MNR Construction delivers premium brand activations and custom display builds for marketing agencies and global brands. Skilled craftsmen with a reputation for quality, they were growing fast, but the business still depended on one person doing everything.
As the workload increased, Managing Director Terry Roy was working 80–90 hour weeks, juggling fabrication, quoting, finances, logistics and client management without a scalable structure. The quality of the work was high, but the business wasn’t built to grow... it was built on Terry’s effort.
Through The Entourage, Terry learned to build a company the way he builds structures: with a clear plan, the right tools and a dedicated team. MNR has now doubled revenue and workshop floor space, and tripled profit and team size - not by working harder, but by developing the leadership, systems and capability to scale.
FROM START-UP TO STRESSED
Tiffany Teoh | The Traveller Series
Meet the business owner who is feeling happier, more free, and less stressed - despite facing imminent closure a few years earlier.
From Booming To (Almost) Bust
Kate Prior started her boutique recruitment agency, face2face Recruitment, in 2005, and for a number of years experienced strong growth. She established the business as a premium destination for recruitment needs in Canberra.
However, the future growth and even existence of the business was seriously threatened in 2011 by a series of events - including Federal and State elections, and the GFC. Kate didn’t know how she’d be able to keep her business going. In fact, she had to meet with her financial planner every day to see if the business could keep operating.
Time To Level Up
In 2017, Kate met with The Entourage to see if we could help her elevate herself and her business back to where it had been prior to the series of setbacks and challenges of 2011. She joined Elevate, our elite business coaching program exclusively for 7 and 8-figure business owners.
Kate’s primary goal was to increase the profit of the business from $100,000 to $500,000 within 12 months. With the help of her Elevate Advisory Coach, and the wider Entourage Community, she experienced exponential growth in the next 6 months - unlike anything the business had been able to achieve in the 6 years prior.
The Entourage gave me the tools I needed to reinvent myself and be the person I needed to be to elevate the company to new levels.
Playing A Bigger Game
In just 6 months, Kate’s annual profit increased from $100,000 to $600,000 - well exceeding the goal she set for herself when she first joined Elevate. The growth of the business also meant that she could grow her team - from 11 people to 22 - which meant that Kate was less operationally involved in the business, and could focus on bigger picture strategies. In fact, Kate had to rewrite every process in her business because the growth was just so monumental.
Face2face Recruitment also won the Australian Small Business Champion Award and was named a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards - all proof that, when you lean in and get the support, guidance, and coaching from like-minded business owners and experts, there’s nothing that will stop you and your business elevating to new heights.
We're now playing a bigger game and the business is bigger than ever.
