Antony on the road (4)

Thursday 20 Nov 08 - My turn to be star attraction this morning, turning up bright and early at Ashford Manor Golf Club in Surrey to give a seminar to the Surrey Chambers of Commerce (http://www.surrey-chambers.co.uk/) on how to survive and thrive in the current economic climate. The seminar is based on our Orchard SMART programme which has been specifically devised for the current situation and which aims to focus clients on looking for opportunities whilst ensuring that they tighten up on the basics financial control and management. In addition to finance, the programme also addresses sales, marketing and people issues and it intended to help business for whom financial management was not so important in the good time but is now essential in the current climate.More details can be found on the Orchard website (http://www.orchardgrowth.com/downloads.php) but what was encouraging was the positive attitude of many of the businesses there to the current situation and the belief that they could be SMART enough to survive and thrive.