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WorldLabs launches startup competition with £50K in prize money | 10 Aug.
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Half a million pounds of funding to help businesses and charities with cyber security | 28 Jun.
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Have you used Business Gateway’s services? Give your feedback. | 21 Jun.
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Digital Development Loan launched for Scottish Businesses | 18 Jun.
Events and workshops
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Start Up Day
This workshop aims to make you aware of the various requirements involved in setting up a business.
Aberdeenshire
Effective Business Record Keeping
This workshop will help you to run your business finances more efficiently
Highland
Introduction to Book-keeping
This course will assist new and existing small business owners who have little or no previous bookkeeping experience in developing a bookkeeping system that is suitable for their needs. Delegates will
Ayrshire
Effective eCommerce - DigitalBoost
Want to grow your business? Not sure about selling online? This workshop will arm you with valuable skills and information that will help you increase the effectiveness of your eCommerce presence.
Dumfries & Galloway
LinkedIn for Business (Intermediate) - DigitalBoost
Want to boost your business with LinkedIn? We’ll take you beyond networking by showing you how it can market your products and promote your brand.
Aberdeenshire
Email Marketing (Intermediate) - DigitalBoost
Being able to engage your customers in conversation is a key way to create sales. This workshop is ideal for people currently using email but not to its full potential.
Moray
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
Luxury glamping site opens in Larbert
Funding to diversify an arable farm helps a family create a glamping site.
Case study
Local company's pattern for growth gets a DigitalBoost
DigitalBoost helps business more than double its social media following.
Case study
Florist helps Edinburgh children blossom
Workshops help highlight the therapeutic nature of floral art.
Case study
Expansion plans booked in for five-star B&B
A bed and breakfast has invested £75k to expand into the self-catering market.
Case study
New Sales Force Lights Up Ayrshire Candle Company
An Ayrshire candle company now has 5000 sales representatives across the country selling directly to its customer base.
Case study
Clackmannanshire catering firm going the whole hog
Former Army chef launches hog roast catering firm.
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
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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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