You’ve probably been told many times that planning is crucial to success in business but somehow you’ve never quite got round to it.

Rather than having a planned strategy you run your business by…

• Trusting your intuition
• Using instant decisions
• And generally riding the rollercoaster

That may well work and we do realise that gut feelings are a crucial business skill in successful entrepreneurs. But planning is still crucial. Research shows that those businesses that do plan and have clear strategies are far more successful.

Ever wondered how you rate against others in your industry, to help identify the areas where there is opportunity for improvement.

Use our benchmarking service and report to see…

• How you compare against the industry average
• The best and worst statistics in your industry

We’ll identify how you compare in all sorts of key areas including…

• Sales levels and growth rates
• Debtor days – how good you are at collecting in the cash!
• Gross and net profits margins
• Liquidity

Business growth services include…

• Setting goals and an action plan to get you where you want to be
• Removing the blocks that are stopping you from getting where you want to be
• Benchmarking against other businesses in your industry – do you know how you compare to the best and the average in your industry
• Getting the systems in place to allow your business to grow
• Performance monitoring including use of key performance indicators
• Marketing strategy;
• Unique selling point development
• Customer service systems to help WOW your customers
• Pricing strategy – have you tested what your optimum selling price is?
• Lead generation systems
• Sales conversion systems
• Reselling systems
• Raising finance to allow you to invest in growth
• Improving the potential of your team members
• Measuring and testing everything so that you can continually improve

The result is an agreed action plan.

Our business support sessions are a planned series of sessions to support you in developing your business. We listen to your issues and provide constructive feedback and ideas.

They can be monthly, quarterly or six monthly.

They are ideal for…

• Business owners that have little other support. Employees come to you with their problems but who do you go to?
• Those needing a fresh pair of eyes to suggest new ideas – most great ideas come from those outside of the immediate business!
• Helping you focus on working ON your business, not IN the business
• Anyone who needs to set time aside to focus on key business issues

The sessions can be used to cover any or all of the following…

• Review of management accounts and information
• Business strategy
• Comparison of where you are in relation to goals
• Business growth and marketing ideas
• Employee issues
• Cost saving strategies
• Tax saving ideas and queries

An agreed action plan is formulated from each session that we produce for review of progress at the next business support session.