Blue Orchid supplies business support services to over 530 local SME’s (Small and Medium Enterprises). Our objective is to help your business develop and achieve its potential. Our team of experienced business advisors will work with you to add value to your company and benefit it in a variety of ways. We can identify and access funding to help you pay for services such as improving your IT systems, developing employee training programmes, finding local approved suppliers, helping raising finance or implementing cash flow control systems.

Business Planning
We can help you develop a business plan (including financial projections). Our advisors are experienced in helping raise finance, forecasting future company growth, addressing market trends, running competition analysis programmes and implementing marketing strategies.

Business Diagnostics
Blue Orchid business diagnostics makes your business run more efficiently and profitably. The results of the diagnostic can help identify the strengths and weaknesses within the company and offer solutions to improve performance.

Financial Advice
Finance can be the biggest hindrance for SME’s. You can have a successful company that is being held back by issues such as cash flow, poor overdraft facilities or bad internal financial systems. We can help you overcome and address these issues by offering professional support and advice.

Marketing
Our marketing professionals are at hand to review your marketing strategies, spend and activities. We analyse the effectiveness of previous and current campaigns and advise on future opportunities to promote your business through the complete marketing mix.

Viability Analysis
Our specialist SME consultants are on hand to help assess your target markets, research your competition, re-evaluate your routes to market and market rates, giving you a deeper understanding of your market landscape.

Forecasting
By analysing your businesses financial performance and cash flows our specialist SME consultants will assist you in developing financial projections and help in planning for future investment.

Sales
We develop sales strategies to account management; we can help your business evolve its sales activity by streamlining processes and improving efficiency.

Legislation
As an SME it is essential you are fully aware of all current and forthcoming legislation that is likely to have an impact on your industry or your customers. We can help you understand the impact of legislative changes and develop contingency planning and support.

Trading Performance
Our consultants can advise and improve your business performance by reviewing a variety of aspects of trading activity including service level agreements, identifying key performance indicators, forecasting, customer service and feedback analysis.

New Product Development
Developing new and innovative products and/or services helps to maintain a competitive edge in your market and is essential to the long term success of any enterprise. We can help your SME understand how best to approach product development and enter new markets.