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2 Day Start Your Own Business
This is a 2 Day Workshop incorporating: Business Planning, Finance, Marketing & Market Research
Moray
Video Production for Social Media - DigitalBoost
Video captures people's attention online and is becoming increasingly important for engaging with potential, or real, clients.
West Lothian
Twitter & Hootsuite (Intermediate) - DigitalBoost
A workshop for businesses that already use Twitter as part of their digital marketing strategy, and wish to produce more engaging content, reach a wider audience and measure the effectiveness.
Lanarkshire
GDPR & Keep Your Business Safe Online - DigitalBoost
Find out the simple steps you can take to keep your business and its information safe. Safe from hackers, safe from cyber attack and safe from infringing the new General Data Protection Regulation.
Clackmannanshire
Business Start-Up: Business Planning
This workshop will help you create a robust business plan.
Aberdeen
Cloud for Business Essentials - DigitalBoost
Your back office and technology requirements need to be secure, scalable and cost-effective. This course will help you discover or improve a strategy to achieve just that.
Fife
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
Move online provides business with the sweet smell of success
A Falkirk business projects its turnover will increase eight times over to £3.6m by 2021.
Case study
Orkney tours are perfect fit for food lover
Jane Ellison and Paul Hudd launched J P Orkney after moving to the island.
Case study
Funding helps youth group establish social enterprise
A social enterprise has been launched by a local youth group after securing funding worth nearly £200k.
Case study
It's a family affair as siblings toast new gin business
A brother and sister with a crofting background have set up a craft distillery along the North Coast 500 route.
Case study
Kate draws on hobby to launch new venture
A professional musician and teacher with a lifelong love of all things maritime has combined her hobbies of collecting shells and painting to launch a new venture.
Case study
Dunoon candle shop is burning bright
A candle maker who turned her hobby into a business is celebrating opening her new shop in Dunoon.
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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