Helping you focus your energies and accelerate growth
As a boutique advisory practice, we take a highly personalised approach. It starts with developing trust, understanding what makes a founder tick and then working to hatch a plan that sets them on the path to success.
How we work
We examine every aspect of a business that might have a bearing on its growth including:
Value proposition, brand and market positioning
Marketing and new business strategy
Client development
Hiring, leadership and team development
Operational tuning
Product development
See more on our approach below…
1. Developing a growth plan
Through a series of intensive sprints we will help you map out a comprehensive plan, with realistic goals and practical strategies, set against a clear timeline.
This will help you to:
gain a much clearer sense of direction
focus your energies as a leader
set benchmarks to measure success
better manage your business
2. Keeping you to plan
As you begin to implement your plan your advisor serves as your accountability partner, keeping you energised, focused and on track, holding you and your team to account through regular business reviews and 121s.
We can also work on fine-tuning other aspects of the business such as:
attracting and winning more profitable business
founder / leadership development
developing longer-lasting client relationships
becoming a better coach for your team
optimising pricing & profitability
evolving & productizing your proposition
robust financial practices and processes
building saleable value into the business
What else do we do?
One of our main aims is to keep our clients out of the trenches and focused on growth. Working on the business, not getting stuck in it.
As a seasoned team of agency operators, we are fortunate to have built up an impressive network of contacts. We are therefore able to connect our clients with specialist fire power on a needs-basis including:
Part-time Financial Director & financial control
HR support: implementing sound policies and practises; dispute resolution; on-going advice
Sales: lead generation; new business coaching
M&A: preparing your business for a sale or merger
“…Blink's services came at a time I couldn't have needed them more...”
James Wood
Founder, Studio Wood
“…moving forward with the short- and medium-term plans developed with BLINK and our partnership continues to stay on this strategic path. I couldn’t recommend them enough!”
Daniel Dagher
Founder, Bray Street
“Involving BLINK in Studio Elk's early days has accelerated our trajectory beyond what I could have imagined - probably the best business investment I've made to date”
Tony Elkington
Founder, Elk Studio
“John is intO’s strategic adviser. Since working with him, we have doubled our turnover and I have become a better leader”
Joanna Brassett
Founding Director, Studio intO
“John has been an invaluable part of COMMUNION’s development as a business…he has set us up for success on our own terms”
Andy Harvey
Co-founder & Creative Director, Communion
“John is very knowledgeable about the marketplace, insightful in his analysis, and enjoyable to work with”
Sam Kennedy
Director, Commissioned by You
“The team was very engaged and changed their outlook in many ways. We became a more open and optimistic business due to the energy John brought”
Julian Thurbin
Managing Director, Wallbarn