Justin Edwards

Growth

Are you achieving your full potential? What changes are required to take your business to the next level? We can work with you to deliver growth that is immediate, sustainable and measurable.

That may be through diversification, mergers, acquisitions, increasing sales, reducing your cost base, entering new markets, adopting new channels of marketing or redirecting costs.

Every company has the potential to grow. Some companies may be frustrated by staffing, financing or physical constraints preventing them from growing, but that is where we work with you to find solutions to remove those barriers.

ACTION is key to accelerated growth. DRIFT in any business is costly. We focus on the rapid delivery of change. Once an action plan is agreed, we are able to oversee or directly implement the change.

Marketing

With the advent of Social Media, video content and a change in the way customers view media, it is essential that you are able accurately determine the effectiveness of your marketing expenditure. Many businesses don’t really understand the power or relevance of social media marketing for their business, but effective marketing strategies delivered through Social Media often cost less, are more effective and are much more quantifiable. Often money can be saved in marketing departments just through the change to effective marketing channels.

If you haven’t already embraced the change then now is the time to do so.

Sales and Marketing are undoubtably critical components of most businesses and they need to be seamless in their objectives and the delivery of success. The marketing of a business needs to intrinsically comprehend the Sales departments, their people, their products and most importantly their customers. Marketing should not just be an exercise to attract new customers, but should be as equally focussed on ensuring that existing customers are provided with a structure of service that ensure their experience is frictionless, that they enjoy dealing with your business, want to continue dealing with your business and want to recommend your business.

The access to your business from a customer’s perspective should also be analysed to ensure that the customer journey is smooth, that they can find what they want and you anticipate their needs.  Actioning this simple principle makes the business more efficient and improves the customers satisfaction ratings.

We are able to recommend “Aggregated Minimal Gains” that collectively deliver a dramatic impact on your business and the experience for your customers and team.

Exit Strategies

Are you considering selling your business? If so, we can help to provide tax efficient solutions for Management Buyouts, Venture Capital / Private Equity investments, Open market of off market sales.

Structured sales can be discussed that incorporate self funded of bank funded options, incororating set milestones and security and fallbacks.

Best value, tax implications and privacy all play a vital part when considering your exit strategies.

We are able to provide a confidential service to advise and develop a strategy that suits you.

Financials / Cashflow

Accurate and detailed financials in the form of frequent management accounts are critical for most businesses and can help to highlight issues and failings within a company that could otherwise be missed without the presence of detailed information. Once setup, there is really little if any additional cost to providing this information. Coupled with budgets, you can implenment Aggregated Minimal Gains that collectively deliver substantial results compounded year on year.

The majority of company failures come through Cashflow issues and this is where solid financial reporting systems can allow you to forecast and act to mitigate any possible foreseeable cashflow issues in the future

We can work with you to deliver detailed management accounts, budgets, opportunities and forecasts for your business

People, Staff & Customers

YOUR PEOPLE

Team Analysis

The staff costs are probably one of the largest overheads that any organisation has and yet many see it as a “cost” rather than an “investment”.  Really looking at your team and Investing in your staff is critical.

Getting the “equilibrium” within your team is not easy, but it is worth making the investment as it will pay dividends. Investing your time in your people, developing knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and inspired employees that work as a team, support each other, function as one and focus on the delivery of success for the company will deliver extraordinary results.

Negative and disruptive staff must be addressed immediately. Inaction causes a contagious, toxic environment. In so many cases, excuses are made for the management’s own inadequacy to deal with the situation. Whether they are bullies, have a bad attitude, lazy or just incompetent they need dealing with straightaway. As a result of inaction, your business will suffer through poor customer service, or frustrated colleagues, poor morale, resentment, absenteeism, staff turnover and lack of team engagement.

We will help in producing a strategy to change those dynamics and deal with that situation. We are able to deliver swift change.

Training & Mentoring

We are able to offer training and mentoring for all of your team members, in group sessions or one to one development. We have access to some of the very best mentors in their class.

Our mentoring service develops inspired, confident and positive mindsets for your team members, encouraging team collaboration and resulting in a more positive and productive working environment.

Investment in your people, through training and development is so important and rewarding for both the team members and the your bsuiness.

Systems / IT

We are experts in the implementation of applications and systems to enhance your business productivity. From CRM systems to VOIP telephony, bespoke apps and website analytics. We are able to develop, implement, support, upgrade or replace your systems with the latest technology to provide simple to use but effective IT solutions to benefit your customers, staff and business.

Property / Procurement

Property is another key element to most businesses that is overlooked. Whether you own your freehold or rent a premises, making sure that you have the best and most tax efficient solution could save you thousands of pounds.

We have in house an extremely experienced and qualified professional that is able to offer advice on rent renewals, the sale of freehold with leaseback options or purchase and valuation of new premises.

The procurements of utilities and services can also save your business thousands of pounds and we are able to review your contracts compared to industry best values.