Far be it from us to blow our own trumpet but we’re rather pleased with this glowing testimonial from one of our newest consultants. David trained on last week’s client acquisition course and, needless to say, we’re absolutely delighted to welcome him on board!

“After looking at the franchise market over a number of months Auditel really rose to the top. It has an excellent proposition. The staff at Auditel were never pushy but always offered open and honest advice. The whole recruitment process was very professional. These facts set Auditel apart from all other white collar franchises.

The Client Acquisition course has been extremely focused, thorough and, just as importantly, fun. The approach of using real-life, practical examples with theory has really helped to drive home the essential messages. I’m really looking forward to putting it all into practice and signing my first clients!”

David Milnes, July 2008

Friday 20th June saw Auditel consultants and representatives from some of the UK’s major suppliers of essential business services at Whittlebury Hall near Towcester. The occasion was our annual Supplier Exhibition, an invaluable opportunity for Auditel consultants and suppliers to meet face-to-face, build relationships and enhance knowledge and understanding of each others’ services in a way that adds real value to the Auditel client offering. While our consultants remain totally independent, there is no doubt that they are held in high professional esteem in the industry as demonstrated by the calibre of organisations that supported this year’s event. These included: More…

EREC 2008 will be the UK’s largest executive recruitment exhibition. It’s being held at the Business Design Centre in Islington and will be open 12pm-7pm on Thursday 26th June and 10am-6pm on Friday 27th June.

Representatives from the Auditel support team - our MD, Chris Allison, our Business Development Manager, Ed Brewer, our Commercial Director, Derek Chisnall and our Facilities Services Director, Howard Ward - will be at the show on both days to discuss executive franchise opportunities within the Auditel network. If you’d like to meet with them, register your interest to get in for free, and they’ll be on Stand 58.

There’s a good article by Rachel Elnaugh in the July/August issue of The Franchise Magazine in which she makes a very good case for franchising as a way to realise your entrepreneurial dreams. Rachel’s an entrepreneur herself, having founded the ‘experiences’ company Red Letter Days, and was one the original Dragons in series one and two of Dragons’ Den, so she’s well-placed to understand the pitfalls of starting a new business. More…

Management consultants looking for new opportunities can visit a virtual careers fair tomorrow, Friday 20th June, being hosted by Top-Consultant.com. You’ll need to pre-register but once you’ve done that will be free to ‘wander’ around exhibition booths and chat with representatives from over 50 of the UK’s top consultancy organisations including Accenture, Ernst & Young and, of course, Auditel. 

To pre-register and for more information, click here. You’ll be able to visit our ’stand’ to find out more about starting your own consultancy practice as an Auditel franchisee from 9am and our Recruitment Manager, Ed Brewer, will be online to chat throughout the day.

Most organisations, like most individuals, assume that the cost of their essential business services is the amount that appears on their monthly or quarterly bill. In reality though, the real cost is likely to be much higher. This is because it includes lots of hidden costs, such as the cost of checking the invoices for overcharges and errors, the cost of paying for services that don’t meet their needs or are over-specificed, the cost of missing opportunities to make savings because they don’t know where to look or how to successfully implement changes, the cost of sorting out mistakes, the cost of falling onto default rates or getting tied into unreasonable contracts, the cost of poor service and so on. More…