M & A Rainmaker

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Overview of 4R Business Recovery’s Insolvency Advice

They provide a complete business rescue, insolvency, and business recovery process and advice.

If your business is under pressure from creditors, the Inland Revenue or your bank, and you believe your business is in jeopardy and at risk from failing then you should call  4R Business Recovery.

They can help with immediate advice and support. They will work with you to identify the appropriate solutions and help you move from Rescue to Restructure and Recovery and finally Reward.

If the business cannot be rescued then they can provide the appropriate insolvency procedure.

In the first instance they provide simple and concise online advice via their video tutorials, which give you easy to digest access to information, and pdf downloads.

Give 4R Business Recovery  a call and they can discuss your business problems, and give you telephone advice as to your potential turnaround strategy.

The Directors

Kevin Pritchard

B.A [Hons]

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Kevin was 34 when Amersham International appointed him in 1994 as the Managing Director of LAB M Ltd. Previously he had worked for Amersham as Divisional Sales and Marketing Manager in major blue chips like “Johnson & Johnson” in pharmaceuticals and ophthalmic’ and been responsible for major brands and sales and marketing.

By his own admission he was a nightmare to manage; “ I had far to much ambition and was arrogant enough to believe I was right most of the time. With the politics of corporate life and the under achievement all around me I rightly identified it was never going to happen for me in the “corporate” environment, and I looked for an opportunity to start my own business.”

In 1994 I had an opportunity to buy a small lab in Huddersfield, and establish The Food Technology Centre Ltd. “The first few years were very tough and a lot of sleepless nights later I felt I had earned my strips as an entrepreneur”.

Kevin grew this into a major UK testing business and sold the whole business in 2006 in a trade sale to Eclipse Scientific which was then sold within 12 months to 3i.

He understands the mechanism of building value and managing small and medium sized business to maximise shareholder value and preparing and presenting a business for the nest stage in its development. Kevin holds a number of directorships linked to the investments of Incubator Capital Partners.

4R Business Recovery Turnaround Process

Overview of 4R Business Recovery

They provide a complete business rescue, insolvency, and business recovery process

If your business is under pressure from creditors, the Inland Revenue or your bank, and you believe your business is in jeopardy and at risk from failing then you should call  4R Business Recovery.

They can help with immediate advice and support. They will work with you to identify the appropriate solutions and help you move from Rescue to Restructure and Recovery and finally Reward.

If the business cannot be rescued then they can provide the appropriate insolvency procedure.

In the first instance they provide simple and concise online advice via their video tutorials, which give you easy to digest access to information, and pdf downloads.

Give 4R Business Recovery  a call and they can discuss your business problems, and give you telephone advice as to your potential turnaround strategy.

The Directors

Kevin Pritchard

B.A [Hons]

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Kevin was 34 when Amersham International appointed him in 1994 as the Managing Director of LAB M Ltd. Previously he had worked for Amersham as Divisional Sales and Marketing Manager in major blue chips like “Johnson & Johnson” in pharmaceuticals and ophthalmic’ and been responsible for major brands and sales and marketing.

By his own admission he was a nightmare to manage; “ I had far to much ambition and was arrogant enough to believe I was right most of the time. With the politics of corporate life and the under achievement all around me I rightly identified it was never going to happen for me in the “corporate” environment, and I looked for an opportunity to start my own business.”

In 1994 I had an opportunity to buy a small lab in Huddersfield, and establish The Food Technology Centre Ltd. “The first few years were very tough and a lot of sleepless nights later I felt I had earned my strips as an entrepreneur”.

Kevin grew this into a major UK testing business and sold the whole business in 2006 in a trade sale to Eclipse Scientific which was then sold within 12 months to 3i.

He understands the mechanism of building value and managing small and medium sized business to maximise shareholder value and preparing and presenting a business for the nest stage in its development. Kevin holds a number of directorships linked to the investments of Incubator Capital Partners.

4R Business Recovery Turnaround Process

Dear M.D./C.E.O./Owner/Proprietor/Boss,

In letter from Marketing No. 3 we talked about the people that ” used ” to design and run websites – programmers or creatives ( graphic designers ).

You need to be aware that while many of these people have invested time and effort in learning the new skills required to run a website of today others, quite frankly, have not. ( This also goes for some marketing companies that you might outsource to )

The people that you need ( probably in the Marketing department somewhere ) running the website, social media marketing and blogsites are a strange mixture – HubSpot Inc describes them as ” D.A.R.C. “

( For a more detailed explanation of D.A.R.C. go to download here

http://www.hubspot.com/darc-ebook-download/ )

D.A.R.C. stands for

Digital – They understand the digital/internet world. They understand, for example, how to optimise a website so that it is found ( S.E.O. ).

Analytical – They can analyse graphs and statistics to check how the website and e.g. marketing campaigns are working.

Reach – They are highly connected ( on the Internet ) already. They have Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin pages and their own blogsite and they have lots of connections.

Content – They understand how to create relevant content .

In order to function correctly your D.A.R.C. person needs to know something fundamental about your business on an ongoing basis:

They need to know ” What it is that you want to be found for?? ”

This means that they need to be plugged in to the business strategy.

Your D.A.R.C. person will do something rather strange but very necessary: they will carry around in their heads your businesses key words and phrases – the things ( products and services )  that you want to be found for and they will weave these into every element of your Internet Marketing Strategy.

These words and phrases will be in all the right places in your website and blogsite ( the titles, metatags etc ); these words will be in the content of your website and blogsite aswell: they will write blogs with these words and phrases in the back of their minds. I say at the back because they will do it subtly – a skill learned over time.

They will understand that being found for these words and phrases is only part of the process and that they must create ” Calls to action ” ( C.T.A. )  to convert website visitors to leads. These C.T.A.’s themselves must be designed in the right way to be effective – using the right incentives and requesting the right information.

They will also understand that ” being found ” by Google searches is only one part of the ” Internet Marketing Ecosystem “. They will also use e.g. Facebook pages, Twitter pages, Linkedin pages, Blogs, YouTube videos and Internet P.R. to ” drive ” traffic to the website ( where it will be converted and analysed ).

They will create a closed loop system and monitor on an ongoing basis – How many times the website was found ? How many people converted to leads ? How many converted to customers ? What was the R.O.I. ? What worked best ?

This is the  raison d’etre of your D.A.R.C. Marketer. How to use Internet Marketing to get you the most leads and sales at the least possible cost ??

http://mandarainmaker.com/wordpress/2011/06/29/letter-from-marketing-no-3/

http://mandarainmaker.com/wordpress/2011/06/28/letter-from-marketing-no-2/

http://mandarainmaker.com/wordpress/2011/06/22/letter-from-marketing-no-1/

but glad to hear that you made a physical and digital Will.

This blog was pointed out to me the other day by Thomas Power

http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=157243

It’s interesting to think that Thomas was having his ” Digital Will ” thoughts when I was starting to work with

http://www.mydigitalexecutor.co.uk/

It would seem that we have both had death on our minds.

I also came across this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT2O1zSfXVM

from Adele McAlear of http://www.deathanddigitallegacy.com/ which really covers a lot of the issues involved in Digital Death and talks about blogger Mac Tonnies death ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Tonnies ).

One of my friends – Gary ” Photography ” Morgan also died last year and there were quite a few issues over some of his digital legacy ( http://www.footprints.me.uk/index.php , https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=154988787849739 ).

I think Thomas is correct in highlighting that one of the main pieces of digital value that most ” Online ” people have is their email database. If you consider the successful internet marketers the cornerstone of their Internet Marketing efforts is their email database.

You will often find them emailing on behalf of a friend or business colleague.

If you are a Director or shareholder in an online business then probably this online business will become part of your ” Physical will ” but if you have, say, an eBay shop that you regularly sell things from and an associated PayPal account then these may need to be part of your ” Digital Will “.

As Thomas and Adele point out one of the keys to everything else is your primary email address and the password for this. It is is the key to your digital legacy.

Most people don’t get around to making a physical will, never mind a digital will so we are making it easy for people to get started.

It’s free and all you need to provide is your name, email and short address.

http://www.mydigitalexecutor.co.uk/join-us/