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2 Day Start Your Own Business
This is a 2 Day Workshop incorporating: Business Planning, Finance, Marketing & Market Research
Highland
2 Day Business Start Up Workshop
"Over the 2 Days you will understand the need for a Business Plan in starting and running a successful business, be able to describe your business and learn how to present your plan."
East Lothian
A Guide to Starting a Business
A four hour workshop covering elements of our awareness, marketing, business planning and finance start up workshops
Angus
Business Planning Workshop: (Part 2 of 2)
A two part Business Start-Up Workshop incorporating: Business Planning, Finance, Marketing & Market Research
West Dunbartonshire
Starting a Consultancy
"This workshop will explain what a consultant is and does, the difference between expert and consultants and the key characteristics of both."
Edinburgh
Funding the Business
This workshop aims to help you create an action plan to raise funding and finance for your business.
Aberdeen
Prepare a business plan for growth
Every successful business regularly reviews its business plan to ensure it continues to meet its needs and responds to variations in the market, the economy and customer base.
Guide
Write a marketing plan
Writing a marketing plan helps you decide which customers to target and how to reach them. A marketing plan includes factors such as: deciding which customers to target; how to reach them and how to win their business.
Guide
Help and support available for your start up
If you run a start-up business as an entrepreneur, you may be able to get extra support if you’re a woman, over 50, disabled, from a minority ethnic group, young or on a low income.
Guide
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Our six top tips
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25th May 2018. Here are our six top tips on things SME’s need to be doing right now to prepare for GDPR.
Guide
Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS)
On 1 April 2017, HMRC launched the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS) online look up service allowing those who purchase alcohol for onward sale or supply to check that their UK wholesaler is registered.
Guide
Preparing for the new £1 coin
The new pound coin will be introduced in March 2017 and businesses which handle cash will need to prepare this.
Guide
Fife pair weave their way to growth
Erika Douglas and Jimmy Hutchison are handloom weavers based in Newburgh, Fife who make their work on a Thomas Kennedy handloom built in Galashiels in the early 1900s.
Case study
Brothers land tasty business on the Isle of Scalpay
Two brothers have launched a business that provides visitors to the Isle of Scalpay and Harris with a unique opportunity to buy live shellfish.
Case study
West Lothian couple sees cafe's popularity rise
A former retained firefighter and his partner have set the West Lothian hospitality sector alight, welcoming nearly 31k customers through the doors of their café.
Case study
New online business adds up for former accountant
A Chartered Certified Accountant who set up an online marketplace to showcase small businesses is hoping to start a revolution in online shopping.
Case study
Fife researcher is hoping his business will translate into global success
University of Cambridge post-graduate researcher, Oliver Scott, runs a technical translation and editing company from Portuguese to English based in St Andrews.
Case study
East Lothian business revs into gear
Moyra and Allan Ramsay set up Customized Choppers in 2006. Here, they share with us the story behind the business.
Case study
Highlights
Resource
Digital health check
Do you want to know which aspects of your digital operation need improvement? Take our quick digital health check to find out.
Case study
Investment set to help business uncork alcohol delivery market
Edinburgh business Drinkly has secured major investment to help it continue to grow.
Resource
Amplify – Cyber Resilience
Issue Five is dedicated to businesses who are faced with the challenge of trying to protect their business against an ever-changing cyber threat.
Resource
Your market
Understanding your market is one of the golden rules of business, so we’ve complied this list of over 100 different markets.
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