Friday 20th November 2015

As a certified coach on the Growth Accelerator Scheme, Roger Pemberton of Action Coach, who’s coached David Batch, Danny Melling, Luke Miles and Steven Girling during 2015, is able to access Government funding to be used on Business Coaching and Leadership and Management training. This offers a significant discount for a flexible course of business coaching sessions that can be used for business planning, profit build or other areas of priority to the business owner.

Are you using a tactical sales strategy to help grow your business or are you waiting for work to come to you?

If you rely solely on one-off emails or telesales to get new customers you shouldn’t be surprised if you’re finding it difficult to gain new business. Our statistics prove there is lots of work out there as many franchisees are proving. The truth is, the gold may just be a couple of feet away! Remember the story about the gold miners on the TTBO course?

Did you join Andy Heald on his two previous monthly GoToMeetings? If you haven’t, follow this link to download the Dropbox files and ‘catchup’!

Make sure you register for next month because we’ve been hearing great feedback from your fellow franchisees...

Having your own website landing page offers you the advantage of a personalised micro-site for your territory, meaning, with just one click of a button, you can drive your customers straight to your page to view your information, timetables, meet your staff and book your courses.

A benefit of purchasing the ‘Advance’ and ‘Pro’ package, is you’ll able to add your landing page web link on all your artwork meaning you can drive your customers straight to the page.

As mentioned in the recent newsletters, we’ll be offering some differentiated support and Business2Business networking days for franchisees. These started with the recent 100 Club event which was a real success. The next event will be a ‘Business Booster’ event for any franchisees that are building towards 100 Clubs status.

Due to the success of the last event and the feedback from franchisees, we’ve decided to repeat the format and include the same speakers, who’ll help you achieve your goals of reaching the 100 Club. You will have seen the number of ‘outstanding ideas’ that we’ve shared from the last event, all of which are helping franchisees to implement growth and expansion strategies.

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Glenn Hoy of our sales consultants, Time Associates, shares an interesting start to his week with us:

‘This Tuesday presented me with the opportunity to work with franchisee, Darren Plowman in creating different versions of the Sales Dashboard’ Glenn commented.

Darren Plowman commented, ‘It has really helped me to understand the Sales Dashboard and advantages of using them. By developing the separate dashboards for current schools and new business, as well as holiday courses, will help me to drive my business forward further and give me real life working targets to aim for.’

Following the recent headlines surrounding the Talk Talk cyber liability case and increasing reports of cyber-attacks, the need to implement effective data security measures is ever more paramount and could prevent your business from becoming the latest victim of a cybercrime.

You may handle considerable amounts of data about parents and children, often containing sensitive personal information, which makes you an ideal target for cyber criminals.

Join Finance Director, Steve Girling this Monday at 10-11am where he’ll answer your questions or queries you may have around the subject of Finance and covering subjects such as bookkeeping, cash flow, profit & loss, balance sheets, budgeting, forecasting, VAT and financial analysis.

Monday’s ‘Operations Business Development’ GoToMeeting will be discussing ‘Sales’ from 9am-10am.

If you want to add any points to the meeting agenda, please email these over to Operations Director, Danny Melling before Monday’s session.

Login details –

1. To join the meeting, go to - https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/250214829
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.  Or, call in using your telephone.
   Dial +44 (0) 20 3713 5010
   Access Code: 250-214-829
   Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
   Meeting ID: 250-214-829

A regular ‘Delivery’ Q&A GoToMeeting with our National Quality Development Manager, Andy Heald.

Andy Heald will take any questions / queries / guidance he receives via email to form the agenda points in these sessions. The chances are, other franchisees/Activity Professionals with benefit from your question being answered.

Hit the button below and you’ll be given the option to secure your place on the following session/s -

We thought you would find it useful to create a Weekly News Update archive housing previous newsletters from this academic year.

‘Read more’ to catch up on any news you may have missed.