Business Growth Speakers
Business Growth can be achieved in many ways. Usually making more sales is the obvious method, but going hand in hand with Sales are other vital tools like marketing and PR. Other methods are mergers and acquisition, although this tends to be more prevalent amongst larger organisations.
Having the right products and services for customers is essential. Look at several high street retail chains that have disappeared recently, to understand the importance of understanding your clients needs.
Business Growth specialists understand that growing a business can be a long process, but can use their experience to give you valuable advice that can save both time and money.
Achieving business growth in an increasing competitive global market will require many different strategies, including sales and marketing. However another important factor is customer centricity. Happy customers are the life-blood of any organisation large and small. It is equally important to have great customer relations as it is to have great products and services.
Alan Fairweather
Alan founded his business in 1993 after a successful career in Sales, Sales Management, and Training. His business as a Professional Speaker and Business Coach has grown over the last thirteen years, turning “adequate” managers, sales and customer service people into consistent top performers. Alan is also the author of four e-books in the “How to Get More Sales” series.
Allyson Stewart-Allen
Allyson is a world authority on international marketing, US business and inter-cultural working advising European and US organisations growing their presence on either side of the Atlantic. A Californian based in Europe for over 20 years, Allyson applies her fluency in French and German and several years' consulting experience to the company she founded.
Chris Arnold
Chris Arnold was Integrated Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi before founding an ethical marketing agency and more recently, his own creative & strategic consultancy. Chris has worked in many top advertising agencies over his 20 year career and with many of the world's top brands.
He created the ‘Open Mind' series of talks and workshops for the DMA and the ‘Welcome to the Flat Earth' talks for D&AD.
David Powell
David Powell is a powerful, dynamic and inspirational speaker. He combines humour, energy and his passion for leadership - drawing on a wealth of personal experience and thorough research. David has worked with over 130 organisations on all five continents. He focuses on what he calls tapping The Hidden Advantage to unleash the power and source of all initiative, creativity, commitment, motivation, enthusiasm and persistence in management and staff.
Digby Jones
Digby Jones was born into business. Some of his earliest memories are of life in a busy corner shop where he lived. The shop was, he says, "within a spanner throw of the Austin factory". He remembers pressing his nose against the shop window watching the new Minis leave the factory destined for showrooms across the world. It was here he learnt the first rudiments of business - important values that were never to leave him.
Duncan Bannatyne
Serial entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne, or Dragon Duncan, as he is now known, is a regular on BBC's Dragons Den.
He grew up in Clydebank and in his early teens he joined the Navy. He left the Navy at 19 after a disagreement with a commanding officer and lived in Jersey where he gained a reputation as a bit of a party animal. Sitting on the beach one morning, with nothing to his name, that he told his girlfriend they were to become millionaires.
Geoff Wilson
Geoff Wilson is currently Head of Marketing and Communications at the Irish Football Association. Previously he worked with BT Northern Ireland gaining experience across all aspects of Marketing from market research, developing product propositions, market intelligence, CRM, marketing database management through to developing integrated marketing campaigns on the Business and Consumer.
Heather White
Heather White has been described not so much as a person but as a phenomenon. As an authority on networking she sweeps aside much of the nonsense and focuses on what is authentic, practical and produces long term results. Her speaking approach is direct, interactive and fun. She gets straight to the issues which hold many people back and motivates them to want to get out there and start networking right away.
James Caan
James Caan began in business working out of a room the size of a shoebox on Pall Mall and has been creating, building, and selling businesses ever since.
James has been building and selling businesses for over 20 years. In 1985, he set up the Alexander Mann Group, one of the UK's leading HR outsourcing companies, and achieved a turnover of £130 million before selling it to a private equity firm in 2002.
Jordi Robert-Ribes
Dr. Jordi Robert-Ribes is the author of the "Networking & Business" blog, as well as an Investments Director. Jordi is an expert on networking and new ventures topics. His audiences, who always enjoy his engaging performances, include business associations and international business schools. For the past 20 years, Jordi has been using networking techniques to progress worldwide, raise new funds for enterprises, and identify potential investments.
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Jeremy Dale
Jeremy Dale is the UK's most innovative trick shot artist and has been ranked as high as number two in the world. His shows have to be seen to believed since Jeremy is a completely ambidextrous golfer able to hit both left and right handed. Jeremy's highest world ranking was number two, finishing runner up at the 2005 World Golf Trick-shot Championship.
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