me again. For someone that knows nothing about how to accomplish any of this, I am so grateful to find a professional that worked with me and FOR me, so I could focus on my business and protecting my patients. Thank you, Cour Collaborative!

CAROLINE WILLIAMS, AUD

Paula has been there for our new business every step of the way offering valuable advice on growth strategies and more. She designed and built out our website with ease and walked us through how to manage it. Would recommend her to anyone!

KIM DICKERSON

Ours was a small job and Paula gave it the care, consideration and time as if it were a much larger job - all the time being very respectful of our budget. It would have been very easy for her just to implement what I thought we needed and leaving it at that. Instead she looked at the bigger picture, asked about our intended audience and current and future uses and then made a number of improvements and efficiencies.

ELIZABETH ENGLE

Paula worked tirelessly to create an updated website for Capital Area Parkinson's Society (CAPS). We are very happy with the results and have received many positive comments from our members on the new site.

JENNIFER PRESCOTT, RN, MSN, CDP

Thanks to Paula’s guidance I spent approximately 30% of the proposed cost. Paula delivered on her commitment to be prudent in her recommendations by spending/investing only on absolute necessities.

VICTOR P. BECKER