Conversion Optimization and Retention Improvement Consulting

Ron Ryan & Associates can help.

Ron Ryan & Associates is in the business of helping its clients make more money than they have ever made before.

What you do only better. More profitable.

We improve profits by helping leaders identify and manage the problems keeping their organizations from profitability or nonprofit success.

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Your content made digital. Extensible.

Have a favorite Word document or PowerPoint presentation? A spreadsheet that translates customer needs into revenue? A story that defines your brand? Let us turn these into elegant digital content. We can help you use this content to build your brand, your business, or your nonprofit. On a website. On Facebook or YouTube. Locally. Nationally.

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Your Community acknowledged. Empowered.

Every business or nonprofit has a community on which it depends. Customers. Members. Associates. Employees. Friends. We can help you harness their voice, insight and energy to build your brand, your business, or your nonprofit, both locally and nationally.

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Your palette. With a brand new digital brush.

Ron Ryan & Associates brings 30 years of experience together with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of digital marketing and emerging technologies.

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Our Services

Ron Ryan & Associates specializes in providing low-cost, high ROI solutions that increase revenue and push profits straight to your bottom line.

Profit Improvement Consulting

Under pressure to improve? Whether it’s reducing donor churn in nonprofit fundraising or increasing conversion, retention, and per customer revenue in a for-profit organization, we can help. We provide a systematic analysis of your customer-facing operations and help you identify and fix customer/member attrition.

Customer Experience Audits

Have you ever looked at your operations from the customer's point of view? How do you compare to others with whom you compete? Many companies are losing customers (and profits) without really knowing it. We help you see your organization from the outside in; by examining every element of the customer experience on the way to buying your products or services, we help you understand what is working for your customers and what needs to change.

Digital Marketing Strategy Development

Most companies have a website or Facebook page, but many readily admit they haven't developed online sales or relationships with their customers. We help companies examine their online sales process, customer relationship management processes, and product/service delivery systems to identify ways of growing online.

Content Marketing Strategy and Execution

How does your organization make a sale or raise money? Most have content on which they rely in order to sell their products or services. These include customer stories, paper-based sales aids, spreadsheets, proposal systems, and even pricing documents which allow the customer to make a purchase decision or convince donors to give. We help leaders identify this content and show them how to adapt it digitally. This allows clients to build their brand, awareness, trial, and sales online.

Business Plan Development

Have a great idea for a startup but not sure how to develop a business plan? We help leaders with a great business concept turn that idea into a fundable business plan. We ghostwrite business plans, help you think through capital needs and funding, and think through the execution details. We can provide you with a business plan that will serve as an executable roadmap which can attract funding.

Special Assignments and General Management Consulting

Have a need for experienced executive talent for an interim assignment or one-time project? From interim senior leadership roles to company acquisition screens to merger integration planning, we help clients with projects too time consuming, sensitive, or complex to be handled by existing company staff.

Sample Engagements

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Our Videos Tell Your Story

We create affordable videos that leverage your existing content, relationships and culture. They allow you tell your story to a broader audience, on your website, on social media, and in the conference room.

Knowledge and Experience

Ron Ryan
Professional Background

Ron Ryan is President of Ron Ryan & Associates, a management consulting firm based in Knoxville, TN. Mr. Ryan’s consulting practice serves the senior leadership of businesses and nonprofits nationally. The firm helps clients find hidden sources of profitability by improving their sales conversion and customer retention. Mr. Ryan is also a co-founder of insurance and retirement education-related website, QLACguru.com.

Before founding his consulting business, Mr. Ryan held VP of Operations and SVP Product Management roles at one of the largest independent insurance agencies and sellers of auto and home owners insurance in the nation. Now part of the Allstate Group of companies, the company hosted a comparison shopping site and was a sister company to online auto insurer Esurance.

Mr. Ryan holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Ryan has published scholarly work on business strategy in Italian, Japanese and American journals and textbooks.

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