Business mentors help SMEs survive

Released on: January 28, 2008, 2:26 am

Press Release Author: Shape Your Business

Industry: Small Business

Press Release Summary: Specialized business consultancy and mentorship providers now
assist start-ups and small firms in overcoming various financial, organizational,
and marketing issues

Press Release Body: Small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups are usually
faced with a large number of problems, especially in the early stages of their
development. These include failure to attract and retain a high quality customer
base, a lack of expertise about the right marketing approaches needed to boost sales
and various financial issues such as taxes, an ability to pay bills on time, staff
salaries, supplies and deliveries. The most common denominator for the failure of
small businesses is the lack of vision and inappropriate management of existing
resources.

Dealing with these issues can be difficult, particularly if the business owner is
inexperienced in running a company. Even most top management positions cannot
prepare people for being in charge of all facets of a business.

This is where most SMEs would prefer to call in an experienced business mentor and
consultant to help them overcome early problems and grow as a successful and
confident firm. Business consultancy and mentorship is a recent but very efficient
solution for most start-ups. Its aim is to help SMEs and their owners by targeting
problem areas and solving various issues.

For instance, Shape Your Business is an experienced business consultant and mentor.
The firm provides services throughout Australia and New Zealand. Shape Your Business
helps SMEs and privately-owned businesses by providing expert financial consultancy,
mentorship on financial and personal issues, sales and marketing, systems and
processes and technology. It also provides assistance in solving key organizational
and personal issues.

In order to enhance business development, Shape Your Business also offers business
lessons on issues such as dealing with customer complaints, sales team development
and the benefits and methodologies of preparing client satisfaction surveys. These
are usually also presented in the form of live interactive webinars to allow
business owners to gain expert knowledge in the most time- and cost-efficient way
directly from their desk. For the busiest, webinars are also available in the form
of e-books featuring the essentials of a given topic and practical advice for
application.

Partnership with a business consultancy such as Shape Your Business is indeed
beneficial to firms. How can the firm ensure such excellent performance? Shape Your
Business principal Mike Reddy is a qualified accountant who in the 1990s became a
respected SME mentoring authority with over 20 years experience assisting managers
in some of the region's most successful companies. SYB is also a member of RAN ONE,
an international network of accounting and consulting firms with members in North
America, Asia-pacific and Europe, who focus on the unique needs of SMEs and
privately-owned businesses. The network provides access to a wealth of exclusive
information and resources not available to other accounting and consulting firms.


Web Site: http://www.syb.com.au

Contact Details: Shape Your Business Pty Ltd
119 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest, NSW 2065
PO Box 872
North Sydney, NSW 2059
Australia
02 9922 2016

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