Watch back: Growth forecasting - how you can grow your business

Do you dread forecasting? Is your forecasting mainly guesswork? Does it feel like you’re knitting fog?

Growth forecasting is fundamental to business success as it forms the basis for your financial and operational decisions.

Watch back this recorded Lunch and Learn, to hear from

, who talks about how understanding your customer data will help you develop plans with confidence. Ollie discusses key metrics and how gathering and understanding your customer data is fundamental to your planning cycle.

Oliver is an experienced marketing-led multi-channel retailer, who grew The White Company from £6m to £50m. He now has developed a Customer Analytics Marketing Platform, Sweet Analytics, to provide marketing professionals with the information he always wished he had when he was working in retail.

- Why every business must have a customer forecasting model and what it is

- What metrics your customer model must include

- How to use your model to deliver your growth targets 

Watch back this recorded Lunch and Learn, to hear from Oliver Spark, the CEO of Sweet Analytics Limited, who talks about how understanding your customer data will help you develop plans with confidence. Ollie discusses key metrics and how gathering and understanding your customer data is fundamental to your planning cycle.

Lunch and Learn: Growth forecasting - how you can grow your business

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As Enterprise Nation&apos;s Head of community I ensure that you&apos;re all getting the most from your membership.
For budding entrepreneurs, that means identifying the challenges that you&apos;re facing, and then matching you with the support - and the people - to start and grow a great business.
If you&apos;re an adviser on Enterprise Nation, I&apos;ll teach you how best to promote your services, and offer opportunities for you to showcase your expertise.
And if you&apos;re a provider of small business support, I&apos;ll make sure that the right businesses are matched with your programmes.
It&apos;s my role to make Enterprise Nation a safe, supportive and inclusive community.

Head of community

The search is on for the UK and Ireland’s top business advisers

Do you know a worthy nominee? Are you a worthy nominee?

We&apos;re here to help you.
Accessible, jargon-free explanations to help you understand your finances, optimise your tax claims and grow your business successfully.
Benefit from:
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<li>Practical, relevant, commercial corporation tax, income tax, director remuneration tax and VAT advice.</li>
<li>Understanding your figures. What do they tell you? We&apos;ll take you through it.</li>
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Small business taxation

This group is for small businesses from any sector to discuss taxation.

Good day! I&apos;m Krystle. I&apos;m all about financial confidence, connection, and growth. I use behavioural finance as a foundation to provide business consultancy and financial mentoring.
I support founders in improving their financial acumen and confidence by tackling the blockages that appear when trying to grow. Whether you require a business plan to support your funding application or help managing and understanding the day-to-day finance, I can support you.
Services include:
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<li>Improve profit by identifying opportunities</li>
<li>Budgeting and forecasting</li>
<li>Understand the options for paying yourself</li>
<li>Pricing</li>
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And more!
We can also work through your personal finances, to ensure they are in the best state possible as you grow your business, and improve management, credit, saving, investing etc.
I&apos;m known for connecting money to the mind as the starting point for improving financial dexterity. I focus on the psychology of financial decision-making, financial education, and the opportunities it grants. I deliver workshops, facilitate events, provide courses and bespoke services. This includes workshops for Moonpig, General Assembly and Birkbeck University. I have appeared in the Telegraph newspaper, featured in Refinery29 and BBC Radio on several occasions. I recently partnered with Boots No7 and AllBright to build a finance course for women coming out of the pandemic and organisations such as StepChange and Thriveology. I am also a finance writer and have written for the likes of Motley Fool. After reading Financial Mathematics at university, I worked as a qualified Chartered Accountant for over ten years with companies in the creative spaces of PR, advertising, marketing, and technology – being responsible for managing the finances of million-pound businesses.

Director

Build a Financial Plan you can reuse! by Krystle McGilvery

A financial plan is one of the first tasks to help build a clear picture of the direction of the business, set goals, and act as a point of reference for stakeholders.

We will meet on several occasions to build a realistic and optimised plan, that will leave you feeling confident about the business financials.

Many of the clients I work with are able to continue using the financial plans we create on their own without my involvement.

Please do get in touch to see how we can work together.

Over 28 years experience working with clients on strategy, innovation and technology projects.
Co-founding one of the UK&apos;s first full-service digital marketing agencies in 1994, I worked with clients to help them adopt innovation and technology to drive sales and business growth.
Since exiting this business after ten years, I have setup a further three companies, and now specialise providing business strategy, innovation and technology consultancy to small and medium-sized businesses.
Please visit my website for further information - <a href=&apos;https://www.enterprisenation.com/my-home/account/Techcentre%20Consulting&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>https://techcentre.consulting</a>.

Strategy, Innovation & Technology Consultant

David Barker

Over 28 years experience working with clients on strategy, innovation and technology projects.
Co-founding one of the UK&apos;s first full-service digital marketing agencies in 1994, I worked with clients to help them adopt innovation and technology to drive sales and business growth.
Since exiting this business after ten years, I have setup a further three companies, and now specialise providing business strategy, innovation and technology consultancy to small and medium-sized

Lunch and Learn: Growth forecasting - how you can grow your business

Watch back: Growth forecasting - how you can grow your business

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