What would you do with the Time (and the Money) if you could sell your Independent HR Consultancy to the Right Buyer in the next 12 weeks?
A Confidential Message from Daniel Barnett
I want to share an exciting opportunity with you. One that WILL eliminate any work based stress you’re under right now…
…IF you’re the right fit for it.

Here’s What HR Consultancies Like Yours Tell Me About The Challenges They Face…
Probably like you, many set up their consultancy after doing a great job for someone else for a few years.
Frustrated with being unappreciated, under paid and constrained by the shackles of working for someone else, they set out on their own.
There are however, a number of difficulties with running your own consultancy, including things that nobody ever told you about before you set up your business.
First of all, the lifeblood of any business - paying customers.
According to business books, getting new clients is really easy. But in the real world, it can be incredibly difficult.
Not only is it really hard, but there’s also the problem of client attrition the business books don't tell you about:
• clients retire,
• people change roles,
• new people come in with their own independent HR consultants,
• organisations suddenly decide insource HR to reduce costs,
• …and the myriad of other reasons too numerous to mention.
And that’s just one of the many challenges you face. Here’s another:
HR Becomes The Last Thing You End Up Doing!
When you started, you dreamed of helping people with their HR problems. But what you actually end up doing is managing a company.
The HR stuff is what you fit in when you can find some precious time away from the running of your business. It’s even harder to do that if you engage and work with other HR consultants.
Half of your time is spent managing the business and everything associated with it.
You don’t actually do the work you love! The work you signed up to do. The work you thought you would do all day, every day.
Instead, you spend a lot of time every day doing the mundane grind… and not enough time actually working with clients and earning the money.
The Challenges of Growing Your Business Are Many...
If you want to expand, it’s really easy to find great HR consultants to join your team. It's just as easy to find people who are good at marketing to come onboard too.
But…
…what’s really hard is finding good HR consultants who can also sell your services. The ones who are comfortable developing new business and bringing in more work to fund the regular ‘tick, tick, tick’ of the payroll.
One way to increase your turnover is to raise your prices. But that’s tough to do, especially right now. We're in the middle of a cost of living crisis, and inflation is expected to hit 10%.
When did you last raise your prices? Probably not for a while. If your prices remain static, inflation erodes your profitability.
That’s a self imposed annual pay cut!

How Many Hats Do You Have to Wear in Your Business?
Not only do you have to be the HR consultant but you've also got to be the bookkeeper, IT expert, administrator, CEO, chief cook and bottle washer all rolled into one.
Running a business is expensive too.
By the time you’ve covered your fixed and variable costs and paid for all those necessary subscriptions to keep the business running you’ve got to pay yourself from what’s left.
Many tell me they actually earn LESS than when they were in-house, getting a regular, guaranteed monthly salary.
You too?
And that’s not all…
Even when you're on holiday, you know you're not - that’s if you can even find the time to take a holiday! Your phone constantly buzzes. You keep checking your email. You feel you HAVE to respond.
You feel compelled to keep your clients happy 24/7 because you think if you don't, they might seek their HR services from your rivals.
Another “Ouch”!
All this can be draining.
I know many HR consultancy owners are looking for a way to overcome these issues. They want a better quality life AND a way to profit from all their hard work.
If that’s you too, then read on.
Here Are The Options You Have Right Now
So, how do you solve the problems so many promising HR consultancies have to deal with?
Realistically, you have three options:
1. Keep doing the same thing.
2. Invest in and build a team of professional support staff.
3. Or opt out, sell your consultancy, exit the business and go off to Barbados (or do whatever it is you want to do when you’ve got a pot of cash and all the time in the world).
Let’s explore these. First of all let’s be honest about options 1 and 2.

Option 1 - Do More of the Same
Albert Einstein famously said this:
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.”
It’s true, of course. If you keep doing the same thing over and over again, nothing's going to change. Well that’s not strictly true ‒ inflation will continue to erode what you get paid for your efforts.
Doing the same thing may be comfortable, but it's not an answer to getting a greater share of the revenue that's out there for independent HR consultants like you.
What’s the next option you’ve got?
Option 2 - Build a Professional Support Staff Team
This is a great solution to grow your business, and the benefits can be huge. It can free you up to focus on doing HR consultancy, generating revenue and growing your business.
The downside, of course, is that it costs money, time and a lot of heartache.
At London prices, you’re looking at a £66,000+ per annum for a part-time bookkeeper, an administrator and a salesperson! That includes their salaries, NIC, pension contributions and holiday pay.
That’s over £5,000 per month outlay, just for part-time help. Let’s not forget you’ll also have the hassle of recruiting and retaining the right people.
And then you’ve got to train, manage and appraise them too. You’ve got the skills, knowledge and experience to do that…
…But…
…if you’re looking to quickly reduce your stress and make your life easier, it’s probably not the option to take.
So let’s get on to the option that makes more sense to all concerned if the conditions are right.
Option 3 - Opt Out & Sell Your Consultancy
Right now, if you’ve the right structure in place and with a track record of success, you’re sitting on something that has real world value.
It’s an asset…and assets can be sold.
So what would you do if you sold your consultancy?
You could retire. But you could also choose to remain working in the business and take a salary from your efforts without any of the hassle of running the business.
Or you could start a completely new business. You could even go back in-house with someone else and have a part-time job with guaranteed income.
It doesn’t matter what you do, after selling up, you’ll either be sat on a pot of cash or you’ll be getting a recurring income from the sale depending on how the deal is structured.
You can then start making decisions to make life serve you instead of the other way round.
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So here’s the “elephant in the room" question:
Who’s Going To Buy Your HR Consultancy?

There are professional investors who buy small businesses.
However, there’s a catch.
The difficulty a professional investor has with buying a consultancy like yours is this: because YOU are generally the business, they worry the moment they give you any money, you'll lose interest and be out the door.
They anticipate client attrition when you personally exit, which means the business could end up being worth very little.
That’s why it’s almost impossible to sell an HR consultancy to a professional or private equity investor.
So if I’ve dangled the carrot of you selling your HR consultancy, who IS going to buy it?
Me!
Yup, I’m looking to buy multiple HR consulting businesses in the coming weeks and months.
Yours could be one of them.
So if you want time freedom and a cash injection to do whatever you want with, then see whether your business fulfils ALL of these criteria:
If it does, we need to speak.
Criterion #1:
Two parts to this:
1 - You've got to own your HR consultancy. If you don't own it, I can't buy it.
2 - You've got to want to sell it. Obvious I know, but I need to state this to filter out the tyre kickers. Only serious sellers need apply.
Criterion #2:
Your consultancy must have a turnover of at least £200,000 pa, or be well on track to achieve that turnover in the next year.
Criterion #3:
Your consultancy must have at least two permanent members of staff working for it (either employees or consultants). I want to retain them, and use them to run and service the business. They’ll have an ongoing job for as long as they want it.
So, if you tick those boxes call me now on my direct personal line (please don’t share this number):
We’ll have a preliminary and completely confidential, informal chat about me buying your HR consultancy.
I AM going to acquire several HR Consultancies in the coming weeks and months.
Who Am I?
I am not a professional investor, so I’m not constrained by the restrictions professional investors face when looking at businesses like yours.
My name is Daniel Barnett. I’m a barrister specialising in employment law, ranked as a leading lawyer by the two main directories. Past clients include a Royal Family, several international airlines, FTSE-100 companies, various NHS Trusts and local authorities, one of TV’s Dragons from Dragon’s Den, and a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and many senior executives.
Over the years, I’ve chaired committees for the Employment Lawyers’ Association, and for the last seven years I’ve been running a business called the HR Inner Circle – a community for smart, ambitious HR Professionals.
I am the author of over a dozen books on employment law, and the creator of an email alerter bulletin service sending details of breaking news in employment law three times a week to over 30,000 recipients.
In the past, I brought webinar technology from the US into the UK for the legal sector, and sold the business to Thomson Reuters in the early 2000s.
For the last twelve years, I have been the presenter of the Legal Hour on LBC Radio, the UK’s leading national commercial talk radio station with an audience of over 3m listeners.

Why Am I Doing This?
There’s one BIG reason.
I run a membership organisation called the HR Inner Circle for smart, ambitious HR Professionals. I’m aware of the struggles they endure. I see an opportunity to solve two very common problems they have with one elegant solution.
Problem #1 - To help owners of a successful HR consultancy who want to exit their business but don’t know how.
Problem #2 - To help independent HR consultants who are great at HR but struggle to get new business.
Here’s the purpose of me acquiring several HR Consultancies.
I have a fantastic sales, marketing and operations team of around 25 people. I’m going to use their proven skills, experience and expertise to build up the work of the HR consultancies I buy.
I'll take on the big players head-to-head. I’ll build on the clients and services you have already in your businesses. I’ll integrate my team with your team. That’s why it’s so important to retain your existing staff.
Of course your staff will have first dibs on the work. I will keep all your staff, and all your consultants. Their jobs are secure.
But with my sales and marketing team and their powerful business generation systems, I will be generating a lot more work.
And I will give that overflow work to members of the HR Inner Circle. Imagine what it would have been like when you started your consultancy to be given work without having to go hunt for it!
That will be yet another magnificent benefit of being a member.
This is all contingent on me acquiring several HR consultancies.
That’s why I’m so picky about only looking at candidate HR consultancies who meet these criteria:
1. Can sell and want to sell.
2. Minimum £200,000 annual turnover..
3. Minimum two permanent members of staff (apart from you).
It’s a no obligation, exploratory chat just between you and me. We’ll discuss your business and how you could finally exit the rat race.
Our conversation will be completely confidential, and if, after our initial discussions, we decide we're interested in talking further, I'll give you a signed non-disclosure agreement so that you’re fully protected.
It’s an exciting opportunity and I’m already having initial conversations with interested parties.
So if there’s even a small part of you that’s wondering “what if…”, call me now in case you miss out.
Remember, this number will get you directly through to me for an entirely confidential chat:
With very best wishes,

Daniel Barnett
P.S. If you want a very fast sale, possibly even taking place within a few weeks, I am still interested in talking with you. Call me on 0333 090 6791 now.