Leicester Business Development Agency
The Leicester Business Development Agency was conceived to take advantage of the governments pledge to provide grant funding for SMEs to develop their businesses in light of a deepening recession. By providing professional business development advice and a range of motivational training resources (potentially grant funded), we intend to retain a substantial share of the SME business consultancy market on a national basis.
We have developed a highly effective strategy of sales / marketing / fulfilment in order to capture, help and support all businesses whatever their history or industry sector, combined with promoting access to, and effective use of available funding. Our marketing generates a high level of new clients who are keen to utilise our expertise; not only to provide their businesses with new impetus through advice, support and training, but also become part of a business network directly generating fresh enquiries and alternative income streams.
The range of services we provide through our national network of business consultants/ facilitators, were primarily developed to support the archetypal needs and problems that SME s face in today s market. Our products are packaged to give businesses whatever their size, access to a range of professional resources that would otherwise be difficult to utilize combined with the grant funds to secure our services in many cases.
After conducting a (potentially grant funded up to 100 ) 1, 2, or 3 month trial with us, the client has the opportunity of engaging our expertise over a 12 month contract with a low monthly retainer for ongoing support combined with a negotiated commission for new business generated.
Our core expertise is derived from a range of entrepreneurial professionals with a considerable background in the field of personal and business development, combined with years of consultancy experience in the UK and on the international arena.
Our management team is committed to ensuring that all businesses wishing to develop and expand have all resources made available to them to give them every opportunity for success.
Our senior management team and training staff includes highly experienced entrepreneurs and business specialists. The central core of our business is based on the philosophy of the art of good business is being a good middleman . We are a highly focused unit, acting as the central hub of an organisation drawing upon a wealth of expertise and experience from external professional consulting partners covering a wide range of disciplines including legal, accounting, management consultancy, debt management administration, marketing etc.
General Business
Since the collapse of the property market and the onset of the recession, over 50 businesses are going into administration per day. In a recession, new clients and opportunities are not only needed, but also essential to the success and survival of businesses both new and old. By creating a business consultancy focused to take advantage of the situation and supported in many cases by grant funding, we are strategically placed to grow at an exponential rate over the next three years. The long-term goal is to develop a national database of business clients using our expertise and services as a first option based on a foundation of results.
Statistically 40 of new businesses fail in the first year, followed by a further 50 within five. With 9 out of 10 young businesses closing the reason for failure isn t hard to find.
One or more of the four fundamentals of a successful business are missing:
1. Financial management skills,
2. Strategic business management skills,
3. Personnel management skills,
4. Sales / marketing skills,
And finally the fifth aspect, the vision of the entrepreneur (either good or bad).
Our goal is to provide the missing expertise to businesses and proactively network to maximise the full potential, while our clients can concentrate on running a successful enterprise.
The overall market for business support initiatives is booming; entrepreneurial expertise is in great demand as people look to new ways of making money outside of property.
Our primary target market for our business consultancy is based within the 5 to 250 employee market, which fall within the funding guidelines (although we are taking training contracts from larger organisations on a request basis). General training is historically one of the first aspects of business to receive cut backs, however investment into sales training and marketing expands at this time as new business can only be won by increasing the levels of expertise of salespeople combined with strategic marketing. We can provide a range of training services that are all specifically focused on winning and developing new customers in a highly competitive climate with the considerable advantage of 66-100 grant funding for clients.
Codes for Sustainable Homes: Construction Business Residential:
Through our partner companies we have identified a unique training opportunity for construction companies in the area of sustainability and coding issues. It is a legal requirement for all UK construction companies to achieve a code six rating on construction methods by 2016. Unfortunately there is little support on how to achieve this. By providing a one-day training course funded by the governments leadership and management program we can provide building companies with an essential and much needed introduction in how to achieve the coding levels.
Products and Services
Our ranges of products are specifically created to afford the business client a one-stop consultancy for all the archetypal and bespoke needs small business face. We provide three consultancy packages including internet support, telephone support and personal business coaching. We also provide a range of training programs orientated around business and personal development. All our products retain the facility to be initially grant funded to a level of between 66 and 100 .
By creating strategic marketing partnerships, we can provide a wide range of professional services to SME s over an above our own expertise, based on a results based fee structure. This allows the small business to benefit from management consultancy, accountancy, legal, telecoms energy etc, etc at a zero upfront cost: the client only pays on a percentage basis if the there is extra money saved or profits are increased.
Through introducing a networking and referral system, we can introduce clients services to other members of our organisation rewarding them handsomely for the new clients they bring to us. In this way we enhance any pro active enterprise with new enquiries and income streams.
Summary of our services to SME s
1. Business advice and support
2. New client introductions; our consultants visit up to 20 to 30 new businesses per week networking.
3. New income streams; commission is paid on all referrals.
4. Training courses: we offer a range of training courses and one to one coaching
Every business needs support from professional services throughout its life. From sales and marketing to financial services, legal and accounting to management consultancy, having the right expertise at the right time can save and make you thousands.
By acting as a door to a group of select business partners the LBDA can give all business whatever their size the right introductions to the right people at the right time. Success is not what you know, it s who you know and the NBDA have the network to give your business the edge in the UK or on the foreign market.
Leicester Business Development Agency is based in Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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