The Name, the Model, and the Mission
A different kind of advisor, one who only wins when you do.
People ask us two things: what is Bahia Mar, and what is a profit protection specialist? The first answer is a story. The second is the whole of what we do.
Our name comes from the novels of John D. MacDonald, written in the 1970s. The protagonist, Travis McGee, lives aboard a houseboat moored at Bahia Mar. He recovers things of value that have been lost or stolen, and he never charges a dime upfront. Instead, he works on contingency, taking a percentage of whatever he recovers.
“We built our entire business model around that idea: you pay nothing unless we find savings.”
Most of what we do doesn’t fit neatly into the boxes business owners are used to. We’re not a CPA firm, and we’re not a consultant who hands you a binder and an invoice. Bahia Mar Ventures is a licensed insurance agency in Missouri, but placing coverage is only one of the tools we use. What we are is Profit Protection Specialists.
The name says it plainly. The largest thing being lost (or taken, depending on your perspective) from business owners every year is profit. The top three culprits are almost always the same: what you spend per employee, what you spend on coverage, and what it costs to keep the doors open. Together, they quietly drain hundreds of thousands of dollars from businesses that should be keeping far more of what they earn. Our entire job is to stop that drain and get the money back where it belongs.
We step in with a red-carpet concierge approach. Our job is to recover your annual profit from these losses without disrupting a single thing about how you run your business. We work around you, fixing the peripheral costs that add up to significant, unnecessary losses year after year.
Every strategy we provide has been thoroughly vetted and proven viable, legal, and efficient across thousands of businesses throughout the U.S. We simply make the savings strategies that Fortune 500 companies have always had access to available to everyone, from a 10-person shop to a regional enterprise.
And our rate? A fraction of what we protect.
family business in year one
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Client identities are withheld at their request. Past results are illustrative and not a guarantee of future performance.
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