Marketing and business consultancy
Yourbusinesshasoutgrowntheroleyou'restillplayinginit.
Private advisory for owners of six to eight figure companies, and training for the people who run the business day to day.
- Chevrolet
- Fiverr
- University of Miami
- Pérez Art Museum Miami
- General Assembly
- NBCUniversal
- Knight Foundation
- Capital One
- Dell
- Code.org
- The Miami Foundation
- SXSW
01 Proof
The work is measured in people trained, owners moved out of the bottleneck, and programs that outlived their grant.
02 Sound familiar
Where owners get stuck
The company is usually fine on paper. What stopped working is the owner's position inside it.
- 01
Every decision still routes through you, including the ones you hired people to make.
- 02
The managers you promoted can't move their people, so you move them yourself.
- 03
The growth plan you wrote a year ago is still in a drawer, and you can't fully explain why.
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Revenue is fine. Your week isn't.
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The team knows what to do and keeps waiting for you anyway.
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You want out of daily operations without selling the company to get there.
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03 Services
Services
Engagements are scoped in conversation and priced in writing. One owner, one team, or one institution at a time.
Private advisory
Intensives from $15,000Two-day intensives and three-month engagements for owners who want growth, or want out of daily operations. In person in Crystal River or remote.
Marketing strategy
Priced by scopePositioning and channel strategy for established businesses, and the authority platforms their owners front. Strategy and build-out; your people run it.
Team training
Priced by scopeTraining for leadership teams and staff, from sales to customer service, with the routines that keep standards in place after the room empties.
Program design
Priced by scopeDesign and delivery of entrepreneurship and workforce programs for institutions and organizations.
Speaking
By requestTalks and panels for companies and universities, and for rooms full of founders.
04 Process
How an engagement runs
Four steps. Each one produces something in writing, so you always know where you stand.
- 01
Apply
A few lines about the business and the decision you have been sitting on. I read every application myself and answer within two working days.
- 02
Written diagnosis
Before any session, you get my read on where the business is stuck and what I would do first. If it isn't a fit, this is where I say so.
- 03
Engagement letter
Scope, price and dates in writing within 48 hours of our conversation. Nothing is sold in the room.
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The work
Intensive or engagement, every session ends with a written record of what was decided and who owns it.
05 The firm
The firm's work
In 2020 Black Valley Digital launched Built in Broward, a year-long program partnership with General Assembly and the Broward County Library system. It was one of 13 programs selected nationally for the American Library Association's Libraries Build Business initiative, funded by Google.org, and served 1,428 entrepreneurs and career-changers in its first year.
Earlier workshop series ran with Broward County Libraries and Venture Café Miami.
06 Principal
Ryan Hall
Founder of the firm. Every engagement is led by me.
I work with owners whose business has outrun the way they run it.
Usually the company is fine on paper. Six figures to eight. A team of eight, or twenty, or well over a hundred. What has stopped working is the owner's position inside it. Every decision still routes through you. The managers you hired can't move their people. The growth plan you wrote a year ago is still in a drawer, and you can't fully explain why.
That last part is what I'm hired for. The plan was never the problem.
Before this firm I spent years inside Miami's startup ecosystem, running programs for NBCUniversal, the Knight Foundation, Capital One and Dell at what is now the Center for Black Innovation, producing Black Tech Week, and sitting across from founders before their exits and after. You learn what separates the ones who get out of their own way from the ones who never do.
Since 2019 I have put that to work for owners in professional services, the trades, medicine and digital businesses, several of whom crossed seven figures during our engagement, and for leadership teams at owner-led companies, including managers who came up on Fortune 500 floors.
Every engagement is led by me. It starts with a written diagnosis before the first session and produces a written record after every one. Nothing about you or your company appears anywhere without your consent.
Chevrolet, Fiverr, the University of Miami and the Pérez Art Museum have put me on their stages, and The Miami Foundation has funded my work directly. Those are easy to check.
The harder question is whether the thing stopping you is one I've seen before. After seven years of this, it almost always is.
07 Apply
Tell me the decision you've been sitting on.
A few lines about the business and what you want changed. I read every application myself and answer within two working days. If it isn't a fit, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.
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