Growth Strategies
We’ll help you scale successfully
Scaling Partners’ growth strategy consultations could help you:
- Enter new markets
- Launch new products or services
- Expand your business into international markets
- Scale your culture
- Find the right people to help you grow successfully
- Help you build better strategic partnerships
Growth strategy consultancy as a
Growth strategy consultancy as a service with Scaling Partners
service with Scaling Partners
Scaling is a complex cocktail of partnerships, positioning, processes and people. But how do you find the mix that’s right for you? From launching new products to international expansion to finding the strategic partners who can help you realise your ambitions faster, our business expansion strategy consultants will work with you to tailor the right approach for your business.
How to grow your business
You’d think it would be easy expanding the places in which you operate or the products and services you sell. After all, you’ve already done it once. But whether you adopt a vertical or horizontal growth strategy, scaling your offering means asking the same questions you asked when you first launched and dealing with what may be a very different set of answers.
With a new product or in a new territory, the competition may be different. The buying journey may have changed. The production process may need to adapt. Your target audience may have evolved and you may need new methods to reach them.
So before you head off in a new direction, you need the information to help you do it successfully. We can help.
Scaling as a service with Scaling Partners
Scaling Partners help develop go-to-market strategies for startups. We’ll help you optimise your new product launch for new markets and territories. We help you anticipate risks and minimise them. We help you spot opportunities and maximise them. And we’re with you for as long as you need us.
Expanding your business into
Expanding your business into international markets
international markets
Domestic dominance is within your sights and now you’re expanding overseas. But international expansion is never easy. And it’s certainly never as simple as cloning what works well at home. So when you need help to make international growth a success, talk to Scaling Partners.
Explore the potential
markets to expand into
Understand local
laws and culture
Explore the potential markets to expand into
Explore the potential
markets to expand into
Understand local
laws and culture
Explore the potential markets to expand into
Select prime locations
Build local strategic
partnerships
Grow your team on
the ground
Select prime locations
Build local strategic
partnerships
Grow your team on
the ground
International expansion as a service with Scaling Partners
There’s a lot involved in expanding a small business into international markets. We help get every part of the formula right so you can expand with more clarity, more certainly and fewer nasty surprises. It starts by understanding whether overseas growth is feasible and desirable for your business, or whether there are building blocks to put in place first.
People
Working with the right people matters to every organisation of every size. But for a rapidly scaling business, it’s not enough to work with the ‘right people’ purely from a technical perspective. Scaling requires energy, tenacity, goodwill, entrepreneurialism and a wide skillset that encompasses far more than industry-specific expertise. We help you find the people who, for all their other capabilities, are simply a perfect fit for your business.
Recruitment as a service with Scaling Partners
We have a recruitment rule of thumb for the business founders we work with: always make the next hire a step up from the one before it.
So we help you find people with a history of excellence. People who have already been leaders or people who are ready to step up to become one. People who complement your existing talents and fit your company culture. And people who are ready to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in.
From identifying the people gaps in your business to sourcing, interviewing and onboarding, we’ll find the people to help you scale.
Strategic partnerships
The right strategic partnership can be like rocket fuel for a scaling business. A new supplier. A key piece of tech. A marketing, finance or export specialist. If what they offer could remove friction, cut your costs or transform the customer experience, it could be invaluable to your intensive growth strategy. We’ll introduce you.
Partnership as a service with Scaling Partners
Could you benefit each other? It’s our starting point for the strategic introductions we make between the startups we support. But it’s far from the only question we ask. Because a partnership isn’t just built on business compatibility. It’s about being a good match personally too. It’s about both parties feeling ‘I can work with these people’.
We’ll help connect you with people it’s easy to do business with.
Why Scaling Partners?
We’re veterans of successfully scaling businesses. But we’re also veterans of knowing how to launch a new product, how to expand overseas, how to develop an internal growth strategy and how to spot when things need to change and pivot towards new opportunities.
Our business expansion strategy consultants have ‘been there and done that’. We’ll help you do it too.
How We Work
Done with you
Our most economical model. A low touch approach where we Analyse and Support the execution
Done for you
Our ‘Let’s Go’ Model where we take care of just about everything. We Analyse, Support, and Execute
Subscription
Our most integrated model working as a full extension to your team on open-ended or midterm projects
FAQ
What is a horizontal growth strategy?
There are two types of business growth strategy – horizontal and vertical. A vertical growth strategy is the one most startups will encounter first. It describes growth within your market – perhaps creating a new model of an existing product, or creating a new product for the same market.
A horizontal growth strategy is typically the next stage of growth, where you take your products into new areas. That might be new geographic territory (e.g. a company expanding internationally) or new territory in terms of the business domain (e.g. moving from in store to online, or from a product to an SaaS model). Whatever your ambitions, our growth strategy consultations can help.
How do we help you build a pipeline of customers and collaborators?
A partnership can be a powerful addition to any startup. There are many types of partnership – from the person who joins you at the inception of the company to help you turn it into a reality, to the partners who can help you scale through introducing new products or services or taking them into new areas. They could be tech partners, fulfilment partners, suppliers or more. What distinguishes a partner from a regular supplier is their involvement in the strategic direction of the business. You’re not buying their services; you’re inviting them to be a part of the business, to contribute to it and share in its success.
For partnerships to work, your partners and the boundaries of the relationship need to be carefully chosen and clearly expressed. We can help you do that.
Which growth strategy can I apply to my business?
Diversification. Market development. Product or service expansion. Expanding your business into international markets. They’re all potentially viable options for your business. Chances are you’ll adopt at least one of them. But which one?
The right decision will be different for every business and will depend on several factors including: the market you operate in, the competition, your financial situation and potentially rules and regulations limiting what you can and can’t do next.
Finding the right route is crucial to growth, and our business expansion consultants can help. Talk to them now.
What Our Customers Say
Laurent has a sharp commercial mind and was quick to start offering value to our startup. Scaling Partners have helped to sharpen our approach and refine our focus with every session, helping us on key topics such as go-to-market business models to fundraising strategies, providing many actionable tips, and really forcing us to think in a deep way. Laurent has a huge amount of experience and it’s very satisfying to see how much we’ve learned along the way.
Matthew Curley, Founder & CEO
Laurent and the team at Scaling Partners helped us to figure out several missing pieces of the puzzle to help our business take the next stepl, discussing how to find the right investment partner, how to find strategic partners e-commerce operations in Europe and how find a design partner for the fintech operation. Laurent helped us come up with new lines of thinking which was very useful.
Moshe Avrish, Founder & CEO
The experience, support and guidance given to us by Laurent and the team at Scaling Partners was invaluable. Right from the get go they have steered us to avoid the pitfalls the an enthusiastic Entrepreneur would surely fall into and pointed to us to achieve maximum output from the right organisations at the right time in order to take our idea to market.
We are not there yet but Laurent is on speed dial so will get there.
Paul Gilley, CEO
Focused, knowledgeable, and a pleasure to work with. As our business is very tech and Lifesciences focussed, having a commercial sounding board like Scaling Partners, helped us to figure out complex questions to do with pricing, business models, and scalability. Incredibly valuable advice, which has helped us to grow more consistently and even faster.
Chief Revenue Officer
The insights and experience provided by Laurent during a key phase in our business where we were considering both fundraising or exiting proved incredibly helpful. Laurent has deep sector knowledge when it comes to the different fundraising routes a startup can take and talking through different strategies and their implication help us make the best decision for our business.
Cofounder & CEO
Laurent helped our CEO and Leadership team to structure our go-to-market project as we were investigating approaching a new market segment, helping us backfill the gaps in knoeldeg and resources in the business. Laurent helped us create an easy to follow structure to allow the team to do a full competitive and product review as well as looking at pricing and customer ROI.
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