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News from the House 

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Our Experience
 
The 7House team is made up of highly skilled business developers who are well versed in strategic and operational business development activity. 
 
We are supported by our proven and trusted associates who provides us with the necessary support to provide a fully equipped offering. 
 
 7House Team
 
  • Craig Millhouse
  • Trevor Gillis Rosemary Wells  
  • James Read 
  • Adam Hoyle 
  • John Hawley 
  • Ewart Cox
  • Philip Chalk
  • Alison Benney
  • Helen Hammond
 
 
 
7House Services 
 What We Do 
 
 
Welcome All.
 
As our service set is growing and have invested in relevant tools  to complement our offerings, we thought we would use this newsletter edition to provide you with an update of our full service suite so you can see, at a glance, our offerings within our two main areas of :
 
  • Organic Growth
  • Acquisition Growth
 
Either myself or one of the team would be happy to talk you through anyone of our services below - feel free to call us on one of the direct dials below.
 
Best regards,
 
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Craig Millhouse
Managing Director
7House
 
 
 
Our service suite offering 
 
Key sector knowledge
 
Professional Services, Recruitment, Manufacturing, Technology, Digital Media, Print and Packaging, Management Consultancy, IT, Retail, Construction, Healthcare, Financial Markets, Leisure, Utilities, Central and Local Government.
Acquisition Growth
Sales function due diligence to include:
-       Assessment of teams; pipeline and forecasting; existing contracts and current routes to market
-        Implementation of 100 day plans - within clear staged timeframes
And directly for our clients:
-      Private sector owner /managers seeking exit/realisation of partial equity
-       Development of 5 year business development plans
-       Access to Private equity and investor network
Organic Growth
We support private sector businesses in the following ways:
New business development
-        Business development review of strategic and operational sales delivery
-       Evaluation and viability of new/ existing market sectors, new markets
-        Productisation and launch of  new products/services
-        Delivering step change growth
Sales force productivity, efficiency, and prospecting and activity management
-       Reviewing and setting key measurements and objectives for specific outputs
-        Options for incentivisation and motivational schemes
-        Rigour and structure for the sales force and its interface with the operational functions of the business
-        Key account, global account management strategy and optimisation
-        12 month key account management and tactics
-        12 month new business management and tactics
Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Management
7House has recently created a tool to:
 
                   -  improve accuracy of short, medium term sales
 
                         - engender a culture of pipeline management
 
                         - be utlised by management to accurately track sales activity
Senior Exec/Management mentoring
·        Sales and Business Development strategy, 5 year planning
·        Step change growth management for the senior team
·        Founder transition, exit, partial exit
·        New product development, new routes to market, distribution strategy
·        Assessing sales strengths and leadership capability
Sales Resourcing and Development
-        Sales force outsourcing (on to 7House payroll)
-       Secondments in to 7House to develop key sales personnel
-       Sales force recruitment (executive/ management and field levels)
-       Sales force training (key skills for account management, new business development and management development)
-        Assessment/ suitability profiling for sales force (through 7House profiling tool)
Routes to market with national and global sectors
-        Strategic market definition
-        New market access
-        Channel distribution
-        Data mining/ research of existing and new markets
(7House public sector data mining tool)
Tender/ Bid Management
-        Tender management (leading teams on specific tender work)
-       Quality assuring bids
-       Managing bid process through the use of 7House bid management tool
-       Transfer of knowledge in bid process to existing teams.
-        Strong working knowledge of  public sector frameworks
A new offering - in draft:
 
Needing to access Public Funding to support your investment budget
 

Like most of the businesses we work with, we all know there is public funding available but do not know where to look for it; what it covers and how to unlock it quickly due to the red tape that normally surrounds it.

Our background in to how the public sector operates is something we would like you to take advantage of in the coming months.

In the autumn, when the Coalition is settled, the emergency budget of June 22nd has been determined and the budgets for government departments are established, we will be a lot clearer as to where the grants and funding routes will be; how to access them and more importantly what sectors they will be applicable for.

As we move towards September/October, would you be interested in a service that can support you in finding out what grants your businesses is eligible for and; through the networks we have, work with you to access them?

If so, please contact Rosemary on 07976 269744 for an initial discussion on how we can access funds in your sector and region.

How to contact us:

John on: 
 
M: 0782 797 5522
E: john@7House.co.uk
 
Trevor on: 
 
M: 0755 153 5579 
E: trevor@7House.co.uk
 
Rosemary on: 
 
M: 0797 626 9744 
E: rosemary@7House.co.uk
    
Or Craig on: 
 
M: 0779 753714