Fix how your business runs today. Plan for when you’re not there.

We help small business owners fix the gaps costing them customers right now, and plan for what happens if they can’t be there tomorrow.

Where do you need help right now?

THE PRESENT

Fix how your business runs today

If customers aren’t getting a consistent experience, or your can’t step back without things falling apart, the problem is usually structural.
Business Health Check
Customer Experience Improvement
Operations Improvement
Operations Toolkit

THE FUTURE

Plan for what happens if you’re not there

You are the most important person in your business. That’s also your business’s biggest vulnerability. An Owner Continuity Plan ensures that if something unexpected happens – someone can step in and keep things moving.
Owner Continuity Toolkit – from $179
– Guided Continuity Plan
– Annual plan review and toolkit review sessions

“A business with great systems and no continuity plan still leaves the people around you without a map”

Not sure where to start?

The free Business Health Score takes five minutes and shows where your biggest risks are – across operations, customer experience and owner dependency.

What business owners say.

“The owner wanted to know how customers were actually experiencing their service – not how staff assumed they were. A structured review identified specific gaps in consistency and communication, giving the owner a clear, honest picture and practical starting points for improvement.”

Food Service Business

“Working with Ed gave us a clear picture of exactly where we were losing time and money. We implemented the changes over 90 days and the difference has been significant.”

Sarah T, retail business owner

“I had years of ideas about where I wanted to take the business but no way to get them out of my head and into something useful. Ed helped me work through all of it – the structure, the direction, the brief for our developer. For the first time it was all on paper and actually made sense.”

John K, tennis centre owner

Founded by Ed Shute

After 20 years working inside businesses across hospitality, travel and professional services, Ed founded Business Life Support to give small business owners access to the kind of structured operational and customer experience support that most never get and that most advisors never connect together.

The Growth Guide

Practical perspectives for small business owners on customer experience, operations and running a business that doesn’t run you.

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