David Barclay Email & Phone Number

West Lothian

West Lothian

Dedicated Business Adviser working with new and existing businesses in West Lothian to grow and develop. Help with:-starting up a business-business planning-sales and marketing-training and workshops-finance-networking-employing people-growing and improving your business.

West Lothian

Livingston, West Lothian

Dedicated Business Adviser working with new and existing businesses in West Lothian to grow and develop. Help with:-starting up a business-business planning-sales and marketing-training and workshops-finance-networking-employing people-growing and improving your business.

Managing the set up and development of The Broomhouse Centre's, catering social enterprise business, Crescent Kitchen. Initially producing a business plan to establish that the idea was viable and would support and generate income for the other projects at The Broomhouse Centre. Implementing the business plan and creating a brand and sales and marketing strategy to establish and grow Crescent Kitchen.Generating new business (catering for events, meetings, business lunches etc within Edinburgh and surrounding areas), account management and tendering and winning catering contracts (won tender in partnership with Sir Robert McAlpine to operate a café service to their staff on the redevelopment of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre and won the tender to run the café facility in Leith Community Centre). Recruiting new employees and and managing a small team of staff and volunteers. . My role involved running the business on a day to day basis, managing the small team and generating new business and developing new opportunities for business development. I also regularly had to report and present to the management committee keeping them up to date with the progress and development of Crescent Kitchen.

To generate new business and account manage existing clients.Telesales, online demonstrations, networking, exhibiting at conferences and events, field sales.www.thepodfather.comThe PODFather is a mobile software solution that tracks your orders from booking through to invoicing, designed to streamline your business both in the office and on the road.

- Business to business sales targeting financial sectors (domestic and international markets)- Generating new business for Financial Times & Economist Diaries - Account Manager for existing clientshttp://www.financialtimesdiaries.com/ http://www.economistdiaries.com/