As we approach the Kehorne birthday – we formed officially in 17/4/2008 – its a good time to look back and see what has been happening, because its been a big year for us.
We Survived
We survived the Covid lockdowns and being totally honest it was as tough for us as most of our clients. But we have always been fighters and having survived recessions the lessons we have always learnt is “stick in there” because better days will always be around the corner.
And so it was with Covid.
Then We Thrived
But the positive side is that in 2024 we have been growing and adding staff.
We have added more capacity in Development by extending our part time staffing and Project Management by adding a staff member.
The largest part of our development was in late October when we acquired another business and gained about 150 new clients – some very small one man bands to some much larger SME businesses, but all now valued clients.
I’m not sure if anyone out there has ever taken over someone else’s business but it always brings with it a certain number of challenges. Some good, some bad. We learn what we can by looking at someone’s existing processes and comparing them to our own. Sometimes we find things we can do better but it’s always a learning curve.
Luckily for us this is not the first time we have expanded Kehorne by taking over another business and sometimes I think that when people know you are open to this they actively seek us out!
So as 2025 started we were getting our new clients used to the way we operate and hopefully bringing our own brand of working to them – we hope was a positive experience although only time will tell and the retention will show us that over time – so far it is all looking very good.
Looking Ahead
We are now looking further ahead and can see the need to increase our staff capacity again – a lesson we learnt in the early days is “add capacity and you will naturally expand your client base to fill this” – so it is best to do this ahead of time and make the jump rather than find new work, madly try and do it, whilst looking for new staff! Just a slightly different philosophy.
2025 will be another exciting year for Kehorne – when was it ever NOT exciting!
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