Latest News
NEW - June Budget Brochure
Please read and download our new June Budget Briefing (as a PDF 500k).…
Golf Day 2010
On a wonderful summers day in mid June, East Lancs Chamber of Commerce members Hayes & Co held their Annual Golf Day at the recently extended Mytton Fold Farm Hotel and Golf Club. See photographs on Flickr or read more...…
Debt funding for SMEs
The Bank of England's recent Credit Conditions Survey reported that banks tightened credit availability in the final three months of last year…
Added Value Services: What we'd like to help you do...
We offer a range of business growth services which we have developed in conjunction with AVN. Our ‘No surprises’ fixed price agreement policy means that you know exactly what our services will cost you. We do not charge by the hour for these ‘value added’ services.
Business Builder Forum
The Business Builder Forum is an opportunity for our clients, prospective clients and other trusted professionals to network with each other and discuss topical business issues. Each Forum includes light refreshments and is free to attend - the only commitment is your time.
Accounting Software Solutions
We have considerable experience in helping clients computerise their accounting systems.
After some training courses some businesses can feel isolated and tentative, wondering how to put theory into practice. We offer a "hands on" training programme so that at the end of the process you have a result: your books up to date on your computer.
Business Builder Review
The two to three hour Business Builder Review is designed to help you start turning your business dreams into reality. It does that by focusing on a small but powerful selection of the tools from our full 102-step Business Edge programme. And just like that full programme, it is based on a highly structured and super-intensive process that has been specifically designed to help you start probing for, identifying and creating breakthrough strategies for supercharging your sales, profits and prospects.
Business Edge
Starting where our shorter Business Builder Review leaves off, the Business Edge programme is designed to help entrepreneurs turn their business dreams into reality. How? Using a highly structured and super-intensive 1-2 day process, and a suite of powerful software tools, the Business Edge helps you to probe for, identify and create breakthrough strategies for supercharging your sales, profits and prospects.
Making It Happen
A 12-month programme that will…
- increase the value of your business
- provide you with the ideas, tools, support and encouragement you need to grow your business
- give you greater success
- help you to achieve your business and personal goals
Based on the highly successful Business Edge programme, Making It Happen is designed to accompany you every step of the way as you take your business from where it is to where you want it to be.
As well as using the full 102-step Business Edge process to create breakthrough strategies for your business....
.... it also actually helps you to put those strategies into practice.
What's more, it is based on the thinking of some of the world's greatest entrepreneurs, gurus and business thinkers. It uses processes that have been used by some of the UK's most successful companies. And it has been developed AVN so you know it will work!
BoardView… effective board and strategy meetings
We'll gladly come to any of your key business meetings as a resource to help you make the very best use of your time.
And you can use us in any way you want - from silent observer to adjudicator, technical adviser to independent sounding board, chairman to minute taker, or even as the facilitator for brainstorming sessions. We can even prepare the agenda if you'd find that helpful. The choice of what you want us to do is entirely yours. And whatever role you want us to play, our input will be covered by an agreed fixed fee and an unconditional money back guarantee just in case you aren't completely delighted.
System Builder
Discover how to increase the value of your business…… by up to 86.77%
Research recently carried out by our colleagues in Sheffield shows that business owners - people just like you and me - would be willing to pay up to a staggering 86.77% more to buy a business which differs from its rivals in one crucial way.
And that same critical factor could increase the value of your business (probably one of your biggest and most important assets) by many tens - and perhaps even many hundreds - of thousands of pounds.
According to research, the key to making a business more valuable is making it LESS dependent on you the business owner... and MORE dependent on systems - so that when you eventually come to sell your business it works just as well for the buyer without you, as it ever did with you.