May 2, 2024 | Business growth, Leadership
The business lifecycle is not based on revenue, profit or employee numbers. It’s based on emotions. At start-up things are exciting. With some success this moves on to frantic. From there, investment in further growth leads to getting through your 1st brick wall and...
Apr 25, 2024 | Business growth
Growth and stall trends occur regardless of the size of your business, what industry or sector you operate in or your location. All businesses go through predictable stall points. We call these black holes due to the fact that businesses can disappear into them for...
Apr 7, 2024 | Business growth, Learning
Understanding your customer base, its drivers and motivations is key to growing revenue. Everyone knows that for almost all businesses, it’s cheaper to get repeat custom than find new customers. Despite this, many companies spend very little time getting to know and...
Nov 7, 2023 | Business growth, Leadership
I have been founding, running, and selling businesses since 1996 and I reckon I have seen a crisis or two. Once again following Covid, a war in Europe, logistics and supply problems and the cost-of-living crisis, fear, uncertainty and doubt will be in the minds of...
Oct 7, 2023 | Business growth, Employee engagement
Good communication is vital within every business. Knowing that you’re being heard, and understood, is an immensely important part of this. Too often we communicate on the surface, answering the questions directly put to us instead of seeking out the detail, the...
Apr 26, 2022 | Business growth
Attracting new clients is a challenge for most businesses. Yet attracting new business is pivotal to ambitious growth plans. Which is why it’s important to make it easy for those prospects to buy. Let’s use a fictional company to demonstrate… Company A has a...