Expert mentoring support, information, articles and advice for start-up and growing businesses.
Borders Mentors provide an online business mentoring service for small and growing businesses. Our mentors are all experienced business people with many years experience of starting and building new businesses. Others have expertise in a particular area, such as marketing, building an online presence, or staffing and employment issues.
Our mentors are keen to share their knowledge and experience with start-up and growing companies.
They can offer you a sounding board and a fresh perspective, as well as the benefit of their many years in business. They understand the problems and challenges you face because they have gone through similar experiences and come out the other end.
Start-Up Businesses
Working with a mentor who has experienced the ups and downs of a start up – from first idea through to the emergence of a successful and profitable company – will help to ensure you build a strong foundation for your new business. We appreciate that money is often tight in the early days, so our mentoring programmes are realistically-priced and affordable. Because we understand that time is also a precious commodity, we’ve also made our mentoring programme as accessible as possible – no traveling to meetings or leaving the office unmanned for prolonged periods. You can work with your mentor from your computer or by telephone at a time to suit you.
Issues that start-ups often wish to explore with their mentor include:
Growing Businesses
As your business grows, time will be at a premium. Many business owners find themselves working all hours and it can be difficult to take time out to step back – to spend time working on your business rather than in it. This is where your mentor comes in – working with a mentor gives you the time and space to think about where your business is going, and also offers a fresh perspective on key business issues.
Common issues that business owners explore in mentoring at this stage include:
We offer three mentoring programmes at present:
