Academy for growth
We work in partnership with the Academy for Growth ("AFG"), an innovative and highly successful marketing consultancy. The Academy provides proven, low cost and easy to apply business building strategies for small and medium sized businesses.
The Academy provides the following free services to Shorts Clients:
Business Growth Health Check
They have identified 62 proven no and low-cost strategies and methods for growing any business. Many of which are not even known, never mind used by most businesses. Every one of them is capable of driving up sales and profits. Wouldn't it be great if you could identify the ones which aren't being used in your business right now and HOW to apply them? The Business Growth Health Check does exactly that.
This unique and truly amazing online service gives you an astonishing level of detail and after answering a number of simple 'Yes/No' questions it will calculate your 'Business Growth Effectiveness'.
You'll then be given a bespoke report detailing the opportunities you have to transform your sales and profits and how to apply them. Nothing else on this planet comes close to the AFG Health Check and it's free to you courtesy of Shorts !
Here's what a couple of people have said about the Business Growth Health Check:
"Wow I can't believe how inspiring, thought-provoking and invigorating the Business Growth Health Check was. I can't wait to get started implementing all the strategies and ideas into my business. Thank you."
David & Dawn Baker, Technilock Ltd.
"I must confess I was a little sceptical before I did the Health Check, but talk about being completely blown away. What I liked most of all was the fact that your strategies are free or low-cost to apply and practical. If you asked me to put a price on this fabulous tool I'd have to say it was worth £5,000 and much more to me and my business."
Rosemary Mclvor, O'Briens
Marketing Piece Critique
Imagine for a moment what it would mean to you if your best performing Media Piece (ad, letter, postcard, Website, etc.) could be improved by 25% or even over 1,000% with absolutely no increase in cost! Yes it is possible. In fact, because most Media Pieces contain few, if any of the Marketing Assets it's easy for the Academy to take your existing Media Piece and - through their revolutionary critiquing system - not only score your piece (as a percentage of effectiveness) but offer concrete and usable suggestions for improving the Piece.
Like we said earlier, it's not 'what' you do, it's 'how' you do it, and the critique service offered will give you enough detail to allow you to go away and make significant improvements to your Media Piece.
Here's what Cindy from Tres Oak said ...
"From the critique we redesigned on our leaflet we can directly point to £6,246 of extra business as a result of the advice we had from AFG and we're feeling better about being able to grow again".
Monthly Non-nonsense marketing newsletter
'No-Nonsense Marketing' is the UK's premier business building newsletter for small and medium sized businesses. Every monthly issue is crammed full of our proven strategies, techniques and methods.
Complete with step-by-step practical instructions and working examples, if all you do is apply 2 or 3 of the strategies in each issue, your business will be unrecognisable in 12 months' time.
With contributions from some of the leading business growth specialists such as Ed Rivis (UK internet marketing guru) it is a must for any business owner. The newsletter normally sells for £29.97 per month! You don't need to do anything to receive No-Nonsense Marketing' as we will mail or e-mail the newsletter to you every month.
Business Growth Telephone Hotline
The AFG Hotline is your direct route to speak with the Academy's specialists on any business building topic, issue, challenge or problem. For example, if you are considering launching a new product or are thinking of placing an advert or sending out a promotional leaflet or if your last campaign didn't get the results you were hoping for and you need some advice then call the business growth hotline, they will be able to help you.
