The Growth Academy Easter Tips for SME’s from Bibby Financial Services
Jamie Watts of Bibby Financial Services has kindly provided this content for readers of The Growth Academy blog, and there are some great tips in there. If anyone would like to get in touch with Jamie, please let me know by emailing craig.mckenna@thegrowthacademy.com Bibby Financial Services’ top Easter tips for small businesses Bibby Financial Services’ [...]
Half-day workshop from Wildcat Solutions How To Organise Your Business
As a small business owner you’ll be aware that running a business successfully is difficult and in this current climate we can use all the help we can get! Wildcat Solutions would love to introduce you to a system which will help you to organise your business by building great customer relationships whilst reducing the [...]
The Growth Academy in Fife with Finance Cornerstone
The Growth Academy are delighted to be working in partnership with Finance Cornerstone to expand into Fife. The Growth Academy sessions have been running successfully in Edinburgh and Falkirk for well over 12 months and now is the right time to expand to a new area. Attended by small business owners or self-employed professionals The [...]
The Growth Academy Falkirk – March Session
Last week saw the March meeting for the Falkirk group of The Growth Academy. Held as always at The Wheelhouse in Falkirk, the session was as lively and thought provoking as ever and a good range of topics were covered. The Growth Academy sessions do have a structure and a focus but they are allowed [...]
Exciting Developments at CCB
Charles Cormack of Cormack Consultancy Baltic (CCB) writes After months of ground work I am delighted to announce CCB have opened a new office in Moscow allowing us to offer our full range of market support services to UK and international companies interested in working in the Russian market. Russia is one of the fast growing and [...]
The Business Mixer – October 20th 2011
Following the success of the Summer Business Mixer at The Rutland Hotel we are delighted to now be closing in on the next one which is being held on the October 20th 2011! Over 55 business professionals attended the last one and the feedback has been brilliant. “I was very impressed how that although there [...]
Why not attend a great business event this summer?
I am delighted to be able to confirm that due to increasing demand and in conjunction with The Rutland Hotel the successful Growth Academy Business Mixer events are back! The Business Mixer events have proven to be the only event where investors, start-ups, University spin-outs, high growth companies, graduates, professional service companies and sme’s all [...]
The Growth Academy Twitter Competition
The Growth Academy has decided to run a small competition for our existing Twitter followers and those “soon to be” Twitter followers. There will be three prizes awarded, each a prize will be a one hour Skype consult by The Growth Academy managing partner Craig McKenna. These can be used for consultation and advice on [...]
Why would anyone be ashamed to be an accountant?
In the first episode of this years series of “The Apprentice” Edward was fired after being the project manager of the team which lost the first task. Right decision. Probably. The part that intrigued me though was the fact he has was an accountant by trade and that Sir Alan Sugar felt that he had [...]
Why Start Up Britain will be a great thing
This week saw the launch of Start Up Britain amid a crescendo of plaudits from politicians and a furore of criticism from large parts of the British business community. The majority of criticism is centred around the links from www.startupbritain.org which point visitors to sites based in the USA or to companies which the people [...]