Business Consultant and Mentor – The Bitter Business

Business Consultant and Mentor – The Bitter Business

The Bitter Business provides an affordable and results driven business consultant and business mentor service in Ireland. We can bring over 30 years senior level sales, marketing and management expertise and knowledge to help a company improve performance metrics or key performance indicators through the thorough analysis of existing business problems. Working as a partner, we can develop plans for sales and business improvement alongside the management team.

As an experienced business consultant and business mentor, companies engage us to get an external view on the business, validate strategic options, to receive objective advice and impartial recommendations. The Bitter Business can act as a temporary resource to help clients with aspects of the business where hiring a permanent employee is not needed.

Some of the areas we assist client as a business consultant:

Review current sales and marketing processes.

Evaluate Go To Market strategies including target selection.

Analyse the business strategy against competitors and within the market.

To recommend strategies and tactics to increase business opportunities.

Work on creating action plans and identify gaps in the business model.

Templates to identify and implement business actions.

Market research and information gathering.

Identify business requirements, resources, partners, channels, and routes to market.

Deliver sales and marketing analyses and report findings.

Drive process improvements and efficiencies in sales, business development or marketing.

Create sales, marketing and business KPI’s.

Social selling training and implementation.

Implement plans while evaluating the business prospects, goals and objectives for growth.

Business Mentor.

Business mentoring is a resource to help entrepreneurs succeed

The business mentor service on offer brings our proven entrepreneurial business experience which can be relied on as trusted sounding board, independent thinker and a decision checker who is willing to build a relationship, mostly free of charge (coffee is always appreciated). The goal is that acting as a business mentor to a company or individual will help to fill a gap in knowledge or experience without incurring major expense.

We view business mentoring as a business helper, a resource whose motivation is to take an active interest in helping the entrepreneur, business owner or start up succeed.

The Bitter Business business consultant and business mentor service is allot more than some business consultant looking for a day rate. We promise not to dispense generic management jargon with little relevance to the business challenges. What we will do as a business mentor is listen and nurture,because as someone personally with the battle scars (of success and failure) in business  I know the hard work it takes in ensuring business success.

To read my view on the role of a business consultant and being a business mentor, please read these articles – What does a Business Consultant Do and Business mentoring  

Feel free to contact me for a no obligation and confidential chat.

Regards

Brian

Business Consultant

What does a business consultant do?
A business consultant works with a company or small business to review the existing practices in the areas of sales, marketing, product or finance amongst others and then to work with the management to make recommendations for improvements. Most business consultants specialise in one or two areas of business management, such as sales. For example, a software company might hire a sales and marketing consultant to help develop its market reach or customer acquisition strategy.

A business consultant brings expertise, experience and knowledge to help a company improve performance metrics or key performance indicators through the thorough analysis of existing business problems. The business consultants then develop plans for improvement alongside the management team. A business may consider engaging the hire the services of a business consultant for a number of reasons, for example, to get an external view on the business, to receive objective advice and recommendations, to tap into the business consultants expertise, or even as a temporary resource to help with aspects of the business where hiring a permanent employee is not needed.

A business should expect due to the business consultants relationships with numerous markets and industries, the consultant can transfer knowledge and insights that will be beneficial to the company’s growth or profitability. A consultant may also provide organisational change assistance to up-skill existing staff, coaching to staff, business strategy development, or improvement services in a department. A business consultant usually brings methodologies, templates and frameworks to uncover the identification of opportunities and then to act as the basis for recommendations for more effective or efficient ways of performing the business task.

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Brian O'Connell

Sales and Marketing Enabler in Ireland

Sales and Marketing Service with a twist. The Bitter Business is a business enabler, working with and investing in Irish start-ups and growing companies to implement the sales strategy and bring paying customers in.

Based in Ireland, I am a hands on senior manager with experience in digital media, software (SaaS mainly) and online technology who has operated both within large organisations and start-ups. I have sales and marketing skills (still love selling) plus strategic, operational and management experience in multiple channels (online sales, inside sales, field sales and channel) across software, digital media and solutions markets.

brianoconn – The Bitter Business

Hi,

My name is Brian O’Connell. Based in Dublin, Ireland, I am a hands on senior sales and marketing manager from the digital media, software and on-line technology sectors who has operated both within large organisations and start-ups. Focused as a business enabler or growth hacker I have sales and marketing skills plus strategic, operational and management experience in multiple channels (on-line sales, inside sales, field sales and channel) across software, digital media and solutions markets. I have demonstrated a track record of achievement in both top and bottom-line growth. I have a deep understanding of sales models, on-line marketing, sales channels, product offer development, KPI management and sales processes to meet business goals.

My experience covers senior and board positions with both start-ups and large organisations including developing on-line strategy and sales channels, entering new markets, product strategy, managing multi-lingual sales teams, sales team development, customer acquisition strategies, channel marketing plus implementing “Go to Market” programs/tactics

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