Flexible hands-on expert
Multi-tasking
Short-term critical business support is quite hard to find
When you need a flexible hands-on expert, someone to create social media posts one week, then write bid documents for a contract tender the next month, then project manage a trade fair attendance later in the year, together with creating promotional case studies from the customers’ viewpoint … the list goes on. You and your team don’t have the time / expertise to do it all, and you don’t have the funds to hire full-time.
Let us give you an example of where we have provided short-term critical support to a growing small business over the past three years.
Designed mainly for smaller security installation and management companies, TetherX is a platform and IoT gateway that securely ‘tethers’ physical security devices (CCTV cameras, ANPR cameras, access door sensors etc.) at multiple locations and makes them easy to monitor, manage and maintain on a single dashboard and remotely via an app at the touch of a button.
We originally started working with them in response to their new investors requiring quick turnaround times for key growth tasks.
Since then we have provided:
- Security market research to identify new expansion markets, sectors and trade events
- Written processes for manufacturing, quality checks and sales
- LinkedIn research to identify and follow key movers and shakers in the market, including competitors
- Support for trade fairs, promoting the company with new marketing materials
- Content support for a promotional video
- Case studies that speak to and show the benefits to each market sector
- Relationship-building with key security partners to promote the product
- Tender writing for a challenge funding pot
- Visits to customers to understand their needs
- ISO 9001 documentation
- Team gathering to map the future
Some tasks lasted a couple of days, others a couple of months. The company pulled on us when they needed a flexible hands-on expert.
After a recent break of just over six months we have been recently contacted again for short-term support, which we will happily give (subject to capacity of course!)
