
Mike Ames
UK recruitment entrepreneur and founder of Flair Business Growth Consultancy, host of The Mike Ames Recruitment Show podcast.
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Sep 4, 2026
# 407 Mike Ames Sold 2 Recruitment Businesses for £39 Million: Here's What He Knows That Most Don't
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18:28JoeUNKNOWN
And it's breaking that recruiter mentality of doing that.

Mike AmesGUEST
If you move away from a 360 model and you accept in a small business, if you've got a small business with five or six people on, you can make all the money that you need.

Mike AmesGUEST
So the majority of those people will be candidates facing or existing client facing, which is relatively simple in the great scheme of things.

Mike AmesGUEST
The owner should be very much focused on targeting um high value clients and i don't mean big clients necessarily because quite often they're not high value at all yeah the amount of money that you make off those clients net profits is is tiny so your definition of a high value client i mean there's a standard definition for it what a high cloud i clock the high value client looks like but to target them and it's called strategic bd so you've got tactical bd which is chasing vacancies And if you've got to do that, you've got to do it.
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Terry EdwardsHOST
If someone was listening and wanted to build a sellable business, where should they start?
Season 9 | Ep36 Mike Ames: £39M in Exits. The Life He Almost Missed Building It.
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62:57Sean AndersonHOST
And I'm like, so what, looking back now with all you've been through, what would you say to those