Kelsi Guidry

Your Bizer Advisor · Houma, LA

Your local small business advisor

Start with a Business Action Session

Organize what you already know, identify what to work on next, and decide what systems your business actually needs.

What happens in a Business Action Session — it is free.

Book an introduction with Kelsi.

About

Kelsi is your local Bizer advisor in Houma, LA, working hands-on with South Louisiana small businesses. The approach is simple: measure the strength of your business, then strengthen it with focused 90-day sprint projects — no guesswork. Your first conversation is free.

Kelsi was born and raised in Cut Off, Louisiana and now lives in Thibodaux. He's a father of two children and married to his wife, Kassi Guidry.

He started working with small businesses in 2009, two years after graduating from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. His business relocated to Monroe in late 2009, and in 2014 he received the Micro-Business award from the West Monroe Chamber of Commerce small business awards program.

Kelsi's Bizer advisory service puts a different spin on helping small businesses: assess the strength of a business first, then strengthen it with focused 90-day sprint projects.

• Working with small businesses since 2009
• Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana
• Micro-Business Award, West Monroe Chamber of Commerce, 2014

A simple process to strengthen your business

1. Take the assessment — Ten minutes, on your own. No meeting required to start.
2. Get your score and report — A breakdown across the four pillars, and what is holding each one down.
3. Review it with your advisor — Go through the report with the person whose page this is, and agree what comes first.
4. Run a 90-day sprint — Work the weakest pillar first, then measure it again at the end.

That review is free.

What the VALO Score measures

Viability

Can the business pay for itself?

Acquisition

Can it win and keep customers?

Leadership

Can it be led by someone other than the owner?

Operations

Can it deliver the work consistently?

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Kelsi helps businesses from start to exit

1. Start — Start with a strong foundation.
2. Build — Build systems for optimization and efficiency.
3. Grow — Grow operations and profit margins.
4. Exit — Exit your business when you are ready.

How Kelsi can help

• Starting a business — From idea to registered and open, in the order your state makes you do it.
• Business plans — A plan a lender will read, built from your numbers rather than a template.
• Branding — What you are called, what you look like, and saying the same thing everywhere.
• Getting found online — Show up when somebody nearby searches for what you do.
• Websites — A real site, built and kept up, without you learning a page builder.
• Money management — Know what is coming in, what is going out, and what rate to charge.
• Getting paid — Invoices that go out on time and get chased without you doing the chasing.
• Customers and quotes — Nothing falls through, and you find out why the quotes you lose are lost.
• Never missing a call — Somebody answers when you are on a roof, under a sink, or on another job.
• Funding and grants — What is actually open, whether you fit it, and the paperwork drafted.
• Marketing that runs — Posts, offers and follow-ups that keep going when the week gets busy.
• Your VALO Score — Where the business actually stands, measured, then a plan against the weakest part.
• Hiring and your team — The registrations a first hire triggers, and the structure to hire into.

Every service Kelsi offers

Get in touch

• Location: Houma, LA
• Phone: 985-333-3989
• Email: kelsi@gobizer.com

Office

Hours

• Monday – Friday: 8:00am to 5:00pm
• Saturday – Sunday: Closed

In-person meetings by appointment only.

The first conversation is free.

Reading

Written by Kelsi

• Turning a WordPress website into an automated customer booking system — A website that only explains what you do is a brochure. Booking turns it into something that keeps working while you are closed.
• How to start a small business: the 10 steps, in order — Every guide lists the same steps. The order is what saves money: find a buyer before you register, and register before you spend.
• Why more people run a business from home, and who it suits — About half of US businesses are run from home, per the SBA. What changed since 2020, what it really costs, and the businesses it does not suit.
• How to choose a niche narrow enough to win — A niche is a customer you can name and find, not a topic. A one-week test for picking one, and why too narrow is rarer than owners fear.

Everything Kelsi is reading