A Business Consultant often referred to as a business adviser is an independent outsourced expert who can bring a different perspective to your business. Their main purpose is to analyse your business and identify where productivity can be increased, efficiency improved leading to greater profitability.

Start Up’s
Business Consultants can work with start up’s advising them on how to build and implement a business and marketing plan. Advising them on practical set up costs, employment, banking, accountancy and legal. A business consultant can analyse a Start Up’s business plan before implementation to identify cost savings and better ways to achieve the means of production, sometimes by outsourcing instead of incurring heavy employment costs. An experienced Business Consultant can be invaluable to a Start Up company helping them to navigate around their new business and avoid common mistakes.

Established Businesses
For established businesses, critical intel provided by a Business Adviser can be crucial in assisting a business of any size. A Business Consultant can advise a company on how to set and achieve its strategic long-term goals. Business Advisers are also often brought into large companies to solve specific problems that have arisen during trading. Specialist Accountants and lawyers will be consulted where the problem that arises relates to accounts or governance issues. It is also possible that a consultant will be hired to assist with a specific marketing plan or where the company wishes to investigate a new product or market. Consultants can be hired on a daily, weekly and job by job basis. As they are external to the company, they are only hired for the duration of the work required and do not become a full-time employee.