Blog 32 - Unlock Your Growth Potential in 2026: Join the Free Business Growth Challenge
The blog this week is from Jeremy
Unlock Your Growth Potential in 2026: Join the Free Business Growth Challenge
If you want 2026 to be the year your business grows with clarity, confidence, and momentum, the Business Growth Challenge — delivered in partnership with the Department for Business & Trade — is the perfect place to start.
This free four‑week programme gives UK businesses the tools, structure, and expert guidance needed to build a growth plan that actually works. And at the centre of that plan? Two fundamentals that too many businesses skip: market research and strategic business planning.
👉 Register here
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🌍 Why Market Research Matters More Than Ever
In a competitive and fast‑moving landscape, guessing is expensive. Market research helps you understand:
• Who your ideal customers really are
• What they value and how they buy
• Where the strongest opportunities exist — in the UK and overseas
• How your competitors position themselves
When you have this insight, your marketing becomes sharper, your messaging becomes clearer, and your growth efforts stop feeling scattered. Instead of trying to be everything to everyone, you focus on the markets and customers that offer the highest return.
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📈 Business Planning: The Engine of Sustainable Growth
A strong business plan isn’t a document — it’s a decision‑making tool. It aligns your team, clarifies your priorities, and ensures every hour and pound is invested with purpose.
The Business Growth Challenge helps you:
• Build a practical, actionable growth strategy
• Align marketing, sales, and delivery around shared goals
• Create a roadmap for winning more work
• Strengthen your ability to pitch, bid, and close deals
When market research and business planning work together, businesses stop reacting and start leading.
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🚀 Join the Challenge and Set Yourself Up for Success
Across four expert‑led sessions, you’ll learn how to research your markets, plan effectively, communicate your value, and win more opportunities at home and abroad.
It’s free. It’s practical. And it’s designed to set your business up for long‑term success.
👉 Sign up today
Other Resources
We’re on a mission to help companies like yours win more work.
Here are some other free resources that should help you too. Feel also free to share them with friends and colleagues:
Bid Writing Training - Learn to write winning tenders here.
Free Bid Writing Basics Training Video - Watch the video here.
Writing Crown Commercial Services Bids - Learn to tackle the challenges of writing CCS tenders here.
The Bid Toolkit - We make winning simple.
Our free work winning Podcast, the Red Review, can be found here.
You can also follow Jeremy on LinkedIn for hints, tips and insights here.
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