Clients

At PBL Consulting, we respect the confidentiality of each client’s individual cases. The following are more specific examples of the most recent clients we have worked with.

Past Clients

Past Projects

Past Clients

CREAM

A popular ice cream sandwich store in Berkeley, CA

Shattuck Down Low

A club in downtown Berkeley

Causera

An online social fundraising platform

Past Projects

A historically successful legal staffing firm faced tumultuous economic changes since 1971, leading to a drastic drop in the number of clients requesting their supply of workers in the legal industry. PBL Consulting provided the necessary research to identify whether the decline was due to internal or external factors, and provided modern recommendations to move the client towards current technology and networking opportunities:

  • Conducted industry analysis on the last three decades of industrial changes to predict the gradual future success of the temporary staffing business
  • Benchmarked the current technological trends of large competitor firms as well as small local firms
  • Recommended a short-term solution of developing a referral network in relevant associations and a long-term solution of combining new technology with a modified implementation timeline to increase company efficiency

An online pearl jewelry company was looking to revamp their marketing strategy by asking PBL Consulting to explore the possibility of new target markets. The team also assessed the feasibility of introducing new product lines that diverge from their traditional pearl products:

  • Identified the key issues that are keeping the company revenue stagnant and four areas for growth: improving the company brand image, leveraging social media strategies to increase customer acquisition, reducing the costs of shipping and supply, and introducing new product lines
  • Benchmarked the successful and unique features of leading online jewelry competitors
  • Recommended that they expand into a new target market and benchmarked leading competitors to redefine how they use online advertising

A Bay Area senior caregiver staffing agency partnered with PBL Consulting to host an internal case competition for the Berkeley PBL chapter. 7 teams, each of which had the option of consulting an advisor from PBL Consulting to aid them in their project, took up the challenge to redefine the agency’s brand image since its inception more than 40 years ago and strategize a new marketing plan. Students presented a diversity of ideas in front of a professional panel, which included the agency’s executives, and their deliverables were evaluated to award the most innovative and feasible.