Business Development
In more than 12 years of consulting, the most structurally exposed businesses I work with are not startups. They are established UK companies generating between £5 million and £100 million in revenue, employing between 50 and 500 people, and facing …
Compliance is the part of running a business that no founder gets into business for, and the part that quietly ends companies that ignore it. The headline numbers come from the regulated end of the market: in 2024/25, the Financial …
Franchising is one of the most accessible routes to business ownership in the UK, and one of the most misunderstood. The sector contributes around £19 billion to the UK economy across more than 50,000 franchise units, and franchise businesses fail …
One of the most common questions I am asked by growing business owners is some version of “I think I need more financial help, but I do not know what kind.” They have a bookkeeper and an accountant, the numbers …
When a business is in serious trouble, one of the hardest decisions an owner faces is who to call, and it is a decision most people make too late or get wrong. A turnaround consultant and an insolvency practitioner do …
Most founders, at some point, ask whether they should pay for a business mentor when free mentoring is so widely available. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is not the one a paid mentor is supposed to …
The most common request I hear from a growing business that feels stretched is some version of “we need to hire.” The team is flat out, things are slipping, and the obvious answer is more hands. Sometimes that is right. …
When a business is working hard and still struggling, the founder almost always blames the wrong thing. They assume the product needs improving, the marketing needs more spend, or the team needs to push harder, and they pour energy into …
Few things frustrate a business owner more than spending real money on marketing and seeing nothing come back. The ads run, the posts go out, the agency reports its activity, and yet the leads do not arrive, or the ones …
Every business owner who has considered hiring a consultant has had the same private thought: how do I know this will pay for itself? It is the right question, and the honest answer is one most of the industry would …
