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75% of small businesses in the UK fail within five years, so SME business owners need professional advice to help them to survive and grow more effectively. We will deliver lunchtime training sessions
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We will create and deliver a range of events and presentations that focus on small business growth topics and areas of interest to SME business owners on the South Coast of England. Key to this is the networking opportunity that our research with Southampton University has shown is key to getting SME owners away from their businesses to improve their knowledge and skills, both of which are essential to their organisations' future growth, success and survival in a difficult economic climate. Since the demise of Business Links in 2011 the opportunity for small businesses to get good growth advice is limited, unless they are already growing at 20% or have a turnover of several millions, as LEPs only offer help to larger SMEs generally with over 20 staff and over 1 million pounds turnover. We will develop and provide presentation content that will help to educate, train, encourage and support SME business owners in their quest for growth and survival.
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Why it's a great idea:
Too many UK small businesses fail, due to lack of business skills, recruitment issues, access to growth finance and export markets, and lack of knowledge about digital marketing. 85% of SME business owners are male and the first challenge they have is that a large proportion are not formally educated, relying on instinct as well as trying to get the right team mix around them to help their business grow. The second challenge is that many business owners say they have no time for upgrading their knowledge and skills in areas that can help their organisations grow. Our research and trial seminar over 18 months have shown SME business owners are willing to give up their valuable time over lunch, when they know they will only be out of their business for two hours, that they will get to learn about business growth topics of interest and use to them, and that they also get the valuable opportunity to talk and network with other business owners about issues they face and discuss solutions.
Steps to get it done:
The lunchtime SME growth presentation and networking format we suggest has already been trialled and proven to work with over 200 SMEs, but needs further funds to expand its work and to cover more SMEs over a wider area.
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VolunteerGet Consultants is based in West Sussex and Hampshire, enabling SME organisations and business owners to access the skills they need to grow successfully. Our consultants deliver business improvement consulting and advice to help local SMEs on the South Coast to create clear, effective strategies and plans to deliver succesful growth.
For SMEs in Hampshire and West Sussex we offer lunchtime talks, workhsops and networking on a range of topics, as well as more intesive and Scale Up Labs for better business growth.
Every business owner needs sensible advice on how to make the most of their brand, staff, marketing, sales, technology and finances. The challenge is that nothing ever stands still, and most business owners have a ‘to-do’ list that gets longer by the day.
At GET Consultants we understand business owner time pressures, providing lunchtime briefing sessions by consultants on topics that help any SME business to expand more effectively and at lower overall cost.
We help SMEs understand how macroeconomic, business, cutlural and technological changes might affect them, helping business owners to work out how to develop and grow their organisation in the most efficient way.
Business owners want to spend the time they have growing their organisation successfully, rather than dealing with day to say recruitment, strategy, marketing, recruitment, office facility or finance projects.
We help with challenges like working out the best way to tackle a large project like rebranding a business, launching a new product or developing a new mobile friendly website. Projects that can makes any business stand out better from its competitors.
Our team has worked on all types of business projects, and we have the expertise, time and energy to manage and deliver knwoledge and projects that really make a difference to SME business owners, giving them more time to focus on running their businesses.
Project Owner: Get Consultants Ltd The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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