Small Business Strategy What is a small business strategy? It is about making decisions that impact where the business is going, it is about unemotional decisions that fundamentally change the direction of your business. Why Do I Need A Small Business Strategy? You wouldn’t drive a car without a steering wheel. Well, maybe you would
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A Better Business Plan – Your Business Formula In part one we talked about perfecting your elevator pitch. Now it is time to bring out the calculator in a very gentle way. The theory is that every business has a numerical, or formula to it. Confused? Don’t be, as we will clarify how this works.
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Write A Better Business Plan We have all seen templates, software, programs etc. All claim to make writing a business plan easier and more fun. Fun? Come on, let’s not push things too far… But you can make writing a better business plan easier by getting in the right mindset and by getting the basics
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Salaried To Self Employed Being self employed is a dream of many people, especially those in certain jobs! However, one of the biggest challenges when jumping that divide is managing going from being salaried to being self employed. Are we going to give you 10 top tips for managing the jump from salaried to being
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Business plans, we talk about them a lot. Which, got us thinking. We really should offer something for our clients to use themselves. So, after a lot of searching, seeing what is good and bad. Then taking out anything we thought would make life difficult we came up with a business plan template. It is
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Development Finance For a while now the high street banks have been reluctant to lend to the building sector where any degree of construction, new build, self build or development is concerned. This means development finance has almost ceased (particularly projects under £5m). The net effect has been that many development opportunities (particularly residential developments)
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We are always keen to promote the benefits of good business planning, however getting the small business to see the benefit can be a challenging thing to achieve. In its very simplest form a business plan should set out some goals, it should highlight some areas of concern, and it should allow you to address
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Campari? Remind you of Leonard Rossiter spilling a drink over Joan Collins in a 1980’s TV advert? Maybe it does, but Campari is actually a little more influential than that. What, Campari? Explain… If you are running your own business and ever looking to borrow money then we encourage you to drink a Campari, hypothetically
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