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Proof

Real firms. Real names. Real numbers.

Their own reported figures, not a forecast for yours. The names are real and so are the results.

“I assessed 50+ PR, marketing, coaching and business development companies. Andy was the first and only one who had it all for search firm owners.”

Brandt HandleyROI Recruitment

“We hit our one million dollar goal. We actually blasted it and already at 1.1. If you asked me three years ago if this was possible, I didn’t even believe it.”

Jonathan SpiessRocket Talent

“I 10x’d my revenue in two years. Now the number one authority in my niche by far.”

Darren FranksTalent in the Cloud

“£30,000 to £100,000 a month, inside six months. Now scaling past a quarter of a million.”

Ken McCarthyBlackRock Resources

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What gets built

Own your vertical. Not compete in it.

Everything that makes your firm the first and only call in its niche. The market mapped, every decision maker and every candidate in your database, the business development and the authority that keep them yours. Built for one desk, proven, then repeated into the next.

1 · AttractOwn the vertical, and see every move in it before anyone else.

01The Narrow NicheYou own a slice of the market nobody else is in, big enough to build a firm on.

02The Market MapYou stop guessing who to call. The whole market, on one page.

03The Deep DatabaseEvery decision maker and every candidate in the vertical, and nobody else has that list.

04The Buyer BriefYou walk into every conversation knowing more about their business than they expect.

05The Trigger TrackNothing moves in your vertical without you knowing. You are first in, every time.

06The Live LinkYour LinkedIn stops being where you post and becomes where work comes from.

2 · ConvertTurn that position into clients and retained fees, on your terms.

07The Public PositionAnyone who checks you out finds a specialist, not another agency.

08The Weekly WaveClients and candidates hear from you every week, without you thinking about it.

09The Client CadenceBusiness development runs whether you are on the phone, on holiday, or in an interview.

10The Retained RouteYou have the answer ready when a client asks why they should pay up front.

11The Commercial ChoiceYou pick the model that suits the deal, not whatever the client offers.

12The Nurture NetLeads that are not ready yet stay warm and come back to you, not a competitor.

3 · DeliverRun every search to one standard, then grow into the next market.

13The Candidate CadenceCandidates come to you, so you never start a search from zero.

14The Candidate CaptureThe good ones answer, because what lands in front of them is worth reading.

15The Search StandardEvery search runs the same way, whoever runs it, so quality never depends on your mood.

16The Client ContractClients turn up, give feedback and move, because they agreed to before you started.

17The Growth GridOnce you own one vertical, you take the next one the same way.

18The Lasting LeadYou become the name in the vertical. When someone thinks of hiring or moving, they think of you.

For search and recruitment firm owners

Become the only call, not one of four.

You are good at this. The ceiling is not effort. It is that your market cannot tell you apart from the four firms bidding on the same brief.

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01Stop racing four agencies and become the only call.

02Fees stop being haggled, because there is nobody to compare you to.

03The 1st of the month starts with money already in it.

04The firm runs on systems, not on your hours.

The agency programme

Which firm are you?

Pick your size. The programme is built around where your firm is now.

SoloOne biller. The firm is you.See the programme → 2 to 10You built a team. Now build the machine.See the programme → 10 to 50A floor. Turn it into a firm.See the programme →

One firm per niche

Only your vertical. Only your patch. Only your market.

One firm per micro niche. Once I am building in your market, I do not take another firm in it. The map, the database and the authority are yours alone.

For in-house talent acquisition and recruitment

Hire your senior people yourself.

You do not need another agency invoice. You need to own your senior market and hire from it directly, on your terms.

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01The brief the business actually signs off.

02The top 5% of the people it wants, mapped and reachable.

03An approach that gets them talking to you, not screening you out.

04Stop paying a third of salary to an agency to do it.

Who is Andy Whitehead

Fifteen years making search firm owners the name their market calls.

Fifteen years inside more than two thousand recruitment and executive search firms, from the solo founder billing alone to floors of thirty consultants with sales, compliance and admin around the owner.

Five years before that on the hiring side at BSkyB, the side the search agencies come in and pitch to, part of the decision on more than a hundred roles. Earlier still, building trading and testing systems at Nomura, Reuters, Société Générale and JP Morgan Cazenove, where a weak structure did not cost a placement, it took the whole floor down.

15Years in search

2,000+Firms read

The people who shaped this industry back us

What the leaders say.

“The ‘Built to Sell’ for the search industry.”

Lou Adler

Search Legend, USA

“30 years in this industry, and Andy found the missing link.”

Roy Ripper

30+ years in recruitment

“If you want to stop grinding and start scaling, Andy is the only choice.”

James Blackwell

Founder, Recruitment Entrepreneur

The way out

Stop being one of five. Become the one they call.

Your market and your last twelve months on the table. I show you where the gap is, and how to close it, so the client hunts for your name and pays retained to get it.

30 minutes with Andy

For recruitment and executive search firm owners. Not for job seekers.

We map your market. Then we help you bill the best of it.