Business Growth Power Pack

Over the years I’ve discovered a very interesting thing in the businesses I coach. There are some that I work with that can double their growth and others which don’t have a hope of ever reaching anything like 100% growth in a year. And believe me I’ve tried to help those companies that don’t have [...]

How often do you step back and look at your business? I know we’re all guilty of being deeply immersed in the doing of stuff that makes money. That means it can be terribly difficult to put time aside to work on your business. You may be terribly busy, rushed off your feet, going from [...]

I’m lucky enough to be on the mailing list of probably the greatest marketer I’ve ever met, or known. That is Jay Abraham. He’s just released a transcript of an interview he did with Troubleshooter, Sir John Harvey-Jones, in front of a large audience of entrepreneurs. It makes very interesting reading and I thought I’d [...]

Put strategy versus tactics in a boxing ring and strategy gets a knockout every time. That was the thought that ran through my mind as I discussed this very subject with a potential client. And yet that isn’t obvious to an ambitious, or desperate, business owner. Many times a business owner wants to have a [...]

The junior apprentice teams reverted back to boys (Instinct) against girls (Revolution). The task? To choose a bottled water to brand and sell. And as is usual in the final the finalists got to choose the people who’d been fired in the previous rounds. The end result was that Revolution was composed of girls, except [...]

Junior apprentices fly to Amsterrdam, insult some designers and then try to hawk their products to Libertys and House of Fraser with mixed results. Who goes and was the firing right? See what you think…

Tim gets to demonstrate his project management skills, or does he?

Junior Apprentices make a complete cake of selling cup cakes in Selfridges

Junior Apprentices create Slide Stuff and Flex n Store. Find out which gets the most orders and who gets fired and whether it’s fair…

Junior Apprentice cheese sellers aren’t to be sniffed at. Unless they unload their cheese at less than cost price.

Does anyone truthfully know the reason for the growth of Internet marketing? I remember in the early days web sites were very unsophisticated and shopping karts and Paypal and Google didn’t work like they do now. People seemed to have very little trust that the Internet would deliver the goods they chose and bought. There [...]

All the time I’ve been executive coaching I’ve been observing the things that drive people forward to major achievement,. And it all comes down to 3 things. Those things are Purpose, Passion and Pride. Let me explain what each one of those mean… Your Purpose Every peak performer who has a job, runs a company [...]

I’ve just heard from a friend that there is to be no funding for social media training. Interesting… Internet marketing has radically changed the way we all do business. Social media is one component of that. It’s the newest and it too has the ability to change the way you do business. And it’s not [...]

Rob Shoesmith’s iPhone app called ‘Problem Halved’ has sold over 3.7m copies at just a dollar each. Shoesmiths success is the inspiration behind the launch of a free course to teach 18-24 year olds, based in Manchester, how to create cutting-edge mobile phone applications. THE WHITE ROOM is launching the unique course to help budding [...]

Business cards are often the only thing someone has to jog their memory once they’ve left your presence. And it’s not through lack of attention, it’s just that business life has become more frenetic and we’re all networking hard and consequently meet many businesses. So, what does your business card do for the person you [...]

Social Media Marketing or social marketing as it’s becoming better known has actually been around for quite a few years now. It’s not just Twitter or LinkedIn. Social marketing also covers blogging, which only really started in December 1997 and started to take off much later around 2003/2004. Similarly Twitter started in March 2006 and [...]

Manchester is currently the land of opportunity for grabbing hold of some free coaching and consultancy that will power your business growth.

As I’ve a said before bigger companies usually ask me how to get more sales. They often expect me to say, “more sales staff” or “increase your marketing” or “increase your sales activity.” The truth is, you need to really look at your whole business and view it as a sales and marketing machine. That [...]

I’ve spent years helping clients grow their business and helping them concentrate on profitable business growth. And there are two key questions that businesses ask me. Firstly small businesses often say, “would you agree that referrals are the best way of getting business?.” And secondly, bigger businesses say , “how do we get more sales?” [...]

Getting the Proposal team in place means you then also have access to the materials you need to produce the proposal. And of courses the resources. And unfortunately there really is no magic lamp you can rub to make your proposal suddenly appear neatly bound on your desk. Typically the bid manager leads the proposal [...]