SERVICES
ADVISORY SERVICES &
IDEA-TO-LAUNCH MENTORING PROGRAM
We serve start-ups & entrepreneurs that are focused on the future. We provide end-to-end guidance and support from ideation to launch.
Business & Marketing Advisory / Mentoring
Business & Marketing
Advisory / Mentoring
GROW WITH GUIDANCE SUPPORT
At FFMG, we are committed to supporting the growth of accelerating ventures; Small Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Founders and Start-ups. As a small growing business, we understand the challenges and the value of good mentors and advisors. We have surrounded ourselves with subject matter experts to keep us moving and growing.
Our role as an advisor and mentor is to transfer the lessons of experience, lessen knowledge-gaps with empathy and understanding, inspiration and support, and no judgment.
WE OFFER REAL WORLD, INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Our support to Small Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Founders and Start-ups extend over 15 years providing guidance, advice and support to Directors and their Boards. If you are seeking support, we have walked your shoes and worked closely with hundreds of business to not only give advice but help them with what needs doing. What we have learnt is, creating a to-do list is easy but holding their hand and guiding ‘how to do things’ is what’s needed most. Our point of difference is we make things happen; we are hands-on Mentors and Advisors, not just talkers. Our clients are accelerating ventures creating new products and services through the adoption of new technology, improved processes, and enhanced systems while others are diversifying their existing product and service range. We also support service providers and venture capitalists to help their investment in newfound businesses grow.
WE POUR OURSELVES INTO OTHERS
Our founder, Tina Manolitsas, is an experienced advisor, mentor and consultant delivering service to businesses of all type and size. Tina is a veteran lecturer applying her real-world experiences and learnings to teach at Australia’s leading universities.
Tina is FFMG’s Principle-Mentor. She facilitates and shares knowledge, skill and experience, with passionate individuals that need support to get better and better at what they do – grow their business.
At the heart of her leadership is a passion for, and commitment to, tailoring programs to meet Mentees learning needs resulting in professional growth and leadership development. Bringing experiences from 18+ industry sectors, a background of both agency and client-side management, and a network of matter specialists help her to deliver Mentees with additional support, Tina has an innate ability to navigate through problems to find solutions.
We Can Help You Accelerate Your Impact
We help leaders find clarity and growth to thrive in business and ensure future sustainability.
Our services and programs are founded on years of working with Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Founders and Start-ups and in recent working with service providers, venture capitalists and philanthropic individuals and groups.
With this learning in mind, our methodology is not a one-size-fits-all, but rather a nurturing process that provides information, resources and support as needed. It helps overcome complexities and assists business owners to master their business and personal goals. We take time to understand you and your business, immerse ourselves in what keeps you up at night and help to understand your goals, aspiration and challenges before we give any guidance and advice.
Services for SME Owners, Entrepreneurs, Founders and Start-Ups
Grow-YOU™
Our seven-step mentoring / advsiory model Grow-YOU™ is underpineed by the powerful and proven Grow model with a three-step personalise extension just for YOU™.
Our YOU™ methodology is based on nurturing processes that provide personalised information, resources and support as needed. It helps overcome complexities and assists business owners to master their business and personal goals.
We take time to understand you and your business, immerse ourselves in what keeps you up at night and help to understand your goals, aspiration and challenges before we give any guidance and advice.
A successful mentorship / advisory relationship requires you to assess your own skills. We strongly believe that success comes with your own pace. We are that all participants shake off the guilt of going at their own pace, as this state of mind will help you become the master of your own universe.
iTL™ Program
For Founders of start-ups who need guided support to clarify and identify what needs doing at every step and be the thinker. This is not a 12 week or 6-month do it yourself program. To learn more, click here.
For businesses looking to find access to current, ground-breaking thinking that to help accelerate their growth.
Our team of business and marketing Board Advisors work with your Company Board or become part of your existing Advisory Board. This service helps directors to be more effective in developing business, marketing and sales plans, implementing governance and compliance, reducing risk and pitch to investors.
SERVICES FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS & VENTURE CAPITALISTS
For organisations such as manufacturers, engineers, product designers, accountants Co-working space, whose clients are Founders and Start-ups.
You have identified in order for these clients to grow and realise the value in your service they need to address their immediate challenges or those they haven’t even considered. You have tried with no avail and know with help they will take off.
For investors who want to see both their investment and the business grow. A dedicating advisor will identify the gaps and the subject matter experts needed to help resolve immediate roadblocks and map out the next steps.
SERVICES FOR PHILANTHROPIC INVESTORS
For investors who want to see their legacy make an impact, their investment grow at the same time the organisation’s cause do good for others. Most Not-For-Profits are resource poor, are experts in their cause however are not subject matter experts in other key areas such as business and marketing. This service is to ensure your investment is transparent and accountable for the service delivered.
SERVICES FOR marketing teams
Tailored specically to your needs and marketing challenges. Our coaches and mentors have solid business experience and industry knowhow to help with review and direction for specific actions, tactics and programs.
Perfect for an in-house or virtual team (2-4) responsible for marketing activities within a business where everyone’s busy, tight deadlines are a constant headache, and strategic planning is often overlooked due managing daily interruptions and distractions.
Our coaches and mentors will help marketing teams make the most of their energy and productivity to market your business with a focus on goals, success and effective work habits.
Give your team the boost they need to propel your business forward. We can grow your teams marketing knowledge and capabilities, provide valuable insight and fresh ideas, and help prioritise multiple projects and initiatives that will land you more leads.
No business can afford specialist marketers all the time. The smart ones leverage the talents of an outsourced marketing team to drive outcomes.
FFMG offer a variety of marketing execution services essential to support your business goals. We invite you to explore our full range of services here.
MENTOR / ADVISORY PROGRAM TESTIMONIALS
We asked our Mentees what was their favourite part of our program/experience?
Idea-To-Launch (iTL)
Business Support Program
The Idea-To-Launch (iTL) Business Build Support Program provides SME’s and Entrepreneurs with access to a business program that helps them grow with assurance and ensures them they haven’t missed a step, from having an idea to launching their business.
Our specialist mentors work with curious minds to challenge their knowledge, to develop skill and experience to help them reach their fullest potential.
Our goal is to provide them with a stepped program with support from subject matter specialists to grow their business and stretch their funding further. The program is comprehensive, agile and the least expensive way to bring their vision and strategy to life.
The Idea-To-Launch program is committed to partnering with today’s curious minds and innovators to help them grow into tomorrow’s next business success.
12-Month Program
Idea-To-Launch (iTL) Program Approach
We are committed to helping businesses grow
Program Attributes
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✓ Directs your thinking
✓ Steps you through a process, working each phase with knowledge, self-assurance and clarity to make informed, smart decisions about the next phase
✓ Build a network of subject matter experts who work together to get things done
✓ Tracks your progress
✓ Pinpoints when you need help and keeps you accountable to keep you moving
AS BUSINESS CREATOR - YOU GET
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✓ Asked the hard questions, if you know the answers, you’re getting prepared, if you don’t know you need to before moving on
✓ To discover what you don’t know about your idea
✓ To work out how ready you are and what that means
✓ To understand the right business model for your situation and how to protect yourself and those you love and care for
AS AN IDEATOR - YOU GET
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✓ Focused on ‘should it be built’ versus 'can it be built’
✓ Clarity, if you are mistaking your idea as a vision as some ideas are not commercially savvy
✓ Transparency, if your first idea is the prototype you launch with
✓ Nous, is your solution geared to building a strategic business model
✓ Understanding, if customer craves for your concept and solution
AS AN INDIVIDUAL - YOU GET
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✓ Feeling supported and inspired instead of overwhelming, confusion and uncertain
✓ Be an investigator as your hypotheses may not always prove right
✓ Be savvy, know your environment as a business are is built in a vacuum, but in a context
✓ Value commitment, patience and perseverance
✓ Celebrate wins!
iTL Program Framework
STAGE 1 & 2
Ideation & Exploration
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Build confidence and know your idea in depth. Explore it end to end before investing your time, effort and money.
STAGE 3 & 4
Test & Develop
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Have peace of mind knowing you're developing a solution that someone wants to be backed by credible research and robust testing.
STAGE 5 & 6
Design, Create & Build
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Design and create a business model that drives growth, market share and produces profit and built on robust operational foundations.
iTL Program Leverages Great Business Minds
iTL Program participants leverage the insights of great business minds.
They receive one-on-one mentoring from subject matter specialists, Mentors at each stage of the process.
Mentors have expertise and experience across different disciplines and will guide participants every step of the way. They’ve been there before and know what it takes to help them succeed.
Mentors guide subjects including but not limited to:
- Business strategy and set up
- Product design and development
- Finance
- Legal
- Brand identity and development
- Marketing strategy and Go-To-Market
- IT
- Network building
- Business exit strategy