Start-ups and small businesses may not have a complete range of commercial skills within their team.  This can be for cost reasons, or simply due to their early stage of development.  Conventional consulting can be expensive, and a risky outlay when it is with someone you haven't worked with before.

However, these skills are crucial for success.

  •  Marketing skills, understanding and communicating with customers and channels,

     are vital to gaining customers and revenue.

  •  Commercial skills, understanding where profits can be made, deal-making and pricing,

     are essential to turn revenue into profit.

  •  Financial planning skills are needed to chart the future prospects of the business,

     and to attract investment.

At Red Kite, we have those key skills – developed and tested in premier-league strategy consulting, with blue-chip businesses, and with professional investors.  

But, our expert team now choose to work as a small firm.  We understand the challenges that small businesses face, the flexibility that they need, and we enjoy working with them.  We understand that an initial support relationship must be built on a low-risk basis, and we can be flexible about how we deliver our support and how we gain value from it.

We'll talk with you first, and work out together how we can give you the the value from our knowledge and skills, to complement and extend your own capabilities.  

For example, we have helped many small businesses by reviewing their business plan and giving suggestions on how to improve the plan, or improve its presentation to investors.  We've helped others by coaching their own people in, for example, market analysis so they can carry this forward in their own team.

If you would like to discuss this further, with no obligation at all, please contact us.