Personal and business consulting for your next chapter.
Find what’s holding you back. Build a plan. Put it to work.
Whether you are weighing a life decision or planning your company’s next chapter, start with a clearer understanding of your options.
Practical support for life transitions, major purchases, education, career choices and financial organization. Prepare your questions, compare your options and identify the expertise you may need.
EXPLORE PERSONAL CONSULTINGStrategy, sales growth, operations, people, AI adoption and business transitions. Turn priorities into a practical plan with focused advice and implementation support.
EXPLORE BUSINESS CONSULTINGYou’re ready to expand, enter a new market or build on what is already working. You want a clear plan and the sales, systems and team to support your next stage of growth. Along the way, you may need to strengthen sales, manage rising costs or reduce how much of the day-to-day work depends on you.
Terce Enterprises helps owners of small and midsize businesses evaluate opportunities, set clear priorities, and align sales, operations and people around a practical growth plan.
Understand where revenue comes from, where opportunities are slipping away, and whether your pricing supports the work.
Find the bottlenecks that cost time, money and momentum. Give your team clearer processes and responsibility.
Put structure around a growth decision before committing people, time and money.
Focused advice and hands-on support for startups, small and midsize businesses, larger organizations and family-owned companies. Choose a specific challenge or bring several priorities together in one engagement.
Build a clearer path from market opportunity to repeat business.
Turn business goals into decisions, responsibilities and workable processes.
Prepare for a major transaction with a clear business rationale and an organized process.
Support business continuity while giving family members and future leaders clearer expectations.
Understand the employee experience and build a practical plan to strengthen it.
Connect what customers experience with how the business sells, serves and follows through.
Help people use AI confidently in the work they actually do.
Build a practical rhythm for evaluating workplace safety and keeping follow-through organized.
Review frequency is an engagement option, not a statement of required OSHA intervals. Consulting reviews are not OSHA inspections or certifications and do not guarantee compliance.
Discuss safety and compliance support →Practical support from restaurant concept and opening through daily operations, growth and ownership transitions.
Explore Chris Cotelessee’s 34 years of industry experience and work opening 36 restaurants in 23 cities.
Meet Chris Cotelessee →Get a clearer picture of what is working, what is holding the business back, and where to focus next.
We review the areas that matter to your situation: revenue and customer mix, sales follow-up, pricing, operational bottlenecks, team responsibilities, and the connection between marketing and sales.
The deliverable: a prioritized 90-day action plan outlining what to fix, what to pursue, who should own it, and what should happen first.
DISCUSS AN ASSESSMENTA comprehensive starting point for owners and leadership teams seeking a clearer view of performance, opportunities and the next stage of growth. Build on the Business Growth and Operations Assessment above with a scope tailored to your business.
Sales and marketing effectiveness, operational efficiency, customer experience, employee morale and retention, leadership capacity and practical AI opportunities. When relevant, include acquisition, succession or exit readiness.
Agree on the objectives, review available business information and interview key stakeholders. Employee or customer feedback can be included where useful, with participation, handling of responses and reporting agreed at the outset.
A findings summary, prioritized opportunities and a 90-day action plan with proposed owners, milestones and performance measures. Review the recommendations together and identify where implementation support would help.
Scope and fee are agreed in advance. The assessment is quoted according to business size, available information, stakeholder involvement and areas reviewed.
PLAN YOUR ASSESSMENTWhen the next step calls for marketing, better systems or additional help, Terce Enterprises brings the resources together and manages the work. You have one point of contact for scope, coordination and quality.
Brand strategy, positioning, messaging and creative direction. We connect websites, content and sales materials around a clear offer and a consistent customer experience, helping people understand your value and take the next step.
CRM design, workflow development, automation and implementation management. We align processes, responsibilities and specialist resources around the work your business needs to deliver, creating clearer handoffs, consistent follow-through and capacity to support growth.
Advertising strategy, media placement and coordinated print and digital creative. We connect the audience, offer and message with landing pages, lead follow-up and campaign reporting to support your business goals.
Choose focused guidance, a defined project or ongoing advisory support. Every engagement begins with an agreed scope, deliverables and fee.
From $175 / hour
Business planning, sales growth, marketing, operational priorities and practical guidance for owners and managers.
Discuss hourly consulting →$200–$300+ / hour
More complex executive, succession, organizational or transaction-related business advisory. Rates reflect the expertise and scope required.
Discuss specialized support →From $750 / project
A clearly bounded assignment, such as a focused process review, planning session or training engagement. Broader assessments and multi-part projects receive a tailored quote.
Scope a project →From $1,750 / month
Ongoing owner and executive guidance, priority reviews and implementation accountability. Meeting frequency, included time and support are defined in your proposal.
Discuss a retainer →Custom proposal
For larger organizations, acquisitions, mergers, business sales and complex transitions. Engagements can combine leadership advisory, commercial and operational review, stakeholder coordination and implementation planning.
REQUEST A CUSTOM PROPOSALStarting prices are entry points for appropriately scoped work, not a fixed price for every service. Final fees depend on complexity, business size, deliverables, training group size and the level of support. Any travel, specialist or third-party costs will be identified in the proposal.
David Marsolo leads business consulting and hands-on implementation at Terce Enterprises, coordinating specialist partners when the project calls for them.
David brings experience in business ownership, sales and operational leadership to his role as Founder, Business Growth. He works with owners to uncover what is limiting growth, evaluate opportunities, and build a practical plan for stronger sales, clearer priorities and more efficient operations.
His background spans banking, hospitality, procurement, facilities and project management. He brings relationship development, commercial negotiation and hands-on problem-solving to each engagement, helping owners assess pricing, strengthen processes and prepare for expansion. David leads the consulting work and stays involved as recommendations become action.
Chris brings 34 years of restaurant and food industry experience, including opening 36 restaurants across 23 cities in the Midwest, Northeast and South. His background spans diners, 24-hour operations and breakfast, lunch and dinner service, giving him a practical understanding of what it takes to launch a restaurant and manage its daily demands.
His experience covers location scouting, lease negotiation, purchasing, hiring, training, marketing and menu development. He helps restaurateurs evaluate workflows, strengthen operational efficiency, assess point-of-sale systems and draw on longstanding vendor relationships.
Chris also brings experience in restaurant purchase and sale guidance, traditional and nontraditional financing options, and operational considerations for health-code and ADA compliance. His consulting focus connects opening plans, everyday operations and growth decisions, with legal, lending and technical matters coordinated with the appropriate professionals.
Tell us where you want to go and what is getting in the way. We’ll talk through the challenge and identify a practical starting point.
Start here for business consulting, growth planning and implementation support.