Quite how to put your ideas into practical application is the subject of careful planning and research. You may have the experience to put some of this down already. What is certain is that if you do not do your planning well the business will fall flat on its face before long.

Your planning is a chance to get it right on paper first. If it doesn’t fit together you can tear it up and start again of necessary with no harm done.

Here are the main topics we will check through with you for a new business. They all need considering to one extent or another. In some cases the topic can be set to one side for now but let us be sure that when it resurfaces we haven’t set you up to have a problem with it later.

Once the planning has been done the practical application comes into play. Bob Shepherd Associates have a wide contact circle and often network people together. If possible we can help directly and bring in Associates who are people we work with regularly who are trusted and known.

So much time can be saved when you have prior experience. Let us help you with your lease, your agreements, your legal requirements your patents and trade marks. The list of requirements is vast. Much of it we will have seen before and know where to go. In many cases we have relationships established with competent professionals to bring in their expertise as necessary.

Past cases

Bob Shepherd Associates was approached to look at the purchase of a Canal Narrow Boat company. The family business was more run down than the vendors realised and was not viable in its present form. However the site was capable of development in a number of ways. Purchasing the business would enable the new owners to set up some holiday accommodation and over the next couple of years turn a run down boat yard into a small and attractive holiday complex.

A mid life change led an entrepreneur to approach Bob Shepherd Associates with a plan to purchase a delicatessen. The funds were available and the resources balanced but with his background we could not see him stood behind a counter for six days a week. His delicatessen turned into a property development company using skills he had treated as a hobby until now.