Business execution specialists Results.com were in the SME spotlight on 24 June, when CEO Rod Hill appeared on TVNZ’s NZI Business to discuss how the company helps businesses grow in New Zealand and overseas.

Rod spoke with Corin Dann about their success in working with business owners who are ambitious enough to seek outside help to scale their business. Something he says has happend more often since the recession. He says businesses often struggle to balance the different conflicting goals internally and a qualified team that can independently help them define a clear plan and an executable strategy for implementation has been a recipe for success for many of their clients.

Founded in New Zealand, Results.com has set up offices in Calgary and is now expanding into Los Angeles with a growing portfolio of international clients.The worldwide expansion of Results.com was a strategic goal of the founding directors, who bought the url last year in anticipation of the establishment of a global brand.

Its operation as part of a global network has assisted business growth in New Zealand by providing ready access to world class research, case studies and top shelf business speakers such as Tom Peters, Jim Collins and Jack Daly.

Results.com also hosted Jack Daly, sponsored by Telecom for his Winning Sales Strategies full day seminar on 30 July 2010.The event attracted over 430 business leaders and recieved exceptional reviews.  View images from the seminar here.

The event was held at the Ellerslie Racecourse Event Centre in Auckland ran from 8am to 5pm, with a morning session from 8am to 12:30pm on winning sales strategies, and an afternoon workshop from 1:30pm to 5pm on sales management. Auckland Mayor John Banks delivered a keynote speech to open the afternoon session.

Click here to view the full interview of Rod Hill, CEO of Results.com

Here are a few photo’s to give you a feel for the event:

Rod Hill was also interviewed by Michael Wilson for TV3 News . Click here to see what he had to say:

“While small and medium enterprises – SMEs – are experiencing some positive flow on from the economic recovery, cashflow is still a major problem. Business advisor Rod Hill of Results.com says some tax incentives might be needed to get more investment into SMEs.

Stephen Lynch, chief operating officer of NZ business consultancy firm Results.com, has spent the past 15 months setting up the Calgary office and is now in LA setting up the firm’s first US office.

His overseas experience has been captured in the article Expanding your horizons – work overseas by Gill South in Heraldjobs, NZH.

Stephen shares his insights to working and expanding a business overseas.  A young company, it is a far cry from taking a secondment with your well established international business, he says.  “We are boot-strapping our way on to America, paid for by clients we have picked up along the way.”

The business’s focus is on helping companies execute their business strategy, which it has been very successful with in the NZ market.  “What we learned is that what we have done in New Zealand can work in a global context, and you need to think bigger, on a much grander scale,” he says.

Now in LA, chosen for its proximity to New Zealand, he has already tapped into various relevant business networks. Results.com is already working with clients in Texas in a virtual way. “We find the US market highly receptive. We are already working with firms throughout the US.”

Click here to read the full article about Expanding your horizons.

Results.com deals with approximately 200 small and medium businesses on a weekly basis. Ben Ridler, MD was acutely aware of what is on their minds as they came back this new year to work on their businesses.

Ben is a real character, a straight-shooter and a boxer in his spare time. He regularly goes overseas to keep his thinking fresh.

He did a snap survey with a small portion of his clients last year and the results were shared in an article called Trial Period Promise Tops List.

The above was in response to another short opinion piece by Ben Ridler the week before in an -Open letter to John Key  from small business. This in turn  was a follow up to the article ‘John Key looks at ways to help small businesses cope’

Background

• Results.com  were featured on TV3 News last year for their listing in the top 10 Fast50.  And also on TV1  NZI Business Breakfast recently for their opinions on how small and medium businesses are responding to the recession
• Ben Ridler has also shared his opinions fairly regularly on  nzherald.co.nz
• Results.com have nine practices across New Zealand and now have a additional three offices worldwide with Canada already lifting their revenues by 20%.