Author: Dean Thistleton

BUILDING A BUSINESS FROM SCRATCH. . . CONTINUED

A big part of the self-education process is visioning. As you educate yourself, you’ll realise how important it is to have a vision for both your personal and business life. All successful people have one and it’s the next part of the building block to have a successful million-pound company. Vision: According to the dictionary, vision means the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. There are 2 forms of vision that I want you to concentrate on. One is your personal vision and the other is your company vision. This is what we...

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BUILDING A BUSINESS FROM SCRATCH

Over the next several articles I’ll be starting from scratch. By scratch, I mean looking at how we take an idea of owning our own business and building that business from zero to a million-pound turnover. I’ll share with you everything I’ve learned and executed into my companies to help assist you on your journey. These are not secrets, they are experiences from the ups and downs of growing and scaling a business. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not claiming to be an expert and I’m still learning every day, but I’m well into my journey and that’s what I want to share with you, and in turn help you to grow and scale your business successfully. These experiences have cost me, on a personal and business level, a whole lot of money and time. An investment that has been worthwhile. When I started my first business my aspirations were to reach a turnover of 1 million pounds. I’m pleased and thankful that I have achieved this goal and is something I’m looking forward to sharing with all you entrepreneurs. I hope that there are pockets of golden nuggets of value that you can take and put into practice for yourself. The aim is to educate existing businesses or if you are a brand-new start up business then you’ll be reading this at a crucial time of starting your...

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MARKETING

HAVE A MIND SET OF BUYING CUSTOMERS If you’re not marketing your business, then you are losing out on a huge number of potential customers. In this article, I want to talk into 2 different avenues of marketing. These are Marketing for new customers and Marketing for recruitment. Marketing has become much easier than it was in the past. A lot of marketing campaigns can be automated once initially set up. Yes, this will cost time and money, but don’t look at it as a cost, more of an investment. In the world of information marketing there are 2...

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EMPLOYEES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR GROWTH

Employees are the heartbeat of any thriving business. Finding the right people for the right positions is probably one of the hardest tasks a business has to undertake. Over the years I have learned to be constantly on the lookout for new talent. One of my core values when it comes to recruiting is Only employ people who are better than you I only look for A players. It’s not about putting bums on seats. You’re not always going to get it right, but sometimes you just know if the person is a right fit or not… Knowing and...

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MAKE THIS YEAR, A YEAR OF GROWTH

Always be the hardest worker in the room… To all fellow Renegades, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and spent lots of quality down time with friends and family. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best for the coming year and look forward to helping you and your business grow exponentially over the next 12 months. For me personally, Christmas was a welcomed break after a very hectic December schedule. While most people are winding down, wishing the days away, I stay at full throttle to make sure what...

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