Get bigger with BIG................

[consult]

Yet another management consultant, The Business Improvement Group. 3 years old now and in that time we’ve grown from 3 to 13 of us.
We work with businesses of all types and sizes, from start-ups through to 1,000 plus employee firms and even the public sector.
Our strapline is “The Business Improvement Group; Improving Organisational Performance, Potential, Prospects and Profitability” and we do exactly what it says on the can.
Look at our web site, http://www.bigadvice.co.uk
There’s a useful Tips section and we also produce a monthly management newsletter which has wide distribution. Anyway, that’s the pitch out of the way.
Having browsed these forums I can recognise many of the problems which we’ve encountered over the last few years, lack of time being the most common; our web site is out of date and we wanted to update 2 years ago and still haven’t got round to it.
Hopefully we can make a positive contribution to other members, sharing experiences, referrals naturally and passing on some of our knowledge.

Looking forward to your feedback and questions.

Andrew

[kyber]

Welcome to the forum Andrew,

Thanks for the admission about your website but I have to say [gut reaction] if you cannot get something as simple as your web-site up-to-date, why should you be trusted to help anyone else's business?

I do appreciate that websites are not the most important thing in the world but perhaps more important for such a services organisation as yours than for many businesses.

Stuart

[consult]

Welcome to the forum Andrew,

Thanks for the admission about your website but I have to say [gut reaction] if you cannot get something as simple as your web-site up-to-date, why should you be trusted to help anyone else's business?

I do appreciate that websites are not the most important thing in the world but perhaps more important for such a services organisation as yours than for many businesses.

Stuart

did it not strike you ( gut reaction ) that having grown so successfully with an outdated web site that perhaps we have been putting the needs of our clients before our own?

Regards

Andrew

[kyber]

did it not strike you ( gut reaction ) that having grown so successfully with an outdated web site that perhaps we have been putting the needs of our clients before our own?It did so strike me. Just seemed a little odd the way you drew attention to it. If you had said you were interested in feedback from potential clients on what they would like to see, it would have made more sense to me. I accept though that that is probably just me.

[consult]

Cobblers kids are always the worse shod!! Appreciate your comments and we have involved existing and potential clients in developing the architecture and ideal content for the site, it's getting down to pulling it all together. I'm told by web site designers that this is the most common problem they encounter, waiting for copy from clients.
I drew attention to this so as not to appear smug, and that while we've experienced strong growth, we aren't perfect, no business is, regardless of size.

[kyber]

Agreed re cobblers (:lol:) ... I find my employer's website (IBM BCS) very tricky to navigate and even worse than when we were in PricewaterhouseCoopers because of the huge breadth of the offerings.

Best wishes on your continued success.

Stuart

[consult]

That's the problem the more services you offer the bigger the web site.

Regards

[Alpha]

Hi Andrew and and a belated welcome to the forums.

I would go along with what Stuart says about keeping your website up to date as it can be a powerful marketing tool and a method of giving more straightforward advice to potential clients.(Having said that I am as guilty as you in the fact that mine needs updating and the additional content that I intended to add with regards to consultancy not being put on).

I look forward to an exchange of ideas as the services you offer fall in closely with my own.