Accelerate: The essential guide to growing your trades business - Softcover

Matthews, Dan

 
9780857197283: Accelerate: The essential guide to growing your trades business

Synopsis

Accelerate is for anyone who wants to turbo charge their trades business. Whether your business is plumbing, electrical services, roofing, locksmithing, gardening, landscaping, painting and decorating or kitchen-fitting this book will help you get ahead and achieve REAL success. Smart, punchy and filled with no-nonsense advice from trades people JUST LIKE YOU who have taken their businesses to the next level, it covers the fundamentals of growth, including: - marketing techniques online and offline - tactics to build a workforce without putting a strain on cash flow - borrowing to invest - developing a sophisticated sales strategy And all while fulfilling your legal and financial obligations. Filled with REAL-LIFE experiences and inside tips from a huge range of businesses at every stage of the growth curve, Accelerate! lets you see for yourself exactly how people in the UK are developing their trades businesses so you can too. With digital innovations such as Checkatrade shaking up the market, there has never been a better time to accelerate your growth. Accelerate! is the ultimate guide to get you going fast.

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About the Author

Dan Matthews was born in Epsom, Surrey, and educated at Glyn School and Keele University where he achieved a masters degree in global security studies. After a stint as a defence reporter, he turned to business journalism and since 2001 has held senior editorial positions at some of the UK's biggest newspaper and magazine publishers.

Dan writes for the broadsheet press including the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian newspapers, as well as a long list of magazines and websites. He is the founder of Minutehack.com, a website for people building businesses.

Dan is an avid observer of business issues and has made a string of television and radio appearances in the UK. He has interviewed more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, politicians and senior lobbyists, including Gordon Brown, William Hague, Sir Ming Campbell, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Gordon Ramsay and Peter Jones.

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