CLIENT Testimonials

Now, we have a new team, a vision, a defined culture, and the tools available to really grow the business. We have had significant improvements in most areas of our business with a revenue increase of 23%. In addition, I am finally using my time more productively, and the team is more focused!
Cheski Brown, Abderry Equine Services Ltd

This business owner is now achieving big business goals consistently. At the heart of this success is a strong team as well as internal and external systems in place and with happy staff came happy customers that Rise Advisory have helped him build. In 2009 sales grew by $726,690, and profit margins increased with net profit up by $187,620. Different marketing campaigns and measured results provide varied revenue sources and year-round profits.

This was achieved by significantly improved profit margins. With some solid business systems in place the business owners have been able to concentrate on family and property investment. Winners of "Business of the Year 2006" and "Best Financials 2006" Brown Drainage has managed to stay on track with Jerome's invaluable point of view.

The attention on both sales and operating systems have produced some significant results for this couple while working with Jerome. Firstly, due to the CRM system with the better monitoring and measuring of the sales pipeline, more leads were followed-up and converted into sales. This gave an increase in revenue of 33% over the previous year. Gross profit was up 28%. 

Secondly, the admin systems and operational management improvements we implemented made a massive difference to the business. These significantly lowered the operational costs so that nett profit rose 241%.

What it means for your business
While most businesses focus on growing their sales, few businesses realise how expensive and inefficient their operations are. In this business, we can see that a focus on sales produced a nice 33% increase in revenue but the time and effort we placed on the operations paid off with a more than doubling of nett profit. For this couple looking forward to their retirement, that is hugely important as the sale value of their business is based on a multiple of the profits. They can now look forward to a much more enjoyable and profitable retirement.

Owner Adrian van den Bemd first took on the services of Rise Advisory mid 2010 with the full intention around Sales growth by focusing profit margins by reviewing all quoted work through back costing. This had a purpose to work out the gross profit for new sales team member which become a successful recruitment process with the help of Rise Advisory’s experience. Then the focus become to move into a bigger building for similar cost (and this worked well for changing for product being stored for clients). Recruitment of more production team with the right attitude and skill became apparent and now implementing a workflow system

The business owner had no direction - now the company operates with goals in place and is achieving them! Sales increased by $103,431 in just 6 months - and gross profit grew from 20% to 48%! Growth has been sustained and consistent for 2 years straight

Together with Jerome we branded the company with our uniqueness and started systemizing and marketing towards our own contracts. We then started to attract team through different sources and focused on growth through gross profit and bottom line while streamlining our job management program. We have now doubled our turnover with a healthy bottom line and continue to increase our pipeline with ideal customers and the right fit for our team. Todd Farrow, Director - NeoBuild

The Rise Team's knowledge is excellent and ability to know just what we need to work on next is uncanny. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend their services to any business and recommend them as an awesome advisers."
Nigel Smith, Transformer Ltd