Laurence Collins-Willis Email & Phone Number

Faversham, GB

Kent, Sussex & South East London

I bought ER Longley Hydroworks in August 2016 after the untimely passing of the former owner, Jeremy Crush. The business I bought was struggling for several reasons at that time, and we have had a lot of enjoyment and pleasure rebuilding the business back to its former glory. ER Longley is the oldest established water softening dealership in the UK.

London, England, United Kingdom

🎉🤝 Thrilled and honoured to join The Prince's Trust as a Business Mentor! 🔥🌟Supporting young entrepreneurs and witnessing their passion ignite is truly incredible. Together, we'll empower them to achieve their dreams and succeed in the business world. 🌱💼 Excited for this inspiring journey ahead! #MentoringMatters #YouthEmpowerment

As a Trustee and Director of Mankind, my role is to work with fellow Trustees, the Chair Stuart and CEO, Lucy, and her team, making it possible for them to achieve their goals and the dream of bringing hope & peace to men who have been sexually abused. As a survivor myself, I feel I have a level of experience that, whilst I would have preferred to not have.

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As an ABM trained Mentor and Help to Grow ABM Member, I am a qualified, trusted and experienced Business UK Government Approved Help To Grow Business Mentor within their Management Leadership programme.In this role, I provide mentorship and support to approved participating businesses on a 5-year contract.

London, United Kingdom

Mark Collins and I started this business in October 2013 after working closely with Robert Kiyosaki's USA 'Rich Dad' team from 2012.At the time I was £30,000 in debt, had no savings and no pension. I had lost everything after being made redundant from EcoWater, including my home, and I simply did not know how I was ever going to get out of the mess I was.

As Dealer Manager for Harvey Water Softeners, I had the enjoyable opportunity to motivate and coach our dealer business owners and their staff to achieve the success they worked hard for, and richly deserved. Under my direction, we became the largest and fastest growing dealer group in Europe. It was a privilege to be in a role where you know the support.

As a Evalueserve Circle of Experts consultant, I worked closely as a consultant to their Evalueserve international panel which lends advice to companies wishing to export their products to other countries. My role was to support companies wishing to import their products into the United Kingdom. This relationship started after working with the UK.

Aquafactors Direct was one of the leading water fed pole window cleaning equipment manufacturers in the world, and was also a highly respected water treatment company. Aqua-Nouveau was a large Kinetico water softener dealer.The Aquafactors business ran into difficulties in late 2008 when the Credit Crunch hit, and two weeks after I joined the business, the.

- Commenced restructure of dealer business, key account managed dealer relationshipsresulting in increased loyalty, sales and support from existing disheartened dealers.- Encouraged sharing of successful common business practices among dealers, focused onincreasing alls’ profitability, local exposure, sales and long term stability of the brand.- Handled.

- Re-developed a non-performing area within 18 months and with a 244% increase in area sales with strong emphasis on exceeding customer expectations, providing branchsupport and encouraging loyalty from merchant staff, from counter to director level.- Developed excellent key account relationships at board level with various national & regionalmerchants.

- Technically and accurately specified and sold domestic central heating requirements.- Consistently demonstrated excellent in-depth & up-to-date working knowledge of gas safetyregulations, water regulations, building regulations and British Standards.- Exceeded revenue and customer satisfaction targets – Achieved Leading Salesman status forconsistent.

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- Designed and managed highly successful annual marketing campaigns, corporate events &monthly mailing portfolio.- Increased active customer base significantly, and average spend by over 120%.- Acquired proactively many new accounts from our competitor, three of whom became keywithin our Top 10 base.- Negotiated and managed supplier participation within.

N2 & National Senior Certificate, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, Engineering Science, Engineering Drawing, English

Std 8, English, Afrikaans, Business Economics, Typing, Accounting, Geography

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