SERVICES

Does your business need help to recover from the impact of COVID-19? Emergency funding or need to reduce costs?
Does your business model need review to ensure it is still "fit for purpose"?
Need help moving administration, book keeping, sales and marketing etc, online?
Wish you had more time to focus on developing your enterprise? Need guidance on growing your business?
Seeking to start an enterprise but not sure how to go about it?
Need help creating a business plan and financial projections?
Looking for grants, social investment or venture capital?
Seek start-up or development loans?

WE CAN HELP

Let us help your business recover in these difficult times and save time and money.

ONLINE SERVICES

It’s a tough job running and managing a small enterprise, particularly if you are still paper based. Fitting in meetings, conferences and telephone calls as well as trying to keep on top of book-keeping, staff issues and a mountain of paperwork and emails.

If needed, we can help move most of your administrative tasks online helping you reduce staff and other related costs. For example:

Book-keeping
Preparing management accounts
Data input
Word processing
Operational policies and procedures
Order and invoice processing
Payments
Quote generation

Enabling you to focus on what you really need to be doing....

MARKETING

Do you have a project or idea that you’d love to bring to life or need to do because of the impact of COVID-19?

Tasks we can carry out include:

Reviewing your business model and strategy
Determining if there is a market for your products and services

Market research & analytics
Surveys, consultations, stakeholder engagement programmes
Research on competitors, potential partners and suppliers
Help you choose a brand that reflects your core message
Create logos, marketing and sales material. Arrange printing.
Website updates and maintenance
Identifying marketing channels to reach your target audience
On and offline marketing campaigns, analyse responses and maintain your database of customers and prospects.
Manage public relations

SALES

We can create or update your client and target database using a cloud-based relationship management solution, migrate existing contacts and set up regular management reports and templates.

We can also help you establish partnerships, generate leads and build your customer base:

Identify potential customers
Source prospect data
Make outbound calls. Book appointments. Answer calls
Prospect and customer data entry
Prepare sales contracts, presentations and proposals
Help you negotiate terms with customers, partners and suppliers

HUMAN RESOURCES

We can for example:

Write job descriptions
Advertise your vacancies and update job websites
Liaise with applicants / recruitment firms
Review CVs
Shortlist and screen applicants
Request references
Prepare new starter packs and induction checklists
Prepare employment contracts
Develop staff handbooks
Assess staff performance

FUNDING

Applying for funding is a complex and time-consuming endeavour. Starting a new enterprise isn’t easy, but growing it is even harder.

Most high street lenders require security, charge high fees and impose onerous conditions and unless you have a realistic business plan your chances of success in securing funding are very limited. Small enterprises frequently waste time on unsuccessful loan and grant applications.

Let us help you find the right funding partners for you, help with Bid writing, drafting prospectuses and submitting Requests for Proposal for:

Secured and unsecured loans
Grants, Donations, Legacies
Crowdfunding
Community Share Issue
Social Impact Bonds
Venture Capital

ADVICE AND EXPERTISE

Using our experience of establishing, managing and growing enterprises, we can provide you with professional, impartial and objective advice. Our help can include:

A review of your organisations's strengths and weaknesses, threats and opportunities
Act as a sounding board on your ideas, plans and the challenges you’re facing.
Assess the operational, finance, HR, leadership, sales and marketing you need to deliver growth.
Ascertain ways to improve organisational effectiveness
Create a growth strategy that defines your vision, your goals, how to reach them and where to focus resources
Review profit and cashflow forecasts, underlying assumptions and operational budgets.
Review milestones and Key Performance Indicators which underpin growth.
Help you secure buy –in of staff, customers and stakeholders to your growth plans.
Help with mergers, acquisitions and partnerships.