Scaling Up Businesses
Kevin Brent helps businesses when they are intent on scaling up. He lives in the Lickey Hills, which is about 10 miles south of Birmingham, England’s second city. Kevin has had a long and varied background. He started off in the RAF, had a corporate career, did an MBA, joined a management consultancy and later started his own businesses.
How Does Graham Get Away With This?
Graham and Kevin have a unique way of welcoming guests to the podcast. It’s all about rapport building!
BizSmart – Click on their Scaling Up website
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If You Want to Buy the Book: The Entrepreneurial ScaleUp System
The book is a culmination of working with businesses, business owners and the compost of his experience over the years. BizSmart has just passed its 10th anniversary.
Scaling Up – Key Lessons
“Valley of Death”
- Not enough hours in the day
- People not doing what we want them to do
- Cash is disappearing in the business
- Clients coming in the top, but cash isn’t coming out the bottom!
What Type of Clients Does BizSmart Serve?
They all have the same scaling-up challenge. But they’re from all sorts of sectors.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
South African Proverb
Scaling Up for Solopreneurs
Kevin asks a great question…
Then Graham spotted Kevin Brent using the word rhythm quite often. So what was that all about?
Rhythm and habits to help scale up
Kevin Brent Provides This Testimonial For The Next 100 Days Podcast
The Next 100 Days co-hosts…
Graham Arrowsmith
Graham runs Finely Fettled to help organisations that want to market to affluent and high-net-worth customers. He also runs Meet Professionals, which is offered to financial advice groups as a white-labelled lead generation and conversion system. Contact Graham on LinkedIn: Visit Graham’s LinkedIn Profile and by email.
Kevin Appleby
Kevin specialises in finance transformation and implementing business change. He’s the COO of GrowCFO which provide both community and CPD-accredited training designed to grow the next generation of finance leaders. You can find Kevin on LinkedIn and at kevinappleby.com