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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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Digital Development Loan launched for Scottish Businesses | 18 Jun.
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Business Start-Up: Awareness Seminar
This workshop aims to make you aware of the various requirements involved in setting up a business.
Aberdeenshire
Business Start-Up: Business Planning
This workshop will help you create a robust business plan.
Aberdeenshire
Introduction to PowerPoint
This half day workshop is for beginners to PowerPoint and will include demonstrations and practical exercises. Please bring along a laptop with Office 2010 or later installed on it.
Ayrshire
Creating Compelling Videos for your Business
Video gives you the chance to interact with your customers by allowing them to get to know your business, your brand and why your products and services are what they are looking for.
Lanarkshire
Bookkeeping
This workshop aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage your finances and comply with regulatory and legal requirements through a relevant bookkeeping system.
Aberdeen
PR on a Shoestring
This workshop looks at what PR is and how businesses can maximise their publicity with minimal spend. You will learn how to identify and create a news angle and how to write a press release.
West Lothian
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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