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Grow your business the right way, alongside an experienced finance function with sector specialism, trusted by over 200 digital agencies.

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The right tools can help you move your capacity and visibility into meaningful sales forecasting

#agency #growth #capacity #forecast

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Are you all in on growth?

#agency #growth

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The best leaders treat decision-making as a discipline and design systems, habits and trust structures that protect judgment when pressure is at its highest

#agency #growth #decisions

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Growth isn’t only about adding more activity, it can be equally valuable to strip away

Identify habits, offerings, processes, or relationships that no longer serve your goal

Stopping the wrong things is often the fastest way to accelerate the right ones

#agency #growth #goals

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A business plan doesn’t have to be complicated

It just needs to answer a few simple, but uncomfortable, questions

It is not about predicting the future

It’s about knowing where you’re starting from, where you’re aiming and how today’s decisions connect to tomorrow’s outcomes

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Many founders rely on basic tools they only update occasionally and financials are reviewed quarterly, if at all

Then you are flying blind

You don’t know your burn rate, your customer lifetime value is an estimate at best and your customer acquisition cost is unclear

#agency

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Hopefully you have already submitted your new Companies House Director Identification

3 directors have been fined after failing to comply with identity verification requirements in the first recorded court action

#agency #director #compliance

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"No one expects to be able to see into the future, but you can manage the near term effectively with the right tools in place"

Will Jarvis - Head of Data Collections MAP

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As many of your staff will have taken holiday this Summer, are you sure your holiday pay is correctly recorded?

And will you maintain records for 6 years?

To listen: https://t.co/F0UJHnOqiJ

To watch: https://t.co/TBcyLzl8ZD

#agency #podcast

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Despite inflationary pressures and the recent increase made by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England has today held interest rates at 3.75%

#agency #interest #finance

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Selecting the right members for your team is half the battle won

You need to hand-pick people — not just based on skill, but also on alignment

#agency #values #alignment

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In August clients took on new services, enabling us to provide 13 weeks of business training to former loggers in Borneo

Just by doing the everyday of filing client accounts we were able to provide 20 months worth of meals to nursery children in Ethiopia

@B1G1 #giving #agency

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As your business grows, your team has to grow with it

In the early stages, a lot can happen through trust, instinct and people being willing to get stuck in

But over time, that is not enough on its own

#agency #scale #team

Good people need clear direction, context and suppor

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Growth often creates an interesting challenge.

The decisions, processes and ways of working that helped build a successful business at the start are not always the same ones that help you scale it

The question is what to change, when and how?

#agency #scale #change

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"The better quality of the data in terms of collecting and coding it correctly, the better the reporting will be down the line"

Paul Barnes
Financial Confidence For Digital Agencies

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Entrepreneurship is often presented as a formula: Raise capital, scale fast, follow best practices, repeat what worked for others

But in reality, the most sustainable success rarely comes from copying a model; it comes from building your own

#agency #value #unique

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Entrepreneurial intuition isn’t luck—it’s pattern recognition, accumulated lessons, and instinct about timing

#entrepreneur #timing #clarity

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Charlotte Geesin in The MAP Room

Are you at risk from the upcoming changes to Employment Law?

To listen: https://t.co/F0UJHnOqiJ

To watch: https://t.co/TBcyLzl8ZD

#podcast

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Did you know that VAT is treated differently if you trade in secondary-market retail goods such as trading cards?

Most owners don’t realise that if normal accounting rules are applied to pre-owned goods, then this can severely impact profitability

Blog: https://t.co/Dc21HESr2h