How your Business Benefits
In the UK alone there are some four million businesses that Xelplex FastGrow Consultants can help. Much more than mere business advice, they provide a range of skills, techniques and support.
The One-Man Band
For a one-man band, as his business expands, either he needs more investment in equipment and communications (for example), or he needs employees or partners with whom to share the work-load.
His problem is that training and supervising additional personnel takes time that he needs to keep his business expanding. He needs that extra income from his business to pay for the additional employees.
Typically, this occurs at a turnover level under £100,000. Although Xelplex FastGrow consultants often assist here, this is not usually the stage where they can help the most: one-man bands often like being one-man bands! They may like the idea of growth but either dislike the extra work it entails or are limited by the number of hours they can work.
The Small Company or the Medium-Sized Company
If he or she gets through this first growth stage, he reaches a point where although the business may be building steadily, with staff good at manufacturing or clerical duties, but a number of factors are preventing further growth. For example, there may be a shortage of working capital - the funds needed to expand; the overdraft facility may be already stretched, or paying for increased supplies be limited by slow debtor payments; finding additional customers may be meeting competition.
Often this occurs when turnover lies between £300,000 and £10M. This is the stage where Xelplex FastGrow consultants excel because they provide the know-how to do the job much more economically than taking on extra staff. What they do may eventually lead to the need for more staff, but usually much later than otherwise when funds are available to pay for them.
The Larger Company
Above turnovers of typically £10M companies now have their own management and marketing personnel. Xelplex FastGrow consultants certainly provide another viewpoint and a wise set of eyes, but are less involved with setting up effective systems at this level.
What happens when a Xelplex FastGrow Consultant works with you?
The initial enquiry process will have told the Xelplex consultant a fair amount about your business, but when he or she starts work, a thorough overview of your company's situation would be needed.
This overview is a kind of audit but without all the double-checking that an auditor makes. You know your business best and it's what you know that the Consultant needs. The overview takes the form of a questionnaire covering the company's current situation, its trading history, resources, financials and personnel.
From this the Xelplex FastGrow Consultant shapes a plan of action. This usually leads to immediate gains in your income and cash-flow which can fund other, longer-term aspects of the plan.
The Contract
Depending on your needs the contract may be for a few months or a year or more. However, usually the contract would be for an initial year to give time for the plan to materialise. Often the contract is framed so that it can be terminated after three months if you wish. This leaves you, the businessman, with considerable flexibility and the freedom to develop your business the way that suits you best.
Xelplex Quality Standards
To provide the level of capability expected of its FastGrow consultants, Xelplex has built on the experience and knowledge of businessmen and of experts in management, accounting, the law, human relations and marketing. These subjects have been developed over the last century with major improvements and advances in many areas during the last twenty years.
The internet has simplified communications and made new opportunities for marketing. Far more information and competition makes businesses work faster. Hard-copy publications on business and management are read by far more members of the public than ever before.
This increase in information comes with a price - overload. Business people don't have time to keep up with it all. Running their businesses takes all their energy and employing experts on the staff is expensive.
Xelplex combs the web, the literature and the latest research to present ideas, old and new, as concisely as is consonant with good quality. Quality materials, back-up and information for its Consultants are of the highest importance. Xelplex expects its Consultants to maintain their knowledge and standards by attending refresher and other courses that maintain their competence and professional standards - continuing their professional development.
In addition, Xelplex puts at the disposal of its Consultants a huge range of business tools to help them take the companies they work with forward. These include a forum for ideas, web-conferencing facilities and regular updates.
If you work with a Xelplex FastGrow Consultant, you can be sure that your Consultant is cognisant with the very latest and best methods to help you improve your business and its profits.
