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Sue and Nick Paulley
Chartax Accountants - Experts in Tax and Accounting
As a Chartered Certified Accountant with 10 years' experience, Sue is a mine of information and a fantastic addition to our Experts Panel. With UK and American tax qualifications, Sue started out at the Inland Revenue and has since worked for Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse. Husband and business partner, Nick, is a tax specialist with experience in some of the biggest accountancy practices in the world. He now works with owner- managed businesses of all sizes helping them through the tax maze, believing passionately that no-one should pay more tax than they are legally obliged to pay.
Between them, Sue and Nick can provide specific tax advice and down to earth business advice and support. Having run their own business for 13 years they have experience of most things to do with starting and running a small business, from questions about employees, to tax planning and tax savings, from cash flows and business plans for the start-up small business to regular management meetings for the larger business client.
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Sarah Gornall
Coaching Climate - Expert Business Coach
Sarah's expertise is in Business and Executive Coaching and Management Development, Team Building and Team Coaching, Coach supervision and Strategic Planning. She works across the public, private and charity sectors, helping business leaders develop skills, grow the organisation and improve work life balance. Sarah is accredited by the International Coach Federation and has hands on experience of founding, growing and leading an organisation with a turnover of £1.8 million.
Clients tell Sarah they feel clearer, calmer, stronger, lighter and brighter after working with her. She can help you improve communication with other members of your team, give you confidence and clarity about long-term goals and help you plan how to achieve them.
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Kim O'Rourke
Merrie Marketing - Expert in Marketing
Having worked as a marketing coach and mentor specialising in working with small business owners, Kim is a fantastic asset to our Experts Panel. With 22 years as a professional marketer working in both the corporate and small business world, both as a client and in advertising and marketing agencies, she's worked with clients such as The Telegraph, Vodafone and Brita Water Filters. Kim is particularly able to help small businesses that are frustrated at the results of their marketing efforts and now want to take their business to the next level - recognising that it's time to bring in that expert help and guidance.
With experience handling the nuts and bolts of marketing as well as the strategic side, Kim has a depth of knowledge, insight and instinct that is matched by very few.
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Mandy Withers
Talk HR Solutions - Expert in HR
A Human Resources Consultant running her own HR Consultancy, Talk HR Solutions in South Wales, Mandy is a valuable source of information for our members. Having worked in both private and public arenas, in sectors including Pharmaceutical, FMCG, Construction and Education, she's experienced in areas of quality, training and human resources.
Talk HR Solutions is a premier provider of integrated human resource management solutions providing flexible outsourced employer services based on our client's needs and demands. Mandy can give advise on topics including recruitment, HR, training and occupational health and safety.
With an understanding of how difficult it is to start up and run a business, Mandy's a great person to help out with any HR issues that arise - from simple to complex.
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Sue Marchant
Expert in Business start-ups (business planning)
Sue specialises in helping start and grow businesses. Having worked with over 1000 businesses in her role as a Business Link Business Adviser alongside running her own business, she fully understands the issues and challenges people (especially women) face when setting up and running their business. Sue is well placed to advise, coach and mentor business owners, helping ensure that the foundations are in place to launch and develop a successful business.
In 2010, Sue was nominated for SFEDI (Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative) Business Adviser of the Year award, recognising her passion for supporting and motivating individuals to develop the best business they can. As a key member of our Experts Panel, Sue would be delighted to talk through any business queries or worries you have and provide advice and motivation for writing or updating your business plan.
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Christina Jones
Internet Marketing That Works - Social Media Expert
Christina specialises in helping small businesses find Internet Marketing That Works. As an expert in online marketing, she has been working with internet technologies since 2001. If you are unsure whether you should be tweeting, facebooking or youtubing, then she's the girl to speak to.
Christina's hallmark is internet marketing that delivers, using proven techniques to make a trackable difference to your bank balance. Her real world business experience across a variety of sectors allows her to craft an online marketing plan for your business using social media tools to deliver more traffic and sales.
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Joanne Turner
Wards Solicitors - Legal Expert
As an experienced solicitor, Joanne deals with all corporate and company commercial matters within her firm. This includes dealing with new business start ups, providing the various types of commercial contracts that businesses need and conducting business sale and purchase transactions.
As a member of our Experts Panel, Jo can provide specialist commercial legal advice in plain, jargon-free. Jo is supported by a very good team of property and disputes solicitors, so if you need advice outside her expertise, she can put you in touch with people who are experts in their fields.
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Colin Fullelove
Sales Expert
A Professional Salesman and Sales Coach, Colin coaches and trains individuals and companies to become more successful and consistent in sales, and even sell on behalf of some clients.
A valuable member of our Experts Panel, Colin can advise you on developing your sales skills and becoming more successful at selling. He has an absolute belief that ethical and professional selling will achieve far greater and longer-term results for anyone.
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Hannah Yarrow
Phil Yarrow Ltd - SEO Expert
Working as part of a small team of Internet marketing specialists, Hannah has an excellent reputation for helping clients achieve the results they want in the search engines. With a wealth of experience in the customer service field, Hannah has been involved in a wide range of fields from marketing and advertising to data management and programming.
As part of our Experts Panel, Hannah can demystify Internet Marketing and SEO for you. Her advice is transparent and jargon free so you can be sure she'll give you advice you'll understand and can put into practice.
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Philippa Constable
WomenMeanBiz - Expert in Networking
Before starting WomenMeanBiz in 2008, Philippa also ran another business successfully for 5 years and spent over 20 years working mainly in new business development and marketing in both the UK and New Zealand. This has given her a breadth of knowledge and experience that makes her well placed to advise businesswomen who are new to networking and those wanting to improve results. Philippa has a great empathy with women in business and a drive to want to help them achieve big things.
Philippa still remembers what it felt like to turn up for your very first networking event, and prides herself on teaching women the skills they need to network successfully. Having managed to grow a small business from nothing - Philippa knows how powerful networking is as a new business tool, in fact, she says that 80% of her own new business was generated from networking. Passionate about helping women succeed, she's always available for help, advice or just a chat.
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Cindy Condon
HSBC Bank - Expert in Business Banking
Having worked for HSBC for 27 years, Cindy's worked with both retail and commercial customers. She now works with many diverse businesses looking to develop a working relationship to enable the business to grow both in the UK and internationally. Supporting over 13 million customers worldwide, HSBC is well placed to give you advice.
And with such a large network of experts behind her, you can feel confident that if Cindy doesn't know the answer there will be someone within the HSBC team that will. Cindy's husband recently started his own business "Phoenix life coaching & Hypnotherapy" so she can empathise with all the highs and lows you're going through first hand as spends her free time working out marketing strategies and budgets.
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Vinay Manro
Techi.es - Smart Technologists - IT Expert
With 10 years' experience in IT Support and Services through working for local government, and private firms such as Capita, IBM and Microsoft. Techi.es has been working with small-medium sized businesses for 4 years. Specialising in Google Apps services, Vinay offers full support packages for PCs, Laptops, Macs, Servers and network infrastructure.
As part of our Experts Panel, Vinay can advise you on all aspects of your IT - from emergencies to planning for the future.
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Alexandra McArthur
Work With - PR Expert
Alex set up her own business after over 13 years' experience in PR agencies in London and Cardiff working with a number of well-known brands including Smith, Homebase, The Carphone Warehouse and John Lewis as well as small and growing businesses and professional services. She is passionate about the real return PR can provide.
As part of our Experts Panel Alex can advise on areas ranging from; reputation and issues or crisis management, how to sell-in a story, media coaching, media contacts, copywriting, promotional plans and overall positioning of your business or brand.
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