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Half a million pounds of funding to help businesses and charities with cyber security | 28 Jun.
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Digital Development Loan launched for Scottish Businesses | 18 Jun.
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DigitalBoost Shortlisted for Two Scottish Public Sector Awards | 13 Jun.
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2 Day Start Your Own Business
This is a 2 Day Workshop incorporating: Business Planning, Finance, Marketing & Market Research
Highland
Marketing Your Business
This workshop will help you create a realistic marketing plan. It is designed to improve how you market your business and increase sales.
Renfrewshire
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.
Edinburgh
Keep your Business Safe Online (Cyber Security Essentials) - DigitalBoost
Find out how to take some simple steps to reduce your chances of being hacked and also how to minimise the impact if your business does suffer a cyber attack.
Edinburgh
Business Start-Up: Finance
This workshop aims to give an introduction to the role of finance in business.
Glasgow
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
Fruit and veg business takes root on Isle of Lewis
A former asset manager and his wife set up an organic fruit and vegetable farm on the Isle of Lewis.
Case study
Investment helps filmmaker build future for her business
Filmmaker and artist builds creative haven on the Isle of South Uist.
Case study
Young entrepreneur devises program for business success
High-flying young entrepreneur Stewart Gray has launched a software company.
Case study
Glasgow technology business motivated to make recruiting easier
Kenny Maclean created a new app designed to help people working in healthcare quicker access to jobs.
Case study
Investment helps firm cement foundations in Fife
A Fife civil engineering business is investing £440k to build a new head office.
Case study
Fife business powers up for growth
PeachyKeen designs equipment that uses human movement to power it.
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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