PREPARE TO OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
So we are seeing a change, we are seeing many businesses close the doors, pull down the shutters and isolate themselves away from every day life since the outbreak of COVID19 and the Prime Minister's instruction to "Stay At Home".
But for many, having been an entrepreneur or self employed business owner, these are uncertain times. I fully understand what you are going through and how you feel. I've been there.
It was June 2018 when I was invited to a meeting in Downing Street to meet with Theresa May's Business Advisors at the biggest business meeting I've ever been to and yet, I left No. 10 turning on my mobile phone learning that the finance company I had been working with had effectively placed a financial strangle hold around my business neck and I was out of business. It hurt especially having grown the business to a healthy and sustainable level.
Business can be tough, but the anxiety, depression and mental health that comes with it can be tougher on us as people and our families around us.
As on next week, I've decided to give time to other business owners who wish to talk through their challenges or wish to share ideas about how they could change their business to adapt to a more digital world.
My Background
I've headed up finance departments, managed staff, grown businesses, lost businesses, led projects at a national level, created business networks and generally added value.
I've worked in the challenging football industry where we were in administration for 14 months, I've grown my own business from the start and lost it and I've had many a difficult challenge. I've led our local business community to the SME National Business Awards, I've engaged with local authority and been a Founding Member of our Town Centre Partnership, founder of local business awards, worked with a national bank as their Digital Marketing Advisor and been a Marketing Adviser for the Amazon Academy.
If I can help any of you small business owners who want a confidential business chat, please do get in touch. Just message me and lets find a time in the diary and focus on opening up for business rather than feeling you are going no-where.
Let's get talking and lets get planning!