SmartMatters 15th September, 2022

Scaling Your Business Through Adversity

You may have got where you are without even realising quite how you got there and are wondering how do you manage the next steps? And how do you keep control of things??Maybe you are increasingly coming across challenges managing time, team stress or cashflow pressures.?It is important to constantly look for growth or scaling opportunities in case of setbacks such as a recession, for instance.

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SmartQuestions?is a?platform on which we discuss key challenges that have been recently brought up from BizSmart clients.

In this week's edition Kevin Brent and Granger Forson talk about whether one should be preparing for a recession and how to do just that.

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Book Your Spot For October's ScaleUp Club

This month we will be talking about developing Specific, Measurable, Accountable, Realistic and Timebound actions.

Capture the progressive actions in your business and turn the ‘what we want to do’ into the ‘how’. For each of your business goals, identify a few actions that will progress towards achieving them. Each action should be Smart – Specific, Measurable, Accountable, Realistic and Timebound.

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That Entrepreneur Show

Business Value, Scaling, and Exit Strategies with Kevin Brent

Some areas of discussion include:

• SME’s, Business Value, Growth & Scale Up Strategy
• Why 95% of small business owners never get beyond 3 employees
• Exit strategies for business. Why exits don't happen by accident and how to build a value based business for exit, and much more.?Enjoy the show.

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Worcestershire Specialist Advisers – Perrigo Consultants – Financial Strategy

Our select member Perrigo Consultants - Chartered Accountants and Tax Advisers have successfully won a major tender in Worcestershire to provide Worcestershire growing businesses with free advice in all areas of accounting, tax and strategic financial direction.

They would be grateful if you could arrange introductions of specific clients that could benefit from advice in the following areas:

• Cloud accounting software advice and implementation – MTD ‘ Making Tax Digital’ compliant?
• All aspects of accounting advice from bookkeeping, VAT to filing of accounts and tax returns?
• All levels of tax advice from the different tax options available for each business such as R&D tax credits to dealing with HMRC and remaining compliant?
• Assistance and advice with planning, budgeting, forecasting and management accounts
• Guidance on business acquisitions and potential sale
• Advice on grant finance, business borrowing and loan capital
• Strategic financial advice on business growth and diversification
• Changes in tax strategy and business considerations.

The advice (up to a certain agreed level) is funded by Worcestershire County Council, so there is no charge to the business.

Contact Dave Perrigo

Elevate Worcestershire

The newest Elevate group has now launched! Join the next group. This is a fully funded programme for Worcestershire businesses offering 1:1 support and peer working.?(Grant applications available upon completion) Register?HERE.

High Growth Activate

Are you a Worcestershire business and been operating for 2 years or less? This funded?programme consisnts of funded 1:1 work with BizSmart and peer sessions. (Grant applications available upon completion). Register?HERE.

Select Members

Need specialist support? BizSmart's Select Member network consists of Client Fulfilment, Sales, Finance, Lead Generation, Stability Resilience and Teams. All Select Members prove practical, trusted support to our clients. Find support?HERE.

ESUS is now available via Audiobook!

Kevin Brent's first book that helps guide business owners through the ScaleUp Journey is now available by audiobook! Check in out on Google Play?HERE.

Success In Business Can Look However You Want It To Look. It Should Be Flexible!

Sara has built up a number of years experience, running her own business and, of course, working with other businesses, and we cover as much as we can during our??conversation, including:

?- The benefits of working within a franchise, as opposed to starting your own business from scratch

?-??The power of the phrase ‘People Buy From People’. Don’t rely on others to sell your business or services for you; so much of it is down to you.

?-??A successful business doesn’t need to have a massive team, or bringing in millions of pounds. Success is whatever you want it to be

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