We get to the heart of your business and work with you, to understand the critical factors you need, to move your start-up or existing business forward with confidence and focused direction. Foundational Business Consulting provides practical and effective advice and support to help small business owners articulate their vision, achieve their goals and transform their business ideas into reality.
Through our Strategic Baseline Business Planning process we provide clear and practical planning support, and implementation pathways to help your businesses achieve its business plans, vision and goals.
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Many small businesses consider and use tendering for larger contracts as a part of their business growth strategy. Tendering effectively to win and deliver well, is sometimes a challenge for businesses inexperienced in the process.
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We help small businesses understand the world of digital and offline marketing, and work with you to develop your strategic marketing plan, including campaigns, communications strategies and customer service strategies. Knowing who your ideal customers are, why they are ideal, and having a great realistic plan to connect them with your businesses offerings is a key to success and sustainable growth.
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As a business grows, it has lots of opportunities and can get overwhelmed. We work with you to explore ideas for diversification of services, products and income models for sustainable and scalable growth. Focusing and refocusing businesses to expand, or niche and win their market.
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Every organisation needs clear and simple processes documented to ensure you can train new team members quickly, and ensure consistency through templates and compliance is maintained as you delegate.
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Getting started in business is easy, but being trusted as a business so that people will buy from you is harder. You need to build trust in you and your businesses brand.
There’s lots of ways you can enhance the trustworthiness of your brand through you marketing processes, but there a simple fundamentals you can do to make sure that your potential customer and referral partners consider you a business with integrity.
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There are 4 key areas of your business that you need to understand the Business Basics of to have balanced and well rounded handle on your businesses operations.
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Going into a business partnership (or a joint venture), even if you’re an experienced business owner, is just like getting married. It shouldn’t be rushed into or taken lightly.
Before you go into partnership you need to know what you’re really signing on for and do a bit of Pre-Marriage Planning.
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If you’re getting started or already growing a small business one of the biggest challenges you’ll face is working out what options you have when it comes to funding your business operations. Do you get a loan, ask friends and family to invest, seek a partner, or investor? There’s no one size fits all when it comes to choosing the right and available funding options for your business model.
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How do you balance a personal brand and professional brand. It’s about actively deciding to be authentic. So how do I do it?
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Do you find you’re being pulled in every direction and sales opportunities are simply falling through the cracks? Find out why having a good sales process matters.
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How can you get the best out of your Millennials & Gen Z workers in your business? What do they value? Read our Top 5 Tips On How To Get The Best From Millennials & Gen Z Workers
read moreHow can you get the best out of your Millennials & Gen Z workers in your business? What do they value? Read our Top 5 Tips On How To Get The Best From Millennials & Gen Z Workers
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Small business owners are just too busy doing business, to do any business planning. How can you overcome this problem in your business?
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Which marketing tactics are best for your business? Where can you improve your marketing? 5 things you need to do to improve your marketing in 2020.
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Using Diversification as a strategy to protect your business, does not mean being unfocused or scattered in your approach, it’s a deliberate planned process of increasing your businesses profitability.
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Are You Building A Business Or A Sandcastle? What does it take to build your business on a solid foundation of good planning?
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In the world of small business, the secret of great customer service is found in the simple acronym of C.A.R.E What does it mean to Care for your customer, your business and your team? Why does that Caring matter to the growth of your business? C –
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When a new business consulting service starts out, the first few years are always a scramble to get whatever business you can to fill your billable hours. At some point every service provider needs to ask themselves: What am I?
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When is it the perfect time is to ask your customer for that review or referral? This article looks at the importance of reviews, when to ask your customer for one and why having a good automated review strategy can seriously influence your business’s growth.
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Why is it important to understand the Small Business stages of growth and the maturity milestones for a business owner? How does a better understanding of where you are in the business maturity cycle, as well as where your customer is in that cycle, help you focus on niche services that speak clearly to the right customers?
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Most small business owners wrestle the dilemma of where to spend their marketing budget. Before you begin marketing you need to know who your true target customers are, and what drives their decision to buy. Find out the 9 key decision drivers that your marketing messages needs to incorporate, to ensure you hit the mark when approaching your target market.
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If you get your business niche right, you’ll love what you do, and your customers will too. Find out how to narrow your focus instead of casting a wide net, and how to work out what’s best for you and your customers – allowing your customers to connect with you and your service/product.
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Business owners too often hold on to the clients that they feel secure in servicing, rather than making the tough decision of letting those clients go, so that they can concentrate on their true, ideal clients. However, the sourcing and servicing of a small customer, probably takes just as much time and cost as a large customer – but with far less return on investment.There are 4 key questions you should ask yourself, to prepare for attracting the bigger fish.
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The fastest way to burn your bridges in business is don’t pay your bills on time. What can do to avoid burning your bridges and protect your brand and reputation?
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You don’t need to be an expert in everything to be a great business owner. But, if you want to be successful, you do need to know the right strategy for your business and how to implement that strategy.
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The Foundational Business Consulting team lead by our Director Kerrie Sheaves can help you grow your business contact us today to book an appointment.
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