Business Planning
Start-Ups
Are you about to fulfil a dream and start your own business? Are you hanging around, hiding your true colours from the world, afraid you are too delicate to survive in the business jungle? Or perhaps you’re flying successfully and need help coping with a flock of new customers?
Whatever your new business situation, Alfred Ivy can help you spread your wings, fly above the challenges, and show off your colourful wings in a dull business world.
We are approached almost daily by individuals who desperately want to be successful in business – but they’re overwhelmed by a seemingly endless ‘to do’ list. We help those individuals to clarify the priorities important to their particular business, to identify the specific resources needed to achieve their goals, and we support them in effectively utilising those resources so that they succeed. Our work is individually tailored to each client’s situation – bespoke service for bespoke businesses.
To Do List
- Get a website that works for me
- Get a great logo, business card and letterhead
- Write my elevator pitch – and deliver it well
- Write a ‘magic email’ that gets sales
- Learn to network - and succeed
- Get more customers – without selling
- Write a business plan to keep my bank manager happy
- Write a financial budget to keep my accountant happy
- Improve presentation skills
- Improve negotiation skills
- Sort out VAT and PAYE
- Get cash flowing – don’t get bad debts!
- Computerised bookkeeping and online banking
- Set realistic goals – and achieve them
- Get a coach or get a mentor – which is best and why?
- Get training – stay up to date
If you have a ‘to do’ list which includes any of the above, Alfred Ivy can help you. Don't hang around any longer. Contact us by clicking here and we’ll call you for an exploratory no obligation discussion about your colourful wings and where you want to fly to. Start getting professional help and advice without delay. You can be a beautiful butterfly too!