Consultancy work

With experience including marketing, project management, team management, performance management, coaching, business planning, financial analysis, and preparing presentations, we can add value in a wide range of business areas. Past projects include advising a property development company on its land-bank, helping a Transport Company consolidate its business, advising a retailer on how to improve their break-even point and helping a catering firm to build up their business with direct marketing.

Business planning

We don’t produce business plans – we help businesses produce their own plans which they can really ‘own’ and believe in and even be proud of. A business plan should not just be something that you have to produce to please the bank. It should be a way of helping, challenging and capturing your thoughts on the performance and potential in your business. That way it helps you make informed decisions and can support you in getting others on your side – such as the bank manager.

We are advocates of the ‘keep it simple’ approach. If a business can understand it’s gross margins and its overheads then it can know it’s break-even position and that is the basis of managing so much in a business, including understanding its cash requirement and how to avoid ‘running fast to stand still’.

Raising finance

Please see www.stirlingpartners.com for our link with a long established commercial finance broker.

Supply of business services

Our knowledge of business issues and links with other professionals means that we can help you find a reliable and trustworthy supplier for issues such as:

• Accountancy
• Book-keeping
• Branding and marketing strategy
• Card processing
• Employment Law
• Foreign Currency
• Franchising
• Health and Safety
• Insurance
• Independent Financial Advice
• Insolvency advice
• Legal problems
• Valuations