Ian Frost

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT IAN FROST

Do you want help in growing your business? If so I\'m a proven experienced results getter, who coaches, mentors and/or has a team that deliver the leads alone-it\'s that simple. I\'m 60, and I\'ve built and nurtured businesses of all sizes, and types but all within a B2B environment I\'d add truthfully, and the three things I look back on as being pivotal in my personal development were: 1. I was intensively trained in my formative time at Thomson Regional Newspapers, they were many things (poor payers being one!) but the one indelible stamp they left on me was the importance of a good sales training, and how to engage with prospective customers professionally but with passion and results based focus at all times. 2.My first venture into business in the pre-digital late 80\'s (Webber Frost Advertising in Manchester) when I built a £1m business, that was taken down in the Thatcher recession of the time, but boy oh boy did I learn where I\'d gone wrong too late (under funded, over stretched, weak credit checking & financial management, trusting too much) and whilst I didn\'t enjoy it immediately afterwards, I never ever made the same mistakes again and I never looked back afterwards. In the 90\'s when I led the organic growth of a joinery business (Dale Joinery in Rochdale) from £4.5M to £20M I was mentored by the joint owner (a brilliant businessman called Bill Thompson) who gave the support, encouragement and resource to achieve what we did, but held me to account, and made me have to have my case for investment water tight and up to stringent cross examination. I am indebted to what he taught and nurtured in me to the day. I\'m a real person, all 59 years of age, with lots of experience & success to draw upon, and I am not a franchise or a \'read it in a book self anointed guru\' e.g. I\'ve walked the walk and dealt with the demands of growing a business, good and bad.