Laughlin Business Advisors Alexandria Small Business Owners Council

Seat application · about five minutes

Apply for your seat.

Five minutes, and the room starts working on the thing that keeps you up at night. Applying is free. Craig reads every application himself and answers within one business day, either way. It isn't a sales call. It's the first thing he does to protect the room.

Founding · $497
Charter · $597
Member · $797

Founding seats are $497 a month, charter $597 and member $797. Whatever you join at stays yours. 30 seats in Alexandria, then the room closes.

What Craig checks first

  • Your category is open. One business per category, set by who you sell to and how.
  • You own the business. Owners, co-owners, and independent agents and reps who run their own book of business. Not managers, employees or salaried reps.
  • No vendor conflict. Nobody holds a seat while being paid by another member.
  • You're local. You can be in the room in Alexandria once a month.

If one of those ends it, you're told which one, and pointed to The Profit Room, the national online room, instead.

What happens next

  • Within one business day, Craig answers with a yes, a no and why, or one question.
  • A yes brings the link to claim your seat, the date of your first Council and the one-page confidentiality agreement.
  • Claim your seat by paying your first month. Your price is locked for as long as you keep your seat. No contract and no joining fee.

If you take a seat

  • Attendance is the product. Miss two Councils in a row and Craig has a conversation with you. Miss three in any 12 months and the seat goes to the next owner on the waitlist.
  • A Monthly Scorecard on the first Wednesday of each month: your win, challenge, correction and how the month went, in four numbers.
  • Month to month, no contract, and you can cancel it yourself any month. No refunds.
This is how Craig sets your category. "Residential HVAC repair and installs" is more useful than "HVAC".
Coaches, courses, events, books, a new hire. What happened.
Craig sends the one-page confidentiality agreement once you're approved.
A number, a decision, a problem you keep circling. This is what your first Council starts from.
If somebody introduced you, give their name. Introductions go first when seats are contested.