Growing Your Business

Your profits should be slowly and steadily improving.

The biggest challenge you’ll face at this stage is dividing time between a whole new range of demands requiring your attention:

It’s important to have clearly defined and communicated responsibilities. You need to have a clear picture of what your best customers look like, and what ‘profit hoovers’ look like, those customers who take up lots of time, haggle hard and typically pay late.

How you do the things you do needs documenting. You can do this by process mapping. A great deal of the responsibilities that were previously tightly under your control will need to be delegated to others.

Our business advisers can provide you with the advice and guidance you need to help you consolidate, innovate and optimise your business growth.

Find Support to Help Grow your Business

 

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Intellectual Property

Most businesses will own some form of intellectual property (IP). IP is important to the growth and sustainability of a......
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B-Global

B-Global is a pioneering black led business network set up to support start-ups, established and scale up businesses of African......
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Enterprising Ashfield

Start-up to Scale-up business support programme across the Kirby-in-Ashfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield areas...
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East Midlands Manufacturing Network

Championing the East Midlands manufacturing community....
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The Cyber Resilience Centre for the East Midlands

Help for businesses, schools and charities to protect against online crime....
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Cyber Security

The government has launched various initiatives to help businesses and individuals take basic steps towards reducing the risk of cyber......
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Business Growth Service

Access to training, information and experts for startups and businesses trading at home and overseas...
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Business & IP Centre

Funded support to pre starts, start and micro businesses....
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Amazon Innovation Accelerator

The Amazon Innovation Accelerator provides small businesses with the opportunity to learn how Amazon has scaled...
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Events

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East Midlands Manufacturing Network

East Midlands Manufacturing Networks

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Case Studies

Bloc Digital

Bloc Digital

Bloc Digital is a Derby based business employing around 70 people in the UK. The business supports the aerospace, space and...

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News

East Midlands innovation leads the way in advanced manufacturing and clean energy

East Midlands innovation leads the way in advanced manufacturing and clean energy

Ground-breaking projects driving advanced manufacturing and clean energy across the East Midlands are being backed by up to £20m in...

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Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chains: Potential High Growth SMEs

Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chains: Potential High Growth SMEs

UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for a share of up to £2m for pre-commercialisation...

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Free Expert Business Advice and Support

Your business is unique but the challenges that you face aren’t, with our support, we can help get you through them.

Our impartial business support is delivered by experienced, expert business advisers, giving you the right advice at the right time for your business.

Contact us today and access a wealth of support, events, business growth programmes and expert advice.

Sonny Lakhani
Business Adviser
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