This fortnight has all been about preparing for and executing a sales pitch for a succession planning tool that we have developed. The last three months have led us to this point. We have defined our ideal prospect and our value proposition and this product sits in that framework …
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Our focus is now on developing a sales and marketing plan for our home territory of Oxfordshire. This will be the model for our franchises as we scale up our business ahead of our Sharemark admission. The decision has been made to focus this sales and marketing plan …
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Over the past two weeks I have had a number of unsolicited approaches from potential private equity investors and corporate advisers. This shows the advantage of having announced our intention to seek admission to Sharemark: we are now being watched …
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The three challenges for Everyman Legal in 2012 are to scale-up, convert to an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) to allow non-solicitor investors, and to float on Sharemark. As the year starts to unfold, it becomes increasingly apparent that all three challenges are intimately connected …
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This is going to be a tough year for me and Everyman Legal. I contemplate the year with a mixture of excitement and some trepidation. We need to achieve three things this year: first, prove that we have a scalable business model; second, convert to an Alternative Business Structure …
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December has been a busy month for me and the Everyman Legal team. There has been the usual pre-Christmas rush with the end of the year as a natural deadline for deals to be agreed or completed. But there has also been the additional work on our business and marketing plans…
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There has been much happening over the past two weeks. Day-to-day activities crowding in as a colleague has been on holiday and I have been providing cover for him. Over the weekend, though, I made the time to write myself a comprehensive to-do list. It comprises a list of documents and outline timetable for our admission to Sharemark …
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James Hunt, the founder of Everyman Legal, shares the ups and downs of preparing the company for admission to Sharemark, (a stock market for smaller companies). The recent media buzz around our upcoming Sharemark listing has led to approaches from two suppliers. First, a design company that specialises in the design of reports and accounts for [...]
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James Hunt, the founder of Everyman Legal, shares the ups and downs of preparing the company for admission to Sharemark, (a stock market for smaller companies). I meet with Steve Fernback, Everyman’s financial consultant, this week to start the detailed work on our business plan including a financial projection for the next five years. We are [...]
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James Hunt, the founder of Everyman Legal, shares the ups and downs of preparing the company for admission to Sharemark, (a stock market for smaller companies). So that’s it: we’ve made our intentions public to float on Sharemark. I can’t help feeling a little uneasy. I’ve now put myself and our firm firmly under the microscope [...]
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