Seriously Sorted®

Imagine taking your business to new heights, surpassing your goals, and outmaneuvering your competition.

We specialize in strategic planning tailored to small and micro enterprises and our team has a broad range of experience across many sectors cobined with a client-centric approach to help you unlock your business's full potential. We work closely with you to define clear objectives, analyze market dynamics, and create a roadmap to success. With our expertise in analysis, action planning, and forecasting, we provide the essential tools and guidance you need to get your business on track.

Don't leave your success to chance — Contact us now to schedule a consultation and discover how we can drive your business forward.

So where are YOU in the business cycle?

StartUp

What don't I know?

Growing the business

Everything overload?

Surviving

Too much work? Not enough work?

Exiting

Retirement? Something different?

About us

Neil’s passion for the survival, growth and particularly the successful exit by the owner(s) of small and micro businesses is a major driving force in his life. He knows that without the help and assistance he received early on in his career that his business would not have survived. It is this passion that has driven his preoccupation with what he calls “the business of business” or BOB.

The principles he holds are very much shared by the other team members who he has recruited specifically to ensure that you the business owner gain the maximum benefit from the diversity of experience each brings to the team.

It is rare for a business to struggle delivering its core product or service. To coin a phrase, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers tend to start operations manufacturing or supplying meat, bread or candlesticks. This they are supremely good at, it is their passion and it was to pursue that passion on their terms they walked away from their day job and set up their own operation.

However, a business involves a lot more than just product or service delivery, there is the marketing, sales, contracts, administration, HR, finance, legal, etc. It is often in these areas that business owners are not so versed or experienced …. and let’s be clear, these are not the things that light the fire of most entrepreneurial business owners.

Unfortunately there are times when any one of these areas becomes fundamentally critical to the survival of a business. If the owner(s) don’t have the knowledge or experience to deal with the issue, the outcome can be anything from time wasted to game over.

Neil Budgen
Managing Director

Dorothy Macedo
Director

Keith Macleod
Company Secretary

WE have the KNOWLEDGE and EXPERIENCE ...... but ONLY YOU can make the call that counts

Testimonials

Karen - Souk

I have had the privilege of being mentored by Neil Budgen over the last 15 months and for me it has been life changing. Neil has been exceptional, he truly cares and has been committed to helping me achieve success.

Catherine - Linear Standby Belts

I am co-owner of Linear Standby Belts and we engaged Neil Budgen to mentor myself and my business partner as our business was not performing as expected.

Neil has been very great in helping us understand what goals we need to put in place and the importance of planning. We are going to continue seeing Neil for more meetings as he has helped us greatly.

Brian - Eyeline Optical

We contacted Neil at a time when we were considering our future direction, renewing objectives and goals, and to help us plan for the future. It was difficult for us to recognise that we needed help as we already had a very successful business. Oh how wrong we were!

Karyn - Just For You

I remember Neil’s first question to me was about my exit strategy. When did I want to sell my business? 5 years? 10 years? When the kids left home? At retirement? I had no idea I’d never thought about it seriously. At that time I didn’t appreciate the value of this question, but really it’s a very important question that every small business owner should ask themselves.

What was my business worth to sell? Businesses are geared to pay the least amount of tax – yes and not to show how much profit the business actually makes – that was me. Now I think about exit strategies for multiple things in my life……...buying a car, buying a house, my teenage girls boyfriends! How to untangle yourself from a part of your life that often has a limited life span. I have a much clearer picture of a start, middle and finish and the planning that should be involved with this.

The help Neil gave me when I changed website designers and went live with a disastrous website that created a huge drop off in sales was vital for me and for my business. The panic of ‘what have I done and how do I fix it’ had hit. Neil’s cool head and great advice certainly got me through those agonizing days when I had no idea of what to do. He gave me the confidence to eat humble pie and go back to my original website designers and reinstate my old website. Walking away from $5K of brand new website and the cost of reinstating my old website was scary, but it was exactly the right decision. The immediate bounce back in sales proved I’d made the right decision.

Neil made me explore my manufacturing techniques and processes and where to go to look for other methods that could work. Working with Weltec (Wellington Institute of Technology) provided some time saving processes. Neil also referred me to a patent lawyer where I became informed on my rights with my original designs and IP.

I have no hesitation in recommending Neil to anyone in business. No matter how smoothly their business is running I’m sure Neil could help them improve one or more aspects. And if they haven’t thought about their exit, they really should and they should talk to Neil.