Sally's wealth of business knowledge has been an invaluable support to us and has enabled me to gain a clear view of our direction. She has imparted a vast number of useful tips to keep my productivity flowing and has given me the confidence to focus on what matters most in my business.

Sally has a brilliant way about her. Kind, great fun and straight-talking, she helps you to find a clear path to the right solution for your business. Her knowledge of retail is invaluable and her suggestions for marketing and visual merchandising my business have dramatically changed and improved the way that I work.

The programme has been extremely useful to me in highlighting the areas that I need to work on and giving tools and methods to tackle them. I have now set targets and I am currently making a plan to overhaul my business and I am looking forward to seeing the results.

We worked with the fantastic Sally and having implemented tools and advice given, are experiencing higher sales and a more productive working day! Would highly recommend to independent businesses that need some assistance getting their business performing better. Thanks Sally!

As a result of Sally's mentoring, I feel much more confident about running my business. Sally offered her professional help in all the areas that I identified and was always supportive in helping me identify and reach realistic goals. With Sally's help, my passion for my business was re-ignited. I am very grateful for all her help

Started mapping out the customer journey which will also help us when building our new systems software - to hopefully automate more things!

I left each workshop with a newfound confidence and enthusiasm. My 1-2-1's were invaluable and taught me that running a great business requires you to look after yourself as well as the day-to-day operations. I would absolutely recommend Sally!

I would highly recommend Sally to help take your business forward. Sally individually tailors her support to meet your specific needs so the advice I received was appropriate to my line of work and the targets were challenging but realistic. Sally's support with social media and networking was brilliant but the biggest impact on my business was her focus on making me look further ahead and planning for the long term. Her support has given me confidence and it has certainly boosted sales.

Have begun changing the layout and prompted better communication and discussion about our future plans. also how we price our work.

Sally was really helpful and knowledgeable, a pleasure to work with. She really helped us improve multiple areas in the business.

Sally has been excellent at helping me create a marketing strategy for my business. She worked closely with me and offered guidance and support, both professionally and personally, tailoring her advice to suit my requirements. She helped me clarify and prioritise important aspects of my business, which will be invaluable as I move forward. Thank you Sally!

Sally was a great help with our new business, she helped me understand the importance of planning in planning, looking at what you sell the most of and using that to move forward! She was so positive and honest with her great knowledge I hope she can come back next year to help even more people! Thank you Sally!!

Sally really helped give me the confidence boost and professional outlook I needed to give my business the next step up and head for new exciting adventures! A friendly and informative approach with genuine enthusiasm for my business. Thank you!

Just wanted to thank you for your inspiring support and expertise in the last year. Your ideas have been really useful in supporting our business and I’m sure the whole district has benefitted from having a boost to retailer skills. We now have a new website, the store had a reorganisation of some key areas to implement your expertise on layout, we implemented a new EPOS system, and we are looking forward to a successful 2019. Who knows what the future will bring, but we feel ready to make the best of it, especially with our focus on local foods and environmentally friendly products.

There were so many things that we took away / reminded us of. Immediately we have been relooking at our marketing process.

Sally is a very approachable trainer and coach with a down-to-earth approach backed up with years of experience and knowledge. It has been a pleasure working with her and I would recommend her wholeheartedly to any independent business or those supporting independent businesses.

Sally was very supportive and helped us to keep organised and plan for the year ahead. It was great to have her input and learn how to analyse aspects of the business we hadn't been able to do ourselves. We hope to work with Sally again in the future.

Thank you so much for your time and efforts to help CEDAR. It has been a pleasure working with both you and Gaynor. I have learned a lot, clarified some of the goals of CEDAR and sorted a plan for our growth. Your advice and references have been wonderful, but most importantly having you as a sounding board and cheerleader have been worth their weight in gold. You are a great mentor and most appreciated.

Sally has been a fabulous help in re-organising the layout of the shop to improve sales. Thank you so much!

The workshops enabled everyone to discuss and share their own experiences in running their businesses and it was good to hear from other independents who were facing the same challenges. The 1-2-1 sessions were really useful in goal setting. Sally is very practical and had some good ideas for developing my product range. She was helpful in getting me focussed on my processes which was an area where I really needed to make improvements. Thanks so much, I really enjoyed the programme and wish you continued success with your business.