ASSOCIATES:

PR services

  • Chantal Cooke at PR Demystified specialises in working with small expertise-lead businesses and, as a journalist herself, is ideally placed to generate editorial coverage. Essentially Chantal takes your expertise, turns it into great content and gets it out to 1000s of potential customers. www.prdemystified.com

HR Services

  • Abbeville Associates, a management consultancy, providing business decision-making and strategic Human Resource support, as well as tailored leadership and management development programmes for individuals and teams. Abbeville was established in 2004 by Linda Linehan, who is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of People Development. www.abbevilleassociates.co.uk

Health and Fitness

  • Body Mind Training is part of the Abicord group of companies providing health, fitness, weight management and personal development services for individuals and organisations. The comany is devoted to providing excellence to its clients. Some of its services, including weight loss and smoking cessation, come with a one year money-back guarantee for achieving the goal and sustaining it. www.body-mind-training.com

Financial health

Parenting

  • Parenting secrets: an e-book by Martha Stevens, mother of five children
  • ADHD: If you have a child with Attention Deficit Disorder, read ADD A-Z by Erik Olsen
  • Bullying: If your child is being bullied, read Free From Bullies by Robyn Collins & Wendy Nichols

Family and relationships lawyer

  • Sharan Hassett of Hazelwoods Solicitors & Mediators - an established and reliable law firm specialising in family law, divorce, dispute resolution (for individuals and businesses) and other relationship-focused services. Excellent service and clear, affordable, legal advice ensures client satisfaction and, as a result, most of the firm’s new business is from personal recommendations. www.hazelwoodsolicitors.com

Business Trainer

CustomerClix provides training solutions to customer-focused businesses. It was founded by Kim Horner, a Chartered Marketer with an MBA from Imperial College, University of London. Together with a highly professional group of business partners, CustomerClix provides a range of consultancy and training courses for any business. Training includes Customer-focused strategy, Marketing for non-marketers, Meetings protocol, Sales for non-sales people and bespoke training. All trainers are experts in their field and so can provide consultancy in these areas too. www.customerclix.com

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