Simon Collard

Simon is a highly-experienced Chief Financial Officer with over 25 years of experience working across marketing services including Consultancy, Design, SEO, Social, Branding and Development Agencies.

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Simon has worked at a senior level with independent SMEs as well as global networks. He played a lead role in the successful sale of Tullo Marshall Warren to Creston plc and subsequently as an advisor in a number of trade sales. 

As a part time CFO Simon works with a range of independent Agencies to deliver clear and simple numbers to help Agencies become easier to manage, more fun to run and, most importantly, more profitable.

Drawing on his experience Simon has written a course to explain Agency finances to Account Managers/Client Services or Project Managers. 

Your Client Services team raises estimates, manages projects and relationships. Increasing their knowledge and awareness of the challenges running a profitable Agency is vital and often overlooked.  There’s also a section for Agency Owners in the pipeline.

In addition Simon has helped build 2 Apps to help solve the most common Agency problems.

Agencymap.io is a free app which aims to replace the spreadsheet as the go to place for forecasting your revenue. Robust, reliable and intuitive agencymap.io will help marry your forecast and pipeline to get a clear view of what your agency revenue definitely is and possibly could be.

Profitvampires.com looks at which clients make a profit and those which take more than they give. Quickly and simply it is designed to point Agencies in the direction of the next conversation they need to have.