Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. (Thomas Carlyle)

Our services are primarily targeted at businesses in our own area - Birmingham and the West Midlands - but our business coaching and financial review services are still suitable for businesses outside our immediate region.

This is made easier if our coaching sessions are held over the telephone and based on a business development methodology that you have been working with. See my recommended third party business development solutions.

In fact our largest client is in Uxbridge, about 115 miles away so we work with a practical limit of two hours drive.

Unlike some business coaching firms, we believe that an element of face-to-face contact is essential as the whole coaching process depends on the personal relationship, trust and rapport.

We therefore have a practical region in the South that extends down to the M25/M4 and in the North of Manchester.

This region includes the following counties and major cities & towns:

Cheshire - Chester, Warrington, Runcorn, Ellesmere Port, Crewe, Widnes

Derbyshire - Derby, Chesterfield, Buxton

Nottinghamshire - Nottingham, Mansfield

Shropshire - Shrewsbury, Telford, Bridgnorth, Newport, Whitchurch

Staffordshire - Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Lichfield, Tamworth, Buton-upon-Trent, Cannock, Rugeley

Leicestershire - Leceister, Loughborough, Hinkley

Herefordshire - Hereford

Worcestershire - Worcester, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Evesham, Great Malvern, Kidderminster, Redditch, Stourbridge

Warwickshire - Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Solihull, Leamington Spa, Kenilworth, Rugby

Northamptonshire - Northampton, Corby, Daventry, Kettering, Wellingborough

Gloucestershire - Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury

Oxfordshire - Oxford, Banbury, Bicester, Witney

Buckinghamshire - Buckingham, Amersham, Bletchley, High Wycombe, Milton Keynes

Bedfordshire - Bedford, Luton, leighton Buzzard, Dunstable

Hertfordshire - Hertford, Hatfield, Hitchin, Letwchworth, St Albans, Stevenage, Watford, Welwyn Garden City

We have carefully designed our small business services by focusing on the main factors that really matter:

A monthly review of your key performance indicators and supporting information.

• A monthly discussion of what any issues identified mean to you and your business.
  
• Advice on actions you can take to improve the position.
  
• Ongoing advice and support during the month between meetings and in our business coaching option, we will be scheduling weekly reviews.
  

All this can be done by telephone, email and fax although a more extensive service is usually offered to local customers that includes quarterly or monthly face-to-face meetings.

Meetings can still be arranged for clients outside our region but it does increase our charges if we travel to you. Alternatively we can meet halfway and hire a meeting room or you can travel to Birmingham.

But by working with the telephone and email we can still get to know you and your company well, recognise the special nuances that make your business unique and give you focused advice tailored to your particular situation.

All our business coaching and business development support is delivered by our principal Paul Simister BA FCA MBA and not by young, inexperienced or junior staff reading from scripts for standard solutions to typical problems. (If you want standard solutions we recommend that you check out our library where there is a lot of information on growing and managing your business is free.)

If you are interested in our long distance business coaching and support service because you like our approach, because you want to get more control of your business profitability and you can't find such as good a service locally then give Paul Simister a call on 0121 554 4057 and we can discuss it with you.

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We are also putting together a register of independent business coaches throughout the UK to help with marketing and to bring together resources that will not usually be available for the independent business coach.

For details see our business coach register.

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Last updated 2007-07-04