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Client comments returned to us after recent assignments

“Completing a strategic review with Advancing Business has made a profound difference to us. In summary we have emerged a stronger, more professional organisation and far better equipped to take the business forward”
Financial Director Wealden Services Ltd

“The benefits of working with Advancing Business far exceeded our expectations - your drive, enthusiasm and objectivity got to the heart of our issues and made us focus”
Managing Director Wealden Services

“Well here we are at the end of our strategic review …Wow have we changed. I consider this programme to have been the most significant undertaking we have embarked upon in our company’s short history”
Founding Director – Baines Simmons Ltd

“Andrew you have not only taught my co – director and I the meaning of the term strategy, you have in fact set us free from our day – to – day coping culture, towards a clear strategic growth programme”
Director Baines Simmons Ltd

“Before we embarked on the review we were unconsciously incompetent with regard to strategic business management! We are, dare I now say it consciously moving towards business management competence”
Directors Baines Simmons Ltd

“The impact resulting from your direct business advice and consulting surpassed my expectations. Your direct involvement in helping drive up our sales volumes was clear evidence of the success of your contribution – I did not expect to see a payback so soon before the programme even completed!”
Managing Director Token Help Ltd

“As the main tool for marketing could only be our web site, it was absolutely essential we got it right. Your unique insight into the needs of our web site visitors has made the new site extremely effective – we have had increased enquiries, increased orders and an increase in the size of customers ringing us – all as a direct result of your design and content input into the new web site”
Managing Director Encoded Ltd

“You have developed our marketing strategy, changed our company name, designed a new logo and directly linked it to the new web site you have built – we now have something we are proud of that offers substance and credibility – it is now an excellent communication platform to move the company forward “
Managing Director Clarendon Home Care

 

“Your involvement in our new web site has a made a big difference – your strategic customer perspectives have greatly assisted us to see our business in a different light – we have learnt how to communicate ourselves to the outside world – several competitors have even complimented us!”
Director AVAK MPP Ltd

“Thank you for the excellent professional support and leadership through the disposal of my practice. I am totally delighted with the advice you gave me throughout the process and of course the business disposal outcome.”
Business Owner

“Your input to us has been highly valuable to our business. You not only developed our first strategic plan, which helped secure our direction and vision, you also helped practically by introducing and brokering a new major shareholder with funds to secure our future growth and you also acted as a great support to me personally in being there in the trench so to speak with me”
Managing Director Energys Ltd

“Thank you for your contributions as an early key member of the leadership team that has helped deliver our successful London Stock Exchange AIM listing this month – April 2006. Your early strategic advice and input on commercial contracts have assisted in securing up to £4m start-up funding and enabled a platform for growth”
Managing Director Mobestar Plc

“I have just reviewed the figures and during the period of your involvement with my business, the turnover has grown 600% and profitability even more. Your combined strategic and commercial input has helped us enormously and I too have personally learnt a lot during the engagement, Your breadth of business knowledge and experience along with your continuous openness, support and availability to our needs has been invaluable”
Managing Director Mobile Locate

“I had no idea when we embarked on the programme that it would have such a huge impact on the performance of the business and performance of the management team both collectively and individually. You gave us fresh new insight into our marketing, both at planning and implementation stages and the coaching you provided was patient, intelligent and high effective. We now all have a better sense of what we need to do as leaders”
Managing Director Encoded Ltd

 

The 2006 independent “Quality South East” annual assurance assessment on Advancing Business Ltd demonstrated a client average “97% performance rating” across all client reference responses, which position’s our work quality in the performance categorisation of:

“EXCEPTIONAL” - exceeded objectives and had an impact on clients business, leading to real change.