Alec Drew – The Business Expert
Business mentoring for SME owners who want clarity, structure and growth.
Running a business can be lonely. Alec Drew provides practical mentoring and coaching for SME owners who need clear thinking, honest advice and experienced support with important business decisions.
Practical business advice you can start using today
101 Tips To Help You Succeed
Alec’s book, 101 Tips To Help You Succeed, shares useful ideas for business owners who want to improve how they think, lead and make decisions.
Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, it offers simple, practical guidance for anyone who wants to run their business with greater focus and confidence.
Helping SME owners make better business decisions
Alec works with business owners who want honest feedback, clear direction and commercially grounded advice.
Whether you are trying to grow, restructure, improve profitability, solve team challenges or create a business that depends less heavily on you, mentoring gives you the space and support to step back and think properly.
Business owners come to Alec when they need help with:
Getting away from constant day-to-day firefighting
Making better decisions with more confidence
Improving profitability, pricing or margins
Building stronger systems, processes and accountability
Managing growth without adding more stress
Creating a clearer plan for the future
This is not theory. It is real-world business mentoring from someone who knows what it is like to fail, scale, adapt and succeed.
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Tired of reading books, blogs & articles for confusing advice that some times is contradictory? Fed up making decisions on your own?
Why not use an experienced guide and piggy back my 40+ years of experience. I know what it is like to fail and I also knows what it is like to scale a business 100 times and enjoy the success that it brings.
We have a team of experts and everything you need in one place and we promise never to offer you any service that is not the right fit.
Business mentoring, specific to you
Why go it alone?
Running a business often means carrying challenges that nobody else fully sees.
You may be dealing with growth, staff issues, cashflow pressure, pricing decisions, productivity problems or the constant responsibility of being the person everyone looks to for answers.
Alec works with business owners who need space to think, someone to challenge their assumptions and guidance from a person who has spent decades operating in the trenches.
Every successful entrepreneur needs trusted advice at some point.
So what is the next decision your business needs you to make?
I Work With Everyone From Sole Traders To Large SMEs & Corporates














Starting, growing or changing your business?
Get experienced guidance before making the big decisions
Business owners face important decisions at every stage.
You may be starting out, scaling up, restructuring, reviewing your direction or trying to build a company that can operate without everything depending on you.
The right advice at the right time can help you avoid costly mistakes, spot better opportunities and make decisions with greater confidence.
Alec provides mentoring and coaching to business owners across different stages of the business journey, from early decisions through to growth, leadership, profitability and long-term planning.
With over 40 years of business management experience to draw on, Alec helps you see the bigger picture and focus on the next right move.
Alec Drew shares weekly business insights, discussions, and advice on the Virtual Bon YouTube channel.
Alec Drew – The Business Expert
Passion, knowledge & over 40+ years’ experience
Alec Drew has spent more than four decades working with business owners, CEOs, entrepreneurs and organisations across many sectors.
A major part of his career was spent as Managing Partner of a successful branding agency, where he worked closely with business leaders to uncover opportunities, improve communication and identify valuable revenue streams that were previously being overlooked.
One strategy helped his clients achieve €3.23 billion in additional sales over a five-year period.
Today, Alec uses that experience to mentor and coach SME owners who need practical guidance, clearer thinking and an experienced sounding board.
He has helped business owners deal with almost every kind of commercial challenge, from early-stage uncertainty to scaling, restructuring, leadership, profitability and growth.
Everyone is on their own journey. Alec’s role is to help you move forward with greater focus, confidence and common sense.
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