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Alder Hey

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The Challenge

The corporate team had a large portfolio of transactional partnerships, this meant that the team were stretched and feeling burnt out. This made it difficult to grow corporate income.

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the Solution

We helped them upgrade their approach so they could generate more value for less effort.
On account management, we helped them focus on priority partners and automate smaller relationships.
On new business we helped them focus on their ideal prospects to build long term strategic prospects.
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The RESULT

Secure a three year partnership

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return on investment
£650k
Secure a three year partnership
£715k
Worth of partnerships
Alder Hey
Fiona Ashcroft, Alder Hey CEO

Working with Remarkable Partnerships has been game-changing. We have embraced the power of storytelling, become more focused on both new business and partnership growth, and have got our trustees sharing more of their contacts with us. Over the 12 months of our work with Remarkable Partnerships, we have secured a partnership with a household name company worth £110,000, launched a new strategic project with a major car manufacturer and increased the average value of our existing partnerships

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