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2 Day Start Your Own Business
This is a 2 Day Workshop incorporating: Business Planning, Finance, Marketing & Market Research
Highland
New Business Start-up (2 days)
This workshop is designed for anyone who has just started in business or is thinking about starting.
Orkney
Facebook for business from scratch - CASTLE DOUGLAS
In this workshop you’ll learn about Facebook for Business from the ground up, No previous experience or knowledge is required.
Dumfries & Galloway
Facebook for Business (Intermediate) – DigitalBoost
This workshop is designed for people who want to deepen their understanding of how Facebook can be used to engage with their target audience in order to boost conversions.
Stirling
Business Start-Up: Marketing
This workshop aims to help you identify your customers, understand your competitors and plan an effective marketing strategy.
Angus
WordPress for Beginners
Develop a business website using WordPress, the world’s most popular website software.
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
Business set to help children grow
Company provides enriched outdoor and play experiences for children with additional needs.
Case study
Seaweed provides diver with an all natural business idea
Infusing seaweed with coconut oil helped a diver launch cosmetic line.
Case study
Renfrewshire husband and wife team counting on success
Husband and wife team Chris and Michelle Allan set up C Allan & Son Accountancy Services in 2013, a few months after their first child was born.
Case study
Moray salon owner shares her secrets for success
Lois Morris set up her unisex hairdressing salon Your Chair Styling with a special quiet room to make the experience as stress free as possible for children with autism and adults with anxiety issues.
Case study
Fife mum whips up vegan bakery
When her son developed severe food allergies, Louise Baxter began whipping up birthday cakes he could enjoy.
Case study
Husband and wife raise a glass to business success
Harbro Events was started like many good ideas are - after a good few drams of whisky.
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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