Accelerating your growth and strategic capabilities
What’s your next business move?
Whether you are just starting out or gearing for expansion, we’ll help you make the best move for your business.
Business growth isn’t a one size fits all, so what works for one business might not be right for you. You need a highly personalised approach that builds your leadership abilities in the process.
We’re passionate about helping small and medium-sized businesses grow, scale, and achieve far-reaching success and we have the data to show the long lasting benefits of our approach, for you and the business.
Our hyper-personalised programs, where your business is the case study, help you focus on what you need to know and apply right now for success.
We work with future focussed business leaders committed to accelerating their progress and open to following a structured and innovative process that builds their confidence and strategic capabilities.
Take the quiz to find out what stage of business growth you are in now, then find out how you can level up..
What’s your current stage of business growth?
I need to find the right customers…
At this stage, you will probably be thinking about how to attract more customers and building a solid foundation for growth. You may have just started out or haven’t quite got the traction you were hoping for yet.
It can be a tough spot, we get it.
What you will benefit from:
Accelerated growth - through a program of 1:1 support that helps you determine the low effort, high impact activities that get you out of just existing. 25eight’s Level Up aims to get you to that next stage so you’re worrying less about where the next dollar is coming from.
Get support from a community of like-minded business leaders whilst working together to develop and action your most targeted growth strategy you have every created in our Small Business Accelerator
Finding a quicker way to find out exactly what you can do to attract those customers, our Six Pillars of Pitching focuses on your ‘pitch’ to your customers and quickly helps you get those sales rolling.
I’m trying to stabalise…
You’ve survived up to this point, but things still feel a little unstable. You’re making sales, but you need more consistency. You might ask yourself how do you generate steady revenue or how can I streamline my operations to keep up.
We know that this stage can feel like a juggling act, but we can help you focus on what will actually move the dial.
What you will benefit from:
A support team that helps you stabilise, build that profitable pipeline and create that operating machine. 25eight’s Level Up will focus on exactly what you need to do to ‘level up’.
Get support from a community of like-minded business leaders whilst working together to develop and action your most targeted growth strategy you have every created in our Small Business Accelerator
If you just want to focus on customer acquisition right now, our Pitch Training Program is renowned for transforming how you position your business in the market to get more customers.
I want to scale..
You’re doing ok, you’re profitable, you’ve got a solid customer base, but you are now wondering what is the next step to growth. Should you expand into new markets or launch a new product?
This is where growth starts to get exciting, but also a little tricky. Having an evidence-based proven process to help you make sure you make the right decisions on the next steps is where we can help you.
What you will benefit from:
25eight’s Level Up Program quickly identifies the gaps in your business and helps you determine the most important goal to focus on. Then builds your knowledge in key areas whilst supporting you to action what you learn. Your strategic leadership skills are enhanced and progress in business is propelled.
The ICN Industry Growth Business Accelerator combines the ‘what you know’ with the ‘who you know’ to help you expand your business into existing or new markets. Find out what is coming up in specific sectors and fully prepare your business for growth whilst meeting like-minded business leaders.
I’m ready to grow….
Your business is growing, maybe even faster than you expected. Now you’re thinking, how do I manage this growth sustainably without sacrificing quality or burning out me or my team?
Getting the right systems in place to make sure nothing breaks (and if it does, it’s fixed quickly), is important at this stage.
What you will benefit from:
25eight’s Level Up Program quickly identifies the gaps in your business and helps you determine the most important goal to focus on. Then builds your knowledge in key areas whilst supporting you to action what you learn. Your strategic leadership skills are enhanced and progress in business is propelled.
We also offer a fully bespoke hands-on program of support for businesses that need to develop the effective systems and resources for fast growth. Contact us today to find out how we can help you scale.
Staying ahead of the competition
You’ve been around for a while, and now it’s all about staying competitive while maintaining stability. You might be asking yourself how you stay ahead of the ever-increasing competition, how do you keep up with technological advancements or how can you give back and make a positive impact in your community.
We can help you stay strong, relevant and impactful.
What you will benefit from:
Level Up is also great at helping to pinpoint innovative ways to increase your competitive advantage and inefficiency gaps in your operations, looks at your tech stack and how you can build tools and artificial intelligence into your workflows to maximise you and your teams time as well as building further value for your business.
Launching a new product or expanding into a new market? Ensure you get maximum return on your efforts, review your competitive advantage and strategically position your business for success through our customisable Private Pitch Training Program for you and your team.
A ‘one size fits all’ approach does not work in our increasingly competitive and complex business environment, whether you are targeting domestic or international markets.
Our programs help you achieve a meaningful outcome for your business. This might be specific, such as a focus on customer acquisition or a focus on your operational efficiencies when you need to scale effectively.
Or we might work with you to help you determine the most important outcome specific to helping you reach the next stage of growth - where we focus on all enablers of high performing business and ensure you have them.
Regardless of which program you participate in with 25eight, your progress towards achieving something impactful for your business will be accelerated.
Helping you to do more in less time.
As if you had an extra hour in the day and day in the week.
Acheive a meaningful outcome for your business
The people that love what we do are..
We’re not for everyone, this is a partnership where you get out what you put in.
Business leaders that value time and the ability to think strategically and critically are a perfect fit for us. This is because not only does it save them time, it empowers them to navigate complex situations, make informed decisions and drive meaningful change in their field in the most efficient way possible.
We’re not exclusive here, but we find that the following people value our approach the most are:
Complex Industries: Those in sectors like advanced manufacturing, technology, space, defence, health, renewables that value high performance training that is specifically tailored to their complex and important market.
Entrepreneurs: that need to move fast so benefit from immediate focused application
Female Leaders: that seek a credible, flexible yet structured approach to building their leadership skills, confidence and reputation in her (often male-dominated) industry.
Aspirational leaders: Those that are driven by the potential of their business and want the best support to help them achieve their goals faster
At the core of every 25eight program:
Strategy
Rowing harder doesn’t help if you’re going in the wrong direction. This is one of the most important areas to get right and one where new practices and tools can help you navigate ever-changing markets.
Growth
If you don’t have ‘customers’, you don’t have a business. The role of sales and marketing has changed considerably and you need to keep up to attract and connect with those who will love what you do.
Digital
Advancements in technology are accelerating and this can be a powerful enabler in your business. You need to choose the right systems for you and build internal confidence to optimise them.
Innovation
Innovation is vital for business that will survive into the future and the ability to creatively problem solve and generate and execute new ideas essential leadership skills that can be built through practise.
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A case study in the long term benefits of our programs
How we helped Standard Ledger from go to grow
The Challenge
Standard Ledger is an accounting firm embracing virtual and doing things differently, serving startups and high-growth SMEs. They had huge ambitions to expand their markets domestically and internationally. They needed a growth strategy and guidance to implement it. Over time, as their team grew, they needed support to ensure their systems and processes and how best to utilise the tech they invested in for each team didn’t compromise on the customer experience and their growth ambitions.
The Solution
Over a year-long strategy and capability-building program with 25eight, Standard Ledger developed a growth strategy through education, coaching, and mentorship. While they gained strategic clarity, they needed support implementing it. 25eight continued with them in 90-day cycles, helping integrate their tech stack and build a digital strategy to optimise their tools. As their team and operations expanded, we streamlined their systems for scalability, ensuring each improvement drove them to the next growth stage. We provided internal training and helped build processes an documentation for operational excellence. Across three years, 25eight supported them in the following areas:
Creating a growth strategy
Developed a clear unique value proposition
Developing a competitive advantage and strong position in the market
Identified target customers
Refined the Brand
Built out a content strategy
Identified creative channels to market
Developed a customer experience strategy
Identified employee communications
Identified partnerships
Created key measurements to track
Revising the business model
Mapped the sales funnel, CTR and conversions to find gaps and inefficiencies to be addressed
Updated the entire sales process - implemented new nurture emails, workflows, feedback forms, checklists, automation and more, and met with the team to execute
Created internal reporting dashboards and work with the team to execute regular reporting cycles
Re-designing customer experiences
Marketing messaging, landing page design and support for campaigns throughout the year
Revamping high-traffic website pages for a smoother customer experience
Reinventing business processes and creating a digital strategy
Created various supporting documentation on how the system works for each team and trained them in their specialist areas
Cleansed the HubSpot system and made optimisations based on how the team use the tool
Deep tool analysis - List, Form, Workflow and Property review, feedback and updates to logic to improve efficiencies
Ensured the tech stack was in working order - connected integrations, accounts, pixels, analytics and other various tools
The Outcome
Standard Ledger has expanded their operations domestically and now internationally. Having grown their team and client base, their are smashing the goals they set.
After working closely with Standard Ledger’s whole team, the understanding they had built of their tools and how to use them increased tenfold. They had a sales strategy that they could use immediately and build on in the future, which integrated seamlessly with the tool they invested in. They are better connected with their customers and have the ability to address feedback and support on a daily basis. Reference and support documents that were created were unique to their business processes and can be used by current and future employees.
Most importantly Standard Ledger got time back and built confidence in their tech stack. Knowing exactly what to do with a tool and having the support gave them the internal capability and confidence to navigate through difficult market conditions and continue to grow their business.
Watch them soar into their next stage of growth.