Services in sales, marketing and business development

The advisory and support services offered by Consulting Plus fall into two key areas:

• Management Consultancy – focussing on marketing, research and business development in the following sectors: flooring, construction, building materials, manufacturing and wholesale / retail.
• Interim Support - an experienced sales / marketing / business development resource for clients wanting to supplement existing skills for a short period of time or requiring specialist part-time help on an on-going basis.

The following summary provides a brief flavour of the benefits we can bring to your business. Please call us to find out more.

Management Consultancy

• Market research to identify market trends, customer attitudes and competitor strengths and weaknesses
• Strategic and business planning to identify the way forward for your operation
• Competitor and market analysis to help build your business plan or, on a tactical level, to identify short term actions to increase sales
• Multi-client market research reports on niche markets to provide valuable information at a lower cost for each company
• Sales and profit improvement through powerful sales and marketing techniques that will

• steal market share from competitors
• attract more customers with no extra advertising spend
• uncover hidden marketing assets within the business
• increase sales to current customers with free-to-use marketing techniques

• Sales team effectiveness review to identify the strength and weaknesses of your team and the ideal organisational structure
• Distribution planning to assess the best route to market for your product range
• Feasibility study to assess whether your planned acquisition or investment will meet your sales/profit requirements

Interim Support

• Experienced input from a sales / marketing professional on a regular basis when a full time director cannot be justified
• Project or interim management when your business needs to supplement existing skills for a short period of time with a resource that has hands-on commercial experience