Growth and innovation
.We're here to help you clarify a set of core values and a vision to establish your business through good times and bad.
Once that's clear we can help you
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- Produce and Deliver them reliably
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- Tell the Market about them
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- Motivate staff to make it happen.
What we can do for you
Strong businesses are built on clear values and a vision of what they offer their customers - and why. They have a distinctive way of doing things - expressed as a brand which demonstrates the story of how the company relates to its clients. We'll help you get there by working with you to:
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Research, Develop and launch new products and services
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Develop a convincing story to promote the businesses you develop
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Use the intermet to improve delivery and promotion
- Collaborate with other companies using remote and flexible working
- Become a learning company
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Track how well you're doing
- Lead your team to deliver the results you're after
You can get a flavour of our approach by downloading our sample marketing plan
What we can offer
Planning tools and fact sheets, e-books, workshops and one to one consultancy. We use innovative, distance learning techniques to help you make the most of your time whether you are a one man band or a rapidly growing organisation. We offer a small company marketing course and a 1 day internet marketing workshop that deals with using Web 2.0 for promoting yourself on-line and working collaboratively with other small companies.
We organise in house workshops, 1 to 1 consultancy or micro consultancy via videoconferencing links. We can help you research your market and get closer to your customers. Finally we offer "get you started" consultancy packages on strategic marketing, Google ad-words, blogging and using social media and collaborative, flexible and remote working.
Our current projects include research into different styles of networking. You can take part using this link. If you do you can opt to get a free e-book or a summary of the results.
Our next public workshop is Punch Above Your Weight on Friday 23rd January at the Hub, EC2M 1RQ. You can book here. The price is £177 inc VAT.
You can also get a 20 minute Punch Above Your Weight session for short sharp advice via the MegaMeetings video conference link for £20 - sign up for internet marketing advice here
New e-book - 21 Business Stories. Takes all we've found out and presents it as 21 engaging slices of business life, covering marketing, monitoring, people, raising finance and above all tracking how you're doing. Only £9.20. You can buy it here.
Why we can help you
Unusually for a consultancy company we have a practical bias. We have 25 years experience of running growth businesses in IT, Business Training, Internet trading and horticulture. Currently we run a £0.5 Million internet trading company - Plants4Presents - and a 10 employee Organic Vegetable Business. These give us a real-life basis for our consultancy and training business that underpins our research into how companies actually use IT to promote themselves and improve performance as they grow.
Our founder, Dr Alan Rae is a chartered fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, an associate of the Market Research Society and an accredited workwise adviser. You can look at his Ecademy Profile and Testimonials or follow his ideas on the How to do Business Blog
Contact - To discuss how we can help with your business growth or marketing ring 0845 094 0407
