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Food & Drink Business Expert Mark Turnbull
Impact works to educate, motivate and inspire independent retailers!
Impact Retail Training works to educate, motivate and inspire Food & Drink Entrepreneurs just like you, taking you on the journey from a Wannabe to Professional Business Person.
In this video, Mark Turnbull discusses the Business Success Pyramid and how Impact Training can help grow your business!
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The Impact Small Business Success Club
If you're looking to make the transition from Business 'Wannabe' to Professional Business Person, then the Impact Small Business Success Club is the perfect place to begin your journey. Join a small group of like minded business owners in weekly cohort calls and benefit from the members area of the Impact website.
It's packed with Training Videos to help grow your business, Industry Expert Interviews and the Impact Business Resource Vault, that's packed full of tools to help you grow your business.
Entry to the program is by application and invitation only. Priced at £75.00 per month.
The Six Week Kick Start Coaching Program
The Six Week Kick Start Coaching program is a One to One mentoring program and is ideal for existing business owners who are looking to grow their businesses. Working with retail expert Mark Turnbull, this program is the ideal place to begin putting the right things in the right place to get the right results. The program runs over a 6-12 week period and prices start from £1800.00.
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In-house Consultancy
If you're serious about growing your business and would like some expert help in-house, why not book an in-person consultancy, where food & drink business expert Mark Turnbull visits your business and gives you one on one consultancy 'on the floor'. Prices start from £500.00 per day plus travel expenses.
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Speaking Event?
Why not hire 'Food & Drink Business Expert'
Mark Turnbull?
If you're looking for a Speaker for an audience of Food & Drink Entrepreneurs, then look no further than Mark who, with over 35 years of food & drink retail business experience, will entertain your audience with a number of presentations, that will both resonate and deliver long term-benefits.
Why Better Questions Build Better Butchers’ Shops and Farm Shops
Every so often, something happens inside Impact Retail Success Club that reminds me why I love working with ambitious butchers and farm shop owners.
This week, it was a message from a long-standing member.
I won’t name him, but I’ve watched his business grow for three years now. Proper growth too - not just turnover, but confidence, leadership, and calmness in the way he runs things.
He’s the sort who listens, asks sharp questions, and then actually goes away and takes action.
If there’s a formula for running a successful shop, that’s pretty much it.
A Question That Said Everything
He sent me a message ahead of this week’s Impact Club call.
A thoughtful, well-framed question that immediately told me he was stepping into the next phase of his journey.
Not “How do I get through next week?”
Not “What offer should I run?”
It was a question about systems, delegation, and long-term quality of life.
The kind of question that reveals someone is levelling up.
When I replied praising the quality of the question, he said something that stopped me in my tracks:
“2026 is going to be the year I really get my shit together - but I mean properly.”
Then he added:
“The business is flying, but I’m still the one that makes EVERYTHING happen. I need proper training in place and some delegation so the business works for me better.”
That right there is the moment every independent retailer eventually reaches.
The moment you stop thinking like the doer and start thinking like the owner.
Champions League Questions
I told him what I’ll tell you:
Your quality of life is defined by the quality of questions you ask.
Most retailers stay stuck asking survival questions:
How do I get through this week?
How do I plug this staffing gap?
How do I keep everyone happy?
But things really move when you start asking Champions League questions:
What needs to happen so this runs without me?
What would world-class look like in my shop?
What’s the bottleneck that’s really holding us back?
Better questions lead to better decisions.
Better decisions lead to a better business.
A better business leads to a better life.
Simple - not easy.
But absolutely transformational.
Why This Matters for Butchers and Farm Shops
Independent retail is full-on.
You’re juggling stock, staff, customers, margins, waste, marketing, and ten other things before 11am.
It’s no wonder most owners don’t get the headspace to ask bigger questions.
That’s why this member’s message meant so much.
He’d stepped back long enough to realise:
“I’m the bottleneck — and fixing it will unlock everything.”
That’s the breakthrough moment.
If You Want to Start Asking Better Questions…
This is exactly the work we do inside Impact Retail Success Club.
Every month a group of butchers and farm shop owners bring real challenges to the table, and together we pull them apart.
The questions get sharper.
The ideas get better.
And everyone leaves with clarity they didn’t have an hour earlier.
We’ve got room for a couple more around the virtual table.
If this story hit home and you’d like to explore Impact Retail Success Club for yourself, just drop me an email at mailto:mark@impactretailsuccessclub.co.uk and I’ll send you the details.
