Growing your business is not just about sales. To maximise growth you need to consider everything at your disposal to give you a competitive advantage in the market. 🤯 🤔 📈 On 27th May, I'm hosting a special session in association with NEPIC, which will provide insight on things to consider to help support your next step. This 1 hour session will take key elements from the Roadmap MBA business course and provide real tangible takeaways (including handouts) to help you make

Within the conversation we discuss running and growing a business, personal and professional development and everything he loves and hates about the course! 😳❌ The Roadmap MBA is a CPD certified training course which provides the real world skills to grow a business, aimed at organisations of less than 250 people. 🏆👍🏻 SMEs account for 99% of the business population and the challenges smaller businesses face are different. They require a no-nonsense approach to deliver val

With any business the most important thing you need to do is build trust. 👍🏻 When launching the Roadmap MBA we have had questions asking what is involved, what does the course look like and how does it work? 📈 This video is a complete walkthrough and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch. 🏆 The Roadmap MBA is a CPD certified training course which provides the real world skills to grow a business, aimed at organisations of less than 250 people. Fo

People often ask “how long does it take to grow a business?” 🤔 Amazon are the poster boys for modern business yet reviewing their revenue figures it took almost 10 years before they started to grow exponentially. Based on this if you’re 1, 2, 5 maybe even 10 years into your journey, depending on the maturity of your industry things may take a little longer. We can’t all ride the internet bubble like some of the tech giants. Building a business is like writing an novel, it ta

2020 has been a strange and difficult year. The world changed in so many ways, but from this change comes opportunity. Over the course of the year ironically, in my first year of business, it was actually when COVID hit did I actually find my feet. When times are tough you need to keep doing the positive behaviours that you know will pay off. Even when things seem bleak, the people who have similar values will find you. Entering the new year my promise to myself is simply to

YouTube launches new offering in competition to Patreon 🤯👀 In business strategy when looking at options to grow your business, look at everything you have at your disposal. Your products / services, your clients and network, assets, cash, everything. Identify the areas of value which are adjacent to your own and that solve a pain point of the customer, then investigate their potential as an extra service line or pivot. 📈 Patreon, previously valued at $450m, is a membership

Earlier in the year I was lucky enough to have Christopher Owens take my picture. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yes we did some amazing shots against colourful backgrounds which I love, but we also took some which were authentic, with no background and just light from a window. 🤭🙈 To anyone I’ve ever worked with this is what I wear every day. The shirt will change, but I always roll up my sleeves and generally tend to work in an industrial setting. I don’t wear fancy clothes or try to be anyt

Earlier this week I was asked to give feedback on an Entrepreneur’s business plan who was seeking investment. It was clear a huge amount of effort and research had gone in, so before I responded I asked “What type of feedback would you like?” In this case, the basic idea was sound but there were some challenges in the execution which would kill the project 6-12 months down the line and cost the Entrepreneur their dream and the investors their money. Instead of saying no, I sh

One of the biggest considerations business owners have at the moment is where to cut costs, and how deep to cut. ✂️ Map out your organisation and the size of overhead you need to survive at reduced turnover. Do you have the work pipeline and/or cash buffer to survive like this for prolonged periods? 🗺 Can you deliver your service with 6 people not 8? Can the team deliver the same level of service? What intelligence have you picked up on your competitors? Might it actually be

Many thanks to my friend Charlie Sullivan for the Growth Strategy Roadmap™ Live Stream today sharing his entrepreneurial journey of leaving a successful corporate career and going into property. 🏚➡️🏡 Time stamps: 0.06 - Welcome. 11:18 - Finding your first property investment. 18:17 - Social media and building credibility. 24:00 - Investing in property. Is this somewhere people should put their money in a recession? 36:30 - Does being an engineer help you in business? 40:40

One of the biggest considerations many business owners have at the moment is where to cut costs, and how deep to cut. ✂️ Map out your organisation and the size of overhead you need to survive at reduced turnover. Do you have the work pipeline and/or cash buffer to survive like this for prolonged periods? 🗺 Can you deliver your service with 6 people not 8? Can the team deliver the same level of service? What intelligence have you picked up on your competitors? Might it actual

Thank you to everyone who supported our first Live Stream yesterday. 🙌🏻 Hopefully you will start to see the combination of several things come together - from the new brand, the quality and frequency of our guidance and support, and also the production values in everything from our graphics to podcast to Live Stream interviews. They're all here to help your business grow! What I'm trying to achieve is the quality of consultancy that you would get from a Bain & Company / Mc

At 3pm today we're going LIVE on YouTube for the very first time. My guest is Ashleigh King - President and Exec Producer of TEDxNewcastleUniversity, Business Owner, Podcast Host... and someone I think is worth knowing. 💬 The aim of the interview (and the series) is to share the stories of real people who have real businesses. We will unpick some of the business strategies behind the brands, discuss market trends and also share knowledge, ideas and the best advice they've ev

You might find that now more than ever it is harder to get the answers you need. What is going to happen next? Will my business survive? Will I be able to retire when I expect? 🔍🔍🔍 In current times the environment is changing faster than we can keep up. To react, focus on the pure fundamentals for your business: • Where does the bulk of our profit come from and can we shore this up - even if it means sacrificing some of our new, riskier or non-core business projects? • Ho

One of the best ways to adapt your business in 2020 is to understand what in its purest form do people actually buy from you? Is it knowledge? Is it time? Do you unlock the ability for people to live the life they always wanted? 🤔 Whatever it is, re-think what you've done before and build from this point up. For example, previously you trained people in a classroom. Could technology help unlock a wider audience? Could you use this to develop a better business in the eyes of

Many of us understand the need to uncover change. Change can uncover new solutions to problems. Change can bring you new customers in new markets. Change can save you money and prepare you for the future. ✅ Not changing brings you exactly nothing. Often we can be too close to a problem. The human brain is a very clever thing, able to join dots and make assumptions based on prior knowledge; however to a customer or someone without your knowledge it might not make any sense and

I mentioned recently the need to innovate and keep your business moving, especially in light of recent changes and the new world we're entering. 🤔 I spent the Bank Holiday working hard to re-invent the entire look and feel of the Growth Strategy Roadmap™ brand for the new post COVID19 world, including new fonts and colour scheme based around simplicity, colour and being bold. Over the coming weeks you will see a whole range of new posts, graphics and visuals which I hope wi

This morning clients received an eight page guidance note on best practise for how to rebound from the current crisis; including the actions they should take across six key areas to prepare their business for the new environment - including boosting sales. With clients we actually implement these, working hand in hand with their team, allowing them to be better prepared than their competitors and also get a jump on securing future business. If you would like to have a conve

This is my talk from this morning's NEPIC Cluster Connect in front of about 100 people. It was my first time speaking publicly on the business model for Growth Strategy Roadmap™ and how I help people grow their companies and achieve their business goals. I also mention for the first time some of the scalable items I'm working on including investing in companies who have scalable ambition, and my desire to create the world's best value training course which will cover everythi

I am delighted to announce that our company profile is now live on the NEPIC members portal 🙌🏻🙌🏻 https://www.nepic.co.uk/company-profile/2474/ I have been a fan of the team and attended their events for many years, so achieving this with my own business is a proud moment. 👍🏻👍🏻 Why did I join? As a Chartered Mechanical Engineer who has worked in the sector, I understand the issues that the world's leading petrochem and pharmaceutical companies face, but also the chall